Arrangement in a glass bending oven
AssigneeGlassrobots Oy
InventorEsko Peltonen
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Abstract
An arrangement in the loading end of a multi-section glass bending furnace, where the glass sheets travel along a special rail from one furnace section to the next section in mould carriages (8) moving in cycles on the said rail. For unloading and loading the mould with the bent glass (10) resting on it is shifted in mould carriage (8) from the rail over to side station (7), while the carriage keeps moving forward on the rail. There is in or will be removed to said rail from the side station one or more moulds earlier brought from the rail. In the side station the first transmitter (5) is to take the mould out of the mould and the second transmitter (6) is there to take the mould to the carriage and both transmitters are operating with the furnace section.
Claims6
An apparatus comprising a multisection glass sheet bending furnace where the glass sheets travel in cycles along upper rail (3) and lower rail (4) from one section to the next section in molds on mold carriages (8) wherein the improvement comprises means for loading glass sheets (9) and unloading bent glass sheets (10) comprising:
- a side station (7) for receiving bent glass sheets (10) resting on molds;
- a first transmitter (5) for bringing the glass sheets (10) resting on molds to the station (7);
- a second transmitter (6) for returning the molds with glass sheets (10) to the carriages (8) located on rail (4);
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- conveying equipment to shift the molds from the first transmitter (5) to the second transmitter (6);
- wherein the side station (7) allows the functions of loading glass sheets (9) and unloading bent glass sheets (10).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.