Layout for glass manufacturing system, glass handling method, and glass therefrom

A layout for a glass manufacturing system, comprising:

• a hot process part including:
• a batch plant for storing a raw material for forming glass;
• a tank for melting the glass raw material provided from the batch plant and storing a molten glass;
• a float bath for receiving the molten glass from the tank and forming a glass of a ribbon shape;
• an annealing lehr for cooling the glass ribbon formed by the float bath while passing the glass ribbon therethrough;
• and
• a cold end connected to the annealing lehr, the cold end being divided into at least two side lines;
• an etching process part having at least two lines corresponding to the at least two side lines of the cold end, each etching process part side line including:
• a final cutting sector for cutting glass provided from the cold end into sheet glasses of a preset final size, the glass having been primarily cut;
• a beveling and etching sector for beveling the edges of the sheet glasses and etching the beveled sheet glasses;
• and
• a first inspection sector for inspecting the etched sheet glasses;
• and
• a loading/unloading member coupled with each of the at least two etching process part side lines for temporarily loading a sheet glass to a temporary loading space when an error occurs in at least one of the etching process part side lines, and for returning the sheet glass to the error-occurred etching process part side lines when the etching process part side lines return to a normal state,
• wherein the hot process part and the etching process part are connected by a single conveyor to form a continuous line.