Saint-gobain Vitrage

Georgios Hariskos

Hans-Werner Kuster

Herbert Radermacher

Karl-Josef Ollfisch

Marco Muller

Process for bending glass sheets, particularly in pairs, in which the glass sheets undergo a pre-bending under the effect of gravity in a horizontal position on a concave annular bending ring (3) whose profile corresponds to the desired final profile of the glass sheets, until the edges of the glass plates are applied entirely to the bending block (3). A monolithic convex bending block (31) is then applied over the whole surface and acts from above on the glass sheets (21). The inner part of the sheets then undergoes supplementary bending which gives it the desired final shape, the glass sheets being pressed by suction, against the monolithic convex bending block, at the edge of the monolithic convex bending block (11).

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Eschweiler, Germany

Georgios Hariskos