Saint-Gobain Vitrage

Jacques Leclerco

Bernard Letemps

Philippe Dereims

A bending and hardening installation includes a shaping bed, an evacuation conveyor positioned downstream of the shaping bed and a tilting device for tilting a glass plate exiting the downstream end of the shaping bed from the shaping bed to the evacuation conveyor. The shaping end is curved in a direction of advance of the glass plate and has a conveying direction different from that of the evacuation conveyor. The tilting device takes the form of a rotating drum mounted coaxially with a support roller. The drum includes holding rollers spaced from the support roller by a distance sufficient that a glass plate exiting the shaping bed is held between a holding roller and the support roller, so that the tilting device is tilted by the weight of the glass plate to a positoin where the glass plate is transferred to the evacuation conveyor. An air blowing box is provided on the tilting device for hardening the glass plate as it is being tilted.

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Roisel, France

Jacques Leclerco