Hitachi, Ltd.

Kawasaki Steel Corporation

Kawasaki Plant Systems Kabushiki Kaisha

Corning Japan K.k.

Michio Suzuki

Tomoaki Kimura

Tetsuya Fujii

Nagayasu Bessho

Nozomu Tamura

Tsutomu Nozaki

Keiji Tsujita

Morimasa Kuge

Saburo Moriwaki

Hirokazu Tozawa

Masayuki Shinkai

Noboru Yasukawa

Yoshiaki Aoki

Takaaki Yokoyama

Masaaki Kuga

Takashi Sakurai

Masayuki Anada

A plate material vertical processing line that is capable of subjecting large-sized and thinned glass plates to scribing, venting, etc without degrading their quality, comprises a plurality of processing devices each having a modular structure; wherein each of the processing devices includes a platform; a belt conveyor that is mounted on the platform and is configured to convey a glass plate placed in a substantially upright position while supporting a lower end of the glass plate; and a fluid guide that is mounted on the platform and is configured to apply a fluid pressure to a surface of the glass plate to support the glass plate in the substantially upright position and in a non-contact state; and wherein the processing devices include a combination of at least two processing devices selected from a scribing device, a venting device, a chamfering device, a cleaning agent washing device, a water washing device, a high-pressure water spray device, and a glass plate turn device.

Plate material vertical processing line

A belt type cast sheet continuous caster of the type comprises a pair of opposed circulatorily movable belts, a pair of opposed side plates arranged along opposite side edge portions of the movable belts, coolers which each have numerous water feed openings and water discharge openings opened to the movable belt and are arranged behind the respective movable belts, and movable partition plates which are placed in respective cooling headers and each connected to driving means for moving the partition plates in a width direction of a cast sheet. A casting space is defined by the movable belt and the side plates. Melt leakage at sliding portions between mold short side plates and the metal belts in a belt type cast sheet continuous caster comprising the metal belts and the mold short side plates arranged along side edge portions of the metal belts and cooleres, which each have numerous water fed openings and water discharge openings opened to the metal belt and are arranged behind the respective metal belts, is prevented by controlling gaps between the metal belts and the mold short side plates through varying a pushing force of the metal belts to the mold short side plates.

Belt type cast sheet continuous caster and prevention of melt leakage in

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Chiba, Japan

Michio Suzuki