Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited

Norihiko Higashide

Hideo Yoshizawa

Hiroshi Inoue

Hiroaki Masunaga

Yasuhiko Saikawa

Noriaki Kanda

Masaaki Sakamoto

A sheet of glass is bent with a system including a feed mechanism for feeding the sheet of glass along a predetermined path, a heating furnace disposed along the path, for heating the sheet of glass, and a shaping device disposed along the path for bending the sheet of glass heated by the heating furnace. Before the sheet of glass is bent by the shaping device, the sheet of glass is thermally processed to different degrees at leading and trailing end portions thereof along the path, thereby uniformizing temperatures of the sheet of glass from the leading end portion to the trailing end portion thereof.

Method of and system for bending sheet glass

An automatic loading system includes an automatic loading apparatus for automatically loading, onto a pallet, a glass sheet product as it lies substantially horizontally and is delivered along a feed path to a terminal position of the feed path. The automatic loading apparatus has a suction mechanism for attracting the lower surface of the glass sheet product at the terminal position and for moving the glass sheet product to a loading position to load the glass sheet product onto the pallet. The automatic loading system also includes an apparatus for putting an interleaving sheet on an upper surface of the glass sheet product in the feed path. The interleaving sheet putting apparatus comprises a mechanism for moving an uppermost interleaving sheet of a stack of interleaving sheets over the glass sheet product, and a holder mechanism for holding the uppermost interleaving sheet against an upper surface of the glass sheet product. The pallet has at least a pair of spacers having spaced grooves defined therein for receiving the lower edges of the glass sheet products. The suction mechanism comprises detectors for detecting distances between the glass sheet product in the loading position and a glass product previously loaded on the pallet.

System for loading products of sheet glass

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Norihiko Higashide