Asahi Glass Company, Limited

Tatsuo Sugiyama

Kenji Maeda

Takashi Hirotsu

Hiroshi Tsuji

Yukiyasu Mori

Yoshihiro Watanabe

Akinori Matsumoto

A print pattern is formed on a glass plate 1 by using a screen plate in which a second ink-permeable region 7 having a lower ink-permeating rate than a first ink-permeable region 4 is formed in a screen region which corresponds to a space between the flat edge portion of the first ink-permeable region 4 and the outer end portion of the glass plate 1, whereby the formation of a locally raised portion in the film formed by printing at its end portion is avoided, and a decorative print is formed by a simple method without leaving a space in a flat end portion of the glass plate.

Method of screen printing a pattern on an edge of a glass substrate

A glass plate is bend-shaped by transferring a glass plate by way of transferring rollers in a heating furnace; sucking and suspending the glass plate by way of a glass plate sucking and suspending device which is disposed in the heating furnace and at the downstream side of the transferring rollers; moving arms of a positioning device disposed at the lower portion of the glass plate sucking and suspending device in the direction parallel to a glass plate suspension surface of the glass plate sucking and suspending device; sucking and suspending glass plate supporting portions each connected to the top end of each of the arms by interposing a joint portion so as to keep the distance between the glass plate supporting portions and the glass plate sucking and suspending device at a predetermined value; supporting edge portion of the glass plate by the glass plate supporting portions, and positioning the glass plate to a predetermined position by advancing and retracting the arms in the direction parallel to the suspension surface; moving the glass plate sucking and suspension device to the upper portion of a bending mold which the glass plate is sucked and suspended; placing the glass plate on the bending mold; and bending the glass plate on the mold.

Glass plate bend-shaping apparatus and method of bend-shaping a glass

A bend-shaping press mold comprising a pair of pressing dies for bending a glass plate into a shape having a convex surface and a concave surface in a plane by pressing the glass plate with the pair of pressing dies, wherein each of the pressing dies has a convex surface portion to shape the glass plate by pressing it from each side which is finally shaped to have a concave surface portion, and the convex surface portion of one of the pressing dies is not substantially in contact with the glass plate in pressing operations when the convex surface portion of the other die is in contact with the glass plate.

Bend-shaping press mold, method of bend-shaping a glass plate and

Glass plates for a laminated glass are bent and strengthened by provisionally shaping by heating two overlapping glass plates placed on a deadweight bending mold having a shaping surface by elevating the temperature to a temperature capable of bending glass and by locally heating side portions of the two overlapping glass plates to be deeply bent at a higher temperature in a heating/pressing stage so that the two overlapping glass plates are provisionally shaped by their own deadweight into a shape substantially corresponding to the shape of the shaping surface of the bending mold, pressing a portion of the two overlapping glass plates to be deeply bent from the top by a pressing member after the provisional shaping step in a heating/pressing stage, separating the two overlapping glass plates from the bending mold by pushing up the portion of the glass plates other than the deeply bent peripheral portion of the two overlapping glass plates thereby cooling the peripheral portion of the glass plates in a peripheral portion strengthening stage, and cooling the overlapping glass plates to atmospheric temperature.

Method and apparatus for bending overlapping glass plates to form a

Two glass plates on a bending mold are heated in a heating/bending furnace so that they are subjected to provisionally deep-bending operations by their own deadweight, and the provisionally shaped deep-bent portion is pressed by an auxiliary pressing member to thereby form a laminated glass for, for instance, an automobile.

Method of and an apparatus for bending glass plates for a laminated

Two glass plates on a bending mold are heated in a heating/bending furnace so that they are subjected to provisional deep-bending operations by their own deadweight, and the provisionally shaped deep-bent portion is pressed by an auxiliary pressing member to thereby form a laminated glass for, for instance, an automobile.

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Yokohama, Japan

Tatsuo Sugiyama