Ford Motor Company Limited

William K Timmons

George A Koss

Dorian R Gray

Richard N Bishop

This disclosure is directed to a machine for applying a spray coating across the width of a glass ribbon. The glass ribbon is one which generally has recently been manufactured and is carried on a conveyor moving below the machine. In accordance with the preferred teachings of this apparatus, two spray applying devices are used. These devices commence their spraying at opposite edges of the moving ribbon of glass. The devices are moved in a simultaneous manner at the same speed from one edge to the other edge of the glass ribbon whereby the apparatus pass each other at the center line of the moving ribbon. When each of the spray apparatus reach the opposite edge of the moving ribbon of glass, their direction of travel is reversed so that they once again pass one another at the center line of the moving ribbon. The first and second spray apparatus are spaced a slight distance from one another in the direction of movement of the ribbon of glass. The moving spray apparatus are cycled back and forth in the aforedescribed manner continuously as the ribbon of glass is moved thereunder so that a coating is applied to the moving ribbon of glass.

Spray coating machine

This specification teaches a device for dispensing a mirror button from a stack of mirror buttons, and for feeding that mirror button to a predetermined position from which the mirror button can be bonded to a surface of a windshield. A mirror button is the means by which a mirror structure is secured to the windshield. The mirror button is formed of a sintered metallic compound and it has a plastic material thereon which is used to bond the mirror button to the windshield. The device disclosed includes a closed dispenser housing for keeping the mirror button at a constant temperature and humidity. The divice also includes structure for dispensing mirror buttons, one at a time, and structure which brings the dispensed button to a predetermined position at which it can be applied to the windshield.

Device for dispensing a mirror button

Disclosed herein is a device for turning over and for transferring a glass bracket from a first conveyor line to a second conveyor line. An end of the first conveyor line is offset both lengthwise and laterally from the beginning of the second conveyor line. The device also provides a means for locating the glass bracket as it is being moved between the two conveyor lines so that it can be positioned in a precise location on the second conveyor line.

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Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

William K Timmons