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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
May. 21, 2007
Michael Balduin, Alsdorf, DE;
Benno Dunkmann, Liege, BE;
Michael Labrot, Aachen, DE;
Karl-josef Ollfisch, Roetgen, DE;
Michael Balduin, Alsdorf, DE;
Benno Dunkmann, Liege, BE;
Michael Labrot, Aachen, DE;
Karl-Josef Ollfisch, Roetgen, DE;
SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE, Courbevoie, FR;
Abstract
A device for heating objects and a method that has recourse to the device, particularly for heating and/or bending one or more glass panes positioned one on top of the other, covering each other. The device includes a furnace line, plural supports, particularly transport molds that transport and/or bend the objects, the objects being placed on the supports positioned on transport carriages, a drive device that progresses the transport carriages through the furnace line and plural heating elements provided above the objects in the furnace line. In the device the heating elements are positioned on the whole above the entire furnace line and the heating elements can be operated and regulated so as to form heating zones suited to dimensions of the objects.