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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1987
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1985
Applicant:
Inventors:
Edward A Thimons, Tarentum, PA (US);
Robert G Frank, Murrysville, PA (US);
Michael T Fecik, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
George R Claassen, New Kensington, PA (US);
John J Ewing, Tarentum, PA (US);
Samuel L Seymour, Oakmont, PA (US);
Assignee:
PPG Industries, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
65104 ; 65106 ; 65273 ; 65287 ; 294 65 ;
Abstract
A horizontal press bending arrangement wherein heat softened glass sheets are engaged by a shuttling vacuum pickup. The pickup and sheet are transferred out of the furnace and into a shaping station wherein the glass sheet is deposited and repositioned between a pair of vertically aligned full surface press faces.