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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:
Jun. 11, 1991
Filed:
Aug. 02, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Seiichiro Honjo, Osaka, JP;
Yasunori Okajima, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C03B / ; C03B / ; C03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
65268 ; 65104 ; 65273 ; 65351 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for bending a glass sheet has a heating zone for heating the glass sheet, a shaping zone for shaping the glass sheet, and a cooling zone for cooling the glass sheet. A transfer zone for transferring the glass sheet is disposed immediately before the shaping zone with respect to the direction in which the glass sheet is fed. The glass sheet is fed through the transfer zone, the shaping zone, and the cooling zone by a ring mold mechanism which supports the glass sheet from below.