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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2000
Max Hoetzl, Maumee, OH (US);
Thomas A. Dunifon, Whitehouse, OH (US);
Larry L. Rozevink, Wauseon, OH (US);
Other;
Abstract
A pressure pad array is used to float glass sheets from a glass heating furnace to a ring mold in a press bending station. The pressure pads have transversely spaced, longitudinally-extending slotted nozzles angled towards one another to provide a static pressure area for floating the glass sheet. The slotted nozzles are aligned with the direction of glass sheet travel and the space between adjacent pressure pads is covered by a spacer baffle to generate additional static pressure flotation areas. The static pressure areas formed by the slotted nozzles generally produce uniform pressure profiles extending longitudinally and transversely against the sheet's underside to stably float the glass sheets on a heated gas cushion.