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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2003
Filed:
May. 14, 2001
Esko Peltonen, Kangasala, FI;
Glassrobots Oy, Tampere, FI;
Abstract
An arrangement in the loading end of a multi-section glass bending furnace, where the glass sheets travel along a special rail from one furnace section to the next section in mould carriages ( ) moving in cycles on the said rail. For unloading and loading the mould with the bent glass ( ) resting on it is shifted in mould carriage ( ) from the rail over to side station ( ), while the carriage keeps moving forward on the rail. There is in or will be removed to said rail from the side station one or more moulds earlier brought from the rail. In the side station the first transmitter ( ) is to take the mould out of the mould and the second transmitter ( ) is there to take the mould to the carriage and both transmitters are operating with the furnace section.