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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:
Sep. 07, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Uniglass Engineering Oy, Tampere, FI;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C03B 2/3025 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C03B 2/3025 ;
Abstract
A method of bending glass, in which glass ( ) is heated in a bending furnace ( ). Before the bending, the glass ( ) is transferred from the heating point or zone onto a mould ( ) located thereafter. While the glass ( ) is being transferred onto the mould ( ), the mould ( ) moves in such a way that the horizontal velocity of at least the front edge of the mould ( ) is substantially as high as the horizontal velocity of the glass ( ).