Abstract:
A process for manufacturing a bent individual glass sheet including a peripheral compression belt, the process including heating a glass sheet to its bending temperature in a furnace, performing an individual bending of the glass sheet, and performing a general cooling of the heated glass sheet, applying to one zone of the glass sheet at least partially inside the peripheral compression belt, which forms a locally cooled zone, after the heating of the glass sheet, a local cooling faster than the general cooling, when the glass sheet is at a temperature of at least 530° C.
Abstract:
A strengthened cover glass or glass-ceramic sheet or article as well as processes and systems for making the strengthened glass or glass-ceramic sheet or article is provided for use in consumer electronic devices. The process comprises cooling the cover glass sheet by non-contact thermal conduction for sufficiently long to fix a surface compression and central tension of the sheet. The process results in thermally strengthened cover glass sheets for use in or on consumer electronic products.
Abstract:
A device for annealing glass panes includes rollers for transporting the glass panes and two sets of slit-shaped nozzles, which run parallel to the axes of the rollers and from which cooling air can be directed onto both sides of the glass panes. In the device, cooling air acts as effectively as possible on the two surfaces of the glass pane, and anisotropies and stresses within the glass are reduced. This can be achieved by each nozzle being formed as a continuous flow channel, which extends over the width of the glass panes and on both parallel running sides of which partitions are arranged, for the forming of a flow pocket assigned to this flow channel. The cooling air that comes back from the glass panes is returned between this flow channel and the associated partitions.
Abstract:
A strengthened glass sheet product as well as process and an apparatus for making the product. The process comprises cooling the glass sheet by non-contact thermal conduction for sufficiently long to fix a surface compression and central tension of the sheet. The process results in thermally strengthened glass sheets having improved breakage properties.
Abstract:
Method for tempering glass in an oven (1) in which oven the glass (G) is moved while resting on rolls (4) in horizontal plane and of heating of the glass a significant part occurs with convection air which is circulated with the help of one or several blowing units (BU) which air is heated with heating resistors (5) which are located inside a blowing chamber (3) and are mainly located in longitudinal direction regarding the oven after which the air is blown towards the glass (G) through nozzle rows (6n). A roll space (8) and a suction space (7) are separated with the help of pressure from each other by extending the length of a plate (9) and width measures to be essentially larger than the length and/or the width of the blowing chamber (3) or by arranging an element (7co), (7cov), (9e) of other kind which constricts the flow of the air between the roll space (8) and the suction space (7) thanks to which elements the underpressure of the suction space (7) has an effect totally or at least for the most part on suction channels (7c), (7ce) or has an effect on a suction space (7i) and only a little bit on the roll space (8) in which case the convection air is sucked at least mainly from the roll space through the mentioned suction channels and the suction space.
Abstract:
A glass tempering furnace and a method for heating a glass sheet. The glass sheet is heated in the glass tempering furnace by blowing heating air on the top surface of the glass sheet, and the blowing distance of the heating air from the top surface of the glass sheet is adjusted.
Abstract:
A fabric (30) is adapted for covering at least partially a ring for quenching glass which has been bent. The fabric (30) comprises at least three strips (32, 34, 36): a strip (32) of a high-density knitted structure for quenching the glass and two strips (34, 36) of a lower density structure for attaching the fabric (30) to the ring.
Abstract:
A method for forming glass sheets is performed by a system (10) that includes a forming station (14) having lower and upper molds (28, 30) between which glass sheets G are cyclically received from a furnace (12) on a vacuum transfer platen (34), formed between the lower and upper molds (28, 30), and transferred to a delivery mold (42) for delivery such as to a quench station (16). The vacuum transfer platen (34) and the delivery mold (42) are moved at different elevations into the forming station (14) in respective underlapping and overlapping relationships to each other so each glass sheet forming cycle can begin within the forming station before the prior forming cycle is completed in a time overlapping manner that reduces the cycle time.
Abstract:
A glass object is heated by application of infrared energy and radio-wave energy. A coating is applied to the glass object and the glass object is subject to additional heating with radio-wave energy. The temperature and duration of the additional heating may be sufficient for a pyrolytic reaction to occur between the coating and the glass object. The coated glass object may be cooled either rapidly to temper the glass or cooled gently to anneal the glass.
Abstract:
A method for forming glass sheets is performed by a system (10) that includes a forming station (14) having lower and upper molds (28, 30) between which glass sheets G are cyclically received from a furnace (12) on a vacuum transfer platen (34), formed between the lower and upper molds (28, 30), and transferred to a delivery mold (42) for delivery such as to a quench station (16). The vacuum transfer platen (34) and the delivery mold (42) are moved at different elevations into the forming station (14) in respective underlapping and overlapping relationships to each other so each glass sheet forming cycle can begin within the forming station before the prior forming cycle is completed in a time overlapping manner that reduces the cycle time.