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Method and equipment for glass (G) bending and tempering, in which the glass is first heated in oven in to bending temperature and it is moved over known transfer means, like rotating rollers (R) and after the glass has reached bending temperature it is transferred in to bending section, in which the glass (G) is allowed to bend on special bending ring (BR) and the said transferring the glass onto the bending ring (BR) takes place by moving the glass horizontally by transfer force exerted onto it. When the glass arrives into the location of the bending ring (BR), the supporting the glass from below is changed into air flow directed onto the bottom surface of the glass and the glass elevation plane is maintained by forming planar glass lifting stop means (CP) above the glass and at the location of the bending ring (BR) and blowing air through the lifting stop means so that air film is formed in between the glass and glass lifting stopping means, preventing glass lifting and eliminating touching of the glass with lifting stop means and when the glass has arrived over the mould (BR), the blowing from below the glass is stopped and the glass is allowed to bend.
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