Method and apparatus for bending and tempering glass sheets.

摘要

Method and apparatus for bending and quenching a glass sheet by picking up the hot glass sheet using a movable suction plate which brings it above a peripheral bending ring with a concave profile and releases it onto this ring, where the sheet acquires its curvature and on which it is quenched by blasting cold air onto its two faces. …According to the invention the glass sheet is brought directly into a combined bending and quenching station where it is bent and then quenched while still being positioned on the ring, which is also used to remove the glass sheet from the combined bending/quenching station. ……