APPARATUS FOR BENDING AND TEMPERING GLASS SHEETS

摘要

An apparatus for bending or bending and tempering of thermoplastic sheets such as glass sheets heated to their softening temperature by passing the glass sheets over a bed of straight or curved supporting rollers placed along a profile with an upward concavity. The apparatus comprises a pivoting assembly which transfers the glass sheets from a supporting bed of rollers with one slope to a conveyor with a different slope. The last supporting roller of the bed of supporting rollers constitutes the first support roller of the conveyor. The apparatus permits the transfer of glass sheets from a transport system with one slope to another transport system with a different slope without damaging either the glass sheets themselves or any coatings that may have been applied to the glass sheets.