Apparatus for thermal treatment of glass and method and thermally treated glass therefrom
    2.
    发明授权
    Apparatus for thermal treatment of glass and method and thermally treated glass therefrom 失效
    玻璃加热处理装置及方法及热处理玻璃

    公开(公告)号:US06629436B1

    公开(公告)日:2003-10-07

    申请号:US09706466

    申请日:2000-11-03

    IPC分类号: C03B23027

    摘要: The present invention is directed to an apparatus for thermal treatment of glass and method and thermally treated glass therefrom. The apparatus is capable of supporting the glass during thermal treatment such as tempering, annealing, bending, and/or shaping which can include any cooling or quenching to remove heat or any combination of these. The apparatus is a support member like a ring or outline mold with a horizontal surface suitable for contacting the glass. The support member has at least a surface with or without a coating for contact with the glass of one or more metals having a thermal conductivity such that the glass heated for shaping cools at a rate not much slower than the cooling rate of unsupported sections of the glass. Suitable metals include those with a thermal conductivity of greater than around 16 BTU/(hour×feet×° F.). When a coating covers at least a portion of the support, the coating can give the support member more heat resistance and/or anti-corrosiveness and/or abrasion resistance to improve durability. Also the support member can be the shaping rail of a windshield or backlite shaping iron.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及一种用于玻璃及其方法和热处理玻璃的热处理装置。 该设备能够在诸如回火,退火,弯曲和/或成型的热处理中支撑玻璃,其可以包括任何冷却或淬火以除去热量或这些的任何组合。 该装置是像环或轮廓模具一样的支撑构件,其具有适于接触玻璃的水平表面。 支撑构件具有至少一个具有或不具有涂层的表面,用于与具有导热性的一种或多种金属的玻璃接触,使得用于成形加热的玻璃的速度不比下述的非支撑部分的冷却速度慢得多 玻璃。 合适的金属包括热导率大于16 BTU /(小时x°F)的那些。 当涂层覆盖至少一部分载体时,涂层可以赋予支撑构件更多的耐热性和/或抗腐蚀性和/或耐磨性以改善耐久性。 此外,支撑构件也可以是挡风玻璃或背板成形铁的成型轨道。

    Horizontal press bending using a splitting vacuum/pressure pickup
    3.
    发明授权
    Horizontal press bending using a splitting vacuum/pressure pickup 失效
    使用分离真空/压力拾取器进行卧式压弯

    公开(公告)号:US4767437A

    公开(公告)日:1988-08-30

    申请号:US30022

    申请日:1987-03-25

    摘要: A horizontal press bending arrangement for press bending heat softened glass sheets during transfer into a shaping station. The glass sheet is conveyed through a roller hearth or gaseous support hearth type furnace to heat the sheet to its heat deformable temperature. The sheet is then transferred beneath a vacuum/pressure pick-up to support the glass sheet in non-engaging contact therewith. The sheet is next deposited on a lower mold. The vacuum/pressure pick-up thereafter splits in two and moves out of the shaping station to allow the sheet to be shaped between a pair of vertically aligned shaping molds. After shaping the shaped sheet is removed for further processing, e.g., tempering.

    摘要翻译: 一种水平压弯装置,用于在转移到成型台期间将弯曲加热软化的玻璃板进行加压弯曲。 玻璃板通过辊底或气体支撑炉床式炉输送,以将片材加热到其可变形温度。 然后将纸张在真空/压力拾取下转移以将玻璃板支撑在与其不接合的接触中。 接下来将该片材沉积在下模具上。 然后,真空/压力拾取器分成两部分并移出成型台,以允许片材在一对垂直排列的成形模具之间成形。 成型后,取出成形片进一步加工,例如回火。

    Method and apparatus for handling glass sheets for shaping and cooling
    4.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for handling glass sheets for shaping and cooling 失效
    用于处理用于成型和冷却的玻璃板的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US4092141A

    公开(公告)日:1978-05-30

    申请号:US756208

    申请日:1977-01-03

    摘要: This invention relates to method and apparatus for handling glass sheets during shaping and cooling. Each glass sheet to be treated in turn is heated to its deformation temperature and conveyed through a furnace and into a glass shaping station by a roller conveyor. The glass is lifted into engagement with a vacuum shaping mold while hot and held against the vacuum shaping mold by vacuum as the glass lifting mechanism retracts downward. A tempering ring having an outline supporting surface conforming to and slightly inside the periphery of the bent glass sheet is brought into position below the upper vacuum mold. The vacuum on the upper mold is released to deposit the shaped glass sheet on the tempering ring. The latter supports and transfers the bent glass sheet during movement into a cooling station where the shaped glass sheet is quenched as rapidly as possible to harden the glass surface and enable a plurality of rotating rolls to lift the hardened glass sheet from the tempering ring and convey it onto additional conveyor rolls which transport the shaped glass between additional streams of cooling medium such as air blasts that impart at least a partial temper to the glass. When the glass is transferred to the additional conveyor rolls, the rotating transfer rolls are lowered to clear the path of movement for the tempering ring to return to the shaping station where the cycle is repeated.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及在成形和冷却期间处理玻璃板的方法和装置。 将待处理的每块玻璃板加热到其变形温度,并通过辊式输送机输送通过炉并进入玻璃成型站。 当玻璃升起机构向下缩回时,玻璃被提升成与真空成型模具接合,同时通过真空保持抵靠真空成型模具。 具有与弯曲的玻璃板的周边相符并稍微内侧的轮廓支撑表面的回火环被置于上真空模具下方的位置。 释放上模具上的真空,将成形的玻璃板沉积在回火环上。 后者在运动过程中将弯曲的玻璃板支撑并转移到冷却站中,其中成形玻璃板尽可能快地被淬火以使玻璃表面硬化,并且能够使多个旋转辊将淬火的玻璃板从回火环提起并传送 在另外的输送辊上,其将成形玻璃在额外的冷却介质流之间输送,例如对玻璃至少产生部分回火的空气吹扫。 当玻璃转移到附加的传送辊上时,旋转的转印辊被降低以清除回火环的移动路径,以返回到重复循环的成形站。

    Tempering glass sheets by cooling comprising sublimation quenching
    5.
    发明授权
    Tempering glass sheets by cooling comprising sublimation quenching 失效
    回火玻璃板通过冷却包括升华淬火

    公开(公告)号:US4445921A

    公开(公告)日:1984-05-01

    申请号:US460322

    申请日:1983-01-24

    摘要: In tempering a glass sheet to a high temper by heating the sheet to approximately its softening point followed by rapid chilling using a quenching composition that comprises a tempering medium having high heat transfer characterisitcs, the heat-softened glass sheets are protected from breakage during fabrication and resulting optical distortion by applying the tempering medium through exit orifices of a delivery system toward the heated glass in a novel cycle. The initially applied tempering medium has a low heat transfer rate and is mixed with a second tempering medium having a higher heat transfer rate to gradually increase the heat transfer rate of the mixed tempering medium. In a specific embodiment, dry air is the first tempering medium and a sublimable material, such as carbon dioxide, is the second tempering medium. The delivery system has an uninsulated portion that assures that initially the sublimable material is applied as a gas. Dry air which has a lesser heat transfer coefficient than the sublimable material in its gaseous state, may be supplied to the uninsulated portion if humidity conditions require so that dry air having a lesser heat transfer coefficient is initially directed through the exit orifices followed by mixtures of dry air with increasing concentrations of said sublimable material in the gaseous state followed by increasing concentrations of solid particles of said sublimable material. Movement of the glass sheet is coordinated with movement of the delivery system for said quenching composition to avoid "batter".

    摘要翻译: 通过将片材加热到大约其软化点,然后使用包含具有高传热特性的回火介质的淬火组合物进行快速冷却,将玻璃板回火到高温,在制造过程中保护热软化的玻璃板不被破坏, 在新的循环中通过将递送系统的出口通过加热的玻璃施加回火介质而导致光学变形。 最初应用的回火介质具有低的传热速率,并且与具有较高传热速率的第二回火介质混合以逐渐增加混合回火介质的传热速率。 在具体实施方案中,干燥空气是第一回火介质,并且可升华材料,例如二氧化碳,是第二回火介质。 输送系统具有非绝缘部分,其确保最初将升华材料作为气体施加。 如果湿度条件要求使得具有较小传热系数的干燥空气最初被引导通过出口孔,接着是混合物的混合物,则可将具有比其气态的可升华材料传热系数更小的干燥空气供应到未绝缘部分 在气态下随着浓度增加的所述升华材料干燥空气,随后增加所述可升华材料的固体颗粒的浓度。 玻璃板的运动与用于所述淬火组合物的输送系统的运动协调以避免“面糊”。

    Glass sheet quench
    7.
    发明授权
    Glass sheet quench 失效
    玻璃板淬火

    公开(公告)号:US5507852A

    公开(公告)日:1996-04-16

    申请号:US178977

    申请日:1994-01-07

    IPC分类号: C03B27/044

    CPC分类号: C03B27/0445 C03B27/0408

    摘要: The present invention provides a quench for cooling hot sheet material. The quench includes a plurality of generally horizontally extending, spaced apart nozzle assemblies, each having a longitudinally extending air supply conduit with orifices extending to an outer surface of the conduit. A first plenum is interconnected to a first end of each of the conduits and a second plenum is interconnected to a second end of each of the conduits to allow cooling fluid to pass from the plenums into each of the nozzle assemblies through the conduit. The plenums are located at positions spaced laterally outward from the nozzle assemblies.

    摘要翻译: 本发明提供一种用于冷却热片材料的淬火。 骤冷包括多个大致水平延伸的间隔开的喷嘴组件,每个喷嘴组件具有纵向延伸的空气供应管道,孔口延伸到导管的外表面。 第一增压室互连到每个导管的第一端,并且第二增压室互连到每个导管的第二端,以允许冷却流体通过导管从气室通过每个喷嘴组件。 增压室位于从喷嘴组件横向向外间隔开的位置处。

    Ribbon severing support
    8.
    发明授权
    Ribbon severing support 失效
    丝带切断支持

    公开(公告)号:US4743284A

    公开(公告)日:1988-05-10

    申请号:US947252

    申请日:1986-12-29

    摘要: A sliding support table to support a continuously advancing glass ribbon during severing. The ribbon is supported by and moves over the sliding support table which moves along the direction of the glass ribbon travel between stationary upstream and downstream supports. Top and bottom line heaters supported on the table direct flames towards the major surfaces of the glass ribbon along a line cut. A blade and anvil arrangement supported on the table, sever the glass along the heated line of cut when the line of cut is positioned therebetween. The table advances along with the glass ribbon to support the ribbon during the heating and severing operation. The line heaters and blade and anvil arrangement may provide both a linear or nonlinear line of cut.