Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tempering bent glass sheets
- Patent Title (中): 回火玻璃板
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Application No.: US10551117Application Date: 2004-03-25
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Publication No.: US08028543B2Publication Date: 2011-10-04
- Inventor: Giovanni Maria Carlomagno
- Applicant: Giovanni Maria Carlomagno
- Applicant Address: GB St. Helens, Merseyside
- Assignee: Pilkington PLC
- Current Assignee: Pilkington PLC
- Current Assignee Address: GB St. Helens, Merseyside
- Agency: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Priority: EP03425197 20030328
- International Application: PCT/GB2004/001263 WO 20040325
- International Announcement: WO2004/085326 WO 20041007
- Main IPC: C03B27/04
- IPC: C03B27/04 ; C03B27/044 ; C03B27/048

Abstract:
An apparatus for tempering a bent glass sheet is disclosed. The apparatus comprises means for conveying the sheet through the apparatus and a pair of blastheads for quenching the sheet with quench gas. Each blasthead comprises a plurality of spaced elongate plenums for supplying quench gas to an array of quench nozzles, the nozzles being mutually inclined to provide diverging jets of quench gas. The plenums extend transversely to the direction of conveyance of the sheet, and the array of nozzles is curved in at least one direction. The array may comprise rows of nozzles extending along lines which are curved in the direction of elongation of the plenums; preferably the curvature of the rows matches the average local curvature of the bent glass sheet in the corresponding direction. Also disclosed is a production line incorporating the apparatus.
Public/Granted literature
- US20060191292A1 Tempering bent glass sheets Public/Granted day:2006-08-31
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