Patents Represented by Law Firm Rhodes, Ceats & Bennett, L.L.P.
  • Patent number: 5571599
    Abstract: A plurality of parallel adjacent grooves are formed in at least one surface of a sheet of glass. Each of the multiple grooves has a maximum width dimension of 7 millimeters and a minimum angle between the grooved wall and the plane of the glass surface of 12.degree.. The grooves are formed by affixing the sheet of glass to the conveyor of a grinding machine and subjecting the glass sheet to one or more grinding wheels in which the surface thereof has a plurality of parallel adjacent grooves formed therein of the mirror image of the grooves to be formed in the glass, wherein the grooves are simultaneously cut in a single path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1996
    Assignee: Glass Unlimited of High Point, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith L. Eichhorn, Lars Richter