Abstract: The method for machining a glass pane (1?), wherein the edge (1a) of the glass pane is machined using at least one grinding tool (10), in that the glass pane and the grinding tool, which is set in rotation by means of a motor (11), are moved relative to one another, includes a method step in which a variable that is a function of the power consumption of the motor (11) used to drive the grinding tool is detected along at least a section of the edge (1a?) being machined, and is evaluated to determine the offset of the glass pane (1) with respect to a target position (1).

Abstract: A framed panel and related method of manufacture are disclosed. A framed panel unit includes a panel along the edge of which thermoplastic frame members are disposed. The frame members have first and second opposed side walls which define a channel for receiving the edge of the panel. The channel of each frame member has spacers between the panel and each side wall for spacing the panel from the side walls. Prior to welding together the ends of the frame members, the spacers retain the frame members on the panel. The panel may include multiple opposed sheet members with a spacer between the sheet members spacing them apart, and a reactive thermoplastic sealant material bonding the sheets to the frame members. An associated method of forming a named panel, frame members for a panel, and a spacer component for use in mounting a panel within a channel of a frame member are also disclosed.

Abstract: In the method for loading a glass processing installation (5) with loading portions (10a), glass plates (10, 10b) are extracted repeatedly from a storage unit (20) in a predetermined sequence and divided into a residual portion (10b), which is stored in the storage unit, and a loading portion (10a), which is delivered to the glass processing installation. It is thereby possible to selectively load the glass processing unit with portions of glass plates of certain dimensions and of a determined sort. The device for loading a glass processing installation comprises a storage unit (20) with at least two compartments (21), each compartment being capable of receiving at least one glass plate (10, 10b), and displacing means for displacing a glass plate in a compartment at least partially out of the compartment.

Abstract: In the method for loading a glass processing installation (5) with loading portions (10a), glass plates (10, 10b) are extracted repeatedly from a storage unit (20) in a predetermined sequence and divided into a residual portion (10b), which is stored in the storage unit, and a loading portion (10a), which is delivered to the glass processing installation. It is thereby possible to selectively load the glass processing unit with portions of glass plates of certain dimensions and of a determined sort. The device for loading a glass processing installation comprises a storage unit (20) with at least two compartments (21), each compartment being capable of receiving at least one glass plate (10, 10b), and displacing means for displacing a glass plate in a compartment at least partially out of the compartment.

Abstract: Unworked glass panes (9) are definitively positioned in a positioning station (15) by means of positioning stops (18) and transferred in a fixed position first to a grinding station (12) and then to a transfer station (7) by a translating device (20, 21, 22, 23). From the transfer station (7), the ground panes are transferred by means of a feeding device (6) to a drilling station (1) where holes are drilled into the panes. The finished panes are then returned to the transfer station (7) and are removed therefrom. A complete treatment is thus effected in a once determined position without any subsequent positioning. The drilling station is therefore free from any positioning means.

Abstract: Plates, especially glass sheets, are fed for sorting to a putting-up machine wherein a glass sheet is set upright against a wall in front of which the glass sheet is held in a determined position by an air flow provided by a blower. One glass sheet at a time is withdrawn from this position and pulled into a sorting carriage by nippers. The sorting carriage is then displaced in front of a compartment carriage and the glass sheets contained in the sorting carriage are pushed out by the nippers and inserted into the corresponding compartment of a compartment carriage. The installation has a simple construction, works particularly efficiently and takes optimally care of the glass sheets.

Abstract: The image of a body which is located in a measuring zone is projected by a mirror into a camera having an optoelectric transducer, for instance a row of photodiodes. The stripe pattern is thrown onto the upper side of the body by a light beam which is inclined with respect to the projecting direction, said stripe pattern being imaged together with said body. The shape of the body in the vertical projection is detected by the camera and an associated electronic system, and the elevation of the body is deduced from the position of the stripe pattern thereon. Three dimensions, i.e. the actual size of the body, are thus determined. A sorting device can be controlled according to the detected size.

Abstract: Roughly precut glass plates are delivered to a cutting and breaking station where they are cut and broken while invariably mounted. For this purpose, a processing head having a cutting head and a mechanical or thermal breaking system is provided which in a sequence of operations produces a cutting line and relief incisions and then breaks off the plate edges extending on the outside of said cutting line. As the plate is cut to shape, it is transferred, in a predetermined position, to a grinding station, where the plate edge is ground. Effecting the cutting and the breaking operation in one location allows a considerable simplification of the installation and an improved utilisation of all parts of the system. Positioning by means of stops as well as conversions of breaking tool adjustments for different plate shapes are no longer necessary. Programming of the various processing operations is particularly simple.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for distinguishing and separating both stones and soil clods from field crops, in which a sensor (5) is simultaneously responsive to both impact and influence on a sensor-generated magnetic field and generates output signals characteristic of field crops, stones and clods. The output signals are fed to electronic circuitry (12) that distinguishes output signals produced by mechanical impact of stones and those produced by passage of clods through the magnetic field from signals generated by crops. An ejector cylinder (15) and ejector (16) separates stones and clods from crops upon receipt of a signal from the electronic circuitry.