Abstract: Tubular coverings for conveyor rollers for glass sheets heated to the softening point in a bending and/or heat treatment furnace, which have the special feature of having an outer surface, i.e. the surface that contacts the glass sheets, which is based on metal wires exhibit a reduced risk of marking the glass sheets and also exhibit a high temperature and wear resistance. Such tubular coverings are preferably used for covering the rollers present in the frontal and/or lateral positioning zones of the glass sheets on the conveyor.

Abstract: A means of permanently characterizing a glass workpiece (1) which is subjected to a heat treatment period during processing. An organic paint is utilized to apply identifying characteristics (3), and an inorganic bake-on paint is used to create an opaque permanent layer (5) in the region of the identifying characteristics (3). Heat treatment is utilized to create surface marks (4) on the workpiece (1) from the vaporization and burning of the organic paint into the inorganic paint.

Abstract: Glass sheets which have been heated to bending temperature are bent by passing the glass sheets over a shaping bed having a substantially circular or substantially conical profile of revolution as seen in the longitudinal direction of the shaping bed. The shaping bed is composed of an assembly of revolving elements adapted for driving the glass sheets and at least one hot air cushion acting on the glass sheets in the first part of the bending zone.

Abstract: For the extrusion of a calibrated profile of a thermoplastic polymer onto articles, the polymer, which is melted in an extruder (17), is fed, via a heated pressure hose (22), to an extruder head guided by a robot (5) and, by means of said extruder head, extruded and deposited on the article. At the end of each extrusion operation, the material flow to the extruder head is maintained and, by means of a change-over valve within the extruder head, redirected into an outlet orifice provided in the vicinity of the die orifice until the commencement of the subsequent extrusion operation. The redirected material flow emerges from a pipe connector (29) which is arranged on the extruder head and is coupled to a coupling piece (33). The material collected in this manner may be pelletized and fed back to the feed hopper (16) of the extruder (17).

Abstract: A process for bending a glass sheet according to which the glass sheet is heated in horizontal position until its bending temperature is reached and is brought into contact with an upper bending form by a force of a pneumatic nature. A fluid barrier is generated at the periphery of the glass sheet, the fluid barrier limiting the entry and exit of air near the upper bending form.

Abstract: The invention concerns compositions of colored glasses intended for the manufacture of glazing panes suitable for mounting in an automobile vehicle. The panes are of silico-sodo-calcic glasses having a total energy transmission factor (T.sub.E) less than the light transmission factor under illuminant A (TL.sub.A), the factor T.sub.E being from 10 to 48% and the factor TL.sub.A from 20 to 60 % for a thickness of 3.85 mm; these glasses comprise (in % by weight), as coloring agents, from 0.45 to 2.5% of Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3 (total iron), from 0.001 to 0.02% of CoO, from 0 to 0.0025% of Se and from 0 to 0.1% of Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3.

Abstract: This invention relates to a laminated safety pane, comprising a monolithic or laminated substrate of glass and/or of plastics material and a sheet of plastics material comprising at least one external polyurethane film providing desirable surface properties. According to the invention, the pane is provided, on at least one zone of the polyurethane film, with a gluing prefilm compatible with a film of adhesive deposited later, this prefilm being deposited after an electrical treatment applied to at least the zone of the polyurethane film which is to receive the prefilm, this electrical treatment being chosen from among the treatments of the corona discharge type.

Abstract: This invention concerns a pane having a film, the light transmission of which varies as a function of the direction of the incident light. The deposition technique is cathodic sputtering. It uses, between the cathode 1 and the substrate 4, a guide 6 which channels the particles.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a thermally stable, chemically resistant glass composition incorporating the following constituents within the ranges given hereinafter as cationic percentages:______________________________________ SiO.sub.2 46 to 56% Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 12 to 17% B.sub.2 O.sub.3 10 to 23% CaO 9 to 15% MgO 0.5 to 4% SrO 2 to 7% BaO 0 to 4% Na.sub.2 O + K.sub.2 O .ltoreq.0.5% TiO.sub.2 0 to 3% ______________________________________The glass composition can be used for producing containers, fire-proof glazings or substrates for the electronics industry.

Abstract: A heat reflecting and/or electrically heatable laminated glazing system having two single glass panes bonded together by a thermoplastic film such as polyvinyl butyral is disclosed. One of these two panes includes a layered construction, preferably of a conductive silver layer and an dielectric layer, preferably of zinc oxide, which is disposed on the silver layer. A bonding layer is utilized to improve the bond between the thermoplastic film and the dielectric layer. The bonding layer comprises one of the metals in groups IV, V, or VII of the periodic system or an oxide of these metals.

Abstract: A solid ion conductor material is made from branched polyethylene imine and a lithium cation salt in such a manner that the ratio of the number of nitrogen atoms contained in the polymer to the number of lithium cations originating from the salt is optimized. The branched polyethylene imine can be plasticized within a certain proportionate range of plasticizer. This type of material is used as electrolyte, notably in electrochromic systems.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the treatment of the periphery of a glass, more particularly an encapsulated glass, which consists of treating part of the surface of the glass by at least one silane and a composition able to form a layer having free OH groups. This process is useful for treating glass so that a resin, such as a polyurethane, upon contact with the treated glass will readily adhere and bond to the glass. The treated glass can be fitted into car body bays or openings.

Abstract: A method for the preparation of glass sheets with a view to laminating them consists of curving the glass sheets by causing them to pass one after another along a curved trajectory, then cooling them by passage between blowing chests, and of dispatching them by batches to the assembling station, and a laminated pane, the sheets of which have, in the central zone, a core compressive stress of from 1 to 50 MPa.

Abstract: An acoustic glazing intended for land transportation vehicles and including first and second glass sheets separated by an interlayer region, wherein the acoustic transmission loss differs at most by 5 dB from a figure increasing of 9 dB per octave from 800 to 2000 Hz and of 3 dB per octave above that. As examples, double glazings or laminated glazings are presented featuring an interlayer with a pronounced damping. The acoustic glazing will then operate to effectively eliminate aerodynamic noises in moving vehicles.

Abstract: A process for producing a double-layer film on a flat substrate by reactive casting employing two kinds of reaction-curable resin raw material mixtures substantially free from a solvent, which comprises casting onto the substrate a first unreacted liquid raw material mixture for the first layer, then casting onto the first layer a second unreacted liquid raw material mixture for the second layer while the first raw material mixture still retains its fluidity, and thereafter curing by reaction the two layers simultaneously.

Abstract: An apparatus for the distribution of pulverulent solids suspended in a gas on a moving substrate, particularly a ribbon of glass, has two walls defining a strip-like cavity positioned transversely to the substrate travel direction and ending in the vicinity of the substrate in a distribution slot. The cavity is provided with at least one partition positioned so as to longitudinally compartmentalize it, each of the compartments being coupled with pulverulent solid injectors and pressurized gas injectors.

Abstract: The invention describes a glazing equipped with an extruded profile on which or in place of which is cast a complement, which is connected to the profile. The procedure makes it possible to replace part of the profile which is difficult to produce by extrusion or to add to it foreign elements such as fastenings or various accessories.

Abstract: In a windshield having a holographic element integrated in the windshield for example a reflection hologram for reflecting optical information into the visual range of the driver, the edge region (4) of the hologram is resolved like a web. The web decreases from a high area fraction in the zone adjoining the actual hologram to a low area fraction in the zone bordering the glass area.

Abstract: A curved, laminated car glazing having a decorative enamel coating formed as a frame along the edge of a laminated glazing, on a surface adjacent to the intermediate, thermoplastic layer of one of the individual glass sheets is prepared by printing an enamel as the decorative coating on a glass sheet, which is then dried, printing an enamel containing metallic silver as a narrow strip on the decorative coating, firing or baking the coated glass sheet, superimposing the baked glass sheet with a mating glass sheet with the printed coating on the inside, and with the result that the bent sheets do not stick together because of the presence of the silver-containing strip, and completing the lamination of the curved glass sheets.

Abstract: A display glazing which is fitted to a refrigerated display case and which prevents moisture condensation thereon, comprising a shaped glazing having at least a portion of one side thereof provided with a low emissivity coating, conductive current input strips placed on the glazing in contact with the low emissivity coating which define coated zones of the glazing which are heated by the Joule effect upon the passage of electrical current between the conductive strips, and a means for determining if atmospheric conditions are such that condensed moisture is likely to form on the exterior surface of the unheated glazing.