Abstract: Soda-lime-silica glass containing iron and fluorine has a high total light transmission factor while absorbing infrared radiation. This glass is useful in making glazings for automotive uses.

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: The present invention concerns a non-wettable glass sheet comprising a hydrophobic, oleophobic, UV resistant layer and a process for manufacturing the same. The process in accordance with the present invention includes cleaning the glass sheet, contacting the glass sheet with a solution containing a fluorinated organosilane in a non-polar solvent system at a temperature ranging between -10.degree. C. and 25.degree. C. for at least 5 minutes, and rinsing.

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: An electrochromic system for controlling the color state of an electrochromic pane. The charge needed to obtain the desired color is determined from the discharge potential of the system and the coloration set-point. An integrator measures the charge passing through the system and compares it to the charge to be transferred. This charge is measured by a differential amplifier which compares a discharge potential measured by a capacitor with a selected color set-point.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electrochromic glazing successively comprising a glass sheet, a first electrode constituted by a transparent electroconductive layer, whose square resistance is below 5 Ohms, a layer of a cathodic electrochromic material, an electrolyte, a layer of an anodic electrochromic material and a second transparent electroconductive electrode, barrier layers being inserted between the said electrodes and the said electrochromic material layers, the square resistance of the assembly formed by an electrode and its barrier layer being below 5 Ohms.

Abstract: The invention relates to a colored glass composition for producing glazings for use, e.g., as automobile sunroofs. The colored glass according to the invention is a soda-lime-silica glass comprising, as coloring agents, 1.4 to 4% iron oxide expressed as Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3 and 0 to 0.05% cobalt oxide, with the cobalt oxide exceeding about 0.02% when the Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3 is below about 2% and, optionally, selenium and chromium oxide, whereby the sum of the CoO+Se+Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3 is preferably less than about 0.24% by weight. The glass of the invention has a total light transmission factor under illuminant A equal to or below approximately 20% and a total energy transmission factor equal to or below approximately 12% for a thickness of 3.85 mm.

Abstract: In a method for bending glass plates, the glass plates are heated in a horizontal position in a continuous furnace (1) to the bending temperature and in a following bending chamber (5) are pressed by an upwardly flowing hot gas stream against a convex bending mold (7) positioned above the conveying plane. The bent glass plates (3') are placed on a displaceable shaping ring (13) and transferred with the latter into a following cooling station (16). The glass plates (3) are raised from the conveying roller train (2) of the continuous furnace (1) by a suction plate (3) are positioned relative to the transfer ring (28) on the latter. With the aid of the transfer ring (28) the glass plates (3) are transferred into the bending chamber, where in the end position of the transfer ring (28) they assume the desired end position relative to the bending mold (7).

Abstract: Laminated pane, comprising at least one glass sheet, and at least one film of plastics material. Between the film of plastics material and the glass sheet there Is disposed an adhesive film of a material having the property of an adhesion to the glas. The adhesive film is selected so that it adheres more strongly to the glass than to the plastics material.

Abstract: A solution of an organic compound of aluminum and tin or titanium is formed from, respectively, a nonhydrolyzable aluminum chelate and at least one organic compound of tin or a titanium chelate or alcoholate. The solution is then sprayed onto a heated glass substrate, thereby thermally decomposing and oxidizing the solution on the heated glass substrate to form, respectively, a layer of aluminum and tin or titanium oxides on the glass substrate. A semiconductive layer can be deposited upon the aluminum/tin or aluminum/titanium layer to form a coated glass structure which is useful for buildings or automobiles.

Abstract: The invention has as its subject a glass substrate provided with a conducting, low-emissivity transparent functional film, based upon metal oxide or oxides, on which is deposited an "outer" coating, the optical thickness of which is approximately one-quarter of the mean wavelength of the visible range, and preferably centered on 550 nm. In addition, an intermediate coating is provided between functional film and substrate, said coating having an optical thickness of from 50 to 100 nm, and preferably from 50 to 75 nm.

Abstract: The method of and apparatus for equipping a surface of an article with a profiled gasket, bead or a profiled frame, after appropriate pretreatment of the surface. A thermoplastic elastomer is supplied via an extruder and a heated pressure hose to a heated extrusion nozzle. The nozzle is guided by a robot, and the elastomer is extruded and laid by means of the extrusion nozzle onto the surface. The gasket is applied, for example, to an automobile glazing as a profiled frame along its border.

Abstract: An installation for the bending of glazings (6) includes a continuous furnace (1), a station for bending by pressing (10) with a lower shape (11) and a suction shape (15), a plate-suction device (50) that can be displaced longitudinally to transport the glazings (6) from the roller conveyor (7) to the station for bending by pressing (10), and an annular frame (35) that can be displaced horizontally to transport the bent glazings (61) to the cooling station (4). Lower shape (11) is mounted stationary lengthwise and a transfer station (30) is provided between the station for bending by pressing (10) and the cooling station (4). The upper shape can be displaced between the station for bending by pressing (10) and the transfer station (30), in synchronism with the plate-suction device (50).

Abstract: An apparatus for bending/tempering glass sheets raised to their softening point with a view to their bending and tempering includes an upper plate mold and a lower annular mold on which the glass sheets are deformed, and with respect to which the edge of glass sheets move as a result of their deformation, particularly by horizontal pressing between the upper bending mold and the lower mold. The bent sheets are thermally tempered in air on the same annular mold in a tempering station. This annular mold is designed in such a way that its contact surface with the glass sheets at the start of their deformation on the mold, being located on the outer periphery of the mold, is appropriate for the mark-free displacement of the glass on the mold and in particular for pressing, and so that at the end of displacement, and in particular at the end of pressing, the contact surface located on the inner periphery of said mold is appropriate for tempering.

Abstract: The subject of this invention is a method of making a curved glass pane of laminated glass, such as an automobile windshield, in which one of the two single glass sheets is provided, on the surface bearing against an intermediate layer, with a film of a baking finish. The baking finish is applied onto the inner face of the single glass sheet intended for the outside. The glass sheet, provided with the dried baking finish (i.e., a colored film), is laid, with the film upwards, onto the single glass sheet intended for the inside. The pair of glass sheets, in this arrangement, is prebent on a bending frame with simultaneous baking-in of the colored film. Subsequently, the two glass sheets are transposed and, in this transposed arrangement with the colored film on the inside, are finally bent in a second bending operation on a bending frame corresponding to the final shape of the outer sheet.

Abstract: A method of depositing a coating on a glass substrate by pyrolysis, which entails:superheating a face of a substrate intended for receiving a coating to a temperature higher than or equal to the softening temperature of the substrate, and depositing the coating without any homogenization of the temperature throughout the substrate to a value going above the softening temperature of said substrate being produced within the thickness of the substrate.

Abstract: The invention describes a glazing equipped with an extracted 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: An electric motor driven vehicle window assembly wherein an electric motor is mounted in an aperture formed in a portion of a transparent window pane. The electric motor operates in conjunction with a simple transmission element such as a threaded rod or a toothed rack and when energized, causes the window to be raised or lowered. The invention provides a motor driven window which is more compact than conventional motor driven vehicle windows.

Abstract: For forming by pyrolysis a coating based upon silicon, oxygen and carbon, on the surface of a moving glass substrates from a percursor gaseous mixture essentially without any oxidizing component and comprising a silane and an ethylenic compound, the contact time between this precursor mixture and the glass is maintained at a value greater than that necessary for the deposition of the coating if this were performed from a precursor gaseous mixture containing an oxidizing agent. The coating thus obtained has a refractive index lying between 1.45 and 2, preferably between 1.6 and 1.9, and its thickness reaches values greater than 50 mm.

Abstract: For the electric connection of a transparent surface layer (2), serving in particular as a heating resistor, on a glazing or glass substrate (1), it is proposed to deposit a coating (4) of a brazing having a low melting point by utilizing a soldering or brazing machine subjected to an ultrasonic vibration. A connecting metal electrode (5) can be soldered in spots (6) or over its entire surface to the surface layer thus solidly coated. As a result, the performance of the connectors in the finished product is improved.