Abstract: A process is provided for assembling asymmetrical glazings made from a rigid support and a flexible sheet blank, using a continuous ribbon, which greatly reduces losses of flexible sheet material. The assembly device utilizes a continuous ribbon made of a flexible support film, of paper, or of an inexpensive plastic, on which blanks that are prepared or cut previously to the desired geometric shape have been placed, these blanks being placed regularly and separately from one another. The rigid supports and continuous ribbon are advanced to a pressing means to form the glazings.

Abstract: A device for the assembly of a laminated glazing (8) by pressing includes at least one set of pressing rollers (3, 5) mounted on a flexible beam (9, 25) whose curvature can be modified and adjusted to a desired profile.

Abstract: A device for the drive of driving rollers of a calendar for the pressing of laminated glazings 49 has at least one series of pressing rollers 1, 2 mounted on a mobile frame 3, at least one of these pressing rollers being driven by a driving motor 9 to which it is connected by a transmission system. Stationary and nondeformable drive shaft 11 is mounted on a mobile frame 3 and connected to driving motor 9 by a chain 10 or belt and to each driven roller 6 by the transmission system including a bevel gear 14 and a deformable, jointed unit 16 extending in an essentially vertical direction. The calendar equipped with this device can be used for the assembly of glazings of complex shapes.