Abstract: A method of fabricating bent laminated safety glass windshields having at least one hole through the entire thickness thereof adjacent to but spaced entirely from the marginal edge thereof is disclosed.

Abstract: Glass sheets are bent along a line which is sharply creased at one end and gently curved at the opposite end. Localized heating along the line is provided by an electrically heated ribbon mounted above the glass so as to maintain a constant spacing between the glass and the ribbon at one end of the line, while the spacing at the other end of the line gradually increases as bending progresses.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for bending glass sheets in pairs to a so-called double V-bend in which the glass is bent sharply across its width along two lines of sharp bending to form a pair of sharply bent longitudinal extremity portions. The gist of the invention is the application to a sectionalized mold of weighted elongated electroconductive ribbons which are unattached to any mold structure and each of which is readily applied to and removed from positions above the upper surface of the glass sheets mounted on the mold for bending in sliding superimposed relation to a pair of electrodes along lines aligned with the lines of sharp bending. The ribbons are maintained in spaced relation to the glass throughout the bending operation so as to avoid marking the glass. The mold sections terminate at locations along transverse lines aligned with and slightly below the ribbons.

Abstract: Shaping glass sheets of soda-lime-silica compositions by gravity sagging into complicated shapes having a portion of convex curvature and another portion of concave curvature requires a continuous shaping surface onto which a supported glass sheet is heated and sags. The present invention provides a method of bending soda-lime-silica glass sheets onto curved molds of a complicated curvature comprising a previously shaped sheet of a glassy composition having a heat capacity approximating that of the soda-lime-silica composition and a lower coefficient of thermal expansion and a higher deformation temperature than those of the sode-lime-silica composition of the glass sheet to be bent.