Abstract: A process for the production of a safety pane comprising a sheet of glass and at least one polyurethane-based layer having energy-absorbent properties. The polyurethane-based layer having energy-absorbent properties is formed directly on the sheet of glass by the reactive injection, under a pressure between 2 and 10 bars, between said sheet of glass and a rigid countermold, of a reactive mixture of an isocyanate component having a viscosity under 5000 centipoises at 40 degrees C. and a polyalcohol component, with the isocyanate component containing at least one aliphatic or cycloaliphatic diisocyanate, or a prepolymer of these isocyanates, with the polyalcohol component containing at least one long difunctional polyalcohol having a molecular mass between 500 and 4000 and at least one short diol as a chain extending agent.

Abstract: In the production of a multiple pane window, a multiple layer plastic filamentary seal is deposited on the face of a transparent or translucent sheet adjacent the edges thereof over a major portion of the periphery. The seal is deposited by an extrusion nozzle from a starting point to an end point at a corner, by relatively moving and rotating the sheet past the nozzle. At least one layer of the multiple layer seal contains a larger proportion of desiccant material and another layer contains a smaller proportion or no desiccant material. At the starting and/or end points only the layer or layers containing the smaller proportion or no desiccant material is extruded. In a modification, at each corner only the layer or layers containing the smaller proportion or no desiccant material is extruded. A process for applying the seal, a multiple pane window resulting therefrom, and apparatus for applying the seal are described.