Abstract: A device for laying and attaching a resistance wire (2) to a thermoplastic support film (1) for the production of a laminated glazing that can be heated electrically. The device includes a support (26, 27) for a wire bobbin (28), a wire guide device and a heated pressure roller (10) embedding resistance wire (2) in the support film. Between support (26, 27) for wire bobbin (28) and heated pressure roller (10), two gears (21, 22) are provided which mutually mesh, grasp wire (2) between them and deform the wire in an undulating manner. At least one of gears (21, 22) is driven by pressure roller (10) rolling over support film (1).

Abstract: The invention relates to the manufacture of laminated glass, comprising glass sheets and plastic sheets. In the manufacture, glass and plastic sheets are each cut to a final dimension desired for use in laminated glass, assembled in a preliminary way, and, then, by the action of temperature and pressure formed to the laminate. The cutting of the plastic sheets, is carried out more particularly a plastic sheet of polyvinyl butyral as an interlayer between outer sheets of silicate glass is carried out by a high pressure water jet.

Abstract: The invention is in a glass pane including a conductive strip around or substantially around its marginal edge. The conductive strip when included in circuit to a source of power may be heated for treating a strand of adhesive comprising an adhering medium between the glass pane and a frame thereby to enable both installation of the glass pane in the frame and permit removal of the glass pane from the frame with relative ease.

Abstract: A thermoplastic synthetic high polymer sheet including induced tensile stress lengthwise of the sheet which varies in intensity from a maximum along one edge to a minimum along the other edge. The induced tensile stress is frozen in the sheet by maintaining its temperature below a transformation temperature. Upon elevation of the temperature of the sheet above the transformation temperature, as the process of fabrication of a laminated windshield is to commence, the sheet, without further operative forming operations, will deform to conform substantially to the outline of the outer curved lamina of the windshield. The sheet may include a zone along one edge to provide filtering of glare.

Abstract: The windshield for a motor vehicle is characterized by a transparent panel having a lower region normally outside the driver's field of vision and where at least one windshield wiper is located in the rest position of the wiper. An electric resistance heating element, formed either as a continuous layer or as a plurality of individual conductors connected in parallel by bus bars, is carried on the windshield only in the lower region for heating the area on which the wipers rest. A continuous layer of a heat radiation absorbing ceramic material opaque to ambient light and coextensive with the area of the heating element is disposed on the windshield between the heating element and the windshield wiper to shield the heating element from view from the front of the windshield and to uniformly distribute heat over the lower portion of the windshield. The windshield is a laminate including inner and outer glass panes with a plastic layer therebetween.

Abstract: The invention disclosed provides a new improved metallic support member and process for bonding the metallic support member to a glass surface by means of an intermediate vitreous coating.