Abstract: In order to seal the corner joint of an elastoplastic tape placed as a spacer on a glass pane, a film strip is pressed with a first portion of its length against the first leg section of the spacer and the protruding portion of the film strip is wrapped around the corner and pressed against the second leg section. For the purpose of automating this process, the film strip is severed mechanically from an automatically supplied film tape and held via a transfer apparatus which thereafter presses the film strip with the first portion of its length against the first leg section. The portion of the film strip protruding freely over the corner is wrapped around the corner via a pressure carriage and pressed by tautening against the second leg section of the spacer.

Abstract: An insulating glass pane structure including two glass panes is formed by providing an elastoplastic strip from a delivery reel, where the elastoplastic strip has a varying dimension along its width including a first, nominal width section and a second, reduced width section that is smaller in width than the nominal width section. Side surface area portions of the nominal width section of the strip are coated with a first adhesive glue, and side surface area portions of the reduced width section of the strip are coated with a second adhesive glue that is diffusion-proof against water vapor. One side surface of the strip is pressed against a first glass pane to form a spacer, the strip being pressed close to an edge of the first glass pane, and the second glass pane is applied and pressed to form the glass pane structure.

Abstract: In order to seal the corner joint of an elastoplastic tape placed as a spacer on a glass pane, a film strip is pressed with a first portion of its length against the first leg section of the spacer and the protruding portion of the film strip is wrapped around the corner and pressed against the second leg section. For the purpose of automating this process, the film strip is severed mechanically from an automatically supplied film tape and held via a transfer apparatus which thereafter presses the film strip with the first portion of its length against the first leg section. The portion of the film strip protruding freely over the corner is wrapped around the corner via a pressure carriage and pressed by tautening against the second leg section of the spacer.

Abstract: On a carriage of a device for dividing glass sheets into patterns, there are a cutting tool to which a pivoting drive is assigned, and a stripping tool for removing a coating from a glass sheet with a stripping disk. The stripping tool is mounted on the carriage and pivots around an axis perpendicular to the glass sheet. When the tool is being used to strip a glass sheet along the division outline, therefore in the area on either side of scoring lines which have been or are to be produced in a glass sheet, the stripping disk is placed on the surface of the glass sheet and the tool is pivoted around the axis which is normal to the glass sheet using the pivoting drive for the cutting tool in order to correctly align the stripping disk.

Abstract: In order to seal the corner joint of an elastoplastic tape placed as a spacer on a glass pane, a film strip is pressed with a first portion of its length against the first leg section of the spacer and the protruding portion of the film strip is wrapped around the corner and pressed against the second leg section. For the purpose of automating this process, the film strip is severed mechanically from an automatically supplied film tape and held via a transfer apparatus which thereafter presses the film strip with the first portion of its length against the first leg section. The portion of the film strip protruding freely over the corner is wrapped around the corner via a pressure carriage and pressed by tautening against the second leg section of the spacer.

Abstract: A device for working of material plates (1), such as glass panes, has a supporting member (25, 26, 29) for the material plate (1) and a tool (12, 18) for working the material plates (1). The supporting member (25, 26, 29) has paired supporting elements (25?, 25?, 26?, 26?, 29?, 29?) with supporting surfaces (27?, 27?, 30?, 30?) facing one another, between which the material plate (1) is held. There are openings (31) for liquid emerging under pressure in the supporting surfaces (27?, 27?, 30?, 30?). The material plate (1), especially the glass pane, is therefore not mechanically supported, as is conventional in the prior art, but uses a liquid film which is formed under pressure in the gap between the material plate (1) and the supporting surfaces (27?, 27?, 30?, 30?) of the supporting elements (25?, 25?, 26?, 26?, 29?, 29?).

Abstract: An insulating glass unit includes an elastoplastic spacer strip and at least two panes. The spacer strip includes a drying agent and has side surfaces configured to adhere to opposite pane surfaces, an inside surface configured to face an inside space between the panes, and an outer surface that is opposite to the inside surface and is coated with a vapor-sealing layer. The spacer strip is dimensionally stable and has a high absorption capacity for water vapor. The spacer strip includes a jacket of a silicone material and a core of the drying agent.

Abstract: To ensure that the support force which is dependent on the pressure of a support fluid is essentially the same also in the edge area of an article (9), especially sheets of (flat) glass, which is to be held or transported, as the support force in the middle area of the surface of the article (9), the device (1) as claimed in the invention on at least one support wall (3 or 5) provides for feed openings (21) to which drain openings (23) are directly assigned.

Abstract: A device for the dimensionally accurate application of an elastoplastic spacer strip onto a glass pane is disclosed. The device includes a compensating or tailback section between a first adjustably driven pair of rollers and a second adjustably driven pair of rollers, as well as a sensor for recognizing the position of the strip in the compensating section. The device is designed such that the spacer strip is not withdrawn from the storage drum but, instead, is unwound in a manner free from any tensile stress. The spacer strip, furthermore, is kept free from tensile and shearing stresses on the route up to being pressed onto a glass pane, despite the fact that the application speed will inevitably fluctuate several times between zero and a maximum value while edges of the glass pane are covered mechanically.

Abstract: A window or door glazing has a stepped pane element (3) which is adhesively bonded all the way around to a frame (10), for example the frame (10) of a window sash. In this case, two regions of adhesive compound are provided, firstly in the region of the smaller pane (2) of the stepped pane element (3), and secondly on the inside of the protruding edge of the larger glass pane (1) of the stepped pane element (3).

Abstract: A device for working of glass panes (1) has a support (5) for the glass panes (1) and a nozzle (2) from which a water jet emerges for cutting the glass panes (1). The nozzle (2) can be moved on a guide (8) parallel to the plane of the support (5). The tool (12) for working of the cut edges of the material plates (1) can likewise be moved on the guide (8) of the nozzle (2) and is preferably mounted on the same carriage (9) which can be moved on the guide (8), as the nozzle (2). This simplifies not only the technical structure of the device, but also shortens the working time, since the glass pane (1) need not be transported to another device for finishing. Moreover, essentially the same control program as for the water jet cutting can be used for finishing.

Abstract: An insulating glass unit includes an elastoplastic spacer strip and at least two panes. The spacer strip includes a drying agent and has side surfaces configured to adhere to opposite pane surfaces, an inside surface configured to face an inside space between the panes, and an outer surface that is opposite to the inside surface and is coated with a vapor-sealing layer. The spacer strip is dimensionally stable and has a high absorption capacity for water vapor. The spacer strip includes a jacket of a silicone material and a core of the drying agent.

Abstract: A device for producing heavy gas-filled insulating glass sheets (62, 64, 60) has two plates (4, 6), between which the insulating glass sheet (62, 64, 60) which is to be filled can be located. On the vertical edges of the plates (4, 6) there are sealing devices (12) to seal the space (10) between the plates (4, 6). On the lower edge of the plates (4, 6) there are a conveyor means (40) for insulating glass and a channel (44) for the supply of heavy gas into the space (10) between the plates (4, 6) and into the interior (60) of the insulating glass sheets (62, 64, 60). In one of the plates (4, 6) there is a seal (20) which extends solely transversely to the plane of the plate (4) from bottom to top essentially vertically and which is located for example in the (lengthwise) middle of the plate (4).

Abstract: A device for machining a glass plate (5) is provided with a lifting element (10,11) which is used to lift the glass plate (5) from a transport device (3) located on a lower edge of a supporting wall (1), during the machining process. The lifting element (10,11) includes lifting fingers (10) provided with clips (15) which can be applied to the lower horizontal edge (7) of the glass plate (5), in order to positively connect the lifting element (10,11) to the glass plate (5). Both a drive for lifting and lowering the lifting element and a drive for horizontally displacing the same are associated with the lifting element (10,11), such that the glass plate (5) can be displaced during the machining process, without slipping and without any time delay.

Abstract: A glass breaking table includes two rows of suction pads, on either side of a gap between table platforms. A breaking strip in the gap can be raised. A pressure tool including two fingers is provided above one end of the gap. A glass sheet is held on either side of the gap by negative pressure to the suction pads and is pre-tensioned in a convex manner, (the convex face of the sheet having a scored line), with the aid of the breaking strip, which can be raised uniformly along the entire length of the glass sheet in the vicinity of the scored line. The pressure tool exerts a pressure from above only in the vicinity of one end of the scored line in the edge region of the sheet on both sides of the scored line, initiating the breaking of the pre-tensioned glass sheet along the scored line.

Abstract: In order to seal the corner joint of an elastoplastic tape placed as a spacer on a glass pane, a film strip is pressed with a first portion of its length against the first leg section of the spacer and the protruding portion of the film strip is wrapped around the corner and pressed against the second leg section. For the purpose of automating this process, the film strip is severed mechanically from an automatically supplied film tape and held via a transfer apparatus which thereafter presses the film strip with the first portion of its length against the first leg section. The portion of the film strip protruding freely over the corner is wrapped around the corner via a pressure carriage and pressed by tautening against the second leg section of the spacer.

Abstract: In a system for cutting glass sheets into shapes there is at least one cutting site (A, B). In order to align the glass sheet which is to be cut or the glass sheet shape into a defined position, on the edge of the tables I and II there are contact edges (21, 44, 45). In order to move the glass sheets and the glass sheet shapes into contact with the contact edges (21, 44, 45) the tables I, II are aligned sloping down toward the contact edges (21, 44, 45) so that the glass sheets and glass sheet shapes slide on air cushions produced between the glass sheets or glass sheet shapes and the tables (I, II) in contact with the contact edges (21, 44, 45). The glass sheets or glass sheet shapes which adjoin the contact edges (21, 45) are coupled by force-fit to the conveyor belts (20) which are provided in the area of the contact edges (21, 45) and then moved to the cutting site (A, B) which is located following the table (I, II).

Abstract: A glass cutting table (1) has a support in the form of a top (3) for the glass plate to be divided, furthermore a cutting bridge (4) which can be moved along the support, and on which a cutting head (6) with a cutting tool is located. The drive and guide unit (10) is located at a distance underneath the top (3) which forms the support of the glass cutting table (1) and is attached to the base frame (2) of the glass cutting table (1) independently of the top (3). In addition the guide and drive unit (10), which consists of guide rods (12) for the cutting bridge (4) and a gear-toothed belt drive (15, 16, 17) for moving the cutting bridge (4) relative to the outside contour of the top (3) of the glass cutting table (1), is offset to the inside to especially the lengthwise edges (5) of the top (3).

Abstract: On a carriage of a device for dividing glass sheets into patterns, there are a cutting tool to which a pivoting drive is assigned, and a stripping tool for removing a coating from a glass sheet with a stripping disk. The stripping tool is mounted on the carriage and pivots around an axis perpendicular to the glass sheet. When the tool is being used to strip a glass sheet along the division outline, therefore in the area on either side of scoring lines which have been or are to be produced in a glass sheet, the stripping disk is placed on the surface of the glass sheet and the tool is pivoted around the axis which is normal to the glass sheet using the pivoting drive for the cutting tool in order to correctly align the stripping disk.

Abstract: A tool includes a rotating abrasive disk that removes the lateral excess portion of a plastic sheet positioned between the panes of a laminated glass structure. Specifically, the excess portion of the plastic sheet may be removed along on two mutually rectangular edges of the laminated glass structure. The rotating disk may be used with a scratching table or a combined scratching and breaking table, with the disk arranged in a stationary manner on a longitudinal edge and with a further rotating abrasive disk arranged on a carriage that moves in a rectangular manner relative to the direction of transport of the laminated glass structure.