Abstract: An appartus for aligning an advancing plastic-glass sandwich on a conveyor to accurately direct the same in a desired orientation for proper entry into the restricted receiving zone of a pressing apparatus. The aligning apparatus includes a pair of pivotal arms located on one side of the sandwich and a third pivotal arm movable inwardly against the other side of the sandwich to urge the same against said first mentioned pair of arms while the sandwich is advanced therebetween.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for simultaneously running the cuts on a plurality of frangible sheets, such as glass, which have been scored individually and stacked on their edges with their score lines in superimposed relation on a vertical storage buck in such a manner that the scored area is unsupported. The apparatus includes a press mechanism having a base frame within which the storage buck is selectively placed and a ram device connected to a carriage which is movably mounted on the base frame and which ram device is adapted to apply a force to the outer surface of the stack of frangible sheets at a line parallel to and closely spaced from the superimposed score lines of the stack to deflect and break the stack into two units on the buck.