Abstract: A device for picking up, shaping, and placing a thin glass pane, includes a frame with an upper side and a lower side, which is suitable to be directed at a glass pane with a thickness of less than 1 mm, and which is provided with a plurality of picking up pins that are arranged substantially parallel to one another and whose end directed at the glass pane is equipped with a suction cup, wherein the picking up pins are movable along their direction of extension independent of one another in order to adapt the arrangement of the suction cups to an intended shape of the glass pane.

Abstract: A method for producing laminated glass or a precursor thereof using a first glass pane with a thickness of at least 1.4 mm and a second glass pane with a thickness of not more than 1.0 mm, the first and second glass panes differing in curvature and/or locally in shape, includes aligning an arrangement including the first and second glass panes and a laminating film by positioning a side edge of the arrangement against a stop element; pre-fixing the aligned arrangement at at least two locations on the positioned side edge of the arrangement by one or more fixing elements and heating, after which the fixing element or elements are removed again; and forming a fixed arrangement by passing the pre-fixed arrangement through a roller arrangement with the pre-fixed side edge of the arrangement ahead. The arrangement is heated in sections during passage.

Abstract: A method for producing a laminated glass pane that includes a first pane, a first laminating film, a polymer film, a second laminating film, and a second pane, in this order, wherein the polymer film is bonded to the two laminating films, in which method the starting material for the first and the second laminating film is in each case a laminating film in roll form, which, before being used to form the laminated glass pane, is subjected to a pretreatment, in which the laminating film is relaxed by a heat treatment in a non-tensioned state.

Abstract: A method for producing a laminated pane, wherein a first laminating film, a carrier film, and a second laminating film are provided and joined to form a pre-laminate, wherein the first laminating film, the carrier film, and the second laminating film have the same film thickness, a compensating film and the pre-laminate are arranged to form a layer stack between a first pane and a second pane, wherein, parallel to two side edges of the layer stack, in each case a strip-shaped peripheral film is arranged and the compensating film is provided to compensate an offset between the pre-laminate and the peripheral films, and the layer stack including the first pane, the pre-laminate, the compensating film with peripheral films, and the second pane is laminated to form a laminated pane, wherein the first laminating film and the second laminating film have a plasticizer content of less than 15 wt.-%.

Abstract: A method for producing a composite glass pane, includes placing a first glass pane having a thickness less than or equal to 1 mm on a support mould, wherein the first glass pane is curved into a shape determined by the support mould; placing at least one thermoplastic film on the first glass pane; placing a curved second glass pane having a thickness greater than or equal to 1.5 mm on the thermoplastic film; and joining the first glass pane to the second glass pane via the thermoplastic film to form a composite glass pane by lamination.

Abstract: A method for autoclave-free lamination of a composite pane. A stack sequence of a substrate pane, at least one intermediate layer, and a cover pane is produced, a vacuum ring or a vacuum bag is placed around the stack sequence, the stack sequence is deaerated for a period of t?8 min and at a temperature T from 0° C. to 30° C. by application of a negative pressure of p?0.3 bar to the vacuum ring or the vacuum bag, the stack sequence is heated to a temperature T of 70° C. to 115° C., the stack sequence is deaerated for a period t of t?8 min by application of a negative pressure of p?0.3 bar to the vacuum ring or the vacuum bag, the stack sequence is cooled to a temperature T<70° C., the vacuum ring or the vacuum bag is aerated and removed, the stack sequence is heated to a temperature T from 40° C. to 120° C., the stack sequence is pressed together between at least two opposing calender rollers of a first calender unit over the entire width b of the stack sequence.

Abstract: A vacuum ring for deaerating a stack sequence includes a vacuum-stable flexible hose, which can be connected to a vacuum pump, has the shape of a closed ring, and has an opening to the interior such that the ring can hold an outer side edge of a stack sequence in order to form a deaeration channel along the side edge, wherein the vacuum ring has at least one electric heating element.

Abstract: A method for producing a laminated pane, wherein a first laminating film, a carrier film, and a second laminating film are provided and joined to form a pre-laminate, wherein the first laminating film, the carrier film, and the second laminating film have the same film thickness, a compensating film and the pre-laminate are arranged to form a layer stack between a first pane and a second pane, wherein, parallel to two side edges of the layer stack, in each case a strip-shaped peripheral film is arranged and the compensating film is provided to compensate an offset between the pre-laminate and the peripheral films, and the layer stack including the first pane, the pre-laminate, the compensating film with peripheral films, and the second pane is laminated to form a laminated pane, wherein the first laminating film and the second laminating film have a plasticizer content of less than 15 wt.-%.

Abstract: A method for producing laminated glass or a precursor thereof using a first glass pane with a thickness of at least 1.4 mm and a second glass pane with a thickness of not more than 1.0 mm, the first and second glass panes differing in curvature and/or locally in shape, includes aligning an arrangement including the first and second glass panes and a laminating film by positioning a side edge of the arrangement against a stop element; pre-fixing the aligned arrangement at at least two locations on the positioned side edge of the arrangement by one or more fixing elements and heating, after which the fixing element or elements are removed again; and forming a fixed arrangement by passing the pre-fixed arrangement through a roller arrangement with the pre-fixed side edge of the arrangement ahead. The arrangement is heated in sections during passage.

Abstract: A device for picking up, shaping, and placing a thin glass pane, includes a frame with an upper side and a lower side, which is suitable to be directed at a glass pane with a thickness of less than 1 mm, and which is provided with a plurality of picking up pins that are arranged substantially parallel to one another and whose end directed at the glass pane is equipped with a suction cup, wherein the picking up pins are movable along their direction of extension independent of one another in order to adapt the arrangement of the suction cups to an intended shape of the glass pane.

Abstract: A method for producing a laminated glass pane that includes a first pane, a first laminating film, a polymer film, a second laminating film, and a second pane, in this order, wherein the polymer film is bonded to the two laminating films, in which method the starting material for the first and the second laminating film is in each case a laminating film in roll form, which, before being used to form the laminated glass pane, is subjected to a pretreatment, in which the laminating film is relaxed by a heat treatment in a non-tensioned state.

Abstract: A method for producing a composite glass pane, includes placing a first glass pane having a thickness less than or equal to 1 mm on a support mould, wherein the first glass pane is curved into a shape determined by the support mould; placing at least one thermoplastic film on the first glass pane; placing a curved second glass pane having a thickness greater than or equal to 1.5 mm on the thermoplastic film; and joining the first glass pane to the second glass pane via the thermoplastic film to form a composite glass pane by lamination.

Abstract: A method for autoclave-free lamination of a composite pane. A stack sequence of a substrate pane, at least one intermediate layer, and a cover pane is produced, a vacuum ring or a vacuum bag is placed around the stack sequence, the stack sequence is deaerated for a period of t?8 min and at a temperature T from 0° C. to 30° C. by application of a negative pressure of p?0.3 bar to the vacuum ring or the vacuum bag, the stack sequence is heated to a temperature T of 70° C. to 115° C., the stack sequence is deaerated for a period t of t?8 min by application of a negative pressure of p?0.3 bar to the vacuum ring or the vacuum bag, the stack sequence is cooled to a temperature T<70° C., the vacuum ring or the vacuum bag is aerated and removed, the stack sequence is heated to a temperature T from 40° C. to 120° C., the stack sequence is pressed together between at least two opposing calender rollers of a first calender unit over the entire width b of the stack sequence.

Abstract: A method for rolling up a wedge-shaped film is described. In the disclosed method, a wedge-shaped film and a wedge-shaped intermediate layer are wound together onto a winding core. According to one aspect, the thicker edge of the wedge-shaped intermediate layer is positioned at least flush on the thinner edge of the wedge-shaped film. According to another aspect, the thinner edge of the wedge-shaped film is from 0.7 mm to 0.9 mm and the thicker edge is from 1.1 mm to 1.3 mm, and the thinner edge of the wedge-shaped intermediate layer is from 0.01 mm to 0.05 mm and the thicker edge is from 0.4 mm to 0.55 mm.