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Innovative press bending

CA 1287980 C · Owner: Schultz, Stephen Jeffrey · Inventors: Frank, Robert George; Schultz, Stephen Jeffrey; Fecik, Michael Timothy

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A press bending apparatus includes a shaping station having an upper mold with a shaping surface having a generally concave downward elevational configuration and a lower mold with an apertured shaping surface complementing the shaping surface of the upper mold. A vacuum shuttle transfers heat softened glass sheets from a heating furnace to the shaping station where it deposits the glass sheets on the lower vacuum mold. The glass sheet is shaped between the molds. A rotating arrangement rotates the lower mold and the shaped glass sheet held thereagainst by vacuum from a first position wherein the shaping surface of the lower mold faces upward to a second position wherein the shaping surface …

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  • Granted August 27, 1991. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended August 27, 2008.
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FiledDecember 1, 1987
GrantedAugust 27, 1991
Term endedAugust 27, 2008
Patent numberCA 1287980 C
Classification (IPC)C03B23/03 +2 more

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1988199119941997200020032006Application filedDec 1, 1987Patent grantedAug 27, 1991Term endedAug 27, 2008

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