Belt assisted press bending
CA 2004428 C · Owner: Schultz, Stephen Jeffrey · Inventors: Wolfe, Terry Lee; Schultz, Stephen Jeffrey; Wilhelm, Richard Eugene
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A heat softened glass sheet is conveyed directly from a heating furnace onto an advancing conveyor belt which is supported on a scissor table. The glass sheet is advanced on the belt to a position below an upper press face. The scissor table increases the sag of the belt and the corresponding curved configuration of the supported glass sheet as it lifts the glass sheet into pressing engagement with the upper press face. During pressing the glass, sheet and belt generally conform to the shaping surface of the press face.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed December 1, 1989 and granted November 8, 1994. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 1, 2009.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by December 1, 2011.
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