FIXATION ARRANGEMENT OF HEATED GLASS SHEET ON ITS UPPER SIDE Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: manufacture of glass products. SUBSTANCE: arrangement contains horizontal lower and upper plates connected with a group of vertically arranged members made in the form of pipes or lamellar members to form channels. Support arrangement also contains first and second fittings for feeding compressed gas and applying vacuum through the first and second rows of openings in lower plate such as to provide support for heated glass sheet under lower plate without any contact with it. In one version of structure of arrangement, compressed gas is fed through chamber disposed between plates using a series of short pipes installed in openings of the first row in lower plate, and vacuum is created from upper side of upper plate through openings in plate and channels and second row of openings. EFFECT: facilitated fixation of sheet. 13 cl, 15 dwg