METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COATING GLASS EDGES

• Main Authors: BIGELOW, DONALD ORRIN, TRACY, IAN DAVID, KIM, HONGKYU, SHULTZ, MICHAEL GEORGE, FRISKE, MARK STEPHEN, MASAKI, HIDEKI, DEMING, SCOTT W, COLLER, THOMAS, KEYES, GREGORY WILLIAM, FEKETY, CURTIS ROBERT
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 05.06.2014
• Subjects: APPARATUS FOR APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TOSURFACES, IN GENERAL; APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF GLASSES, GLAZES, OR VITREOUSENAMELS; CHEMISTRY; GLASS; JOINING GLASS TO GLASS OR OTHER MATERIALS; METALLURGY; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PROCESSES FOR APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TOSURFACES, IN GENERAL; SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; SURFACE TREATMENT OF FIBRES OR FILAMENTS MADE FROM GLASS,MINERALS OR SLAGS; SURFACE TREATMENT OF GLASS; TRANSPORTING

A process and system for applying coating materials to glass edges of various profiles. The glass edge is coated by picking up the coating material from an applicator such as, for example, a roller, through precise independent or relative control of the spatial relationship between the edge of the glass article and the applicator to achieve desirable product attributes such as coating thickness, profile, coverage areas and consistency. Such spatial relationships include the gap distance between the roller and applicator, coating thickness on the applicator, applicator and/or glass speed, and the like. L'invention concerne un procédé et un système pour appliquer des matières de revêtement à des bords de verre de divers profils. Le bord de verre est revêtu par prise de la matière de revêtement à partir d'un applicateur tel que, par exemple, un rouleau, par commande indépendant ou relatif précis de la relation spatiale entre le bord de l'article de verre et l'applicateur pour obtenir des attributs de produit souhaitables tels qu'une épaisseur de revêtement, un profil, des surfaces de couverture et une consistance. De telles relations spatiales comprennent la distance d'écart entre le rouleau et l'applicateur, l'épaisseur de revêtement sur l'applicateur, la vitesse de l'applicateur et/ou du verre et similaire.