Patent ID: 9630870
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: C03B

Claim:
1. A method for forming a curved tempered glass comprising: bending a previously heated flat glass in a bending station thereby forming a curved glass; tempering the curved glass in a tempering station, wherein the tempering station is separate from the bending station; wherein the flat glass is previously heated in a heating furnace and then is conveyed along a first direction out of the heating furnace and into the bending station; wherein the heated flat glass is subsequently bent in the bending station so that the curved glass extends along a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction; and wherein the curved glass exits the bending station and enters the tempering station along the second direction; and wherein the heated flat glass is bent in the bending station via a bending mechanism that comprises glass supporting rollers and transferring scroll wheels and wherein each transferring scroll wheel is arranged between two adjacent glass supporting rollers.