Patent ID: 9745147
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: B65G,C03B

Claim:
1. In glass sheet forming system including a housing having a heated clamber and a roller conveyor including rollers for conveying a hot glass sheet within the heated chamber along a direction of conveyance in a horizontal plane in preparation for forming, a location sensing assembly for sensing the location of the leading extremity of the glass sheet along the direction of conveyance, comprising: a frame supported by the housing to extend laterally with respect to the direction of conveyance in the heated chamber at a location below the horizontal plane along which the glass sheet is conveyed; a carriage mounted by the frame for lateral movement with the respect to the direction of conveyance; a fluid switch that is mounted by the carriage and that is actuated by the conveyed glass sheet to provide a glass position sensing signal; and a lateral positioner having an inner connection to the carriage within the heated chamber and an outer operating portion located outside the housing for operation to move the carriage laterally with respect to the direction of conveyance to laterally align the fluid switch with the leading extremity of the conveyed glass sheet for the actuation that provides the glass position sensing signal for providing glass sheet positioning during the forming, and the lateral positioner including a shaft having an inner end connected to the carriage and an outer end having a handle for moving the carriage and the fluid switch mounted thereon laterally with respect to the direction of conveyance to provide the alignment of the fluid switch on the carriage with the leading extremity of the glass sheet.