Patent ID: 8474355
Filing Date: 2013-07-02
Classification: B26B,B26D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of cutting out a vehicle glazing panel bonded in a frame by means of interposed bonding material, the vehicle glazing panel having a first surface disposed opposite a second surface, the method comprising: providing a wire winder unit separate from a wire dispenser unit and movable relative to the wire dispenser unit, wherein the wire winder unit includes at least one winder spool, and wherein the wire dispenser unit includes a rotatable spool for paying out cutting wire therefrom in response to tension applied to the cutting wire; releasably securing the wire winder unit in a first position on the first surface of the vehicle glazing panel, wherein the wire winder unit engages the first surface of the vehicle glazing panel; releasably securing the wire dispenser unit in a second position on the second surface of the vehicle glazing panel, wherein the wire dispenser unit engages the second surface of the vehicle glazing panel; paying out cutting wire from the rotatable spool of the wire dispensing unit and looping the cutting wire paid out from the wire dispenser unit about the periphery of the vehicle glazing panel; connecting a free end of the cutting wire paid out from the wire dispenser unit to the at least one winder spool of the wire winder unit; and with the wire dispenser unit secured in the second position on the second surface of the vehicle glazing panel and the cutting wire extending from the wire dispenser unit to the wire winder unit secured in the first position on the first surface of the vehicle glazing panel, operating the at least one winder spool of the wire winder unit to wind the cutting wire and cut the bonding material with the cutting wire, wherein during cutting the cutting wire is paid out from the rotatable spool of the wire dispenser unit to effect slip cutting of the bonding material disposed about the frame with the cutting wire.