Patent ID: 6461223
Filing Date: 2002-10-08
Classification: B24B,C03B

Abstract:
A glass plate working machine comprising: a cutting unit for forming a cutting line on an unshaped glass plate to break the unshaped glass plate; a grinding unit for grinding an edge of the glass plate broken along the cutting line; a glass plate conveyer unit for conveying the glass plate sequentially through the cutting unit and the grinding unit; and control means connected to the cutting unit and the grinding unit for controlling the cutting unit and the grinding unit, respectively, the cutting unit including a table of the cutting unit on which the unshaped glass plate is placed, and an electric motor for moving the table of the cutting unit in one direction, the grinding unit including a table of the grinding unit on which the broken glass plate is placed, and an electric motor disposed separately from the electric motor of the cutting unit, for moving the table of the cutting unit in one direction for moving the table of the grinding unit in one direction, the electric motor of the cutting unit and the electric motor of the grinding unit being adapted to be operated synchronously by the control means to move the table of the cutting unit and the table of the grinding unit concurrently in one direction.