Patent ID: 9108875
Filing Date: 2015-08-18
Classification: C03B

Abstract:
1. A furnace for shaping glass sheets for aircraft transparencies, the furnace comprising: a preheat and cooling furnace defined as a first furnace, the first furnace comprising: a shaping furnace defined as a second furnace, the second furnace comprising: a U-shaped moveable conveyor comprising; a carriage having an extended first arm and an opposite extended second arm, wherein the extended first arm is supported on the conveying end of the first and the fifth plurality of stub rolls, and the extended second arm is supported on the conveying end of the second and the sixth plurality of stub rolls; wherein with the first end of the moveable conveyor in the first opening of the first furnace the carriage is moved along the fifth and sixth plurality of stub rolls of the moveable conveyor into the first opening of the first furnace and thereafter onto the first and second plurality of stub rolls by activating the drive system to rotate the drive end of the first and the second plurality of stub rolls in a first direction to move the carriage along the path away from the first opening of the first furnace toward the second furnace and with the first end of the moveable conveyor in the first opening of the first furnace, the carriage is moved along the first and second plurality of stub rolls toward the first opening of the first furnace and a from the second furnace, and thereafter onto the fifth and sixth plurality of stub rolls by activating the drive system to rotate the drive end of the first and the second plurality of stub rolls in a second direction opposite to the first direction to move the carriage along the first path toward the first opening of the first furnace and away from the second furnace.