Patent ID: 7878754

Claim:
A method of recycling an initially useless glass offcut from a glass processing line, the method comprising: individually receiving the glass offcut from a breakout table downstream of a glass cutting table in the glass processing line; pivoting the glass offcut from a horizontal position to a substantially vertical position of less than 90 degrees with reference to the horizontal; moving the glass offcut using conveyors while still at the substantially vertical position of less than 90 degrees with reference to the horizontal, to a selected individual storage location; storing the glass offcut in the substantially vertical position of less than 90 degrees with reference to the horizontal; upon determining that the glass offcut is required back to the glass processing line, moving the glass offcut out of the individual storage location; pivoting the glass offcut back to the horizontal position; and moving the glass offcut to a loading table upstream of the glass cutting table in the glass processing line for subsequently cutting the glass offcut at the glass cutting table.