Patent ID: 8660686

Claim:
A device for fixing and transporting impact-sensitive glass sheets, in an ultraclean room for feeding a sputter system, comprising the following features: a) a roller drive for conveying a plurality of runners of a perpendicular transport frame suitable for a glass sheet, said transport frame being guided on a top side in a magnetic rail mount to a centering unit that centers the transport frame in the horizontal, the roller drive further being configured for conveyance of the transport frame to a sputter system, b) a frame lifting unit serves for lifting and lowering the transport frame in the magnetic rail mount, c) a fixing unit operable to fix and release the transport frame, wherein opening heads are present in a region of the longitudinal sides and the top side of the transport frame for opening and closing a plurality of frame clips for receiving the glass sheet, d) a transfer device, for the glass sheet to be coated, is operable to lift and pivot the glass sheet, which is supplied in a horizontal position by a transport device, said transfer device bringing said sheet into a vertical position and then placing the glass sheet into the transport frame.