Patent ID: 8752403

Claim:
A method of shaping glass sheets by roll forming in more than one dimension comprising: providing a glass sheet having a leading edge and a trailing edge, the glass sheet being at a temperature so as to be shapeable; conveying the glass sheet through a first roll shaping zone that defines a horizontally-disposed path for the glass sheet, the first shaping zone comprising paired sets of upper and lower shaping rolls, a plurality of the shaping rolls in the first shaping zone having a first predetermined shaping configuration and one or more other shaping rolls in the first shaping zone have a second predetermined shaping configuration that is different from the first predetermined shaping configuration, and wherein the speed at which the glass sheet is conveyed is changed at least once as it is conveyed through the first shaping zone; and then conveying the glass sheet through a second roll shaping zone that defines a path for the glass sheet that is upwardly inclined relative to the horizontally-disposed path defined by the first shaping zone, the second shaping zone comprising paired sets of upper and lower shaping rolls having the first predetermined shaping configuration.