Patent ID: 8661854

Claim:
A glass sheet bending system comprising: a heating furnace ( 10 ) for heating a glass sheet to bend the glass sheet; a press bending station for bending the glass sheet heated by the heating furnace ( 10 ) and softened, into a desired shape; and a cooling station for cooling the glass sheet bent into the desired shape at the press bending station; wherein the press bending station ( 20 ) includes a glass mounting bed ( 21 ) on which the glass sheet is to be put, a mold ( 22 ) disposed above the glass mounting bed ( 21 ) and having a glass forming surface ( 23 ) at a lower surface of the mold, and a press ring ( 24 ) for lifting the glass sheet put on the glass mounting bed ( 21 ) and pressing the glass sheet to the glass forming surface ( 23 ) of the mold ( 22 ), characterized in that the glass mounting bed ( 21 ) includes a slat conveyer ( 50 c , 50 d , 50 e , 50 f , 50 g ) whose crawler ( 54 ) is driven in a conveyance direction of the glass sheet, or a belt conveyer whose belt is driven in the conveyance direction of the glass sheet, and that the slat conveyer ( 50 c , 50 d , 50 e , 50 f , 50 g ) or the belt conveyer of the glass mounting bed ( 21 ) has a length in the conveyance direction that is shorter than a width of the press ring ( 24 ) in the conveyance direction.