Patent ID: 8196635

Claim:
A device for assembling insulating glass panes filled with a gas different from air, said device comprising: two pressure plates moveable between a V orientation with one another and a parallel orientation with one another, the parallel orientation being inclined toward a horizontal reference; a horizontal conveyer belt disposed proximate lower edges of the plates; at least two seals extending from an upper rim of the belt to a point above the belt, the two seals being spaced apart from one another in a conveying in direction of the belt, at least one of the seals being active between the two plates, at least one of said two pressure plates being provided with holes therethrough for enabling air, driven through said holes, to retain a selected glass panel against said at least one of the plates; a supply line and channel for introducing a gas different from air into a space between the two plates from below; the active seal being designed as a suspended blade with a suspension located above the space between the two pressure plates and displaceable along an upper edge of a first of the two pressure plates and variable with respect to spacing from a plane that includes a front of the first pressure plate in order that arrangements of glass panels for insulating panes can be conveyed without any obstruction past the blade positioned between the pressure plates, the blade being provided with a reversably yielding sealing material on at least a one side of the blade, the sealing material extending over a full length of the blade.