Patent ID: 7059938

Claim:
An apparatus for working a glass plate, comprising: a glass-plate working section for working a glass plate; and transporting means for carrying into said glass-plate working section the glass plate to be worked by imparting a moving force in one direction to a lower surface of the glass plate, and for carrying out the glass plate from said glass-plate working section after working; said glass-plate working section having at least one work section of a cutting work section for forming a cut line on the glass plate, a bend-breaking work section for bend-breaking along the cut line the glass plate on which the cut line has been formed, and a grinding work section for grinding a peripheral edge of the bend-broken glass plate; said transporting means being disposed in such a manner as to pass through a center of said glass-plate working section, and being adapted to carry into said work section the glass plate in a state of being held at a center of the lower surface thereof and to carry out the worked glass plate from said work section in synchronism with the carrying in.