Patent ID: 8047354

Claim:
A method for conveying a glass sheet in a substantially vertical orientation comprising: (a) providing a moving conveyor configured to contact an edge of the sheet and move the sheet at a conveyance speed; (b) providing a non-contact bearing configured to eject liquid against a portion of a major surface of the sheet; and (c) contacting the edge of the sheet with the moving conveyor and moving the sheet at the conveyance speed while ejecting liquid from the non-contact bearing against the portion of the major surface of the sheet; wherein the non-contact bearing comprises a plurality of orifices which eject the liquid against the portion of the major surface of the sheet and the method has at least one of the following characteristics: (i) the rate at which the liquid is ejected from the non-contact bearing averaged over the orifices is in the range of 100-800 milliliters/minute/orifice; or (ii) the orifices' average horizontal pitch is in the range of 20-55 millimeters; or (iii) the orifices' average size is in the range of 1.0-4.5 millimeters.