Registration station for assembling insulating glass windows
Abstract
An insulating glass unit (IGU) assembly line comprising a registration station capable of interleaving double and triple pane IGUs in accordance with an IOU production schedule. Visual indicators or prompts instruct operators at the assembly line in configuring a sequence of IGUs. Triple pane IGUs are assembled with minimal contamination of a center glass lite. A non-contact Bernoulli pad is used to lift a glass lite off from a horizontal or vertical support that conveys it from a glass washer to the registration station. Each of multiple pads has a capacity to lift approximately seven to ten pounds. Use of multiple pads per glass sheet or lite allows lites having dimensions up to 70 by 100 inches (assuming glass thickness of one quarter inch) to be assembled.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- GED Integrated Solutions, Inc., Twinsburg, OH (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1650892
- Patent Number(s):
- 10648224
- Application Number:
- 15/361,811
- Assignee:
- GED Integrated Solutions, Inc. (Twinsburg, OH)
- DOE Contract Number:
- EE0000167
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 11/28/2016
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 42 ENGINEERING
Citation Formats
Briese, William, Grismer, John, and McGlinchy, Timothy B. Registration station for assembling insulating glass windows. United States: N. p., 2020.
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Briese, William, Grismer, John, & McGlinchy, Timothy B. Registration station for assembling insulating glass windows. United States.
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"Registration station for assembling insulating glass windows". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1650892.
@article{osti_1650892,
title = {Registration station for assembling insulating glass windows},
author = {Briese, William and Grismer, John and McGlinchy, Timothy B.},
abstractNote = {An insulating glass unit (IGU) assembly line comprising a registration station capable of interleaving double and triple pane IGUs in accordance with an IOU production schedule. Visual indicators or prompts instruct operators at the assembly line in configuring a sequence of IGUs. Triple pane IGUs are assembled with minimal contamination of a center glass lite. A non-contact Bernoulli pad is used to lift a glass lite off from a horizontal or vertical support that conveys it from a glass washer to the registration station. Each of multiple pads has a capacity to lift approximately seven to ten pounds. Use of multiple pads per glass sheet or lite allows lites having dimensions up to 70 by 100 inches (assuming glass thickness of one quarter inch) to be assembled.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {2020},
month = {5}
}
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