Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
  • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
  • E06B3/00—Window sashes, door leaves, or like elements for closing wall or like openings; Layout of fixed or moving closures, e.g. windows in wall or like openings; Features of rigidly-mounted outer frames relating to the mounting of wing frames
  • E06B3/54—Fixing of glass panes or like plates
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
  • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
  • E06B3/00—Window sashes, door leaves, or like elements for closing wall or like openings; Layout of fixed or moving closures, e.g. windows in wall or like openings; Features of rigidly-mounted outer frames relating to the mounting of wing frames
  • E06B3/66—Units comprising two or more parallel glass or like panes permanently secured together
  • E06B3/677—Evacuating or filling the gap between the panes ; Equilibration of inside and outside pressure; Preventing condensation in the gap between the panes; Cleaning the gap between the panes
  • E06B3/6775—Evacuating or filling the gap during assembly
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
  • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means

Definitions

• the invention is based on a method with the features specified in the preamble of patent claim 1 and on a device with the features specified in the generic term of patent claim 20.
• a method and an apparatus for carrying out such a method are known from EP 0 674 086 A1.
• a first glass sheet and a second glass sheet provided with a spacer are supported on a horizontal conveyor which has a belt as a conveying member, and conveyed into the space between two press plates which are variable in their spacing. Between the press plates, they are positioned parallel to one another and opposite one another, so that between the spacer and the glass panel opposite it remains circumferentially an open gap.
• seals are arranged which are effective between the press plates and reach all the way down to the top of the belt, which closes the space between the two glass sheets which rest on it.
• a heavy gas is introduced into the chamber, which is bounded by the belt, the glass sheets, the two pressing plates and the vertical seals acting between them. The heavy gas rises in this chamber and its supply is stopped when a certain degree of filling is reached. Then one of the press plates of the other press plate is approximated to close the insulating glass pane.
• the heavy gas is supplied either through openings in the vertical seals hin ⁇ by or through the belt serving as a conveyor member. Both are disadvantageous. When feeding the heavy gas through openings in the right-hand seals, it is necessary to have movable gas feed devices coupled to the movable seals, which requires some equipment and complicates the construction of the seals. In addition, it is difficult, when introducing heavy gas through openings in the vertical seals, which are arranged at the front and rear edges of the two glass panels, the zwi ⁇ tween the glass panels air evenly displace upwards, and the more difficult, the longer the glass panels are. The introduction of heavy gas through the belt is disadvantageous because it is counter to the main object of the invention to convey the glass sheets and seal the gap between the glass sheets at the bottom.
• EP 0 674 086 A1 discloses no practicable possibility of feeding the heavy gas through a uniform rim. Described is the possibility of two belts Ab ⁇ stand next to each other on a channel, which has upwardly directed openings which lie between the two belts. Through the channel supplied heavy gas can then rise through the openings between the belt in the space between the glass sheets.
• the disadvantage here is that two separate belts are sealed and that the Waage ⁇ right conveyor must be designed to be transversely displaceable to adapt to different thickness glass panels and to different thickness thick insulating glass.
• the present invention has for its object to provide a way how insulating glass panes between two plates of a vertical assembly device for insulating glass panes can be filled with less effort evenly and with high degree of filling with a gas other than air and then closed.
• the insulating glass panes are not horizontally filled with a gas other than air and assembled, but in a vertical or inclined position, so that the gas other than air, in particular a heavy gas, which is specifically heavier than air, for example, argon, im be supplied to the lower region of the insulating glass to be formed and displace the air initially located between the glass panels upwards.
• a heavy gas which is specifically heavier than air, for example, argon
• Production lines for insulating glass panes in which the glass sheets from which the insulating glass panes are assembled, standing and against a tilted support means from one station of the production line to the next station of the Production line are generally referred to as "vertical" produc- tion lines.
• the invention accomplishes a departure from the prior art, that in gas filling the mutually opposite glass sheets are not both on a belt, but that only one of the two Glass plate touches the belt with its lower edge, whereas between the belt and the lower edge of the other glass sheet, a gap is made, through which the non-air gas can be introduced into the space between the two glass sheets.
• the gap between the belt and the one glass sheet (hereinafter referred to as the "first" glass sheet) extends the entire length of the lower edge of the first glass sheet. ⁇ Therefore, a gas other than air can be introduced over the entire length of the glass sheet assembly.
• the gas can rise evenly from bottom to top along the entire length of the glass sheet assembly.
• the invention is not only suitable for insulating glass panes with a rectangular outline, but also for those with non-rectangular outline, for example with a triangular outline or with curved edge sections. Such insulating glass panes are referred to as model panes.
• a uniform, dense belt can be used.
• the belt can easily be wider than the thickest insulating glass panes in practice.
• the belt is between 100 mm and 140 mm wide.
• the disk arrangement during the Gasyogllvorganges down easily seal The belt is the bottom of a glass sheet in any case and seals there.
• the belt extends to below the lower edge of the other glass sheet and beyond, so that there is only the gap between the belt and the bottom edge of the glass sheet to seal. This can be done by providing, at this gap, the mouth of a channel or an elongate nozzle through which the gas other than air is supplied. This channel or nozzle can be formed so that it closes the gap between the belt and the lower edge of the respective glass panel back.
• seals may be arranged extending from a location above the belt to the belt.
• the seals can be applied directly to the edges of the glass panels.
• the gas filling process may also take place outside of an insulating glass press.
• the method according to the invention is also carried out in an apparatus for assembling and pressing insulating glass panes, which has two plates which are mutually adjustable in their spacing between which the glass sheets are positioned opposite one another in pairs and, if appropriate after gas filling, closed by the two glass sheets by approximating the distance between the two plates, until the first glass sheet strikes and sticks to the spacer.
• such a device In the vicinity of the lower edge of the plates, such a device usually has a horizontal conveyor on which the glass sheets, standing and supported against one of the plates, are conveyed into the device and on which the assembled insulating glass pane is conveyed upright and leaned against one of the plates.
• the horizontal conveyor has a belt as a conveyor member.
• the glass panels are to face each other during gas filling so that they can be connected by approaching the glass panels, in particular by approximating the plates of the apparatus for gas filling and assembling of insulating glass panes, to a closed insulating glass pane.
• the glass sheets are already congruent and parallel to one another during gas filling.
• the gap between the belt and the one glass panel, through which the gas other than air is introduced can be produced in different ways.
• One possibility is to lift the glass sheet off the belt.
• Another way to provide a distance between the lower edge of the glass sheet and the belt, is to pivot the belt about an axis parallel to the conveying direction, with a pivoting angle of a few degrees sufficient.
• the plates are usually provided with holes through which air can optionally be blown or sucked.
• air By blowing is between the plate and a glass plate leaning against it produces an air cushion on which it can slide gently during transport.
• a glass sheet For fixing a glass sheet to such a plate, it is sucked.
• the glass sheet can first be sucked from its plate and then lifted by briefly lifting the plate, which can be done with pressure cylinders.
• either the first glass sheet or the second glass plate provided with a spacer can be brought with its lower edge at a distance from the belt. Preferably, this is done with the first glass sheet on which there is no spacer.
• the gas can then flow into the intermediate space between the glass panels by the shortest route, immediately behind the edge of the first glass panel, and finds approximately the same conditions for all possible insulating glass pane thicknesses.
• an elongated nozzle can be pushed into the gap between the belt and the edge of the first glass sheet spaced therefrom, from the side.
• a plurality of individually shut-off nozzles can be provided one behind the other in the conveying direction. This has the advantage that the length of the nozzle arrangement can be matched to the length of the insulating glass pane.
• both plates can be movable.
• a device in which this is the case is disclosed in EP 0615 044 A1.
• devices for assembling insulating glass panes in which only one of the two plates is movable and the other is arranged immovably are conventional.
• the movable plate is best suited for taking over and fixing the first glass pan not yet provided with a spacer.
• the horizontal conveyor in the prior art is designed to be Conveying member or its conveying members a right angle with the surface of the plates.
• the device known from EP 0 674 086 A1 in which the upper strand of the belt is oriented at right angles to the mutually facing surfaces of the plates, so that the glass plates lie flat against the plates over their entire surface and with their lower edge be supported standing and positioned the band.
• the method according to the invention can be carried out as follows, with particular advantage:
• a first glass sheet is fed into the space between the two plates of the apparatus by temporarily driving the belt of the horizontal conveyor.
• the first glass sheet stands on the belt and abuts one of the two plates as it is fed into the gap between the two plates.
• the first glass sheet is positioned by stopping the drive of the belt in a position in which it still stands on the belt and abuts one of the disks of the apparatus, hereinafter referred to as the "first" disk shall be.
• This position is preferably chosen so that the front rising edge of the glass sheet is on the front upstanding edge of the sheets of the device or that the rear rising edge of the glass sheet is located at the rear edges of the sheets of the device and preferably flush with them.
• the "front” edge is understood to mean the front edge in relation to the conveying direction of the horizontal conveyor. Under the back edge of the respect understood the conveying direction of the horizontal conveyor rear edge of the glass sheet.
• the upper strand of the belt, or the horizontal conveyor, to which the Rie ⁇ men belongs can be pivoted about an axis parallel to its conveying direction from a first position, which is hereinafter referred to as its conveying position, in a second position, which below as its Bastel ⁇ ment is called.
• the conveying position the upper run of the belt runs at right angles or approximately at right angles to the two plates of the device. This position is assumed by the horizontal conveyor when a glass sheet or a glass sheet arrangement or an assembled insulating glass pane is to be conveyed.
• the belt or the horizontal conveyor, to which the belt belongs pivoted from its conveying position to the filling position and thereby raised the first glass sheet. She still stands on the belt and touches the first plate. Now, the first glass sheet is sucked to the second plate opposite the first plate, for which purpose the second plate is expediently brought into contact with the glass sheet.
• plates provided with holes through which air can be sucked or blown are known.
• the belt or the horizontal conveyor is pivoted back into its conveying position and the second glass sheet conveyed in the same way as the first glass sheet in the space between the two plates and positioned at the same location at which the first glass sheet was previously positio ⁇ ned.
• a frame-shaped spacer is glued to the second glass panel, which can be formed from a hollow profile made of metal or plastic or which can be extruded as a strand of thermoplastic material with a nozzle directly onto the second glass panel.
• the belt or horizontal conveyor to which it belongs is pivoted out of its conveying position into its filling position, thereby lifting the second glass sheet until it is opposite the first glass sheet in the same manner.
• a gas different from air can now be introduced into the intermediate space between the two glass sheets and displace the air located there upwards.
• a chamber is to create, which contains the space between the two glass panels and is completed on three sides, namely forward, downward and backward.
• the conclusion to the front and to the rear can be achieved, as in the prior art, by means of movable seals which run parallel to the front and rear edges of the plates and one of which can be brought into contact with the front or rear edge of the plates. where the glass sheets are positioned, whereas the other gasket is inserted into the space between the sheets of the apparatus and positioned on the upstanding edges between the sheets or in the vicinity thereof.
• the two towering seals sit expediently on the upper run of the belt and extend up to a predetermined height upwards, expediently to the upper edge of the plates.
• the sealing of the chamber downwards is preferably effected by Verschwen ⁇ ken of the belt or the horizontal conveyor, which belongs to the belt in its filling position.
• the second glass sheet stands on the latter when the belt is pivoted into its filling position, a seal is already provided along the lower edge of the second glass sheet, which is also impermeable if an impermeable material is used for the belt or its upper side is selected, which is also suitable as a sealing material.
• the seal on the side of the second glass sheet can be supplemented by the fact that the belt in its filling position also bears tightly against the lower edge of the first plate of the device, which for this purpose preferably bears a seal extending in the conveying direction at its lower edge which may be an elastomeric tread, in particular a hollow profile, on which the belt or a belt supporting strip meets when it is pivoted to its filling position.
• the elongated nozzle used for the introduction of the gas or an elongate arrangement of a plurality of individually lockable nozzles is suitably attached tightly attached to the lower edge of the second plate and by the pivoting of the horizontal conveyor in its Bastel ⁇ ment the upper run of the belt in a dense system brought to the bottom of the nozzle or the nozzle assembly.
• the sealing effect can be assisted by attaching to the underside of the nozzle or the nozzle arrangement a coating, cord or a hollow profile extending in the conveying direction from a material suitable for sealing purposes.
• Another advantageous possibility is to provide on the underside of the nozzle or the nozzle arrangement a bendable, elastically yielding wall extending over its length, against which the belt resiliently abuts, when the latter engages Horizontal conveyor is pivoted to its filling position.
• This embodiment has advantages during the subsequent assembly of the insulating glass pane.
• the gas other than air is introduced into the chamber from below through the nozzle or through the nozzle arrangement and displaces the air up the chamber.
• the introduction of the gas other than air is stopped and the insulating glass pane is closed by reducing the distance between the two plates until the two glass sheets bond to one another via the spacer.
• the insulating glass pane is pressed between the two plates of the device at the same time to a predetermined thickness. The second plate of the device must no longer hold the first glass sheet so that its suction can be finished.
• the second plate is released from the first glass sheet, the horizontal conveyor lowered into its conveying position and the insulating glass disc, which stands on the belt and rests against the first plate of the device is removed from the device.
• air can escape from openings, which are provided in the first plate, which produces an air cushion between the first plate and the insulating glass pane, on which the insulating glass pane slides with low friction and at the same time is secured by the negative pressure prevailing in the air cushion.
• the described embodiment of the method according to the invention and the device used therefor are characterized by simplicity, speed as well as high and uniform filling levels and allow the production of high-quality insulating glass panes at lower costs than before.
• the axis parallel to the conveying direction about which the horizontal conveyor can be pivoted is preferably located below the plate at which the gap for introducing the gas other than air is formed. This one can easily achieve that in the desired manner, the upper run of the belt Be ⁇ rich in the first glass sheet, along the lower edge of the filling should saufin ⁇ , is raised less than in the region of the second glass sheet, which does not lose contact with the belt in the filling position should. To achieve this goal and a tight conclusion, it is particularly advantageous if the axis about which the horizontal conveyor can be pivoted with the belt, in turn about a second axis parallel to it is pivotable.
• the belt can fulfill its conveying task and its sealing task well, its upper run should be supported over its length. This can be done by means of a dense sequence of rollers over which the belt passes.
• a rail is used to support the upper run of the belt, which allows better support and better sealing at the lower edge of the glass panes.
• insulating glass panes are successively assemble and fill with a heavy gas.
• a passage extending in the conveying direction and subdivided into separate sections is provided for the supply of heavy gas.
• the sections into which the channel is subdivided may be supplied separately with gas, and each section of the channel communicates with one or more outlet openings associated only with it and in the vicinity of the gap between the belt and the outlet first glass sheet lie, in particular on the underside of the relevant plate, which is adjacent to the gap.
• the gas is supplied only to those sections of the channel whose outlet openings are all adjacent to the chamber to be filled.
• Tubes which are particularly suitable as longitudinal seals are, for example those which can be compressed against a restoring force due to their own elasticity, but also those tubes which are inflatable and can be retracted by evacuation.
• An embodiment of the invention is - partially schematically - shown in the beige ⁇ attached drawings.
• the parts of the assembly apparatus which are generally referred to as a plate in the description are referred to in the description of the drawings as press plates, since they are also suitable for pressing the insulating glass panes.
• FIG. 1 shows a device for assembling, gas filling and pressing of insulating glass panes in a view at right angles to the conveying direction
• FIG. 1 shows in detail the section A-A through the device of Figure 1 and the
• FIGS. 3 to 10 show a longitudinal section B-B through the device in FIG. 1 in various phases of the method for assembling, filling gas and pressing insulating glass panes.
• Figures 1 and 2 show a device 1 according to the invention, which on a frame 2 has two press plates 3 and 4, whose front sides facing each other are flat, while they are stiffened at their backs by a fram ⁇ factory 5.
• a horizontal conveyor 6 which consists of two successively arranged sections 6a and 6b.
• the rollers 7 are mounted in a horizontally extending support 9 and have axes 10 which extend at right angles to the flat front side of the pressing plates 3 and 4.
• the carrier 9 extends over both sections 6a and 6b of the horizontal conveyor and is attached to the frame 2 by means of two pivoting devices 11.
• the structure and operation of the Swivel devices 11 are explained in more detail with reference to FIGS 3 to 10.
• a support strip is provided on the carrier 9 for each of the two belts 7, over which the upper run of the belt 7 slides away. In the view of Figure 1, the support bar is covered by the carrier 9 and therefore not visible.
• the press plates 3 and 4 are arranged parallel to one another and connected to one another by four synchronously drivable arrangements each comprising a spindle and a spindle nut.
• one pressing plate 4 can be displaced parallel to itself and at right angles to the flat front side of the pressing plates 3 and 4 with respect to the other pressing plate 3.
• one of the press plates is arranged stationary, for example the press plate 3, which is referred to below as the first press plate.
• the pressing plates 3 and 4 are inclined at an acute angle of, for example, 6 ° to the vertical, so that a glass plate 13 standing on the belt 7 can be leaned against one of the pressing plates 3, 4, expediently against the fixed, first press plate 3, wherein it rests flat.
• Both press plates 3 and 4 have openings 15, for example, holes which are arranged distributed over the press plates 3, 4 and through which by means of a blower, not shown, which is associated with the device 1, either air can be blown or sucked.
• the device 1 can be installed in a production line which tracks one or more stations preceding the device 1 and one or more of the device 1 - arranged stations, which also have a horizontal conveyor, on which glass panels conveyed in the same altitude and with the same inclination as in the device 1 and assembled insulating glass can be removed from the device 1.
• the movable pressure plate 4, hereinafter referred to as the second pressure plate is provided at its two lower corners with a suction device 16, the suction side in the alignment of the planar front side of the second pressure plate 4 ange ⁇ arranged and directed against the first pressure plate 3.
• the suction device 16 is in each case integrated into a triangular section 4a or 4b of the second press plate 4, which is connected by a line 17, which is also referred to below as a bending line and the horizontal edge and the vertical edge of the second press plate 4 Angle of appropriately 45 ° intersects ver ⁇ is pivotally mounted.
• the sections 4a and 4b with the integrated suction device 16 can be moved by means of an actuating element, for example by means of a pressure medium cylinder hinged to the rear side of the second pressure plate 4, from a first position in which the front side of the suction device 16 with the remaining front side the second pressing plate 4 is aligned, and pivoted to a second position, in which the triangular section 4a, 4b with the integrated suction device 16 about the bending line 14 a little way to the rear, d. H. from the opposite first press plate 3 away, is pivoted.
• the suction device 16 can, for example, as shown schematically in FIG. 2, be formed by a flat depression 18 with a triangular outline, which is located in the front side of the second pressing plate 4.
• a suction line 19 through which in the region of the trough 18, a negative pressure can be generated when the trough 18 is covered by a glass sheet 13.
• the trough 18 is surrounded by a seal 20 which is inserted into a groove 21 of the second press plate 4, over the side of which it protrudes, as long as the first glass sheet 13 is not sucked.
• a sealing device 22 is provided in each case, which extends from the upper run of the belt 7 to extends to the upper edge of the press plates 3 and 4 and from an operative position in which it bridges and seals the bottom-up gap between the two press plates 3 and 4, as shown in Figure 2 Darge, be moved to an inoperative position can.
• the sealing device 22 releases the gap between the press plates 3 and 4, so that the glass sheets 13, 14 are conveyed into the intermediate space between the press plates 3 and 4 and an insulating glass pane assembled therefrom can be conveyed away.
• the sealing devices 22 may be attached to one of the two press plates 2, 3, preferably to the stationary press plate 3. Their inoperative position is not shown.
• FIG. 2 shows an example of how such a sealing device 22 can be constructed:
• the illustrated sealing device 22 has a strip 23 with a U-profile, on which a sealing profile 24 is arranged on both sides and by means of a clamping strip 25 on one or the other leg of the Strip 23 is attached.
• the carrier 9, the levers 28 and 29 and the frame 2 form a four-bar linkage, whose shape by means of a pressure medium cylinder 30 is changeable, which is on the one hand hingedly connected to the bearing 26, so that the bearing 26, the lever 28 and the pressure medium cylinder 30 have a common joint.
• the other end 30a the lever 30 is hinged to the frame 2.
• the pressure medium cylinder 30 is a short-stroke cylinder.
• a seal 31 On the underside of the first press plate 3 there is a seal 31 extending in the transport direction 37, in which it is a hollow profile of an elastomeric material.
• an elongated means 32 for supplying a gas other than air is attached on the underside of the second press plate 4. It consists of a cross-sectionally L-shaped strip 33, wel ⁇ che rests with its longer leg close to the underside of the second press plate 4, whereas the shorter leg is directed downward. At the lower end of the shorter leg, a resilient sheet 34 is fixed, which extends parallel to the long leg of the strip 33 over its length and width er ⁇ .
• a strip 35 is provided from a compressible, gas-permeable material and bonded to at least one of the two, ie either with the bar 33 or with the plate 34.
• the air-permeable material constituting the strip 35 may be, for example, an open cell foam or a loose felt.
• the strip 33, the plate 34 and the strip 35 delimit a channel 36, in which, for example, a gas different from air, in particular a heavy gas, for example argon, can be introduced from a compressed gas cylinder.
• the glass sheet 13 is sucked in and then the second press plate 4 is removed from the first press plate 3 again, taking along the first glass sheet 13. Subsequently, by pressing the pressure medium cylinder 30, the horizontal conveyor 6 is pivoted back into its conveying position, see FIG. 5, which it also holds in FIG. The first glass sheet 13 now hangs at a distance from the belt 7 on the second press roll 4.
• a second glass sheet 14 is supported standing on the belt 7 and leaning against the first press plate 3 into the apparatus 1, see FIG. 6, and positioned at the same place where the first glass sheet 13 was previously positioned.
• the second glass panel 14 On its side facing the first glass panel 13, the second glass panel 14 carries a frame-shaped spacer 38, which in the illustrated example is formed from a metallic hollow profile rod which contains a desiccant 39. This spacer 38 is coated on its two flanks 13 and 14 facing the glass sheets with an adhesive sealant.
• the second press plate 4 is now approximated to the first press plate 3 until zwi ⁇ tween the first glass sheet 13 and the spacer 38 is only a small distance, which is for example 2 mm, see Figure 7.
• the pressure medium cylinder 30 of Horizontal conveyor 6 again pivoted up into the position shown in Figure 8, in which the second glass panel 14 is raised by the same amount as before the first glass sheet 13, so that the two glass sheets 13, 14 now ligamentgest opposite each other.
• This position of the horizontal conveyor. 6 We call this the filling position, because in this position a gas different from air can be introduced into the intermediate space between the two glass sheets 13 and 14. In this Position is the upper run of the belt 7 of the seal 31, which is deformed by the transmitted from the belt 7 to the seal 31 pressure.
• the belt 7 presses in the filling position in the region of the porous strip 35 to the underside of the sheet 34, whereby the strip 35 is compressed, but a gap between the belt 7 and the lower edge of the first glass sheet 13 er ⁇ hold.
• the belt 7 presses in the filling position in the region of the porous strip 35 to the underside of the sheet 34, whereby the strip 35 is compressed, but a gap between the belt 7 and the lower edge of the first glass sheet 13 er ⁇ hold.
• the sealing devices 22 are applied. This creates a chamber between the press plates 3 and 4, which encloses the intermediate space between the glass sheets 13 and 14 and is closed on three sides, namely forward, downward and rearward, wherein at the joint between the two sections 6a and 6b of the horizontal conveyor 6, if necessary, an additional seal can be made, for example, by a in the gusset between the two belts 7 ein ⁇ feasible fitting.
• a gas other than air is supplied through the channel 36, which flows through the porous strip 35 and through the gap between the belt 7 and the lower edge of the first glass sheet 13 in the space between the two glass sheets or in which einschl . ⁇ de chamber flows, the strip 35 causes a homogenization of the flow.
• the gas other than air which is generally heavier than air, displaces upward the air contained in the three-sided sealed chamber. If a predetermined level is reached, which can be controlled by a probe or calculated from the given dimensions of the insulating glass pane to be formed, then the second press plate 4 of the first press plate 3 is approximated to a distance which corresponds to the predetermined thickness of the matches the insulating glass pane to be formed. In this case, the second glass sheet 14 meets the adhesive sealant of the spacer 38, so that the Spacer 38 now glued to both glass panels 13 and 14, wherein the adhesive sealant is pressed.
• the first glass sheet 13 can be slightly bent outwards at its lower front corner before the insulating glass pane is pressed, as shown in FIG.
• first of all the suction device 16 is activated, which sucks the first glass sheet 13 so tightly in the region of its lower corner that the required bending force can thus be transmitted.
• an actuator is activated, which bends the sucking device 16 carrying portion 4a of the press plate 4 to the outside.
• the actuating member may be a pressure medium cylinder arranged on the outside of the pressing plate 4.
• the pressing plate 4 is approximated with its flat area of the pressing plate 3 to the distance corresponding to the thickness of the insulating glass pane to be formed and the insulating glass pane is thereby pressed, with the exception of the bent corner at the lower corner
• the first glass sheet 13 is there.
• the insulating glass sheet is still open, and as long as this is the case, a venting can take place during the pressing of the insulating glass pane.
• the first glass sheet 13 on the second press plate 4 no longer needs to be held by suction.
• the Ansau ⁇ gene is therefore terminated.
• the second pressure plate 4 is again removed from the first pressure plate 3, and preferably at the same time the horizontal conveyor 6 is pivoted back into its conveying position by actuating the pressure medium cylinder 30, as shown in FIG.
• the two glass sheets 13, 14, which are now joined together to form an insulating glass pane, are again at the level at which they are conveyed as individual glass sheets into the apparatus were. They are now - conveyed together to the insulating glass pane - from the Vor ⁇ device 1.
• the illustrated device 1 is not only suitable for assembling individual insulating glass panes, for filling and pressing with a gas other than air, but also for setting up two insulating glass panes at the same time. It is therefore mirror-symmetrical in terms of its transverse to the conveying direction 37 center plane 40 originallybil ⁇ det. Therefore, two insulating glass panes, which are not longer than half the length of the press plates 3, 4, can be assembled simultaneously, filled with gas and pressed.
• the method described is expediently modified such that initially a first glass sheet for a first insulating glass pane is conveyed to the front edge of the press plates, and a first glass sheet for a second insulating glass pane is subsequently conveyed into the device 1 and on rear edge of the press plates 3, 4 is positioned, as shown in Figure 1.
• the horizontal conveyor 6 is divided into the two sections 6a and 6b, which are separated according to choice and synchronously driven.
• the first two glass sheets are positioned, they are sucked by the movable press plate 4.
• two provided with a spacer second glass panels are positioned accordingly in the manner described. All other processes then take place simultaneously for the two insulating glass panes, as was described correspondingly using the example of a single insulating glass pane.
• the means 32 for supplying the gas other than air, which extends over the length of the first pressure plate 4, is subdivided into individually closable sections at the locations where seals between the pressure plates 3, 4 can take effect, so that the introduction of the can be limited by gas other than air on the sealed off by gaskets chambers.

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