EP2007962B1 - Dispositif pour assembler des vitres de verre isolantes qui sont remplies d'un gaz différent de l'air - Google Patents

Dispositif pour assembler des vitres de verre isolantes qui sont remplies d'un gaz différent de l'air Download PDF

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EP2007962B1
EP2007962B1 EP07724219.6A EP07724219A EP2007962B1 EP 2007962 B1 EP2007962 B1 EP 2007962B1 EP 07724219 A EP07724219 A EP 07724219A EP 2007962 B1 EP2007962 B1 EP 2007962B1
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    • 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
    • Y10T156/1702—For plural parts or plural areas of single part
    • Y10T156/1744—Means bringing discrete articles into assembled relationship
    • 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
    • Y10T156/1788—Work traversing type and/or means applying work to wall or static structure
    • Y10T156/179—Work traversing type and/or means applying work to wall or static structure with liquid applying means
    • 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
    • Y10T156/1798—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means with liquid adhesive or adhesive activator applying means

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  • the invention is based on a device having the features specified in the preamble of patent claim 1.
  • a device is also referred to as Gas Schollpresse and is from the WO 2005/080739 A1 known.
  • the known device has two in their mutual distance variable plates, which can be transferred from a starting position in which they are arranged in a V-shape to each other in a mutually parallel position and can be approximated to each other.
  • a horizontal conveyor is arranged, which has a belt as a conveyor member.
  • pairs of glass sheets In the V-shaped starting position of the plates, pairs of glass sheets, one of which already carries a spacer adhered to it, can be transported in a V-shape opposite each other simultaneously into the space between the two plates and positioned congruently opposite one another. Once this is done, one of the plates is aligned parallel to the other plate and this approached so far that remains between the one glass sheet and the opposite spacer still a small gap of eg 2 mm width.
  • the means for holding the glass sheets to the movable plate are small openings in the plate, through which air can be sucked from a blower arranged behind the plate, whereby the glass sheets are sucked.
  • the EP 0 674 087 A discloses an apparatus for producing heavy gas filled insulating glass panes having two mutually parallel, spaced variable, substantially vertical plates between which a substantially vertical seal is effective, which abuts at least at its lower end either one of the two plates or in a recess this plate is retracted, or which is mounted with its lower end pivotable about a horizontal axis on a carriage arranged below the plate.
  • the present invention has for its object to show a way, as in a device of the type mentioned in the gas consumption can be reduced.
  • a useful seal can be achieved with the sword already if it is coated on one side only with a sealant.
  • the other side of the sword can be smooth and flat and thereby create a flat against one plate and receives by pressure of the other plate on the sealant pressure, which provides a useful seal.
  • the sword is provided on both sides with a sealant, which preferably consists of a reversibly compressible foam.
  • the sealant expediently extends over the full length of the sword, preferably still a little way beyond the lower end of the sword in order to achieve a good seal with respect to the surface of the belt of the horizontal conveyor with the aid of the compressibility of the sealant.
  • the sealant is from bottom to top in the same width on the sword.
  • the sword can be coated on both sides the same thickness with the sealant. Preferably, it is thicker coated on one side than on the other side, preferably so that the sword on the side with which it rests by moving its suspension to a plate of Gas Swllpresse - this plate is preferably the fixed plate of the gas filling press - A thinner layer of the sealant is provided as on the other side of the sword.
  • the sword assumes a particularly well-defined position relative to the plate closest to it, whereas the other plate, which is approximated to close the gas-filling press of the first-mentioned plate, is compressed to the degree predetermined by the thickness of the insulating glass pane to be produced.
  • the sword can have a constant width from bottom to top.
  • the sword is wider from bottom to top, in particular wedge-shaped, with a wedge angle which coincides with the angle which the two plates of the gas filling press occupy in their V-shaped starting position.
  • This has the advantage that the sword becomes stiffer from bottom to top. As a result, deflections of the sword during movements that take place in order to position the sword in the conveying direction, be kept small. If the sword is moved in the conveying direction, it is preferably first brought into an orientation transverse to the conveying direction for this purpose.
  • the suspension of the sword is suitably adjustable in height. This makes it possible to move the sword at a distance from the belt in the conveying direction, so that it does not drag on the belt. If the sword has arrived in its position in which it is to seal, it can be lowered down to the belt of the horizontal conveyor and also seal against the belt.
  • the up and down movement of the sword can e.g. by means of a pressure medium cylinder or by means of a driven spindle. It is particularly simple when combined with the movement with which the distance of the suspension from the plate on which the sword is mounted, is changed.
  • suspension in a direction perpendicular to the conveying direction intersecting plane is displaceable in a direction which is inclined against the upper side of the belt of the horizontal conveyor, just so that they approach the sword - the first plate - lowers.
  • the blade can be pivoted about an axis extending from top to bottom, so that it can be transverse to the process in the conveying direction and so that it can stand parallel to the plates during sealing.
  • the sword is pivotable about its central axis, in particular reciprocally by an angle of 90 °.
  • the axle is preferably lockable. Locking is useful when the sword is positioned in the conveying direction; However, it is unnecessary if it is applied to the one plate of gas filling press, because then already the plate prevents unwanted twisting of the sword.
  • the sword is preferably suspended around a horizontal, parallel to the conveying direction axis oscillating.
  • a swinging suspension is appropriate so that the sword, when it is approached its plate, casually and without having to bend, from bottom to top progresses to the plate.
  • a pendulum movement is undesirable when the sword is adjusted in the conveying direction. Therefore, this horizontal axis about which the sword can swing, preferably lockable.
  • At least one of the two plates is adjustable relative to the belt of the horizontal conveyor in such a way that the distance of the lower edge of the plate can be increased.
  • This can be done with advantage if the plate is pivoted from its position in which it forms an acute angle with the other plate in a parallel position, because doing the lower edge of the plate performs an arcuate movement.
  • this plate requires means for holding the glass sheet.
  • the glass sheet is sucked to the plate.
  • the plate has e.g. Holes, sucked through the air and thus the glass sheet can be sucked.
  • the arcuate movement of the lower edge of the plate creates a gap through which a gas other than air is introduced from below into the space between the two plates and thus also into the space between the sheets of glass which lie against the plates can.
  • Means for supplying the gas other than air are therefore preferably associated with the lower edge of the movable plate of the gas filling press.
  • the agents are e.g. around a nozzle extending the length of the lower edge of the plate.
  • the means for supplying the gas other than air comprise a channel associated with the lower edge of the movable platen, at which a glass sheet can be spaced from the belt.
  • This channel should run parallel to the conveying direction and from this channel can leak channels, which open into a gap between the belt and the lower edge of the plate held on the glass plate.
  • the gas other than air in particular a heavy gas, is only needed where there are glass panel pairs between the two plates of the gas filling press.
  • This space is bounded by the two seals extending from the bottom to the top, namely by the sword and by the one edge of the plates of the gas filling press.
  • a sealing body for changing the effective length of the channel is arranged longitudinally displaceable.
  • This sealing body is preferably synchronously displaceable with the sword, so that it - in relation to the conveying direction - always in the same position as the sword.
  • the sealing body is expediently longer than the distance between two branch channels, so that in each position of the sealing body at least one branch channel is covered and blocked by the sealing body.
  • the gas other than air is preferably introduced through a plurality of individually shut-off supply lines to ensure that the gas can be supplied evenly over the length of the insulating glass panes to be filled and rise in the space between the two from bottom to top extending seals.
  • the in the FIGS. 1 to 10 shown apparatus for assembling, gas filling and pressing of insulating glass hereinafter abbreviated as "Gas hypollpresse"
  • the two support means 1 and 2 each have a plate 1 a and 2 a, which in many Not shown through the plates distributed through holes having through holes, which are connected to a blower, not shown, through which air can optionally be blown or sucked to form an air cushion between the plate 1a and 2a and a leaning on this glass panel 24 and 25 respectively ,
  • the first support means 1 stands on a fixed to the frame 3 base 7; their upper end is supported on the back of struts 8 on the frame 3 from.
  • the arrangement is such that the plate 1a is inclined at an angle of, for example, 6 ° to the vertical to the rear.
  • the horizontal floor, on which the frame 3 is, is designated by the reference numeral 9.
  • the second support means 2 is about a horizontal axis 10, which in FIG. 1 perpendicular extends to the plane, pivotally mounted on a carriage 11, which in turn is linearly displaceable on rails 12, which lie in planes perpendicular to the pivot axis 10 and inclined at the same angle to the horizontal 9, as the plate 1a is inclined to the vertical. Accordingly, the carriage 11 is displaceable in a direction perpendicular to the plate 1a direction.
  • the displacement of the carriage 11 by means of a motor 13 which drives a spindle 15 of a spindle gear 14, the spindle nut is located in a housing 16 and a to the conveying direction 4 (see FIG. 16 ) parallel horizontal axis is pivotally connected to the carriage 11.
  • the spindle 15 is also mounted about an axis parallel to the conveying direction 4 in a holder 17 which is fixed on the frame 3.
  • the upper ends of the support means 1 and 2 are interconnected by another spindle gear 14a, the spindle 15a of which is pivotally mounted in a bracket 17a fixed to the first support means 1 and driven by a motor 13a.
  • the associated spindle nut is located in a housing 16 a and is pivotally mounted in a holder 18 which is fixed to the movable support means 2.
  • the spindle gears 14 and 14a are present in duplicate, preferably in the vicinity of the four corners of the outline rectangular plates 1 a and 2 a.
  • the second support means 2 By driving the spindles 14 a, the second support means 2 from its in FIG. 1 illustrated initial position in which the plates 1a and 2a are V-shaped opposite each other at an angle of, for example, 12 °, in the in FIG. 5 shown intermediate position in which the movable plate 2 a of the stationary plate 1 a parallel opposite, preferably at a distance of 5 cm to 7 cm. From the in FIG. 5 2, the movable support means 2 can be further approximated by synchronously driving the lower and upper spindles 15 and 15a of the fixed support means 1, see FIG FIG. 7 while maintaining the parallelism between them.
  • a horizontal conveyor 20 is fixed, which is driven by a motor 21.
  • the horizontal conveyor 20 is a section a horizontal conveyor composed of several sections, which extends through the entire insulating glass production line in which the invention is to be used.
  • the horizontal conveyor 20 has a belt 19, in particular a toothed belt, which is drivable by the motor 21 by means of a drive wheel, in particular a gear.
  • the belt 19 is supported by a series of freewheeling rollers or by a horizontal rail 6 on which the upper run of the belt 19 can slide.
  • the gas filling press is supplied with pairs of glass panels 24 and 25 in a V-shaped arrangement simultaneously by means of a feed conveyor.
  • the feed conveyor can consist of a horizontal conveyor aligned with the horizontal conveyor 20 and of two support devices whose front sides are aligned with the plates 1a and 2a.
  • the support means may be air cushion walls similar to the plates 1a and 2a in the gas filling press. However, the support means may also be mounted in a frame free-running rollers whose treads have a common tangent plane. Suitable feeders are in the DE 10 2004 009 860 A1 disclosed.
  • the pressing plates 1 a and 2 a are provided with holes through which air can be blown, as desired, to produce an air cushion on which glass sheets can slide during transport and through which air of choice can be sucked in to glass panels to be able to fix them.
  • these openings have not been drawn for reasons of clarity.
  • the facing sides of the press plates 1a and 2a are provided with a layer 43 of rubber or other elastomeric material.
  • This layer may be, for example, 3 mm to 4 mm thick.
  • a hose 41 which can optionally be evacuated or inflated.
  • FIG. 9 he is evacuated, in FIG. 10 shown inflated.
  • the belt 19 of the horizontal conveyor 20 the gap between the glass sheet 25 and the opposite press plate 2a and between the two press plates 1a and 2a is completed.
  • a sealing wedge 26 can be pushed over the entire length of the stationary pressure plate 1 a, which in FIG. 9 in its inoperative position and in FIG. 10 is shown in his effective position, in which he has advanced from the ineffective position.
  • the tube 41 acts as a seal, which in FIG. 9 in its inoperative position and in FIG. 10 is shown in its operative position.
  • the hose 41 extends over the full length of the press plate 2a.
  • a channel 44 which via leads 46 which in the Figures 9 and 10 are shown in dashed lines, with a gas other than air, in particular with a heavy gas, can be supplied.
  • This channel 44 is in FIG. 16 in horizontal section and in the Figures 18 and 20 represented in a parallel to the press plate 2a cut.
  • the channel 44 and the gap 23 between the two press plates 1a and 2a can be sealed by a sealing strip 54, see Figures 17 and 19 which extends from the belt 19 to the upper edge of the press plates 1a and 2a and can be applied to the approximately vertical edges of the press plates 1a and 2a.
  • the sealing strip 54 may, for. B. be articulated by means of a four-bar linkage to the stationary pressure plate 1a and pivoted to rest on the two approximately vertical edges of the press plates 1a and 2a and pivoted back from there to an ineffective position in which assembled insulating glass unhindered out of the gas filling press and at the same time new Glass panel pairs can be supplied.
  • jaws 60 are provided which can pinch the rotatable axis 56 of the sword 55 between them.
  • one of the jaws 60 is fixed and the other z.
  • the distance of the suspension 52 from the fixed pressure plate 1a is variable.
  • either the guide rail 50 or the suspension 52 is motor-displaceable relative to the guide rail 50 at right angles to the pressing plate 1a, e.g. by means of servomotors, which drive a spindle.
  • the sword 55 is suspended so that, as long as it is not locked, it can oscillate about its horizontal axis 56a.
  • the axis 56a is locked and the sword 55 vertically suspended in the middle between the plates 1a and 2a positioned.
  • the sword is rotated by 90 ° about its vertical axis 56 and the horizontal axis 56a unlocked. If the sword 55 by pulling back (in the FIGS. 4 and 6 to the right) of the suspension 52 of the stationary plate 1 a, then the sword 55 hits first with its lower end on this and then from bottom to top progressively to this, it pivots about the horizontal axis 56 a, and finally reaches the in FIG. 6 shown location.
  • the foam layers 58 and 59 are a bit far, z. B. 10 mm, over the lower end of the sheet of the sword 55 via.
  • the sword 55 is a small way, for example, up to 30 cm, motor adjustable up and down. As a result, the sword 55 can be lowered sealingly onto the belt 19.
  • a contribution to lowering the sword provides the inclination of the guide rail 50, which in the FIGS. 1 to 6 perpendicular to the plane of the fixed pressure plate 1a and thus inclined to the top of the horizontal conveyor 20. Increasing the inclination, for example, by 10 °, then sufficient to settle the lower end of the sword 55 without a separate motor for vertical adjustment on the belt of the horizontal conveyor 20.
  • an elongated sealing body 62 displaceable, on the underside of a dense bristles bar 64 is attached.
  • the Figures 9 and 10 show a view in the conveying direction 4 on the end of the sealing head 62 and the bar 64 with the bristles 63.
  • the sealing body 62 is synchronously displaced synchronously with the sword 55 and limits the effective length of the channel 44, through which the gas other than air is supplied.
  • FIG. 16 shows lead from the channel 44 at regular intervals branch channels 47 to the lower edge of the movable press plate 2a.
  • the sealing body 62 is dimensioned and arranged such that it completely covers and blocks at least two branch channels 47 in each position, see FIG. 16 .
  • the bristles 63 effect sealing of the gap between the lower edge of the movable pressing plate 2a and the belt 19 against leakage of the air other than air against the conveying direction 4, namely in FIG FIG. 10 shown position of the movable press plate 2a.
  • the sword 55 is positioned just behind the last pair of glass sheets, in the example of FIG. 17 behind the second pair of glass sheets 31, in the example of FIG. 19 behind the fourth pair of glass sheets 33. It is a particular advantage of the invention that the sword 55 can already be positioned or positioned while the glass sheet pairs 30 to 33 are fed into the gas filling press.
  • the sword 55 is arranged so that its axis 56 is approximately in the middle between the two press plates 1a and 2a and the sword 55 is oriented at right angles to the press plates 1a and 2a, so that it is due to a low elasticity parallel to the conveying direction 4 can oscillate a little, but not transverse to it, so that there is no danger that the sword 55 one of the glass panels 24, 25 or the adhesive adhesive-coated spacer 27 which adheres to one of the glass sheets, in the example shown on the glass sheet 25.
  • the sword 55 therefore, its position in which it is to seal the gas filling press, have already taken before the glass sheet pairs 30 to 33 are positioned.
  • the sealing body 62 is moved synchronously with the sword 55. He has therefore already taken his desired position before the glass panel pairs 30 to 33 are positioned. This enables very short cycle times of the gas filling press.
  • the clamping of the jaws 60 is released and the sword rotated 90 ° about its axis 56.
  • the rotation is such that the thinner foam layer 58 faces the stationary press plate 1a and the thicker foam layer 59 faces the movable press plate 2a.
  • the sword 55 is approximated by moving the suspension 52 at right angles to the fixed pressure plate 1a, until the sword 55 with its thinner foam layer 58 starting at the lower edge of the pressing plate 1a has created up to the upper edge of the pressing plate 1a.
  • the suspension 52 is lowered until the lower end of the sword 55 is tight on the belt 19.
  • the movable pressure plate 2a is pivoted to a position parallel to the stationary pressure plate 1a - in FIG. 9 shown in dashed lines - and then the stationary pressure plate 1a approximated by parallel displacement so far that between the spacer 27 and the glass panel 24 only a small, z. B. 2 mm wide gap remains.
  • the sealing wedge 26 is advanced to its operative position, in FIG. 10 is shown, and it is the sealing strip 54 is moved to its operative position in which it abuts the two front, upstanding edges of the press plates 1a and 2a.
  • the tube 41 is partially evacuated, the gas filling press first by parallel removal of the pressing plate 2a of the pressing plate 1a and then by pivoting the movable pressing plate 2a in its initial position ( FIG. 2 ), in which the two press plates are aligned in a V-shape, opened again, the sealing wedge 26 is moved back to its inoperative position, the sealing strip 54 is moved to its inoperative position, the assembled insulating glass panes are conveyed out by driving the belt 19 from the gas filling press , the sword 55 is moved with its suspension 52 in the middle between the two press plates 1a and 2a, rotated by 90 °, then reconnected, and, while the next glass panel pairs are conveyed in the gas filling, together with the sealing body 62 already in his next target position to be moved.
  • FIGS. 11 to 14 illustrated embodiment differs from that in the Figures 9 and 10 illustrated embodiment in that the measures provided for sealing at the lower edge of the movable pressure plate 2a have been changed.
  • a second sealing wedge 65 is now provided, which is displaceable in a manner corresponding to the sealing wedge 26 on the obliquely cut bottom side of the press plate 2a.
  • the second sealing wedge 65 is taken. So that he can lie down on the upper side of the belt 19, a layer 66 of yielding is on the underside of the sealing wedge Foam provided, the underside of which is covered with a spring plate 67.
  • An extension 69 of the spring plate 67 projects into a downwardly open slot 70 of the sealing wedge 65 and in this way establishes a positive connection between the spring plate 67 and the sealing wedge 65.
  • the sealing body 62 has a different profile with a correspondingly inclined underside.
  • the channel 44 in which the sealing body 62 is displaceable, is open at the bottom and opens into comb-like cutouts 71 of the sealing wedge.
  • the incisions 71 have the function of the branch channels 47 in the first embodiment.
  • the length of the sealing body 62 is selected so that it blocks at least two cuts of the sealing wedge 65 in each position.
  • hose 41 is omitted.
  • a longitudinal sealing cord 72 is provided, as is provided in a corresponding manner between the underside of the fixed pressure plate 1a and the local sealing wedge 26 there.
  • FIG. 11 shows the Gas Schollpresse in the V-shaped initial position of the two press plates 1a and 2a after positioning the glass sheets 24 and 25th
  • FIG. 12 shows the Gas Schollpresse in the position in which the movable pressure plate 2a of the stationary pressure plate 1a is parallel and between the spacer 27 of the insulating glass pane and the glass panel 24 is still a small gap for introducing heavy gas.
  • the second sealing wedge 65 is in its operative position, the foam layer 66 is slightly compressed. In the illustrated position, the sealing wedge 65 is expediently pushed only after the movable pressure plate 2a their in FIG. 12 has reached the position shown.
  • FIG. 13 shows the gas filling press in its pressing position, in which the movable pressing plate 2a passes by that it is further approximated to the fixed pressing plate 1a.
  • the foam layer 66 is thereby further compressed.
  • the second sealing wedge 65 is retracted to its inoperative position, and the movable pressing plate 2a is first moved away from the fixed pressing plate 1a in parallel with itself in the FIG. 14 shown position and from there pivoted back into the in FIG. 11 shown position.
  • the foam layer 66 is bordered by a U-shaped spring plate 67, so that this covers the bottom and the top of the foam layer 66.
  • the second sealing wedge 65 easier in its sealing position ( FIG. 12 ) are moved as with the embodiment as shown in the Figures 11 and 14 is shown.
  • FIG. 15 illustrated embodiment differs from the in FIG. 12 illustrated embodiment in that the second sealing wedge 65 on its underside has no resilient foam strips. Even with this simplified form of the sealing wedge 65, a seal is possible. It is recommended, however, then, the sealing wedge in the in FIG. 15 stand position when the movable pressure plate 2a for closing and pressing the insulating glass of the stationary pressure plate 1a is further approximated.
  • the glass sheets in the assembly and pressing device are not perpendicular to the belt 40a, but inclined and press only with one of its lower edges on the belt 40a, they can be conveyed without slipping, so that their exact alignment is not lost to each other. They can also be filled in an advantageous and previously unknown in the prior art manner from below over its full length with heavy gas, without having for a permeable belt, which is pulled away over a gas filling channel, or two spaced parallel running belt in the horizontal conveyor would require between which heavy gas between the glass panels could be initiated.
  • a unitary, absolutely dense belt 40a can be used as the conveying member because the heavy gas can be easily introduced from the side of the movable pressing plate 2a through a gap between the belt 40a and one of the glass sheets 24.
  • This allows a much simpler construction of the gas filling assembly and pressing device than heretofore known in the art and allowed by the simultaneous filling of two or more than two insulating glass panes with heavy gas short cycle times and a cheaper insulating glass production than before, especially when manufacturing insulating glass panes with frequently occurring standard dimensions.
  • the invention is very versatile, because it can not only be made rectangular insulating glass, but also so-called model discs, which have a different shape from the rectangular shape outline. Examples of these are in the FIGS.
  • insulating glass panes large enough to accommodate only one of them in the assembling and pressing apparatus, as in a conventional insulating glass manufacturing line. This can for example be done so that the two glass sheets are successively conveyed against the immovable support means by the mating station and the buffer station into the assembly and pressing device and only there in pairs facing each other positioned by the movable pressure plate 2a, the first run-in Glass pane sucks, takes over and thus makes room for the moving on of the second, with a spacer occupied glass panel.
  • the heavy gas can rise between parallel glass plates in a uniform upward flow without major turbulence and displace the lighter air upwards without mixing too much with it.

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  1. Dispositif servant à assembler des vitrages isolants, qui sont remplis d'un gaz différent de l'air,
    comprenant deux plaques (1a, 2a), l'espacement de l'une par rapport à l'autre pouvant varier, lesquelles peuvent être rapprochées depuis une position, dans laquelle elles sont disposées l'une par rapport à l'autre de manière à présenter une forme en V, dans une position parallèle l'une par rapport à l'autre, inclinée par rapport à l'horizontale,
    comprenant un système de convoyage à l'horizontale (20) disposé à proximité du bord inférieur des plaques (1a, 2a), lequel a, en tant qu'organe de convoyage, une courroie (19),
    comprenant au moins deux joints d'étanchéité (54, 55), qui s'étendent depuis le brin supérieur de la courroie (19) jusqu'à un endroit situé au-dessus de la courroie (19) et qui présentent, dans la direction de convoyage (4) de la courroie (19), un espacement l'un par rapport à l'autre, sachant qu'au moins un des joints d'étanchéité (55) est actif entre les deux plaques (1a, 2a),
    comprenant des moyens servant à maintenir un pan de verre (24) au niveau au moins d'une des plaques (2a),
    comprenant des moyens pour introduire depuis le bas un gaz différent de l'air dans l'espace intermédiaire entre les deux plaques (1a, 2a),
    caractérisé en ce qu'une lame (55) en suspension est prévue en tant que joint d'étanchéité actif entre les plaques (1a, 2a), laquelle a un système d'accrochage (52) pouvant être déplacé le long du bord supérieur d'une première des deux plaques (1a), lequel système d'accrochage est disposé au-dessus de la fente entre les deux plaques (1a, 2a) et dont l'espacement par rapport au plan peut varier, dans lequel plan précisément le côté avant de la première plaque (1a) se trouve de sorte que des ensembles de pans de verre (1a, 2a) pour des vitrages isolants peuvent être convoyés sans problème le long de la lame (55) positionnée entre les plaques (1a, 2a),
    et en ce que la lame (55) est pourvue au moins d'un côté d'une matière étanche (58, 59) extensible de manière réversible.
  2. Dispositif selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la lame (55) est pourvue des deux côtés d'une matière étanche (58, 59).
  3. Dispositif selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que la matière étanche (58, 59) s'étend sur toute la longueur de la lame (55).
  4. Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la matière étanche (58, 59) s'étend légèrement au-delà de l'extrémité inférieure de la lame (55).
  5. Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la matière étanche (58, 59) est prévue sur l'un des côtés de la lame (55) en une couche plus épaisse (58) que sur le côté opposé de la lame (55).
  6. Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'une des deux plaques (1a) est disposée de manière immobile, et en ce que le système d'accrochage (22) de la lame (55) est mis en place au niveau de la plaque (1a) immobile.
  7. Dispositif selon la revendication 5 et 6, caractérisé en ce que la couche plus fine (59) de la matière étanche est tournée vers la plaque (1a) immobile.
  8. Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la lame (55) est plus large en partant du bas vers le haut, en particulier est plus large de manière à présenter une forme cunéiforme.
  9. Dispositif selon la revendication 8, caractérisé en ce que l'angle de coin, selon lequel la lame (55) s'élargit en partant du bas vers le haut, coïncide avec l'angle, que les deux plaques (1a, 2a) adoptent dans leur position de départ en forme de V, dans laquelle elles ont l'espacement le plus grand l'une par rapport à l'autre.
  10. Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le système d'accrochage (52) de la lame (55) peut être ajusté en hauteur de sorte que la lame (55) ou seulement la matière étanche (58, 59), dont la lame (55) est pourvue, descend jusqu'à la courroie (19) quand la lame (55) est très proche de la première plaque (1a), et en ce que la lame (55) ou la matière étanche (58, 59) sont espacées de la courroie (19) lorsque la lame (55) ne repose pas sur la première plaque (1a).
  11. Dispositif selon la revendication 10, caractérisé en ce que le système d'accrochage (52) peut être déplacé par coulissement dans un plan coupant à angle droit la direction de convoyage (4) dans une direction, qui est inclinée par rapport au côté supérieur plat de la courroie (19) d'une telle manière que la lame (55) s'abaisse en s'approchant de la première plaque (1a).
  12. Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la lame (55) peut pivoter autour d'un axe (56) s'étendant depuis le haut vers le bas, en particulier autour de l'axe médian de la lame (55).
  13. Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la lame (55) est accrochée de manière à osciller autour d'un axe (56a) horizontal, parallèle par rapport à la direction de convoyage (4).
  14. Dispositif selon la revendication 13, caractérisé en ce que l'axe (56a), autour duquel la lame (55) peut osciller, peut être bloqué.
  15. Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'au moins une des plaques (2a), au niveau de laquelle les moyens servant à maintenir un pan de verre (24) sont prévus, et la courroie (19) peuvent être ajustées les uns par rapport aux autres d'une manière telle que l'espacement entre le bord inférieur de la plaque (2a) et la courroie (19) peut s'agrandir,
    et en ce que le moyen servant à amener le gaz différent de l'air est associé au bord inférieur de la plaque (2a).
  16. Dispositif selon la revendication 15, caractérisé en ce que les moyens servant à amener le gaz différent de l'air comprennent un canal (44), qui est associé au bord inférieur de l'une des plaques (2a), au niveau de laquelle un pan de verre (24) peut être maintenu de manière espacée de la courroie (19), en ce que le canal (44) s'étend de manière parallèle par rapport à la direction de convoyage (4), et en ce que des canaux de garage (47) partent depuis ledit canal (44), lesquels débouchent dans la fente entre la courroie (19) et le bord inférieur de l'un des pans de verre (24) maintenu au niveau de la plaque (2a),
    en ce qu'un corps d'étanchéification (62) servant à modifier la longueur active du canal (44) est disposé de manière à pouvoir être coulissé longitudinalement dans le canal (44), et
    en ce que le corps d'étanchéification (62) peut être déplacé par coulissement de manière synchrone avec la lame (55).
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