Bending Sheet Glass

Rotate the glass as you heat.

Bending sheet glass. Space frames float a plaza sunshade. Hefty bent glass railing structurally supports the bannister of this floating circular stair. Perfect seams mate radiused and flat sheets. If you would like a quote please be aware of the following minimums and maximums.

And glasswerks is certified to produce soft coat low e bent tempered ig units. In order to bend a sheet of glass it is placed in a metal mold and then reheated. Maximum glass size is 130 x 188 minimum glass size is 18 x. California glass bending corporation.

Ray green bought his first furnace in 1941 to add new shapes to his glass specialties. By the mid űň 60 s the transition from art glass to a fully industrialized factory was complete. Rotate the glass slowly and constantly and move it from side to side to heat approximately 5 cm 2 in of its length. This renders the glass soft and malleable so that it can be shaped according to the contours of the mold.

Hold the glass so the point where the bend will occur is directly in the tip of the blue flame. Seventy years of care and integrity yields the finest custom fabricated glass you can imagine. Greeting your project with smooth as glass workflow. Now though german scientists have developed a method of bending a single sheet of glass to a 90 degree angle without affecting its optical properties.

Heat until you feel or see the glass begin to sag at that point.