Horizontal High Speed Seaming System

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Similarly built to our HE style of machines, periphery-profile diamond wheels are used to grind the glass edges. The design utilizes a specially designed head that allows a very light grind pressure to be applied. The heads therefore can provide a consistent seam even on glass that is not necessarily cut well. A pressure as light as about 3 psi can be applied for a very light seam of the top and bottom edges of the glass side / top and side/bottom interface. The machine can process glass as fast as 30m/min. Heavier pressures can be applied for heavier seams, and different wheel profiles can be used to produce up to a #1 pencil edge. Complete systems are normally sold in order to seam all four sides. This includes a 90 Degree Drop Transfer, or In-Line transfer. Glassline can also provide additional handling equipment such as transfers, conveyors, nudging systems, logo markers, etc. to feed your tempering furnace.

Glassline's machines are a cut above the competition. There are many features that provide our Customers excellent value. For example, our compliant grinding heads allow our Customers to minimize stock removal to only what is required, reducing waste, and lowering their costs. We utilize linear rails and bearings for the adjustment of our spindle base width, whereas most of our competitors utilize cam rollers. The rails, along with double lead screws, ensure a longer life and more precise adjustment. See our Double Edger Features and Benefits page for a complete list.

Our edger platform is designed such that we can provide various sizes, configurations, options, etc. to serve the tremendous variation in Customer requirements in the various glass markets. The attached worksheet may be filled out and faxed or e-mailed back to Glassline in order to help us provide you a quotation for a system that matches your requirements: Seaming System Specification / RFQ worksheet.

Single Sided Seaming System

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The Single Sided Seaming (S³) system is designed to seam or grind rectangular glass pieces using a unique design that allows various sizes of glass to be processed without a width change. Only one side of the glass is ground in each edger. In comparison, a double edger type of grinding system requires the operator to either jog the machine to the width of glass to be processed or enter the width into the computer. The S3 is designed for minimal setup requirements.

The advantages are many:

Nimble production capability allowing small orders to be taken with short ship times.
Less downtime due to changeovers means a higher overall throughput.
Less inventory needed.
Diamond wheels allow the production of various edge profiles, providing a more varied product mix for increased sales.
Higher furnace yields with diamond wheel grinding vs. belts. Diamond wheels have been proven to provide a higher quality edge, and higher edge strength, over seaming belts.

Each of the four edging units consists of 1 head (up to three heads can be optionally supplied) on one side, a conveyor with hold-down system and a lead-in guide. Between each edger, the glass must be re-oriented so that the next side can be edged, and this would be done by a 90 Degree Drop Transfer, or In-Line transfer.

The system can be fed manually via a ball castor table, or automatically with additional conveyors. Also, an automatic part gapping system can be supplied. Glassline also manufactures additional equipment that might be needed such as a Centrifuge coolant filtration system, turntables, loaders, etc.