A sheet of glass is cut on a cutting machine having at least one support table of the sheet to be cut, an incision device for making at least one incision line on the sheet, and at least one thrust bridge for thrusting the sheet against the support table; the thrust bridge comprising a rigid cross member facing the support table and provided with at least one flexible hollow body integrally connected to the cross member in a position facing the support table; the hollow body delimiting at least one sealed chamber that can be pressurized by a pressurized fluid and extends for the whole length of the cross member.

An apparatus for cutting laminated glass and film-covered glass includes a powered hand-held tool with a blade set including two static cutting blades and one dynamic, reciprocating cutting blade. The reciprocating cutting blade moves between the two static cutting blades which are rigidly mounted to the tool head. The left and right static cutting blades were spaced apart by about 0.250 inches, and the cutting blade had a thickness of about 0.200-0.250 inches. The clearance between the reciprocating and each static blade is between about 0.005-0.025 inches.

An apparatus for separating a composite safety glass panel along at least one pre-definable dividing line, wherein the composite safety glass panel has at least one composite film and at least two glass panels, wherein the composite film is arranged between the glass panels and connects the glass panels to each other, the apparatus having at least one separating device for separating the glass panels along the at least one dividing line and at least one heating device for heating the composite film at least along the dividing line. The heating device has at least one laser device having at least multiple adjacently arranged laser beam sources, wherein multiple adjacently arranged individual intensity profiles for heating the composite film at least along a portion of the dividing line can be produced with the laser device. The invention further relates to a method for separating a composite safety glass panel.

The present invention relates to an emitter system for the irradiation of laminated glass panels of different widths, a glass cutting device for processing laminated glass panels of different widths with such an emitter system, a manufacturing method for such an emitter system and a use of such an emitter system for the irradiation of laminated glass panels of different widths. An emitter system in accordance with the present invention for the irradiation of laminated glass panels of different widths comprises a plurality of elongated emitters. The elongated emitters are arranged one behind the other on a common longitudinal axis. The elongated emitters each have two ends, which are angled in relation to the common longitudinal axis. The emitter system is arranged in a glass cutting device.

Cutting sheets of glass, or other glass substitute materials is provided. In a first step, a sheet is cut in a first cutting station in a working direction (L). Panels obtained from the cut sheet are rotated in their rest plane modifying an angular position thereof with respect to the working direction (L). Downstream of the rotation, a second cutting step and at least a third cutting step in a second cutting station and in at least a third cutting station is performed in series in the working direction (L).