A panel support and panel processing system that provides a single frame assembly for use on a panel processing line in transporting and installing panels, such as glass panels, the frame assembly having a frame with at least one hook that engages a carrier on a processing line to move the frame from one station to the next, and that enables lifting and stacking of multiple frames for transport to and installation at a building site without having to remove the panel, such as a glass panel, from the frame, at which point the frame and panel assembly are secured in situ.

A system that can travel and rotate and is designed in the manner of an at least one-armed robot is used for handling spacer frames in the course of the production of insulating glass. The system grasps a spacer frame with a gripper system provided to rotate at the free end of the robot arm. A spacer frame is moved by the system to stations of a line for producing insulating glass. For example, a spacer frame is held in a station for producing spacer frames, moved to a station for filling the spacer frame, when the spacer frame is to be filled with hygroscopic material, then further moved to a station, in which the lateral surfaces of the spacer frame are coated with sealing and adhesive agents, and finally moved to a station for assembling insulating glass, in which the spacer frame is mounted on a glass panel.

The present disclosure relates to a vacuum insulated glazing (VIG) unit and the method for producing such. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to a window comprising a VIG unit enclosed in a frame.

A method and a device for assembling a triple insulating glass pane containing two outer glasses and a thin glass between them is disclosed. A standing thin glass is conveyed into a first pressing station. A first flexible spacer strand is applied to a first outer glass, which is then joined to the thin glass in the first pressing station. A second flexible spacer strand is applied to the second outer glass. The glass assembly is conveyed upstandingly to a turning station, where it is turned about an upstanding axis of rotation. After turning, the glass assembly is conveyed upstandingly from the rotation station into a second pressing station. The second outer glass is conveyed upstandingly through the first pressing station and the rotation station into the second pressing station. Then, the glass assembly and the second outer glass are joined together to form a triple insulating glass pane.

A device for unloading insulating glass from a production line has a support frame and a manipulator frame arranged on the support frame and having a manipulator plane provided with a matrix of suction cups adapted to achieve adhesion of the insulating glass to the manipulator plane, and brackets for supporting the insulating glass. Each bracket is movable between a retracted position, where the bracket does not protrude or has minimal protrusion from the manipulator plane, and an extracted position, where the bracket has maximum protrusion from the manipulator plane. A movable abutment moves in a direction substantially parallel to the brackets and interacts with the brackets by a first contact portion of an operating surface to push the brackets towards the retracted position so that the brackets assume a given protrusion with respect to the manipulator plane between the retracted and extracted positions.

The present invention deals with integrating methods for manufacturing and applying a spacer frame to a glass plate, particularly in the circumstance of increased sizes thereof, of the rigid type, i.e. which profiles essentially are formed by a hollow body having cross section close to the rectangular, micro-perforated in the wall facing the chamber of the insulating glass, where at least the wall facing the outer cavity intended for the secondary sealant is made of solid metal material or with a metal liner, the remaining walls or all the walls being capable of being made of plastic or metal, e.g. aluminum or stainless steel. Certain innovative elements of the devices implementing such methods are also claimed.

A method for making an insulating glass consisting of at least a first glass plate, a second glass plate, and a central glass plate involves arranging a spacer on the first glass plate, coupling the first glass plate to the central glass plate to make a pre-assembled product, rotating the pre-assembled product by an angle of around 180 with respect to a substantially vertical axis, and arranging a spacer on the second glass plate. The method further involves coupling the second glass plate to the central glass plate of the pre-assembled product to make the insulating glass.

A method for assembling an insulating glass pane includes two outer glasses and at least one thin glass therebetween. A first flexible spacer strand is applied to a first outer glass to form a first frame-shaped spacer in a first application station. After the application of the first spacer strand, the first outer glass is joined with a thin glass to form a glass assembly in a first pressing station. After joining of the glass assembly, a second flexible spacer strand is applied to the thin glass of the glass assembly to form a frame-shaped spacer. After application of the second spacer strand, the glass assembly is completed with at least a second outer glass to form a triple or quadruple insulating glass pane in a second pressing station.

An insulated glass unit, including two spacer applied lites including a first lite and a second lite. Each of the lites has a strand of thermoplastic spacer material applied thereto proximate and inset from a perimeter of each of the spacer applied lites. The two strands include a first strand applied to the first lite and a second strand applied to the second lite. The first strand and the second strand are joined together and cohesively bonded by contact between the first strand and the second strand thereby forming a primary seal of the insulated glass unit. The invention also includes methods of making such insulated glass units and manufacturing lines that enable making such insulated glass units.