METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING ATTITUDE OF SUPPORTING METAL FITTING FOR TRANSPORTING GLASS PLATE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate the adjustment of a supporting metal fitting for a glass plate in an arrangement operation before the glass plate is heated to be worked. SOLUTION: In a method of fixing and transporting the glass plate by slightly inclining the glass plate floated by compressed air or a compressed gas in a heating furnace to one side direction of a hearth bed crossing in the transporting direction of the glass plate at a right angle to move the floated glass plate to the lower side of the inclined surface and bringing the the supporting metal fitting into contact with the the lower end side of the glass plate, a plurality of the supporting metal fittings are formed into one group and after a tag or an identification tag mounted on a transporting chain is detected at the front position to the transporting direction of the group to a bending furnace, a plurality of extended pins located in set order from the tag or the identification tag by a pin detecting means are imaged respectively by a pin imaging means, the attitude angle is compared to the attitude angle of a previously imaged reference pin to calculate the amount of the deviation and the amount of compensation is displayed on a screen of a bending angle compensation amount display means of the extended pin to instruct to an operator. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO