When people see the word "glass", their reaction is mostly "hard, flat and straight". However, glass also has a soft side
——Designers show us the "softness" of glass through a series of glass furniture
Under certain high temperature conditions, a piece of flat glass evolves into curved glass under the traction of the gravity of the glass itself.
In order to form a good shape, it also needs the assistance of the die.
The control of temperature and time is the key to "turning straight into curved", which requires the extremely rich experience of craftsmen. The formed glass forms a hard "curved glass" after cooling and curing, and the designer named it "shapeof"
Gravity "-- the shape of gravity.
Designers get inspiration when observing people working with this molten material in the workshop. The main design concept is to make the molten glass flow by gravity and the weight of the glass itself.
Process Overview
According to the above process, the glass is called "bending shape". According to different shapes, hot bending glass can be divided into three categories: single bending, bending and composite bending.
For single bent glass, the glass hot bending process is relatively easy. However, many manufacturers often fail to match the mold well at the curved edge of the product about 150mm away from the straight edge,
Some of them have exceeded the standard requirements, making installation difficult. To solve this problem, first of all, it is required that the electric heating arrangement of the hot bending furnace should be reasonable, local heating can be realized, and the placement direction of the products should be consistent with the direction of the electric heating wire.
Aquarium glass and counter glass are common in bending hot bending glass. The major technical difficulty of bending glass is that mold marks are easy to appear at the bending of straight edges and corners.
With the increasing level of glass production, compound curved glass is becoming more and more common in design, such as spherical glass, curved arch profile, glass wash basin, etc. this kind of glass is used in hot bending operation It is required to have a high technical level and make molds,
Some require a professional hot bending furnace to complete.
