Outline bending iron for bending high temperature glass sheet, and bending method

PURPOSE: To form a reverse bend by forming the bend by a glass sheet support rail, which is supported on a frame, which is being heated and able to move and whose support surface swell and outline conform with a desired shape of the glass sheet. CONSTITUTION: The glass sheet engagement surface of a pan member arranged on a bending iron 10 inside an outside bending rail 24 is made partially upward convex to curve the glass sheet G reversely. Further, the pan member is arranged along the center bending rail 26 of the pattern center part 12 so as to form an S shape from the left to the right. The engagement surface of this pan member has a heat-resisting cover. When the temperature of the glass sheet G rises almost to its thermal deformation temperature, the glass sheet G bends gravitationally to sag and then conforms to the outline of the shaping rail 26. For the shaping of a windshield, two glass sheets are carried over the bending iron through a heating part body and shaped at the same time. COPYRIGHT: (C)1991,JPO