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Originally Posted by Blue Angel
Making glass with a single curvature (zero compound curvature) would require a completely different process, one that supported teh full shape of the glass somehow during quenching to keep gravity from adding any compound curve.
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I apologize... I need to correct myself. We had a furnace in Oshawa that
could make single curvature glass. It used a gradually changing set of rollers to shape the glass as it traveled along from the furnace into the quench. The rollers were actually oriented upwards in a curved manner as the glass traveled along, so the lites did have a slight complex curve to them, but a single curve lite could be made with this process.
I never worked on that line when I was there so it completely slipped my mind.
