Curved Glasses

Curved Glasses

Curved Glasses

Product catalog summary
Overview: Tambest Glass Solutions is renowned globally for its expertise in glass bending, offering high-quality curved glass solutions. The company utilizes advanced machinery and decades of experience to ensure precision and optical quality in its products.
Bending Shapes: Tambest has developed innovative bending methods for spherical, conical, and parabolic glass shapes. The availability of curved glass depends on factors like glass quality, size, opening angle, radius, and thickness. Dimensions provided are theoretical maximums and should be confirmed case by case.
Glass Types and Specifications:
  • Float Glass: Thickness 3–19 mm, max dimensions 3210 x 6000 mm, height max 1100 mm.
  • Laminated Glass: Thickness 6–36 mm, similar dimensions to float glass, with PVB film lamination.
  • Tempered Glass: Thickness 5–15 mm, max dimensions 2440 x 4200 mm, height max 800 mm, max angle 90°.
  • Heat-Strengthened Glass: Dimensions defined case by case.
  • Laminated Tempered Glass: Combines safety features, dimensions defined case by case.
  • Insulating Glass: Dimensions depend on glass types used, defined case by case.
Bending Techniques:
  • Cylindrical Bending: Can include flat parts, dimensions defined case by case.
  • Spherical Bending: Max bending angle 30°, dimensions defined case by case.
  • Conical Bending: Upper and lower radii differ, dimensions defined case by case.
  • Parabolic Bending: Based on spherical bending, dimensions defined case by case.
Curved Insulating Glass: Offers various protective qualities like solar and thermal insulation. Maximum dimensions depend on bending shape and glass types.
Manufacturing and Installation Tolerances: Tolerances account for deviations in dimensions and must be considered during planning. Optical quality is visually checked to ensure distortion-free surfaces.
Contact Information: Production and administration are based in Forssa, Finland, with sales and marketing in Tampere, Finland.
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Catalog excerpts

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Copying without permission not allowed © TAMBEST Glass Solutions 2010 The glass bending expertise of Tambest Glass Solution is top class in the world. The innovative, modern and versatile production machinery combined with the staff`s three-decade-long expertise of glass bending guarantee the first-glass shape and dimension accuracy of our products. Therefore, the company is internationally known as a supplier of extremely high quality and challenging curved glass solutions. Thanks to our top-class expertise, Tambest Glass Solutions is able to supply the highest optical quality. The aim is to have totally distortion free appearance to every product. BENDING SHAPES Several significant innovations of the field, such as bending methods applied to e.g. demanding spherical, conical and parabolic glasses have come into being as a result of the company’s development work. This brochure introduces Tambest Glass Solution’s comprehensive product range of curved glass products as well as their technical possibilities and limitations. Several interdependent factors affect the fact whether the requested glass is available as curved. These factors include e.g. the glass quality, glass size, opening angle, radius and glass thickness. Therefore, the dimensions given in this brochure should always be understood only as theoretical maximum dimensions to be specified always case by case. glass solutions Curved glasses Cylindrical bending is possible in the following glass types and dimensions: FLOAT GLASS thickness 3–19 mm b x l 3210 x 6000 mm or b x l 6000 x 3210 mm h max. 1100 mm LAMINATED GLASS thickness 6–36 mm b x l 3210 x 6000 mm or b x l 6000 x 3210 mm h max. 1100 mm lamination with a PVB film, min. 0.76 mm TEMPERED GLASS thickness: 5–15 mm b x l 2440 x 4200 mm or b x l 4200 x 2440 mm h max. 800 mm a max. 90° HEAT-STRENGTHENED GLASS The dimensions of a heat-strengthened glass are defined case by case. LAMINATED TEMPERED GLASS thickness 10–30 mm b x l on request h max. on request * Laminated tempered safety glass combines the safety characteristics of tempered and laminated safety glass into the same product. The dimensions are defined case by case. LAMINATED HEAT-STRENGTHENED GLASS thickness 10–30 mm b x l on request h max. on request * The dimensions of a laminated heat-strengthened glass are defined case by case. INSULATING GLASS Dimensions of an insulating glass to be manufactured depend on the glass types preferred to be used for composing the insulating glass. The dimensions of an insulating glass are defined case by case. r = bending radius b = outer girth l1 = glass height c = chord length h = chord height .. = bending angle /opening angle Standard bending: opening angle ..90° Special bending: opening angle 90°–180° r = bending radius (to the outer surface) (A-A) b = outer girth: on the line A – A l1 = glass height e = diagonal chord length .. = bending angle / opening angle ln = rise (mm) Rule: l2 min ..1/3 x l1 CYLINDRICAL

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Copying without permission not allowed © TAMBEST Glass Solutions 2010 glass solutions CYLINDRICAL BENDING WITH FLAT PARTS SPHERICAL BENDING CONICAL BENDING PARABOLIC BENDING Parabolic bending is a shape developed based on spherical bending, with two bending directions as in case of spherical bending. The bending radii, however, change in accordance with the parabola function. Parabolic bending is possible either in float glass, laminated glass or insulating glass. * Dimensions and thicknesses are defined case by case. r = bending radius b = girth l1 = glass height c = chord length h = chord height...

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Copying without permission not allowed © TAMBEST Glass Solutions 2010 glass solutions CURVED INSULATING GLASS DIMENSIONING, MAXIMUM SIZES AND TOLERANCES Insulating glasses may be composed of different glass types, and this way, it is possible to achieve several protective qualities, such as solar protection, thermal insulation, sound insulation, safety or burglar resistance. The maximum dimensions of insulating glass to be manufactured depend on the requested bending shape and the glass types to be used. Dimensions and thicknesses are calculated on request. Curved insulating glass is available...

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www.tambest.com Copying without permission not allowed © TAMBEST Glass Solutions 2010 glass solutions PRODUCTION AND ADMINISTRATION Ravikatu 2 30420 Forssa, Finland Tel. +358 207 459 800 Fax +358 207 459 823 SALES AND MARKETING Haarlankatu 1 E (3rd floor) 33230 Tampere, Finland Tel. +358 207 459 800 Fax +358 207 459 826 Installation tolerance (allowance for installation) refers to a space that has to be defined as early as at the planning stage in between the glass and the frame, in case of differences in measurements. Possible tolerance field must be taken into consideration when defining the...

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