Pneumatic Glass Cutting Machine

Description

In this highly developing society; time and man power are critical constrains for completion of task in large scales. The automation is playing important role to save human efforts in most of the regular and frequently carried works e.g. glass cutting is a highly industrialized process which is mostly performed by humans in small scale industries. This process can be automated in a way to increase the accuracy and efficiency using automatic engineering systems and pneumatic technology. This way the main advantage is to reduce the accidents caused during the manual glass cutting process in industries.

A glass cutter is a tool used to make a shallow score in one surface of a piece of glass that is to be broken in two pieces. The scoring makes a split in the surface of the glass which encourages the glass to break along the score. A glass cutter may use a diamond to create the split, but more commonly a small cutting wheel made of hardened steel or tungsten carbide 4–6 mm in diameter with a V-shaped profile called a "hone angle" is used.

The sheet of glass is typically lubricated along the cutting line with light oil. The cutter is then pressed firmly against the surface of glass and a line is briskly scribed to form a "score" or "cut". The glass is now weakened along this line and the panel is ready to be split. Running pliers may then be used to "run" or "open" to the split.