roller table

She laughed ruefully and pushed the small roller table aside.

Variation is one of the hallmarks of the way the glass is made, still using equipment for the hand-mixed roller table process that was first installed in the early 1900s.

Motorized linear slides such as machine slides, XY tables, roller tables and some dovetail slides are bearings moved by drive mechanisms.

The glass is placed onto a roller table, taking it through a furnace that heats it above its annealing point of about 720 C. The glass is then rapidly cooled with forced air drafts while the inner portion remains free to flow for a short time.