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Claim 1

A COLLAPSIBLE MOLD FOR FORMING CURVED GLASS PANES BY GRAVITY BENDING THEREOF WHILE HEATED HAVING TWO SUBSTANTIALLY IDENTICAL END SECTIONS MOUNTED TO SWING VERTICALLY ABOUT PARALLEL TRANSVERSE HORIZONTAL AXES INTERMEDIATE THEIR ENDS AND AT SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL DISTANCES FROM THEIR INNER ENDS AND AN ELONGATED HORIZONTALLY DISPOSED CENTER SECTION SUPPORTED AT ITS ENDS ON THE INNER ENDS OF SAID END SECTIONS FOR VERTICAL MOVEMENT THEREWITH, EACH END SECTION HAVING A MARGINAL GLASS ENGAGING MEMBER EXTENDING AROUND ITS OUTER END AND ALONG ITS OPPOSITE SIDES, SAID CENTER SECTION HAVING GLASS MEMBERS EXTENDING ALONG ITS SIDES, SAID GLASS ENGAGING MEMBERS HAVING END FACES THAT ABUT AT THE ENDS OF THE CENTER SECTION AND TOP FACES FORM A CONTINUOUS CONCAVE GLASS SHAPING FACE WHEN SAID SECTIONS ARE IN MOLDING POSITION, POVOTS CONNECTING SAID CENTER SECTION TO SAID END SECTIONS, SAID PIVOTS BEING BELOW THE TOP FACES OF SAID MEMBERS AND OFFSET WITH RESPECT TO A LINE PREPENDICULAR TO THE GLASS SHAPING FACE AT THE PARTING LINE BETWEEN THE TOP FACES OF THE GLASS ENGAGING MEMBERS THE TOP EDGES OF THE ABUTTING ENDS OF SAID GLASS ENGAGING MEMBERS MOVE APART AND ONE UPWARDLY WITH RESPECT TO THE ADJOINING END AS THE INNER ENDS OF THE END SECTIONS AND THE CENTER SECTION MOVE UPWARDLY FROM MOLDING POSITION TO PROVIDE A HIGH POINT ON SAID SHAPING SURFACE AT EACH OF THE FOUR PLACES WHERE THE ENDS OF SAID GLASS ENGAGING MEMBERS ADJOIN, SAID AXES AND SAID PIVOTS BEING SO DISPOSED WITH RESPECT TO SAID GLASS ENGAGING MEMBERS THAT THE OUTER ENDS OF SAID SHAPING FACE AND THE FOUR INTERMEDIATE HIGH POINTS THEREOF ARE MOVABLE TO A GLASS SUPPORTING POSITION WHERE THEY ARE IN HORIZONTAL ALINEMENT, WHEREBY THE GLASS IS SUPPORTED SOLELY BY END