Swiped refers to glass that has had the sharp edge of the break ground to ease handling. Never heard swiped or better. I my youth cut and ground the edge on laminated flat glass used in construction equipment. Would have to round the cut edge off to keep it from cutting the sealing gasket. That may be what they refer to as better or better than just the swipe.
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You are correct. I don't understand your question. The glass sheets, plates, etc are often "swiped" by the distributor, rather than the glass manufacturer. It depends on the type of glass, the volume, applications, pricing, etc.
My question is to defining the term "swiped or better". We use huge volumes of glass in our products, and our drawings for glass use the terminology "swiped or better" on some applications, and "ground" for other applications, referring to the edge finish of glass.
These designs were done and specified by engineers who are no longer with my company, and no one in house as of now can recall why these specifications were picked, and what glass manufacturers mean by the terms. We deduced a reasonable guess, and the responses we have jibe with that guess, but we wanted further evidence from people more experienced with glass manufacturing.
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