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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7582856 | Out of round detector An inspection machine for determining whether a bottle at an inspection station is “out of round”. A laser, spaced from the bottle to be inspected directs a laser beam towards the axis of the bottle to be inspected whereby a diffuse spot of energy will be define... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7552814 | Object to be inspected including small diameter bottle A machine for inspecting a container having a vertical axis has an inspection station including an inspection device for carrying out an inspection on a transparent container relative to a vertical inspection axis. The bottle is delivered to the inspection station b... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7543479 | Machine for pressure testing container An inspection machine for pressure testing a glass bottle filled with water. A normal test pressurizes the bottle until the pressure reaches an acceptable level. If the bottle bursts or leaks the pressure will not reach the acceptable level. A control monitors the p... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7541572 | Machine for inspecting rotating glass containers with light source triggered multiple times during camera exposure time A machine for inspecting glass containers rotating at an inspection station. A camera images an area of interest on the glass container and continuous illumination of that area is provided by strobing a light source a number of times while the area is imaged on a ca... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7533542 | Cooling tube mechanism for an I.S. machine A mechanism for delivering a cooling fluid to the interior of a formed bottle has an upper cooling tube assembly secured on a vertical post. The upper cooling tube assembly has a plenum chamber having a bottom wall and at least one vertical cooling tube is mounted o... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7494003 | Outfeed mechanism for starwheel type glass inspection machine A bottle inspection machine is disclosed which has a starwheel feeder and an outfeed mechanism for receiving bottles from the starwheel feeder. The outfeed mechanism has an inner belt conveyor which has a pickoff wheel adjacent the starwheel feeder and a second whee... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7489983 | Control for an I.S. machine A control for a glass forming machine is disclosed which receives as an input the event angles used to control the machines operation. These event angles, which define the time in a cycle when each event is turned on and off, are unwrapped to represent times in the ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7487650 | Glass container forming machine A parison is blown in the blow mold of an I.S. machine and as soon as the parison is blown, the blow head is raised to an exhaust location increasing the flow of cooling air to the interior of the blown parison. When the blown parison has been cooled sufficiently so... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7451622 | Mold open and close mechanism for an I.S. machine A mold open and closed mechanism for an I.S. machine is disclosed which has a mold carrier supported for displacement between mold open and closed positions. The mold carrier has a front mold mounting face vertical and horizontal mold alignment structure and a verti... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7426990 | Pusher mechanism for I.S. machine A pusher mechanism for pushing bottles formed in an I.S. machine from a dead plate to a conveyor. The pusher mechanism includes a pusher finger assembly which is supported by a housing and is movable about an axis of support and about the parallel axis of rotation o... | 09/23/2008 |
| 6386000 | I.S. machine An I.S. machine is disclosed which has at least one section having a mold station wherein a glass forming operation is performed within a mold which includes an opposed pair of mold halves each of which has a blank diameter which can vary within a selecte... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6371580 | Console for glass forming machine A glass container forming machine has a machine base with a vertical front wall which includes a console assembly. This assembly has vertical front and rear box halves which are hingedly connected at the bottom and releasably connected at the top. The rea... | 04/16/2002 |
