Assignee: Owens-Illinois Glass Container Inc.

Location: Toledo, OH
No. of patents: 24

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Number	Title	Issue Date
5392928	Inspection and sorting of containers A system for inspecting and sorting molded containers, such as glass bottles that includes a finished product inspection station for inspecting containers transported in sequence along a predetermined path, identifying containers to be sorted from the pat...	02/28/1995
5200801	Inspection of container finish Apparatus for detecting vertical checks in the finish of a translucent container that includes a light source for directing light energy onto the container finish from externally of the container finish laterally of the container axis over an angular port...	04/06/1993
4950321	Ceramic orifice ring An orifice ring insert formed of a heat resistant metal such as 50-50 nickel-chrome alloy is dropped into position within the orifice opening in the ceramic orifice ring. The ring is counterbored to receive the flange of the ring with sufficient clearance...	08/21/1990
4945228	Inspection of container finish Apparatus for inspecting the sealing surface of a container finish that includes a light source positioned to direct light energy onto the container sealing surface as the container is held in stationary position and rotated about its central axis. A came...	07/31/1990
4923363	Lehr loader pickup arm Apparatus in the form of a vacuum bar for picking up a full row of newly formed glass containers from a moving conveyor on which the containers are sitting and transferring the containers onto a moving lehr mat. The container engaging system is formed of ...	05/08/1990
4852271	Preheat oven for glass containers An oven for preheating glass containers in which the containers are moved through the oven on a conveyor with the conveyor moving at a linear speed that is in excess of the permitted speed of the container movement. This permits the containers to produce ...	08/01/1989
4832774	Method and apparatus for applying wrap-around labels to containers Apparatus and method of applying wrap-around labels to bottles or containers where the label is formed into a complete sleeve with a heat-sealed seam on the container as the containers are moved in a linear path on a conveyor. The bottles and conveyor pas...	05/23/1989
4822646	Solid film lubricant compositions and methods of using same A solid film lubricant composition for hot glass contacting surfaces of glass handling equipment and metal molds used in manufacturing glass articles. The solid film lubricant composition is a solution of a solvent, graphite, a solvent-soluble, further cu...	04/18/1989
4814024	Nickel base alloy glass shaping member An alloy having the following composition limits by weight: Chromium 13-15%, silicon 3.4-4.2%, boron 1.7-2.3% and the balance nickel, is cast in a mold that is made by the lost wax process from CaCO3, so that when the molten metal alloy is cast in t...	03/21/1989
4806257	Solid film lubricant compositions A solid film lubricant composition for hot glass contacting surfaces of glass handling equipment and metal molds used in manufacturing glass articles. The solid film lubricant composition is a solution of a solvent, graphite, a solvent-soluble, further cu...	02/21/1989
4793465	Bottle conveying system Apparatus is described for conveying newly formed, hot bottles from the forming machine to an annealing lehr which is conventionally positioned with its lehr mat or belt running in a direction parallel to the movement of the transfer conveyor. The transfe...	12/27/1988
4776871	Shear blade lockout in an individual section glass machine An electronics package for automatically inhibiting operation of the shear blades of an individual section glass machine is responsive to periodic signals from an encoder disc indicative of timing increments in a machine cycle and to motion detectors adja...	10/11/1988
4772306	Molten glass gob delivery system A gob delivery system for molten glass charges or gobs from a multiple orifice feeder to a plurality of parison molds in which the transmit times of the gobs are held to a minimum. The gob scoops, which initially deflect the gobs into straight troughs, ar...	09/20/1988
4772354	Heated solvent applicating gravure roll A solvent applicating roll, mounted for rotation about its vertical axis for transferring a solvent from etched or gravure areas on the roll surface to plastic labels that are moved into rolling contact with the roll, has its temperature controlled. The r...	09/20/1988
4762544	Automated control of glass container manufacture A glassware production system includes an electropneumatic individual section glass forming machine having a multiplicity of operating mechanisms for converting a gob of molten glass into a hollow glass container. A glass forehearth feeds molten gobs at c...	08/09/1988
4740401	Forming laminated glass containers from a composite encapsulated gob of molten glass A glass bottle forming system is described in which a main glass melter is connected to a forehearth with a fairly conventional feeder provided at the delivery end of the forehearth. The feeder opening in the bottom of the forehearth is closed by a first ...	04/26/1988
4729811	Infeed guide and roll-on belt for bottle labeling machine Apparatus for applying labels to round glass containers by guiding the containers in succession to the surface of a rotating vacuum drum that supports the labels on its surface. The containers are carefully guided by a pair of vertically spaced starwheels...	03/08/1988
4726872	Primary-secondary pad system Apparatus for guiding bottles along the surface of a rotating vacuum drum which holds plastic shrink labels until an individual label is rolled about the circumference of the bottle to form an overlapped seam. The bottles are of the style that have taperi...	02/23/1988
4724037	Micro-adjustable gravure roll A labeling system where a cylindrical vacuum drum carries plastic labels at spaced intervals on its surface and a solvent applying gravure roll is held at a specific spacing from the drum and labels so that the labels will receive the solvent when they pa...	02/09/1988
4716116	Protein modification to provide enzyme activity A naturally occurring protein is chemically modified to provide the protein with activity of a selected enzyme. The protein does not contain activity of the selected enzyme before modification. Modification is carried out by partially denaturing the prote...	12/29/1987
4714677	Protein modification to provide enzyme activity A naturally occurring protein is chemically modified to provide the protein with activity of a selected enzyme. The protein does not contain activity of the selected enzyme before modification. Modification is carried out by partially denaturing the prote...	12/22/1987
4714676	Protein modification to provide enzyme activity A naturally occuring protein is chemically modified to provide the protein with activity of a selected enzyme. The protein does not contain activity of the selected enzyme before modification. Modification is preferably carried out by partially denaturing...	12/22/1987
4713335	Protein modification to provide enzyme activity A naturally occurring protein is chemically modified to provide the protein with activity of a selected enzyme. The protein does not contain activity of the selected enzyme before modification. Modification is carried out by grossly denaturing the protein...	12/15/1987
4709800	Bottle conveyor with brush spacer Apparatus for wrapping shrinkable plastic labels about bottles as they are moved in a single file. As the bottles exit the wrapping machine, they are resting on a moving belt conveyor which is driven in the direction of a heat shrinking tunnel. In order t...	12/01/1987

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Assignee: Owens-Illinois Glass Container Inc.