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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7430880 | Pull roll assembly for drawing a glass sheet A pull roll assembly is described herein that is used to draw a glass sheet. The pull roll assembly includes a first roll assembly, a second roll assembly and a device (e.g., differential drive, sensor(s)). The device enables one to control the first and/or second r... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7372220 | Extrusion plant with synchronized drive units, and method of synchronization of drive units In a method for synchronizing drive units, a target value of the speed of each drive unit of a plurality of drive units speed is computed by determining the product of a maximum speed of the drive unit, a unit-dependent normalized ratio value of the drive unit, and ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7342376 | Glass machinery motor control A machine for operating on a glass bottle. A carriage is displaceable by a servo motor having three lead lines. The rotation of the servo motor is stopped when power has been removed by shorting regenerative resistors to the three motor leads. The stopped servo moto... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7320230 | Pushout mechanism for I.S. machine A pushout mechanism includes a pusher finger assembly which utilizes air jets to facilitate the location of bottles with the pockets defined by the fingers. The air jets are defined by in a projecting post in an orifice member which can be quickly released from the ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7290406 | I.S. machine An I.S. Machine is disclosed which includes a structure displaceable from a start location to an end location and a motor for displacing that structure. A control controls the operation of the motor to displace the structure and the speed of displacement can be vari... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7278282 | Device for transferring hollow glass objects from a glass-forming machine onto a conveyor belt A device for transferring an object from a dead plate of an Individual Section glass-forming machine to a conveyor belt is disclosed. The device includes a first shaft rotatable about an axis. A housing is attached to the first shaft. A carrying arm is slidably moun... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7237445 | Test fixture for the aging of wiper blades in a laboratory A test fixture facilitates the laboratory testing of windshield wiper blades for vehicles. The test fixture includes a base frame on which are mounted a number of windshield wiper arms oriented generally parallel for engagement with a stainless steel test surface. P... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7079918 | System for adjusting position of glass plates A system for adjusting position of glass plates includes (1) a chain for conveying glass plates into a bending furnace, the chain having (a) alternate links, (b) connecting pins for holding the alternate links together, (c) extension pins extending from some of the ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7059155 | Method of bending glass A method of bending glass, in which glass (5) is heated in a bending furnace (1). After the heating, the glass (5) is transferred onto a mold (7). The glass-bending mold (7) is at at least one point arranged to be bent substantiall... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7017373 | Glassware forming machine control system A glassware forming machine system includes a glassware forming machine having first operating mechanisms for converting gobs of molten glass into articles of glassware, a gob delivery system having second operating mechanisms for delivering gobs of molten glass to ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6978640 | Device and method for the simultaneous production of glass products with varying masses The invention relates to a manufacturing apparatus for simultaneously making different hollow glass products having different gob sizes comprising at least one feed apparatus (12), that has at least one glass reservoir (14), at least one plunger (18... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6978609 | Electrohydraulic servo door drive for operating a door, a window, etc. The invention pertains to an electrohydraulic servo door drive for operating a door, a window, or the like, with a hold-open function, where a valve is installed in the hydraulic circuit to implement the hold-open function. To create an electrohydraulic servo door d... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6857292 | Glass container forming machine A takeout grips a formed bottle at a blow station of an I.S. machine and releases the bottle onto a conveyor and returns to grip the second bottle formed in the blow station following the bottle removed by the takeout. ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6854292 | Glass container forming machine A takeout mechanism for an I.S. machine grips a formed bottle at the blow station and carries the bottle to a first position spaced above a deadplate. The bottle is held at this position for a period of time and then is lowered to a position proximate the deadplate ... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6776008 | Method and apparatus for heating glass A method and apparatus for heating glass, in which glass (4) is heated upon rollers (3) in a tempering furnace (1) from above and below of the glass (4). At least the upper surface of the glass (4) is heated with hot air jets direc... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6722158 | Control for an I.S. machine A machine cycle unwrapper for use with a glass forming machine which is controlled by a programmable sequencer which defines a 360° machine cycle having a set cycle time. The cycle unwrapper converts the “on” and “off” angles around the wrapped 360° progra... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6711916 | Control for an I.S. machine A glass forming machine has a set machine cycle time. Each of the mechanisms, etc., is cycled during the time of one machine cycle. A computerized model of a mathematical representation of a network constraint diagram of the unwrapped bottle forming process which ta... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6705120 | Control for an I.S. machine A control for defining data for setting the times for controlled events in a glass forming machine which is controlled by a programmable sequencer which defines the time of a machine cycle. The control includes a computerized model of a mathematical representation o... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6705119 | Control for an I. S. machine A control for defining data for setting the times for controlled events in a glass forming machine which is controlled by a programmable sequencer which defines the time of a machine cycle. A computerized model of a mathematical representation of a network constrain... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6606886 | Control for an I.S. machine A control for defining optimized data for setting the times for controlled events in a glass forming machine which is controlled by a programmable sequencer which defines the time of a machine cycle. The control includes a computerized model of a mathemat... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6604384 | Control for an I.S. machine A control for use with a glass forming machine which is controlled by a programmable sequencer which defines a machine cycle having a set time. A computerized model of a mathematical representation of a network constraint diagram of the unwrapped bottle f... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6604386 | Control for an I.S. machine A control for defining data for setting the times for controlled events in a glass forming machine which is controlled by a programmable sequencer which defines the time of a machine cycle. The control includes a computerized model of a mathematical repre... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6604385 | Control for an I.S. machine A control for a glass forming machine. Each machine mechanism, etc., is turned "on" and "off" at selected angles around a wrapped 360° machine cycle. The control unwraps the "on" and "off" angles around the wrapped 360° machine cycle to "on" and "off" t... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6604383 | Control for an I.S. machine A control for use with a glass forming machine which is controlled by a programmable sequencer which defines a machine cycle having a set cycle time. A computerized model of a mathematical representation of a network constraint diagram of the unwrapped bo... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6470711 | Furnace for heat treatments of glass sheets A furnace particularly for heat treatments of glass sheets, comprising a longitudinally-elongated chamber which contains roller conveyor elements for the glass sheets. The furnace comprises irradiation-heating elements combined with first and second eleme... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6442978 | Apparatus for sintering a porous glass base material and a method therefor Apparatus (700) for sintering a glass base material (2) which is a base material for an optical fiber. The sintering apparatus (700) includes: a control unit which varies a condition for sintering the glass base material; and a furnace (12) which sinters ... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6250109 | Method of continuously producing vitreous blast furnace slag The invention relates to a process for continuously producing a glassy or vitrified blast furnace slag, in which the slag is applied onto a cooling roll or onto articulately interlinked cooling plates conducted as an endless conveyor belt over deflection ... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6212909 | Synchronization of individual section machine operation to gob feed in a glassware forming system An individual section (IS) machine glassware forming system includes an individual section machine with a plurality of individual sections for receiving gobs of molten glass and forming the gobs into articles of glassware. A gob feeder presents gobs of mo... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6131412 | Adjusting temperature of glass sheets in tempering furnace A method and equipment for adjusting the temperature of glass sheets in a tempering furnace. The tempering furnace (1) comprises rollers (3) for conveying and oscillating the glass sheets (4) during heating, and resistors (5, 6) for heating the glass shee... | 10/17/2000 |
| 5904745 | Generation of sweepout motion profile in an individual section glassware forming system In an individual section (IS) glassware forming system that includes a plurality of operating mechanisms for performing cyclic motions, an electronic controller for controlling cyclic motion of at least one of the operating mechanisms includes an electron... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5902367 | Method for transferring mould-carrying wagons for glass sheets in a bending furnace for glass sheets and bending furnace for glass sheets A method for transferring mould-carrying wagons in a bending furnace for glass sheets as well as to a bending furnace for glass sheets, comprising preheating stations (1.3, 1.4, 1.5) and more than two bending stations (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4) in succession an... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5766292 | Method and apparatus for making wide mouth hollow glass articles A method and apparatus for forming a hollow glass article comprises delivering a gob of glass to a blank mold, providing a first neck ring to a position adjacent the blank mold, forming the gob in the blank mold into a parison, moving the first neck ring ... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5716425 | Control system for glass bending platen A closed loop control system for a hydraulically actuated glass sheet press bending platen. Flow of fluid supplied to the cylinder operating the press platen is controlled through a servo solenoid valve. A linear motion transducer associated with the plat... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5652490 | Control system for glassware forming machine A control system for controlling displacement of a member in a glassware forming machine. A pneumatic piston drives the member and is controlled by a computer which defines a motion profile. The difference, at any moment, between the demanded position and... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5588978 | Process and apparatus for coloring glass A method and apparatus for the production of colored glass includes the steps of diverting a stream of clear molten glass from at least one glass melting furnace through one or more transport channels to a color treatment chamber. Recycled cullet and colo... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5527371 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing glass bottles The problem of unevenness of bottle temperatures at the entry of slow annealing furnace due to the variation of time periods necessary for respective bottles discharged from an IS bottle manufacturing machine to reach the annealing furnace has been solved... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5501717 | Method and furnace apparatus for bending and tempering a glass sheet supported on a ring mould The invention relates to a method and furnace apparatus for bending and tempering glass sheets. A glass sheet is supported on the same outline mold throughout the entire handling process. A bending furnace (10) is designed to be sufficiently long in the t... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5486221 | Shear mechanism for glass forming machine Opposed shear assemblies are conjointly driven via a rack and pinion assembly by a servo motor which follows a displacement profile. When the cycle rate exceeds a selected limit the profile is scaled to reduce peak motor velocity and a shorter stroke is d... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5485388 | Computered system of rotative action for the synchronic motion of products in a manufacture line A computerized system for the continuous manufactured of individual elements, notably glass containers, is disclosed. A pulse sensor which emits one pulse per cycle is connected to an asynchronous motor with a frequency variator. A CPU is programmed with ... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5445662 | Glass container forming machine with a controller for controlling controllers A cyclical machine for forming at least one glass container each machine cycle comprising a plurality of controllers for controlling regulators and/or profiled motion actuators, at least one displaceable structure, controllers controlling the operation of... | 08/29/1995 |
