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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7353667 | Neck ring guide for glassware making machine A neck ring guide for aligning neck ring sections in a glassware forming machine has a center body and a pair of spaced parallel runners coupled to the center body for receipt in guide slots in the neck ring sections. Keepers on the outboard sides of the runners ret... | 04/08/2008 |
| 6983623 | Valve block assembly for I.S. glassware machine and modular pilot valve operated poppet valve assembly A valve block assembly includes a cartridge block and a plurality of modular pilot valve operated poppet valve assemblies. The cartridge block has a plurality of bores therein dimensioned and configured for receiving respective modular pilot valve operated poppet va... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6907754 | Self-aligning impact tolerant I.S. machine cartridge assembly A cartridge assembly for a blow-and-blow parison-forming machine comprises a cylindrical barrel, an annular lower stop having a central opening for accepting a piston rod and having an upwardly opening tapered recess adjacent the central opening, an annular cylinder... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6715320 | Fluid administration system for the operation of cylinder and piston assemblies A fluid administration system for the operation of a cylinder and piston assembly for actuating mechanisms, mainly glassware forming and handling mechanisms, allowing rapid changing thereof, comprising: a passage network practiced at the cylinder cap, connected to t... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6497120 | Quick change connector for plunger for glass container forming process and equipment A plunger assembly for use in a glass bottle forming machine permitting quick exchange and self-aligning of a plunger held on a plunger driving piston comprising a plunger having an annular recess, an adapter having a plurality of stepped radial bores ext... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6442976 | Liquid cooling of glassware molds A system and method of cooling glassware molds by directing liquid coolant to the blank or blow mold halves of a glassware forming machine through an enclosed pivotal rotary union-type structure. A coolant manifold is carried by each pivotal mold arm, and... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6212910 | Forehearth feeder tube clamp down system A feeder tube assembly for a feeder bowl of a glass melting furnace forehearth. The feeder tube assembly has an horizontally extending elongate support arm, and a feeder tube that is carried by the support arm at a location near an end of the support arm.... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6210082 | Method for repairing diametral surfaces of glass manufacturing molds A method of repairing a diametral surface of a mold of the type used in manufacturing glass containers by an I.S. machine, after a repair procedure that causes or can cause an out-of-roundness condition in the diametral surface. The method, which is appli... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6170294 | I. S. machine An I.S. Machine for making glass bottles, having a plurality of sections, each having a blank station for forming a parison. Each section has a section frame having a top surface, and a plunger mechanism including at least one plunger canister having a lo... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6151918 | Forehearth feeder tube lift system A feeder tube assembly for a feeder bowl of a glass melting furnace forehearth. The feeder tube assembly has an horizontally extending elongate support arm, and a feeder tube that is carried by the support arm at a location near an end of the support arm.... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6099792 | Sol-gel process using porous mold A sol-gel process for producing dry porous gel monoliths, e.g., silica glass monoliths, in which the successive process steps of gelling, aging and drying all occur within a mold formed of a porous material, e.g., graphite. The mold is inert to the gel so... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6032491 | Apparatus for mold changing in heated glass sheet forming station Apparatus (32) and a method for heated mold changing at a forming station (24) in a heated chamber (22) where heated glass sheets are cyclically formed. A switching station (318) is located adjacent the forming station (24). An unloading station (320) and... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5968218 | Invert cylinder mechanism for glass forming machine with removable shock absorber and method of removing the shock absorber An invert cylinder mechanism for a glass container forming machine of the I.S. type, the invert cylinder mechanism having a piston that is moveable along a rectilinear path between inner and outer positions within an annular housing to cause a cylinder ro... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5964914 | Plunger base module for a plunger mechanism of an I.S. machine A plunger base module for a selected number of vertically extending cylindrical plunger canisters each having a bottom surface and including a set of service conduits including plunger up, plunger down, and counterblow/vacuum or cooling, with each of the ... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5928400 | Mounting Structure for a baffle or the like in a glassware manufacturing machine A mounting structure for use in a glassware forming machine for moving an operative member, such as a funnel, baffle or blowhead, between an out of the way and operative positions. The machine comprises a vertical operating shaft and a parallel support sh... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5893942 | Quick change invert arm assembly An invert arm assembly for a glass container forming machine of the I.S. type, the invert arm assembly having an opposed pair of invert arm segments that are movable toward and away from one another and define one or more neck ring assembly receiving aper... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5868813 | I. S. machine An I.S. Machine for making glass bottles, having a plurality of sections, each having a blank station for forming a parison. Each section has a section frame having a top surface, and a plunger mechanism including at least one plunger canister having a lo... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5858049 | Plunger mechanism for an I.S. machine A plunger mechanism has a plunger canister module to be mounted on the top wall of a section frame of an I.S. machine. The module includes one, two, three or four plunger canisters each having a vertically extending cylinder having a locating diameter at ... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5853449 | Plunger mechanism for an I.S. machine A plunger mechanism comprising a vertically extending cylindrical plunger canister having a bottom surface and including a plurality of service air conduits with each conduit having an inlet port communicating with the bottom surface. A plunger distributi... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5725629 | Guide ring for I.S. glass forming machine A self-lubricating ring assembly (10) for use in forming a finish portion (F) of a hollow formable glass parison (P), the neck ring assembly (10) having an opposed pair of part cylindrical metallic neck ring sections (22a, 22b) that can be opened and clos... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5609664 | Guide ring for I. S. glass forming machine A self-lubricating ring assembly (10) for use in forming a finish portion (F) of a hollow formable glass parison (P), the neck ring assembly (10) having an opposed pair of part cylindrical metallic neck ring sections (22a, 22b) that can be opened and clos... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5401288 | Deflector plate support A deflector plate support includes a support body having an integral frame-like construction and a first end portion and a second end portion each of which are connected to a perpendicularly disposed border that is connected to an inwardly extending wall ... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5296014 | Device for bending glass sheets on bending mold having a cover A device for bending glass sheets which includes a furnace for heating the glass, a conveyor, a bending station within which there is suspended, notably from a plate, an upper bending mold at least partly disposed inside the skirt of a peripheral suction ... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5236490 | Method and apparatus for mounting ancillary equipment to a furnace A furnace has side walls and a bottom wall with a refractory lining. To permit mounting of ancillary equipment such as electrode refractory blocks are fitted to the bottom wall of the furnace. To mount each refractory block a hole is bored through the bot... | 08/17/1993 |
| 5224979 | Top release bearing for shear mechanism A shear mechanism for shearing discrete gobs from at least one runner of molten glass has a shear assembly which is displacable back and forth along a pair of guide rails. The assembly has at least one shear supported on an arm which has a bearing at one ... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5137561 | Mechanism for exchanging cloth covering on glass sheet forming fixture A system (10) for changing a cloth covering ring (12) in a glass sheet heating furnace (18) includes an apparatus (26) operable for removing and replacing the cloth ring, a cloth ring changing furnace section (28) that provides access by apparatus (26) in... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5133796 | Air-tight sintering furnace for the production of a quartz preform This invention relates to a sintering furnace for the production of a quartz preform which can be used for carrying out dehydration, fluorine-addition and/or sintering of a porous quartz soot preform prepared by a flame hydrolysis method such as a VAD met... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5087280 | Floating mold changer carriage A floating mold changer carriage is movable between a shaping device for shaping a sheet of glass with at least one mold and a mold storage area spaced from the shaping device, for replacing the mold with a new mold. The carriage includes a main frame hav... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5037465 | Plunger mechanism with a self-contained positioning device A plunger operating mechanism for forming parisons in a glassware forming machine comprises a piston and a positioning unit for determining the position of the plunger in its loading and invert positions, the positioning unit being held removable from the... | 08/06/1991 |
| 5028249 | Plunger mechanism for i.s. machine The air lines for a plunger mechanism are permanently secured to a mainfold which is secured to the bottom of the section frame. To complete the air delivery system removable upper manifold having downwardly extending air tubes in interconnected with a lo... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5002600 | Conduit for molten glass A plurality of conduit segments contact on another which run vertically and transversely to the direction in which molten glass is channelled. Each segment includes at least one trough section and at least one cover section, an insulation of individual fo... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4995896 | Takeout jaws A takeout jaw for use in a bottle-forming machine is formed in a semicircular shape and contains a spring clip for holding immovably a piece of non-metallic contact material within a pocket in the body of the takeout jaw.... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4973347 | Apparatus for cooling of a mold of an IS machine or an RIS machine for producing hollow glass articles A cooling apparatus for one or more molds on an IS or RIS machine for the production of hollow-glass articles has a cooling chamber below the or each mold subdivided into upper and lower parts at a horizontal planar point with the upper part being detacha... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4966619 | Dead plate assembly An apertured dead plate insert fabricated of a contact material, preferably graphite, and a correspondingly apertured dead plate subplate together constitute a dead plate assembly which is used in the hot end process area of glass bottle manufacture. The ... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4957530 | Apparatus for plunger replacement in a molding machine while the molding machine is in operation A molding machine having a plunger replacement apparatus is disclosed. Molding operation of the molding machine for a plunger requiring replacement is only discontinued, and the plunger requiring replacement is taken out to a plunger replacing position th... | 09/18/1990 |
| 4948409 | Multiple segment spinner A multiple segment glass fiberizing spinner and method of making same provides a product of low cost and improved service life. The spinner comprises a plurality of, preferably four, segments of a cast alloy having a large number of small radially oriente... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4921523 | Mechanism for opening and closing at least one mould of a glassware forming machine The mechanism comprises a piston and cylinder assembly operable to move mould side portion supports between mould open and mould closed positions thereof. A check valve (72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82) is mounted in a passage (66) into the cylinder to allow fluid... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4913716 | Plunger change apparatus and method A glass face plate press is provided with a semi-automatic, plunger changing apparatus. The changing apparatus takes the form of a movable plunger supporting head and carriage that is mounted adjacent the press station for movement into and out of positio... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4897103 | Conduit for molten glass A conduit for conducting molten glass in a glass making operation comprising an elongate superstructure, an elongate carriage, a plurality of refractory blocks assembled on the carriage to form a channel for conducting molten glass, and a plurality of rol... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4770686 | Support for supporting an operating mechanism of a glassware forming machine A support for an operating mechanism such as a takeout mechanism (10) of a glassware forming machine comprises a slideway (34) extending vertically above an operating position of the mechanism at a blow station of the machine, a carriage (40) mounted for ... | 09/13/1988 |
