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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8141389 | Crucible lift device and method for taking-out crucible A crucible lift device for taking a crucible out of a mold is provided with a lid member which closely contacts a limb portion defining an opening of a crucible; a decompressing mechanism which decompresses an internal space of the crucible sealed with the lid membe... | 03/27/2012 |
| 7930902 | Mechanism for conveying an article 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... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7913518 | Process and device for pushing hollow glass objects from a glass forming machine onto a conveyor belt A process and a device for pushing hollow glass objects off a glass forming machine onto a moving conveyor belt are disclosed. Each hollow glass object is pushed by a push-off unit from a dead plate along a curved path onto the conveyor belt in such a way that the c... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7827826 | Method and a machine for the production of hollow glassware articles A bi-directional curvilinear transference apparatus for a glassware forming machine, to be mounted on an apparatus support frame, to transfer a parison held by a rotary inverting apparatus at an intermediate station to a blow forming station. ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7814766 | System and apparatus for adjustable stacker bar assembly having vertical accommodation features An adjustable stacker bar assembly includes a pad assembly having a lower pad that is mounted to a push bar. The lower pad is in direct contact with and independently mounted to the push bar. An upper pad is mounted to and spaced apart from the lower pad by a spacer... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7765833 | Apparatus for adjustable stacker bar assembly having quick change features An adjustable stacker bar assembly includes a pad assembly having a lower pad that is mounted to a push bar. The lower pad is in direct contact with and independently mounted to the push bar. An upper pad is mounted to and spaced apart from the lower pad by a spacer... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7685842 | Invert mechanism for a glassware forming machine An invert mechanism for a glassware forming machine includes a support frame having a base adapted removably to be mounted on a forming machine frame. A linear actuator is suspended from the support frame and a linear gear rack extends from the actuator within the s... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7472565 | Plastic takeout holder and ceramic insert for use in bottle manufacturing A takeout holder including a takeout jaw formed of plastic. ... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7418834 | System, method, and apparatus for interchangeably accommodating both fixed and floating takeout inserts A takeout jaw for handling glass bottles includes a holder for both fixed and floating inserts. This design allows an insert to be in a fixed position when the insert is provided with a nominal thickness. When a floating insert of a lesser thickness is installed, th... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7380418 | Continuous forming system for producing lenses A continuous glass forming system includes a forming room and at least one forming unit which is advanced successively through a first loading/unloading station, a first heating station, a first forming station, and a first cooling station which are provided within ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7380417 | Continuous forming system for producing lenses A glass forming system includes a first rotating device disposed in a first processing station defining a reception region, a first heating region, a first transfer region and a first cooling region, and a second rotating device disposed in a second processing stati... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7325668 | Transfer unit for transferring glass articles In a transfer unit for transferring glass articles from a supporting surface to a carry-off conveyor, a pickup member, for engaging the articles for transfer, is moved between a pickup position and a release position by an actuating device having a single articulate... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325418 | Press forming system for glass The present invention is directed to reduce the total footprint of a press forming system for glass having a plurality of press units, and also to increase an actual availability of each press unit. A plurality of press units are arranged in two parallel rows and a ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7309203 | Multi-modal container handling system A multi-modal container handling system includes a tool presentation platform mounted to a multi-axis robot. The platform has a number of mechanically locking collets for handling either empty or full containers, and a number of multi-jawed grippers telescopically m... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7278529 | Push method and device for transferring glass articles A method and device for transferring glass articles from an intermediate supporting plate to an unloading conveyor, wherein the article to be transferred is positioned and retained inside a seat on a movable member by feeding compressed air through the movable membe... | 10/09/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7207434 | Conveyor with center-actuatable gripper, and related conveyor link A conveyor is disclosed suitable for conveying objects along a transport direction. The conveyor includes a plurality of connected links, each link having a length extending across the direction of transport and a width extending along the direction of transport. Ea... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7185515 | Invert arm assembly for glassware forming machine An invert assembly for an individual section glassware forming machine includes an invert base that is oscillated about an axis between angularly spaced apart first and second positions, a double ended ball screw positioned co-axially with the axis and having spaced... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7073352 | Method and a machine for the production of hollow glassware articles A method and a machine for the production of hollow glassware articles, by the blow-and-blow, press-and-blow, press-and-blow paste mold and direct-press processes in a glassware forming machine including single or multiple machine sections each having single or mult... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7047766 | Inverter mechanism for a glass forming machine An invert mechanism for moving parisons between a pre-forming station and a finishing forming station of a glass forming machine is disclosed. The mechanism is disposed above a cover plate of a frame of the glass forming machine. An electric motor is disposed with i... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7024887 | Method and a machine for the production of hollow glassware articles A method and a machine for the production of hollow glassware articles, by the blow-and-blow, press-and-blow, press-and-blow paste mold and direct-press processes in a glassware forming machine including single or multiple machine sections each having single or mult... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6993935 | Method for blowing and removing glass containers Vertically aligned first (30) and second (32) combined blowhead and takeout mechanisms are provided to sequentially blow glass parisons (P) into containers (C) in a mold set (22) and to transfer blown containers to a deadplate (40) of a g... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6923022 | Dual-stage blowhead assembly A blowhead assembly for receipt over a parison finish to blow the parison within a blow mold and simultaneously cool the parison finish includes a blowhead body having a first chamber at one end for receipt over the finish of a parison in a blow mold, and at least o... | 08/02/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6848273 | Apparatus for blowing and removing glass containers Vertically aligned first (30) and second (32) combined blowhead and takeout mechanisms are provided to sequentially blow glass parisons (P) into containers (C) in a mold set (22) and to transfer blown containers to a deadplate (40) of a g... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6823695 | Press-forming system for glass An object of the present invention is to enable to use a common transfer machine for transferring performs to and for transferring products from a press-forming system for glass having a plurality of press units. The press-forming system for glass has a plurality of... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6823696 | Glass container forming machine Formed bottles are simultaneously cooled within the blow molds of an I.S. machine on their inner and outer surfaces and inner surface cooling continues from the time the takeout grips a bottle through a displacement course to a deadplate location, then to a conveyor... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6813905 | Glass container forming machine An I.S. machine has a takeout arm which grips a bottle at the blow station and carries it longitudinally to a first deadplate position and then transversely to a second deadplate position. Along the transverse path is a cullet chute. A deadplate mechanism also is di... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6807826 | Glass container forming machine A formed bottle is delivered by a takeout mechanism to a deadplate where it is suspended for cooling. A temperature sensor is mounted to monitor the suspended bottle. When the sensed temperature shows an unacceptable variation, the takeout mechanism and deadplate ar... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6776010 | Glass container forming machine A blow head mechanism for an I.S. machine wherein the blow head has a final blow tube. The final blow tube is supported for vertical displacement between an up position where the open end of the final blow tube is proximate the top of a blown parison and a down posi... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776009 | Glass container forming machine A takeout for an I.S. machine includes a cooling tube which is displaceable between up and down positions. Displace is controlled to correspond to the desired heat removal along the path of displacement. ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6766664 | Glass container forming machine A takeout for an I.S. machine has a cooling tube which is displaceable between up and down positions. The open bottom of the cooling tube has an annular deflector which deflects some of the downwardly propelled cooling air radially outwardly from the cooling tube. | 07/27/2004 |
| 6766665 | Glass container forming machine The takeout has a cooling tube which oscillates within the bottle as the bottle is removed from the blow station of an I.S. machine and transferred to a deposit location. ... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6722488 | Method and apparatus for transferring articles in unison A takeout device (10) for transferring one or more, usually a plurality, of freshly-formed glass containers (C) from molds (18) of a section of an I.S. machine to a deadplate (20) of the machine. The takeout device has an oscillatable arm (12... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6702097 | Method of and apparatus for transferring articles from a fixed position to a moving conveyor Sweepout apparatus (10) for sweeping an aligned array of glass containers (C) from a deadplate (12) of a I.S. glass container forming machine to a conveyor (14) that runs transversely to the array of containers on the deadplate and serves to transfer the ... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6601410 | Device and method of transferring glass objects The device (1) comprises a transfer mechanism (7) which is attached to the free ends of two parallel piston rods (13, 14). The associated piston-cylinder units (15, 16) are attached to a support structure (17) and can be pivoted therewith in a reciprocati... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6520319 | Assembly for adjusting the height of a gripping mechanism on a machine for molding glass articles An assembly for adjusting the height of a gripping mechanism on a machine for molding glass articles has an upright supporting a gripping head for gripping the glass articles, and an actuating assembly for activating the gripping head and, in use, moving ... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6494063 | Apparatus for pushing hollow glass articles onto a conveyor belt The apparatus serves for pushing at least one of two hollow glass articles from a dead plate of a glass forming machine onto a conveyor belt. A pusher serves for this purpose, and includes a base portion and, for each glass article which is to be pushed, ... | 12/17/2002 |
