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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 6905326 | Blow molding machine comprising control valves, which are mounted on the blowing device and which control the blowing air A blow molding machine with at least one blow mold for producing hollow bodies from heated performs, at least one blow nozzle for leading the blow air into the performs and a plurality of valves for controlling the feeding and the removal of the blow air to and from... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6807829 | Glass container forming machine A blow head is displaced to the “on” position where its lower portion engages the top of a blow mold. Final blow begins and before final blow is completed, the blow head is raised a selected distance and final blow is exhausted between the O.D. of the formed fin... | 10/26/2004 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5820650 | Optical processing apparatus and optical processing method A glass substrate is positioned between a chamber with a reduced pressure and a chamber filled with a heated helium, and the glass substrate is forcibly bent by the pressure difference and the heated helium gas into a uniform shape. The irradiation of las... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5512078 | Apparatus for making linearly tapered bores in quartz tubing with a controlled laser Method and apparatus for providing a linearly tapered bore in quartz/glass tubing includes a laser and elements for focusing the laser onto the glass tubing. The glass/quartz tubing is rotated in the laser beam and is moved vertically in the laser beam to... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5505758 | Glassware forming machine An individual section glassware forming machine in which each section comprises a section module, which supports operating mechanisms of the machine, and a piping module through which the necessary air supplies are passed to the section module. The two mo... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5372623 | Method and apparatus for forming glass containers with reinforced inner surfaces This invention relates to a method and apparatus for forming a glass container by a press-and-blow system wherein the glass container is provided with a reinforced inner surface. According to the inventive method, fuel gas or a gaseous boron or silicon co... | 12/13/1994 |
| 4861363 | Lubricant spray device for glass moulds Lubrication of the parison moulds of a hollow glassware moulding machine is carried out utilizing a spray device in which the discharge of pressurized air from a narrow opening is arranged to entrain surrounding atmospheric air. Liquid lubricant is discha... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4729779 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing glass articles According to the invention, a cryogenic liquid as liquid oxygen is vaporized in a heat exchanger by air, which air is thus cooled and further used to blow bottles or the like manufactured at the end of the line where glass is melted and refined by burners... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4604120 | Method and apparatus for lubricating and moulding glass parisons Apparatus for spraying lubricant into closed moulds of a glass forming machine has the spray outlets on a carrier structure which is pivoted on the funnel arm shaft of the machine. For lubrication a pneumatic cylinder couples it to its support, fast with ... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4579574 | Mold lubricating apparatus for glassware making machines The disclosure is directed to a mold lubricating apparatus for glassware making machines, which is so arranged that nozzle holders 5 having nozzles 12 respectively directed toward mold surfaces of the neck rings from lower portions at opposite sides of th... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4571252 | Lamp glass envelope and method for manufacture a lamp glass envelope A method for producing the type lamp glass envelope used in a reflector lamp is disclosed which employs a ribbon machine. Said ribbon formed lamp glass envelope includes a cylindrical neck portion terminating at one end in a curved reflector portion close... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4508557 | Dead plate arrangement of a glassware forming machine The arrangement comprises a perforated dead plate above which a newly-moulded glassware article can be supported for cooling. Cooling means sucks air downwards through the dead plate so that the air flows past the article cooling it. The cooling means may... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4409010 | Method and apparatus for glass mould lubrication Apparatus for spraying lubricant onto the blank moulds of an IS glass forming machine has static spray heads above the open positions of the mould halves, to spray downwardly onto them when the mould halves are open. Electrical and pneumatic equipment in ... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4392880 | Glassware forming apparatus with blow mold spray means In a glass ware forming apparatus including a blank mold, a split blow mold, a bottom plate, and a neck ring assembly, the inclusion of a nozzle assembly mounted on the blank mold supporting structure and oriented to spray lubricant onto the inner walls o... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4219346 | Apparatus for the production of large glass containers A process and apparatus for the manufacture of large glass containers, comprises preparing a glass gob of a predetermined weight in an automatic mechanical feeder and feeding it to a first preparatory mold at a predetermined frequency. A parison is formed... | 08/26/1980 |
| 3957478 | Cooling pressed glass articles An improved glass pressing machine which captures exhausting cooling gas to reduce noise in the vicinity of the machine. A glass press for making television face plates includes a cooling station where large quantities of a gas, such as air, are blown on ... | 05/18/1976 |