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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7908887 | Vacuum valve for an I.S. machine A vacuum valve for use with a blow mold in an I.S. machine. When the blow molds close around a parison, vacuum is applied to the wall of the blow mold. At some time following the application of the vacuum, final blow will occur blowing the parison into a bottle. Thi... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7644598 | Vacuum valve for an I.S. machine A vacuum valve for use with a blow mold in an I.S. machine. When the blow molds close around a parison, vacuum is applied to the wall of the blow mold. At some time following the application of the vacuum, final blow will occur blowing the parison into a bottle. Thi... | 01/12/2010 |
| 6907756 | Plunger for bottle forming I.S. machine A plunger for use in forming parisons during the manufacture of glass containers having a biased open valve therein. ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6799438 | Method for making a microstructure in a glass or plastic substrate according to hot-forming technology and associated forming tool A microstructure is formed in a viscous glass or plastic substrate by pressing a structured surface of a forming tool corresponding to a negative of the microstructure to be produced in the viscous glass or plastic substrate. After the microstructure has been formed... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6457331 | I.S. machine A blank mold valving system for supplying vacuum/counter blow air to a blank mold of an I.S. The system includes an exhaust valve displaceable between open to exhaust and closed positions, a vacuum valve displaceable between open to vacuum and open to cou... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6202446 | Vacuum system for an I.S. machine A vacuum system is disclosed for opposed engaged pairs of blow mold halves on a section of an I.S. machine. The system includes a bottom housing which is open at the top and closed by a top plate assembly including a top plate having a vertical opening fo... | 03/20/2001 |
| 5876475 | Glass container forming process and equipment A method and apparatus for forming a glass container in a blow-and-blow process. The apparatus includes an air flow controller having a housing defining a chamber, a piston disposed for reciprocal movement from a first position to a second position within... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5707413 | Method and apparatus for blow and blow production of hollow glass article The method and apparatus for producing a hollow glass article permit removal of a resulting hollow glass article without severing a moll. By this, glass powder which would otherwise be caused and fallen into the hollow glass article during severing the mo... | 01/13/1998 |
| 4657048 | Valve assembly for glassware forming machine A valve assembly for controlling the application of suction and counterblow air to a blank mould of a glassware forming machine. The assembly comprises a body (1, 2, 3, 4) in which are enclosed a first valve (5) for controlling the application of suction,... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4518409 | Method of and apparatus for making a parison A parison is molded from a gob of molten glass by first increasing the volume of the interior of a cup-shaped main mold body by an extra volume. Then the molten-glass gob is inserted through an upper opening into the interior of the main mold body. A neck... | 05/21/1985 |
| 4492595 | Bottom plate mechanism for a mould of a glassware container manufacturing machine The bottom plate mechanism has an adaptor plate (10) on which bottom plates of one or more moulds are mounted. The adaptor plate contains passages (14,20) which connect an inlet (16) thereof to a source of vacuum through a filter (72). In order that the f... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4490164 | Mould arrangement for use in a glassware container manufacturing machine Two mould portion carriers (14,16) are supported for pivoting movement about a column (12). Two cooling passages (44,48) pass through the column and each is connected to a passage (56,96) in one of the carriers. Each passage (56,96) in a carrier is connec... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4276073 | Method of forming glass bottles A method of forming glass bottles from a short parison is disclosed, which method includes the steps of mechanically elongating the parison in a blow mold to an extent that the exterior bottom of the elongated parison is near, but not at, the bottom of th... | 06/30/1981 |
| 4244726 | Apparatus for manufacturing glass bottles An apparatus for manufacturing glass bottles is disclosed which includes consecutively delivering gobs of molten glass into a blank mold, forming each gob into a parison, transferring the parisons alternately into at least two sets of blow molds, allowing... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4013437 | Method for forming glass bottles An improved method is disclosed for forming glass bottles by the blow and blow process. A parison mold having a one-piece annular blank mold section and split neck and shoulder mold sections is charged fully with molten glass. Air is subsequently blown th... | 03/22/1977 |