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US 10,077,200 B2Granted
Cutting device for forming gobs of glass
AssigneeBottero S.p.A.
InventorSimone Ferrari
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Abstract
A column of molten glass is cut transversely to make a plurality of glass gobs by means of a cutting device having an elongated piece orthogonal to a conveying direction of the column and carried by a moveable frame operated by a motor controlled by a unit to rotate the piece at either constant or variable speed in one or both directions of rotation about a fixed hinged axis orthogonal to the conveying direction of the glass column.
Claims15
A cutting device for forming gobs of glass, the cutting device comprising:
- a frame;
- a single blade;
- a movable frame being connected to said frame to rotate said movable frame about an axis;
- said moveable frame being connected to said single blade to rotate said single blade along a curved cutting path about said axis;
- and
- a motorized actuating assembly having a motor that is connected to said movable frame to rotate said movable frame about said axis, wherein said single blade moves from a first side of one or more molten glass columns, through an entirety of said one or more molten glass columns to a second side of said one or more molten glass columns opposite said first side to form the gobs of glass, and wherein said single blade is elongated in a direction that is along a direction that is parallel with said axis,
- wherein the cutting device only has one blade that is the single blade.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.