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US 11,407,669 B2Granted
Angled blank glass feed apparatus, system, and method
AssigneeOwens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.
InventorsKaren Kerr, Robin L. Flynn
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Abstract
A glass blank feeding apparatus, system, and method for feeding a glass gob to an angled blank mold are disclosed. The glass blank feeding apparatus includes at least one scoop configured to receive a glass gob along a vertical axis from a gob feeder and a blank mold aligned along a longitudinal axis at a non-zero angle from the vertical axis, where the blank mold is configured to receive the glass gob directly from the at least one scoop along the longitudinal axis.
Claims5
A system, comprising:
- a gob feeder;
- an angled glass blank feeding apparatus including at least one scoop configured to receive along a vertical axis from the gob feeder;
- at least one blank mold aligned along a longitudinal axis at a non-zero angle from the vertical axis, where the at least one blank mold is configured to receive the glass gob directly from the at least one scoop along the longitudinal axis and is carried by an upper rotary table, and where a lower rotary table including at least one blow mold configured to form the glass gob into a parison;
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- a lower rotary table including at least one blow mold configured to receive the parison from the blank mold.
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An angled glass blank feeding apparatus, comprising:
- at least one scoop configured to receive a glass gob along a vertical axis from a gob feeder;
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- a blank mold aligned along a longitudinal axis at a non-zero angle from the vertical axis, the blank mold is configured to receive the glass gob directly from the at least one scoop along the longitudinal axis and the blank mold is further configured to form the glass gob into a parison, wherein the blank mold includes circumferentially complete side walls aligned along the longitudinal axis, the side walls extending from a baffle end of the blank mold.
A system, comprising:
- a gob feeder;
- an angled glass blank feeding apparatus including at least one scoop configured to receive a glass gob along a vertical axis from the gob feeder;
- and
- at least one blank mold aligned along a longitudinal axis at a non-zero angle from the vertical axis, where the at least one blank mold is configured to receive the glass gob directly from the at least one scoop along the longitudinal axis and is carried by an upper rotary table, and where the blank mold is configured to form the glass gob into a parison, wherein the upper rotary table includes a baffle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.