Glass forming machine comprising a swabbing station and method

Glass forming machine comprising:

• a blank station for forming a parison from a gob of molten glass,
• a blow station for forming the parison into a container,
• an invert mechanism which can move a neck ring from the blank station to the blow station by a rotary motion, the said rotary motion between the blank station and the blow station is one single rotary motion taking place within only one plane,
• a control device set up so that the neck ring stops its rotary motion within said one plane or reduces its speed of rotary motion within said one plane when the neck ring is in an intermediate position between the blank station and the blow station,
• and a swab robot, wherein the control device is set up so that the swab robot swabs the neck ring when the neck ring is in the intermediate position between the blank station and the blow station.