Cooling tube mechanism for an I. S. machine
AssigneeEmhart Glass S.A.
InventorsGary R. Voisine, F. Alan Fenton
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Abstract
A mechanism for delivering a cooling fluid to the interior of a formed bottle has a a lower guide arm and an upper cooling tube assembly secured on a vertical post. The upper cooling tube assembly has a plenum chamber having a bottom wall and at least one vertical cooling tube is mounted on its bottom wall. The lower guide arm includes a vertical through hole for receiving each of the cooling tubes. The upper cooling tube assembly is vertically displaceable on the post relative to the lower guide arm assembly via a drive which includes a lead screw/drive nut located within the post.
Claims6
A mechanism for delivering a cooling fluid to the interior of a hot glass bottle after it has been formed in an I. S. Machine comprising
- a vertical post having a vertical slot,
- a lead screw within said post,
- a motor mounted on said post for rotating said lead screw,
- a nut operatively associated with said lead screw,
- a lower guide arm secured to said post,
- an upper cooling tube assembly including
- a plenum chamber having a bottom wall, at least one vertical cooling tube mounted on the bottom wall of said plenum chamber, and
- a slide housing for sliding vertically on said vertical post above said lower guide arm including a key for extending through said vertical slot for interconnecting said sleeve portion and said nut whereby said upper cooling tube assembly can be vertically displaced, from a first up position to a second down position,
- said lower guide arm including a vertical through hole including a tube guide for receiving each of said at least one cooling tubes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.