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US 2015/0266764 A1Published application
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 movable 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.
Claims18
A cutting device for forming gobs of glass, the device comprising conveying means for conveying at least one column of molten glass in a substantially vertical feeding direction;
- a reference frame, a single cutting blade and displacement means for moving said blade towards sand feeding direction and through said column, characterized in that said blade consists of a piece elongated in a direction transverse to said feeding direction and in that it further comprises a movable frame for supporting and moving said elongated piece;
- said movable frame being hinged to said reference frame to rotate the piece about a fixed hinge axis substantially horizontal and orthogonal to said feeding direction;
- said displacement means comprising motorized actuator means to rotate said movable frame about said hinge axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.