Handling unit for hollow glass articles

Abstract

A handling unit for hollow glass articles includes a plurality of fingers, each configured to engage a corresponding hollow glass article in correspondence of a gripping area and to drag the article along a connection trajectory between a gripping position and a release position, a displacement mechanism of the plurality of fingers between the gripping position and the release position, wherein each finger of the plurality includes a nozzle which can be supplied by means of pressurized air and arranged in correspondence of the gripping area, the nozzle being configured for the ejection of air in a direction tangent with respect to the gripping area so as to set a depression in correspondence of the gripping area to hold a hollow glass article arranged in the gripping area itself, the handling unit being characterized in that it includes at least two control units of the supply airflow of the nozzles, wherein each control unit of the airflow is configured to control at least one corresponding nozzle independently of the nozzles controlled by remaining control units of the airflow.

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