Forming Glass Containers from Tubular Parisons
AssigneeOwens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.
InventorWalter Anderson
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for forming a glass parison are disclosed. The method of forming a glass container in accordance with one aspect of the disclosure includes flowing molten glass to a glass feeder spout located immediately upstream of die rollers; feeding molten glass through an annular space established between an orifice ring of the glass feeder spout and a plunger of the glass feeder spout; blowing gas through the plunger into the molten glass to form a continuous tube of molten glass; and die rolling the continuous tube into a continuous string of glass containers.
Claims20
A method of forming a glass container, comprising:
- flowing molten glass to a glass feeder spout located immediately upstream of die rollers;
- feeding molten glass through an annular space established between an orifice ring of the glass feeder spout and a plunger of the glass feeder spout;
- blowing gas through the plunger into the molten glass to form a continuous tube of the molten glass;
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- die rolling the continuous tube into a continuous string of glass containers.
A glass container forming apparatus, comprising:
- a feeder spout including a heated orifice ring;
- a plunger carried in the feeder spout and including a blow conduit therethrough;
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- die rollers immediately downstream of the heated orifice ring, with no chutes, scoops, or other gob handling devices therebetween.
A glass container forming system, comprising:
- a glass feeder;
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- glass container forming apparatus configured to receive molten glass from the glass feeder, the glass container forming apparatus including
- a feeder spout including a heated orifice ring;
- a plunger carried in the feeder spout and including a blow conduit therethrough;
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- die rollers immediately downstream of the heated orifice ring, with no chutes, scoops, or other gob handling devices therebetween.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.