Method and System for Producing a Glass Container, and Air Bearing
AssigneesGerresheimer Regensburg GmbH, Gerresheimer Bünde GmbH
InventorsWolfram ACKER, Richard KIENER, Vladislav LÖPP
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Abstract
The invention relates to a system for producing a particularly rotationally symmetrical glass container, such as a glass syringe, a glass carpule, a glass vial, or a glass ampoule, from a particularly rotationally symmetrical glass tube blank, which defines a rotational axis, comprising a chuck for mounting the glass tube blank in a rotating manner, a length-cutting device for cutting to length glass containers of predetermined length from the glass tube blank, and an air bearing, which is arranged downstream of the chuck and upstream of the length-cutting device, for contactlessly mounting the glass tube blank.
Claims21
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A system for producing a rotationally symmetrical glass container from a rotationally symmetrical glass tube blank, which defines a rotational axis, said system comprising:
- a chuck for mounting the glass tube blank in a rotating manner;
- a length-cutting device for cutting to length glass containers of predetermined length from the glass tube blank;
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- an air bearing arranged downstream of the chuck and upstream of the length-cutting device and for contactlessly mounting the glass tube blank.
A system for producing a rotationally symmetrical glass container from a rotationally symmetrical glass tube blank, which defines a rotational axis, said system comprising:
- a length-cutting device for cutting to length glass containers of predetermined length from the glass tube blank;
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- a chuck arranged upstream of the length-cutting device, for mounting the glass tube blank in a rotating manner, wherein the chuck comprises a feeding device for particularly horizontally displacing the glass tube blank.
A system for producing a rotationally symmetrical glass container from a rotationally symmetrical glass tube blank, which defines a rotational axis, said system comprising:
- a length-cutting device for cutting to length glass containers of predetermined length from the glass tube blank;
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- a chuck that is arranged upstream of the length-cutting device and that mounts the glass tube blank in a rotating manner in such a way that the rotational axis of the glass tube blank is oriented essentially horizontally.
An air bearing for a system producing a rotationally symmetrical glass container from a rotationally symmetrical glass tube blank, which defines a rotational axis, said air bearing comprising:
- a compressed-air source;
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- a receptacle for the glass tube blank, which extends along the rotational axis of the glass tube blank and is adapted at least in sections to a shape of an outer circumference of the rotationally symmetrical glass tube blank in such a way that the glass tube blank is mounted contactlessly when the receptacle is supplied with compressed air by the compressed-air source.
A method for producing a rotationally symmetrical glass container comprising:
- providing a glass tube blank, which defines a rotational axis;
- continuously rotating the glass tube blank about the rotational axis and contactlessly mounting the glass tube blank in a rotating manner in sections;
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- cutting the glass tube blank to a predetermined length.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.