Arrangement for feeding gobs of plasticizable material in molds of a machine for the production of bottles or the like

In a machine for the production of bottles and similar hollow articles from plasticizable material, a combination comprising means rotatable about a substantially vertical axis;

• a plurality of molds carried by said rotatable means radially spaced from said axis and circumferentially spaced from each other, each of said molds having a vertical axis, a plunger for each mold carried by said rotatable means reciprocable along the axis of the respective mold between an active position in which a lower end portion of the plunger extends into the respective mold and an upwardly withdrawn inactive position;
• means located at a higher elevation than said molds and having a vertically downwardly extending outlet for successively supplying gobs of plasticizable material;
• and means for feeding such gobs seriatim from said gob supplying means into said molds during movement of the latter with said rotatable means, said feeding means comprising a plurality of continuous feed channels, one for each mold, and each having an upper and a lower end, and support means for each of said feed channels carried by said same rotatable means for movement therewith about said vertical axis and connected to the respective feed channel for periodically aligning the upper end of the respective feed channel with said outlet end of said gob supplying means for receiving a gob from the latter and for periodically aligning the lower end of the feed channel with the respective mold for feeding the received gob into said mold while the plunger coordinated with said mold is in said upwardly withdrawn inactive position.