Machine for making pressed glass parts

Machine for making pressed glass parts with a surface for joining with a further glass part, and more particularly for making cups and stems, with a rotatable table (4) having several stations with one bottom plate (31) each with at least one centering means (37) for an exchangeably mountable mold (3, 3a), with one lift drive (61) each rotating with the machine table for a rod (25), said rod coacting with the said mold and forming the said joining surface and being slightly lowerable after the forming, with a first vertical guidance means (8) for the said lift drive mounted together with the latter in the said machine table and with a thereabove lying second vertical guidance means (20) for said rod mounted in the bottom plate (31), and with a means (23/24) for setting the vertical distance between rod and lift drive, said machine being characterized in that the first vertical guidance element (8) is mounted over its entire length underneath an upper boundary surface (5) of machine table (4) and inside the latter, and in that the bottom plate (31) with the second vertical guidance element (20) is mounted on the said machine table directly.