Heating lamp assembly
AssigneeConstar Plastics Inc.
InventorsMonroe S. Mitchell, Vinson A. Loos
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Abstract
An alignment assembly for aligning heating lamps in a heating lamp assembly intended for use in an oven of a blow molding machine, the heating lamp assembly having a chassis removably positionable in at least one preselected location in the machine and including a vertical array of generally horizontally disposed lamps held in position by a lamp holder coupled to each end of each lamp. The alignment assembly has a baseplate including a coupling for coupling the chassis to the baseplate. A pair of standards are coupled to another plate movable relative to the baseplate projecting upward therefrom for holding a vertical scale and a plurality of vertically positionable and horizontally reciprocable gages indicate the relative position of the lamp holders.
Claims8
A heating lamp assembly for use in an oven of a blow molding machine for heating plastic preforms prior to blow molding, the blow molding machine including means for advancing a stream of preforms along a defined path through the oven, the oven including a base situated at a fixed position with respect to the defined path and an enclosure fixed to the base enclosing a segment of the path to control the environment in the vicinity of the path segment, the heating lamp assembly comprising:
- a chassis removably positioned at a preselected location relative to the base, a pair of brackets fixed to the chassis, each bracket including a way vertically arranged relative to the path, a plurality of couplings coupled in the ways, each coupling being adjustably positionable vertically relative to the bracket to which it is coupled, a like plurality of arms, each arm being coupled to one of the couplings and horizontally adjustably positionable, and a lamp holder carried by each arm for holding a lamp adjacent to the path.
A heating lamp assembly for use in an oven of a blow molding machine for heating plastic preforms prior to blow molding, the blow molding machine including means for advancing a stream of preforms along a defined path through the oven, the oven including a base situated at a fixed position with respect to the defined path and an enclosure fixed to the base enclosing a segment of the path to control the environment in the vicinity of the path segment, the heating lamp assembly comprising:
- a chassis removably positioned at a preselected location relative to the base, a pair of brackets fixed to the chassis, each bracket including a way vertically arranged relative to the path, a plurality of couplings coupled in the ways, each coupling being adjustably positionable vertically relative to the bracket to which it is coupled, a like plurality of arms, each arm being coupled to one of the couplings and horizontally adjustably positionable, a lamp holder carried by each arm for holding a lamp adjacent to the path, an array of elongated heating lamps, each lamp connected at each end to one of the lamp holders, and a reflector clipped onto at least one of the elongated heating lamps.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.