Delivery apparatus for a glassware forming machine
AssigneeThe Firm Hermann Heye
InventorsManfred Struckmeier, Andreas Graefe, Eckhard Moller
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Abstract
Gobs of molten glass fall in succession into a scoop which can be swivelled about a vertical axis and which supplies gobs to a delivery system, for example, of an I.S. glassware forming machine. The gobs travel along a path of movement from the scoop to a trough in free flight and to a deflector which is downwardly curved. The deflector delivers the gobs so that their longitudinal axis lies coaxially with respect to the longitudinal axis of a mold which is to be charged. The trough has its upper end supported by means of a universal joint. The lower end of the trough is guided in a vertical chute of the deflector and can be raised and lowered by means of an adjustment device.
Claims22
A delivery apparatus for transporting gobs of molten glass from a gob feeder into molds of a glassware forming machine, comprising:
- a curved scoop for catching the gobs coming from the gob feeder and directing the gobs downwards at an angle;
- a trough which is approximately linear and downward sloping, said trough having an upper end for receiving the gobs and a lower end, and said trough being mountable in an articulated manner relative to the glassware forming machine at the trough upper end;
- an adjustment device for raising and lowering the lower end of said trough;
- a curved deflector for deflecting the gobs coming from the lower end of said trough to a downwards path coaxial with a longitudinal axis of a mold, said deflector having a chute at an upper end of said deflector;
- wherein the lower end of said trough extends into said chute with freedom for movement in a vertical plane and secured against rotation about its longitudinal axis;
- a setting device for adjusting said deflector in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the mold;
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- wherein said trough is mountable to the glassware forming machine by a universal joint.
A delivery apparatus for transporting a gob of molten glass from a gob feeder to a mold, comprising:
- a curved scoop for catching the gob coming from the gob feeder and directing and gob downwards at an angle;
- a trough having an upper end for receiving the gob and a lower end, said trough being approximately linear and downward sloping, said upper end of said trough being mounted to said apparatus by a universal joint;
- an adjustment device for raising and lowering the lower end of said trough;
- a curved deflector for receiving the gob from said trough and deflecting the gob trough in a downwards path coaxial with a longitudinal axis of the mold, said deflector having a chute at an upper end of said deflector;
- wherein the lower end of said trough extends into said chute with freedom for movement in a vertical plane and secured against rotation about its longitudinal axis;
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- a setting device for adjusting said deflector in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the mold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.