Angled blank glass feed apparatus, system, and method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11407669-B2
Application number	US-201916555713-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 29, 2019
Priority date	Aug 29, 2019
Publication date	Aug 9, 2022
Grant date	Aug 9, 2022

Abstract

A glass blank feeding apparatus, system, and method for feeding a glass gob to an angled blank mold are disclosed. The glass blank feeding apparatus includes at least one scoop configured to receive a glass gob along a vertical axis from a gob feeder and a blank mold aligned along a longitudinal axis at a non-zero angle from the vertical axis, where the blank mold is configured to receive the glass gob directly from the at least one scoop along the longitudinal axis.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A system, comprising:
a gob feeder;
an angled glass blank feeding apparatus including at least one scoop configured to receive along a vertical axis from the gob feeder;
at least one blank mold aligned along a longitudinal axis at a non-zero angle from the vertical axis, where the at least one blank mold is configured to receive the glass gob directly from the at least one scoop along the longitudinal axis and is carried by an upper rotary table, and where a lower rotary table including at least one blow mold configured to form the glass gob into a parison; and
a lower rotary table including at least one blow mold configured to receive the parison from the blank mold.

2. The system in claim 1 , further comprising: a controller coupled to at least one of the gob feeder, the upper rotary table, or the lower rotary table.

3. An angled glass blank feeding apparatus, comprising:
at least one scoop configured to receive a glass gob along a vertical axis from a gob feeder; and
a blank mold aligned along a longitudinal axis at a non-zero angle from the vertical axis, the blank mold is configured to receive the glass gob directly from the at least one scoop along the longitudinal axis and the blank mold is further configured to form the glass gob into a parison, wherein the blank mold includes circumferentially complete side walls aligned along the longitudinal axis, the side walls extending from a baffle end of the blank mold.

4. A system, comprising:
a gob feeder;
an angled glass blank feeding apparatus including at least one scoop configured to receive a glass gob along a vertical axis from the gob feeder; and
at least one blank mold aligned along a longitudinal axis at a non-zero angle from the vertical axis, where the at least one blank mold is configured to receive the glass gob directly from the at least one scoop along the longitudinal axis and is carried by an upper rotary table, and where the blank mold is configured to form the glass gob into a parison, wherein the upper rotary table includes a baffle.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein the baffle includes a closing body configured to close the blank mold during parison forming.

Assignees

• Owens Brockway Glass Container

Inventors

• Kerr Karen
• Flynn Robin L

Classifications

• C03B9/195

  Rotary-table machines · CPC title

• C03B9/13

  in gob feeder machines (C03B9/28, C03B9/29 take precedence) · CPC title

• C03B9/197

  Construction of the blank mould · CPC title

• C03B9/19

  having only one rotary table · CPC title

• C03B7/14 Primary

  Transferring molten glass or gobs to glass blowing or pressing machines (C03B7/18 - C03B7/22 take precedence) · CPC title