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Glass container forming machine with a controller for controlling controllers

US5445662A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 9, 1993
Grant dateAug 29, 1995
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Expiry dateDec 9, 2013

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S65/13
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A cyclical machine for forming at least one glass container each machine cycle comprising a plurality of controllers for controlling regulators and/or profiled motion actuators, at least one displaceable structure, controllers controlling the operation of all the other controllers, each of the controllers including repetitive sequencer and operable in any of a plurality of states, the one controller determines the critical time when each of the states should begin, and instructs each of the other controllers to begin any of the states at the associated determined critical time.

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