Delivery apparatus for a glassware forming machine

US5846283A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Hermann Heye

Inventors

• Manfred Struckmeier · Oberkirchen, DE
• Andreas Graefe · Bückeburg, DE
• Eckhard Moller · Marl, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 7, 1995
• Grant date: Dec 8, 1998
• Expiry date: Jun 7, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C03B7/16
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

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.