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Apparatus for feeding articles into a lehr

US5992612A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 16, 1997
Grant dateNov 30, 1999
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Expiry dateJan 16, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB65G47/82
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus for intermittently feeding glass containers continuously approaching in a first plane in a first direction into an annealing lehr in a second direction in the first plane by a feed bar mounted for reciprocal movement in the second direction on a carriage suspended by support struts slidably connected to parallel guide rails disposed in a plane substantially normal to the first plane.

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