Apparatus for severing gobs from glass strands

US6289696A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The Firm Herman Heye · DE

Inventors

• Hermann Bogert · Auetal, DE
• Gerhard Geisel · Bückeburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 7, 1996
• Grant date: Sep 18, 2001
• Expiry date: Mar 7, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T83/8805
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In an apparatus (1) for the severing of gobs from one or more strands (2;3) of molten glass, the severing of each gob is effected by a shear blade pair (5;6). A shear blade (7,8;9,10) of each shear blade pair is arranged on an associated, pivotably mounted shear arm (11;12). The two shear arms (11;12) are coaxially and freely pivotably mounted relative to each other on a common column (13). Each shear arm is pivotably drivable synchronously in relation to the other by its own separate drive means (24;25).