Process and device for pushing hollow glass objects from a glass forming machine onto a conveyor belt

US7913518B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Heye International GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Dirk Winkelhake · Kassel, DE
• Hermann Bogert · Auetal, DE
• Siegfried Schwarzer · Oberasbach, DE
• Michael Hoffmann · Gablingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 28, 2005
• Grant date: Mar 29, 2011
• Expiry date: May 19, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G2201/0244
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A process and a device for pushing hollow glass objects off a glass forming machine onto a moving conveyor belt are disclosed. Each hollow glass object is pushed by a push-off unit from a dead plate along a curved path onto the conveyor belt in such a way that the curved path is brought tangentially to a contact point in a movement direction of the conveyor belt. Subsequent to the contact point each hollow glass object is pushed further by the push-off unit by a further linear path portion in the movement direction of the conveyor belt as far as a release point at which the push-off unit is released from the hollow glass object. The push-off unit is then moved back to dead plate.