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7516628 |
On-line thickness gauge and method for measuring the thickness of a moving glass substrate
An on-line thickness gauge (OLTG) and method are described herein that are capable of measuring a thickness of a moving glass substrate. In the preferred embodiment, the OLTG includes a Y-guide and...
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7461523 |
Apparatus for contactless measurement of the temperature in a melting furnace
The invention relates to an apparatus for contactless temperature measurement of a melting charge located in a melting crucible 2 inside a melting furnace, in particular a furnace for precision...
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7430880 |
Pull roll assembly for drawing a glass sheet
A pull roll assembly is described herein that is used to draw a glass sheet. The pull roll assembly includes a first roll assembly, a second roll assembly and a device (e.g., differential drive,...
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7350379 |
Quality control method and quality control apparatus for glass gob in the formation of a glass product
The present invention provides a quality control method and a quality control apparatus for use in the formation of a glass product. A feeder mechanism cuts a column-like molten glass pushed out...
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7216511 |
Furnace apparatus and method for tempering low emissivity glass
A glass tempering furnace having a chamber, rollers extending laterally within a chamber to form a transport surface for the plate glass, radiant coils positioned along the bottom of the chamber...
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7073352 |
Method and a machine for the production of hollow glassware articles
A method and a machine for the production of hollow glassware articles, by the blow-and-blow, press-and-blow, press-and-blow paste mold and direct-press processes in a glassware forming machine...
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7024887 |
Method and a machine for the production of hollow glassware articles
A method and a machine for the production of hollow glassware articles, by the blow-and-blow, press-and-blow, press-and-blow paste mold and direct-press processes in a glassware forming machine...
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7017373 |
Glassware forming machine control system
A glassware forming machine system includes a glassware forming machine having first operating mechanisms for converting gobs of molten glass into articles of glassware, a gob delivery system...
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7000429 |
Roller table for carrying and transporting a hot glass band
A roller table for supporting and transporting a hot glass strand. A plurality of rollers arranged parallel to each other and perpendicular to the transport direction of the glass strand are...
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6983623 |
Valve block assembly for I.S. glassware machine and modular pilot valve operated poppet valve assembly
A valve block assembly includes a cartridge block and a plurality of modular pilot valve operated poppet valve assemblies. The cartridge block has a plurality of bores therein dimensioned and...
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6904332 |
Supervisor for a hollow glassware production line
The supervisor is connected to at least one hollow glassware production line including a plurality of controlled moving members, and is defined by a line agent unit generating a virtual image of...
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6857291 |
Glass container forming machine
A blow mold assembly for an I.S. machine for blowing a parison of glass and cooling the blown parison into a formed bottle which can be removed from the blow mold. A blow head is lowered onto a...
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6848271 |
Automated method and device for manufacturing a glass blown object
The invention concerns an automated method for producing a blown glass body, in particular a glass wall of an electrochemical sensor, wherein an immersion tube ( 10 ), through which air or gas can...
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6807827 |
Glass container forming machine
A parison is blown in the blow mold of an I.S. machine and a control determines the time of the event by defining a local minimum in the pressure vs. time plot.
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6796147 |
Apparatus for controlling glass melting and/or refining furnaces
An analysis and control device for glass furnaces is of the fuzzy-controller type and uses a control algorithm which receives information relating to the operation of the furnace coming from...
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6796144 |
System and method for glass processing and temperature sensing
Techniques for measuring the temperature at various locations through the thickness of glass products and to control the glass processing operation with the sensed temperature information are...
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6758065 |
Apparatus for centering a glass flow control tube
An apparatus for indicating concentricity of a rotatable glass flow control tube with respect to its axis of rotation on a tube support frame in a glassware forming system includes a base for...
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6743998 |
Method and apparatus for inspection of hot glass containers
An opposed pair of inwardly facing radiant energy detecting sensors ( 20, 22 ) is positioned to sight on freshly formed glass containers (C) being conveyed on a side by side pair of conveyors ( 12,...
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6715317 |
Process and apparatus for the production of a cylindrical component of glass
A glass composition to be softened is fed to a heating zone and is shaped continuously into a cylindrical component in a deformation zone, and the cross-sectional geometry of the component is...
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6701748 |
Glassware machine
A glassware machine having a glassware mold and a movable plunger positioned adjacent to the glassware mold for pressing a glass gob in the glassware mold to form a glassware article. The glassware...
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6698241 |
Method and device for pressing a gob
Method and apparatus for pressing a parison. A parison mold is composed of neck tool halves and parison mold halves. A gob of molten glass had first been introduced through an upper loading orifice...
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6584805 |
Hot bottle inspection apparatus
A glass bottle production line comprising a bottle mold which has a plurality of mold cavities arranged in a predetermined order for forming bottles from glass parisons and for transferring the...
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6571581 |
Contactless extrusion apparatus
An extrusion system for producing a desired extrusion profile on a continuously moving work piece has a die containing two or more pressurized fluid extrusion cells therein, through which the work...
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6568218 |
Apparatus for shaping glass tubes
Apparatus for shaping a selected end region and the opening at a selected end of a hollow cylindrical glass tube includes a support member for holding and rotating the tube in a controlled manner...
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6546755 |
Device for pressing two mold portions together and controlling an internal pressure so as to create a hollow cone
A method and device for the manufacture of a hollow cone ( 37 ) with a cone tip ( 31 ) whereby a parison of viscous material ( 35 ) is moulded into the shape of the hollow cone. An escape space (...
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6497119 |
Method for producing glass goblets, tumblers and similar hollow glasses, and corresponding device for carrying out said method
A device and process for forming hollow glassware comprising producing solid glass blanks in a manufacturing line, storing the blanks, feeding the blanks to a manufacturing line for forming hollow...
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6477862 |
Monitoring gob diameter in a glassware forming system
A glassware manufacturing system includes at least one blank mold and a loading funnel for feeding molten glass gobs in sequence into the blank mold. A temperature sensor is operatively coupled to...
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6466366 |
Microscope with end plate and adapter for viewing multi-fiber connectors
The portable microscope includes an end plate and pivotable adapter for improved inspection of multiple fiber optic cables in a single connector. The end plate is mounted on the head unit housing...
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6460377 |
Method and apparatus for testing dual-stage blowheads
Apparatus for testing air flow through a dual-stage blowhead that includes an adapter block with a blowhead cup for releasably receiving a dual-stage blowhead. The adapter block has a first block...
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6237368 |
Process for the regulating or controlling the NOx content of exhaust gases given off during the operating of glass melting furnaces with several burners run alternately
A method for regulating or controlling the content of NO x in the exhaust gases of a glass-melting furnace having several burners operated in alternation, wherein both the beginning and the end of...
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6212909 |
Synchronization of individual section machine operation to gob feed in a glassware forming system
An individual section (IS) machine glassware forming system includes an individual section machine with a plurality of individual sections for receiving gobs of molten glass and forming the gobs...
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6185829 |
Device for measuring the position of the plunger in a glassware forming machine
A sensor structured as a two-part oscillator is employed in a device for measuring the position of a movable operating member of a machine, such as a plunger in a glassware forming machine. The...
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6085552 |
Aligning fixture for mold opening and closing mechanism
A mold opening and closing mechanism includes an aligning mechanism which has a horizontal mounting plate including a number of vertical openings for the number of molds, that is supported by a...
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6079226 |
Method of forming a glass parison
A hollow glass parison is formed by pressing a gob of molten glass in a mold cavity with a plunger which is moved in a linear direction by a leadscrew which is connected to the plunger and is...
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6009727 |
Mold opening and closing mechanism for an I.S. machine
Opposed mold supports of a mold opening and closing mechanism are driven by electronic motors between retracted and advanced positions. The motors are electronically geared together and follow a...
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5944863 |
Apparatus for controlling flow of casing glass in a cased glass stream
Apparatus for forming a cased glass stream having an inner core glass surrounded by an outer casing glass includes a first orifice for receiving core glass from a first source. A second orifice is...
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5938807 |
Method for manufacturing press-molded glass object and apparatus therefor
In press molding, a shaft (metal mold 13) is moved by positional or torque control to cause upper and lower molds to reach a set position slightly before a position where the upper and lower molds...
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5935285 |
Method for inspecting manufactured articles
A method is disclosed for detecting the cycling of a manufacturing machine, such as a bottle manufacturing machine, without the need for a mechanical detection device. An imaging device, which may...
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5928399 |
Apparatus for manufacturing an image display apparatus using bonding agents
An apparatus for manufacturing a chamber, the chamber including first and second glass substrates and an enclosure arranged between the substrates or an enclosure and at least one spacer arranged...
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5925159 |
Process for determining the weight of free-falling molten glass gobs
A process for determining a weight of free-falling molten glass gobs has the steps of providing an electromagnetic alternating field, passing a glass gob through the electromagnetic alternating...
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5917104 |
Method for detecting and adjusting the position of a burner during the annealing process of a glass sheet
A method for automatically detecting and adjusting the position of a plurality of burners with respect to the edge of a continuous glass sheet is provided. The glass sheet is transported by rolls...
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5908483 |
Apparatus and process for molding of glass
A press head drive cylinder control having a force sensing, force signal providing load cell on the drive cylinder of a glass molding press. The glass molding press having a base, a mold table...
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5873675 |
Method for hazardous waste vitrification
Apparatus (10) and a method for vitrifying hazardous waste includes a melting vessel (12) in which hazardous waste and any other necessary components for forming a glassy mixture upon heating are...
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5846282 |
Invert and neck ring holder mechanism for an I.S. machine
An invert and neck ring holder mechanism having an opposed pair of neck ring holders displaceable from a blow station to a blank station of a section of an I.S. machine. The invert and neck ring...
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5843201 |
Invert and neck ring holder mechanism for an I.S. machine
An invert and neck ring holder mechanism for displacing a parison from a blank station to a blow station. The invert and neck ring holder mechanism has an opposed pair of side brackets, a worm gear...
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5843199 |
Method and device for fire-polishing a lengthwise extended glass body
During the fire-polishing of a lengthwise extended glass body (3), for example a preform for drawing optical fibers, the glass body (3) is held by a holding device (5, 7), and is heated by a burner...
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5841524 |
Compact device for monitoring the coating of a moving filamentary product
An apparatus for monitoring a moving filamentary product having a device for monitoring the centering of the filamentary product relative to the coating, and a device for monitoring the quality of...
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5800590 |
Plunger assembly
Controlled movement of the pneumatically operated plunger in the narrow neck press and blow process of manufacture of glass containers is achieved by use of a pressure regulating valve in the air...
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5795364 |
Reburning glass furnace for insuring adequate mixing of gases to reduce NO.sub.x emissions
A mixing method insures adequate mixing of gases in a glass furnace that employs a reburning process. Because of the mixing method, a novel glass furnace can be constructed that strikes an optimum...
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5779749 |
Generation of needle motion profile in an individual section glassware forming system
In an individual section glassware forming system that includes a plurality of operating mechanisms for performing cyclic motions, an electronic controller for controlling cyclic motion at a needle...
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