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7578144 |
Method for minimizing refractory metal inclusions in a glass stirring operation
A method of a stirring a molten glass which includes an analytical model which may be used to optimize the stirring conditions to minimize refractory metal inclusions which may result from the...
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7489983 |
Control for an I.S. machine
A control for a glass forming machine is disclosed which receives as an input the event angles used to control the machines operation. These event angles, which define the time in a cycle when each...
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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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7342376 |
Glass machinery motor control
A machine for operating on a glass bottle. A carriage is displaceable by a servo motor having three lead lines. The rotation of the servo motor is stopped when power has been removed by shorting...
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7290406 |
I.S. machine
An I.S. Machine is disclosed which includes a structure displaceable from a start location to an end location and a motor for displacing that structure. A control controls the operation of the...
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7059155 |
Method of bending glass
A method of bending glass, in which glass ( 5 ) is heated in a bending furnace ( 1 ). After the heating, the glass ( 5 ) is transferred onto a mold ( 7 ). The glass-bending mold ( 7 ) is at at...
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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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6854292 |
Glass container forming machine
A takeout mechanism for an I.S. machine grips a formed bottle at the blow station and carries the bottle to a first position spaced above a deadplate. The bottle is held at this position for a...
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6705119 |
Control for an I. S. machine
A control for defining data for setting the times for controlled events in a glass forming machine which is controlled by a programmable sequencer which defines the time of a machine cycle. A...
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6470711 |
Furnace for heat treatments of glass sheets
A furnace particularly for heat treatments of glass sheets, comprising a longitudinally-elongated chamber which contains roller conveyor elements for the glass sheets. The furnace comprises...
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6442978 |
Apparatus for sintering a porous glass base material and a method therefor
Apparatus ( 700 ) for sintering a glass base material ( 2 ) which is a base material for an optical fiber. The sintering apparatus ( 700 ) includes: a control unit which varies a condition for...
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6250109 |
Method of continuously producing vitreous blast furnace slag
The invention relates to a process for continuously producing a glassy or vitrified blast furnace slag, in which the slag is applied onto a cooling roll or onto articulately interlinked cooling...
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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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6131412 |
Adjusting temperature of glass sheets in tempering furnace
A method and equipment for adjusting the temperature of glass sheets in a tempering furnace. The tempering furnace (1) comprises rollers (3) for conveying and oscillating the glass sheets (4)...
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5904745 |
Generation of sweepout motion profile in an individual section glassware forming system
In an individual section (IS) glassware forming system that includes a plurality of operating mechanisms for performing cyclic motions, an electronic controller for controlling cyclic motion of at...
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5902367 |
Method for transferring mould-carrying wagons for glass sheets in a bending furnace for glass sheets and bending furnace for glass sheets
A method for transferring mould-carrying wagons in a bending furnace for glass sheets as well as to a bending furnace for glass sheets, comprising preheating stations (1.3, 1.4, 1.5) and more than...
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5766292 |
Method and apparatus for making wide mouth hollow glass articles
A method and apparatus for forming a hollow glass article comprises delivering a gob of glass to a blank mold, providing a first neck ring to a position adjacent the blank mold, forming the gob in...
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5716425 |
Control system for glass bending platen
A closed loop control system for a hydraulically actuated glass sheet press bending platen. Flow of fluid supplied to the cylinder operating the press platen is controlled through a servo solenoid...
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5652490 |
Control system for glassware forming machine
A control system for controlling displacement of a member in a glassware forming machine. A pneumatic piston drives the member and is controlled by a computer which defines a motion profile. The...
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5588978 |
Process and apparatus for coloring glass
A method and apparatus for the production of colored glass includes the steps of diverting a stream of clear molten glass from at least one glass melting furnace through one or more transport...
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5527371 |
Method and apparatus for manufacturing glass bottles
The problem of unevenness of bottle temperatures at the entry of slow annealing furnace due to the variation of time periods necessary for respective bottles discharged from an IS bottle...
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5501717 |
Method and furnace apparatus for bending and tempering a glass sheet supported on a ring mould
The invention relates to a method and furnace apparatus for bending and tempering glass sheets. A glass sheet is supported on the same outline mold throughout the entire handling process. A bending...
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5486221 |
Shear mechanism for glass forming machine
Opposed shear assemblies are conjointly driven via a rack and pinion assembly by a servo motor which follows a displacement profile. When the cycle rate exceeds a selected limit the profile is...
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5485388 |
Computered system of rotative action for the synchronic motion of products in a manufacture line
A computerized system for the continuous manufactured of individual elements, notably glass containers, is disclosed. A pulse sensor which emits one pulse per cycle is connected to an asynchronous...
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5445662 |
Glass container forming machine with a controller for controlling controllers
A cyclical machine for forming at least one glass container each machine cycle comprising a plurality of controllers for controlling regulators and/or profiled motion actuators, at least one...
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5425794 |
Pneumatic position controller for I.S. machine mechanism
A machine for forming glass containers from discrete gobs of molten glass comprising a mechanism displaceable between retracted and advanced position. A pneumatic actuator having upper and lower...
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5324339 |
Method for monitoring the performance of a glass container forming machine
A method of collecting data to indicate certain internal conditions during the function of a glass container forming machine, and apparatus for the practice of the method including sensing devices...
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5314517 |
Method controlling the draw rate in the drawing of a glass feedstock
A method for drawing glass objects from glass feedstock, wherein a dimension of the glass object is measured on-line and controlled by a control structure which compensates for the deadtime between...
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5271756 |
Machine for forming glass containers
An I.S. machine is made up of a plurality of independent individual sections for receiving gobs of molten glass and for forming the gobs into glass containers. A gob distributor delivers gobs to...
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5266093 |
Glass bottle forming machine
There is provided a plunger position detector for detecting a linear position of a plunger used for forming a parison over the entire range of moving of the plunger. Since there is correlation...
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5188651 |
Method and apparatus for heat treating glass sheets
A system is provided for heating and thermally conditioning glass sheets, wherein sheets are conveyed individually or in groups or loads through a tunnel-type heating furnace and thermal...
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5125499 |
Article transfer mechanism
An article transfer mechanism for use with an I.S. glassware forming machine includes a pusher arm having fingers for engaging a number of glassware articles formed by the I.S. machine, the pusher...
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5122179 |
Glassware making machine
An H-28 machine is a glassware making machine having a plurality of glass making sections which rotate about a vertical axle. The complete process takes one revolution. Individual section...
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5114454 |
Bending furnace for glazings
A bending furnace for glazings comprises several heating cells, a station for bending by pressing, at least one cooling cell and a system for intermittent transport of glazings. The glazings are...
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5098458 |
Article transfer mechanism
Plural article transfer mechanisms are operated in timed sequence by an electronic control synchronized to a main drive shaft. Each article transfer mechanism transfers articles from a dead plate...
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5073179 |
Method for controlling fiber diameter during optical fiber drawing process
There is provided a drawing process for producing an optical fiber which comprises drawing the optical fiber from a preform therefor under tension to form the optical fiber while heating and...
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5041152 |
Apparatus for bending tubular glass
A glass tube bending apparatus according to the present invention includes a drum for bending a heated/softened glass tube into a circular shape, a first driving device, coupled to the drum, for...
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5022907 |
Apparatus for bending glass panes in a horizontal position
In an installation for bending glass panes, the glass panes are heated to bending temperature in a horizontal once-through furnace. At the end of the once-through furnace, they are taken over by an...
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4979974 |
Method and apparatus for positioning of a glass sheet travelling on a conveyor
For positioning a glass sheet moving on a conveyor, two substantially identical assemblies are positioned on opposite lateral sides of the conveyor. Each of the assemblies includes an arm carrying...
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4976766 |
Device for positioning heated glass sheets without deformation
In a substantially horizontal conveyor or conveying heated glass sheets, a positioning device for aligning the sheets in a direction transverse to the conveying direction. It includes thrust rods...
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4952227 |
Apparatus for processing glass
An apparatus for processing glass sheets includes a furnace and a bending station traversed by a conveyor for carrying the glass sheets. A plurality of heaters mounted in the furnace each heat...
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4946491 |
Method and apparatus for glass tempering
An improved glass tempering apparatus and method is disclosed. A glass sheet is quenched by heating the glass sheet and horizontally transferring the sheet on a roller conveyor into a quenching...
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4915722 |
Process and apparatus for manufacturing a curved sheet of glass
A process for bending a glass sheet, in particular one for motor vehicles, with curved areas having small radii of curvature. The bending device used is a bending press having a male type mold and...
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4816057 |
Glass press forming machine
The individual needles of a glass feeder mechanism which control the volume of the streams of molten glass sheared into discrete gobs are displaceable to adjust the size of the sheared gobs. The...
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4816055 |
Method of and apparatus for carrying glass sheets during heating and tempering
The invention relates to a method of carrying glass sheets during heating and tempering as well as to a tempering apparatus for glass sheets, in which the method is applied. During heating, glass...
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4813994 |
Straight line glass gob shear
This relates to improvements in drives for shears, particularly shears for severing gobs from a glass runner. All of the drives incorporate a drive pinion for reciprocating racks which are secured...
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4799947 |
Apparatus for carrying bottles in bottle making machine
An apparatus for carrying bottles, having a pusher for moving the bottles and a servomotor for reciprocally rotating the pusher within a predetermined angular displacement, comprising means for...
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4783746 |
Method and apparatus for optimizing the velocity of mechanisms and cycle time in glassware forming machines
In glassware article forming machines such as the well known I.S. machine, sensors continuously detect the velocity of operation of each individual mechanism of the machine in order to derive a...
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4782449 |
Position controller for glass sheet processing system
A position controller for a glass sheet processing system having a central control system including an operator interface and a master computer, the position controller including a slave computer,...
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4776871 |
Shear blade lockout in an individual section glass machine
An electronics package for automatically inhibiting operation of the shear blades of an individual section glass machine is responsive to periodic signals from an encoder disc indicative of timing...
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