Patents by Inventor Evelino Zanella

Evelino Zanella has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9656898
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a hollow glass product using an I.S. machine and a robot that can move alongside blank molds of the I.S. machine, wherein the robot is capable of replacing one or more blank molds, section after section. The I.S. machine for manufacturing hollow glass products includes a robot that can move alongside the blank molds, and the robot is capable of carrying plural tools having different functions, simultaneously and/or alternately, chosen from an electromagnet, and/or a spray tube for greasing by spraying, and/or an optical pyrometer, an infrared or equivalent viewing port, and/or a rotary abrasive tool, and/or a camera or equivalent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN EMBALLAGE
    Inventors: Samuele Ghione, Evelino Zanella
  • Patent number: 8375743
    Abstract: The invention relates to: a process for manufacturing a hollow glass product (30) employing at least one mold comprising two mold halves (100, 200) closed up at one end on a ring mold (300) and closed off at the other end by a top, which process includes the greasing of at least one of said molds in the closed-up position of said mold halves (100, 200) on said ring mold (300), but said top not closing up said other end, characterized in that the greasing includes a spraying by a spray tube (4) moving in the cavity of the mold and in that the spray tube (4) is carried by a robot (1) that can move alongside the blank mold of an IS machine a device for implementing this process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Emballage
    Inventors: Evelino Zanella, Samuele Ghione
  • Publication number: 20110296874
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a hollow glass product using an I.S. machine and a robot that can move alongside blank molds of the I.S. machine, wherein the robot is capable of replacing one or more blank molds, section after section. The I.S. machine for manufacturing hollow glass products includes a robot that can move alongside the blank molds, and the robot is capable of carrying plural tools having different functions, simultaneously and/or alternately, chosen from an electromagnet, and/or a spray tube for greasing by spraying, and/or an optical pyrometer, an infrared or equivalent viewing port, and/or a rotary abrasive tool, and/or a camera or equivalent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN EMBALLAGE
    Inventors: Samuele Ghione, Evelino Zanella
  • Publication number: 20090173105
    Abstract: The invention relates to: a process for manufacturing a hollow glass product (30) employing at least one mold comprising two mold halves (100, 200) closed up at one end on a ring mold (300) and closed off at the other end by a top, which process includes the greasing of at least one of said molds in the closed-up position of said mold halves (100, 200) on said ring mold (300), but said top not closing up said other end, characterized in that the greasing includes a spraying by a spray tube (4) moving in the cavity of the mold and in that the spray tube (4) is carried by a robot (1) that can move alongside the blank mold of an IS machine a device for implementing this process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN EMBALLAGE
    Inventors: Evelino Zanella, Samuele Ghione