Abstract: An improved glassware article forming machine employing a hollow arm, one end of which is rigidly carried at the upper end of the vertical hollow shaft, the other end of each hollow arm being provided with a glassware article receiving chuck, and including mechanism for imparting vertical movement to the hollow shaft and associated arm, and mechanism for imparting oscillatory movement to the hollow shaft associated arm, and mechanism for supplying an adjustable amount of air through the hollow shaft and associated hollow arm for circulation into the chuck and about the hot glassware article received from a blow mold to provide an air cushion on which the glassware article will ride while providing cooling for said hot glassware article throughout its vertical and oscillatory movement to a takeout position.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 3, 1982
Date of Patent:
January 17, 1984
Assignee:
Vitro Tec Fideicomiso
Inventors:
Armando Cabrera-Montante, Jose J. Ogushi-Perez