Abstract: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for the automatic checkweighing of containers during the process of their manufacture, and particularly relates to the checkweighing of hot glass bottles during their transmit from a molding machine to a lehr where they are annealed.

Abstract: A system for spraying a coolant mist onto a part being machined, and including a container for holding a quantity of coolant liquid and having a distribution head to which the coolant liquid and compressed air or other gas to be used as a propellant are delivered separately, and from which the liquid and gas flow into a plurality of discharge hoses having separate nozzles for spraying the coolant onto a plurality of different work pieces. The distribution head preferably includes a centerpost into which the coolant and propellant gas flow, and a manifold body extending about the centerpost and having a plurality of outlets communicating with the different discharge hoses at different circularly spaced locations.