Patents Assigned to Veba-Glas AG
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Patent number: 4608074Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a gob distributor of an IS or RIS machine for manufacturing hollow glass articles. The apparatus comprises a hydraulic drive, which is connectible to a position control device associated with the gob distributor, so as to move the distributor in oscillating or swinging motions. The hydraulic drive is controlled by a valve which, in turn, is actuated by a computer unit. The electronic arrangement of the apparatus includes an adapter, a digital-analog converter operatively connectible between the valve and the adapter, a parallel interface and connectible to the latter, a computer, a memory, and a synchronizer. The apparatus affords swift, precise, and controlled deposition of a glass gob which leads to the production of a parison in glass article manufacture.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 1984Date of Patent: August 26, 1986Assignee: VEBA-GLAS AGInventors: Werner-Dieter Knoth, Helmut Hullen, Klaus Kopatz
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Patent number: 4578099Abstract: Hollow glassware is made in a method wherein a necking shear is displaceable between one end position blocking one end of a passage of a preform mold and another end position at a final mold and a liquid is sprayed into the other end of the passage of the preform mold. In addition the necking shear is temporarily retained in an intermediate position between the two molds and simultaneously the liquid is sprayed into the passage. This passage is upright and the one end is below the other end. Thus a pocket of air that would prevent the mist from settling in the passage is not created, and the passage can be effectively wetted even by a relatively small volume of liquid. A bottom-blowing unit constituted as a vertically displaceable plug is provided below the preform mold. This plug is raised once the gob is in place and during top blowing to form the initial hollow in it and is shielded during spraying of the liquid into the passage.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 1984Date of Patent: March 25, 1986Assignee: Veba-Glas AGInventors: Jochen Hubner, Werner-Dieter Knoth, Helmut Hullen
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Patent number: 4529627Abstract: Dry air is passed as a carrier gas through a supply vessel containing titanium chloride at a pressure between 0.1 and 3 bar, the resulting reaction mixture being admitted through nozzles into a tunnel traversed by hot glass containers whose mouths project into a mouth compartment of the tunnel which is separately evacuated so that, as titanium oxide is formed on the glass surfaces, the mouths of the containers can remain free of the deposit.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 1983Date of Patent: July 16, 1985Assignee: Veba-Glas AGInventor: Jurgen Zurbig
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Patent number: 4475938Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting device for the sectioning of a liquid glass strand into individual fragment (gobs) to be further processed into hollow glass articles. In order to achieve a trouble-free cutting process as well as a relatively small mass of the parts moved during the cutting, combined with an increase in the production rate, the invention proposes a cutting device having a housing (2) in which a cutting unit (3) is formed by several partially overlapping cutting elements (4) disposed around the glass strand (5) which are rotatably journaled at one of their ends and connected to the planet gears 7 of a planetary gearing whose outer ring gear (8) is connected with a drive. The cutting edges of the cutting elements (4) are of curved shape.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 1982Date of Patent: October 9, 1984Assignee: Veba-Glas AGInventor: Werner D. Knoth
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Patent number: 4473389Abstract: A feeding device has the object to ensure the supply of a continuously flowing glass strand and to divide it into predetermined gobs thus establishing the weight of the individual gob and thereafter to proceed with the final sectioning. It is known to activate the drives of the moving mechanical parts of such a feeding device by compressed air. Because of the compressibility of the air, and depending, among others, on the length of the piping, its clear cross section and the prevailing air pressure, an accurate control is not possible, especially when the masses to be moved are large. In order to avoid these disadvantages, the invention makes use of hydraulic piston units for the drive of the translatory movement of the stopper and of the pipe and the use of a hydraulic rotary piston for the rotational movement of the cutting device. The turning movement of the pipe is achieved through a hydraulic rotary piston.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 1982Date of Patent: September 25, 1984Assignee: Veba-Glas AGInventors: Werner-Dieter Knoth, Helmut Hullen, Klaus Kopatz
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Patent number: 4343644Abstract: An apparatus for making hollow glassware has at least one preform provided adjacent a turntable rotatable about an upright axis and carrying at least two angularly spaced final molds. The turntable can rotate about this axis so as to orbit the final molds through a transfer position close to the perform and a takeout position angularly offset from the transfer position and remote from the preform. At least one arm is provided above the turntable and final molds and carries at least two respective mold heads. This arm is pivotal about the axis with the mold heads being vertically alignable and engageable with the respective final molds. The arm and mold heads can be pivoted about the axis independently of the turntable and a source of air at a pressure different from ambient is connected to the mold heads through the arm.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 1980Date of Patent: August 10, 1982Assignee: Veba-Glas AGInventors: Helmut Hullen, Werner-Dieter Knoth