Abstract: A gob distributor has an outlet from which issues a gob that is fed via a channel arrangement to a mold having an upwardly open inlet mouth. The channel arrangement has a central trough having an inlet adjacent and aligned with the distributor outlet and an outlet. This central trough extends downward from its inlet to its outlet. A deflecting trough has a generally straight upstream portion with an upper inlet aligned with the central-trough outlet and a downwardly directed lower outlet centered on a generally vertical axis and an upright downstream portion having a funnel-shaped and downwardly tapering passage also centered on the generally vertical axis and having an upper upstream end aligned with the upstream-portion outlet and a lower downstream end aligned with the mold mouth. An adjuster is connected to a hanger for displacing the downstream portion relative to the upstream portion to align the downstream-portion downstream end exactly with the mold mouth.

Abstract: A cooling system for at least one mold of a IS type machine for the production of hollow glass articles has a connecting casing connected on the intake side to a cooling air supply pipe and on the outlet side to the axial cooling passages of the mold when the mold is closed and traversed by a vacuum pipe leading outwards from the bottom of the mold. In order to create such a cooling system wherein the conditions at the station enclosure cooling unit have no influence upon the cooling air action in the connecting casing, and thereby on the mold cooling of the IS type machine, the cooling air supply pipe of the connecting casing is connected directly with a cooling supply source of the IS type machine.