Patents by Inventor Timothy A. Ringuette
Timothy A. Ringuette 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).
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Patent number: 9133051Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing strengthened glass containers, and more particularly the construction and operation of a cooling shroud in an apparatus for thermally strengthening glass containers in a glass container manufacturing line at a location intermediate the hot end and the cold end. Glass containers formed at an I. S. machine are conveyed through a special tempering Lehr that heats them uniformly to a high temperature that is short of temperatures at which they may become deformed. Subsequently, the glass containers are rapidly thermally strengthened in a cooling station in which the outer and inner surfaces including all areas of the glass containers are simultaneously cooled to a temperature below the Strain Point of the glass used in the glass containers, with the cooling shrouds being used to cool the outer surfaces of the glass containers.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2011Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: Emhart Glass S.A.Inventors: Steven J. Brown, Jarmo Kammonen, Kenneth L. Bratton, Timothy A. Ringuette, Pierre S. Lankeu Ngankeu
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Cooling tube mechanism operation in a post-manufacture glass container thermal strengthening station
Patent number: 8893528Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing strengthened glass containers, and more particularly the construction and operation of a cooling tube mechanism in an apparatus for thermally strengthening glass containers in a glass container manufacturing line at a location intermediate the hot end and the cold end. Glass containers formed at an I. S. machine are conveyed through a special tempering Lehr that heats them uniformly to a high temperature that is short of temperatures at which they may become deformed. Subsequently, the glass containers are rapidly thermally strengthened in a cooling station in which the outer and inner surfaces including all areas of the glass containers are simultaneously cooled to a temperature below the Strain Point of the glass used in the glass containers, with the cooling tube mechanism being used to cool the inner surfaces of the glass containers.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2011Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Emhart Glass S.A.Inventors: Timothy A. Ringuette, Steven J. Brown, Kenneth L. Bratton -
Patent number: 8839644Abstract: A method of manufacturing of strengthened glass containers, and more particularly a method of thermally strengthening glass containers in a glass container manufacturing line at a location intermediate the hot end and the cold end. Glass containers formed at an I. S. machine are conveyed through a special tempering Lehr that heats them uniformly to a high temperature that is short of temperatures at which they may become deformed. Subsequently, the glass containers are subjected to a unique rapid thermal strengthening cooling process in which the outer and inner surfaces including all areas of the glass containers are simultaneously cooled to a temperature below the Strain Point of the glass used in the glass containers.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2011Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Emhart Glass S.A.Inventors: Steven J. Brown, Timothy A. Ringuette, Kenneth L. Bratton, Steven J. Pinkerton, Matthew R. Hyre
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Patent number: 8833107Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing strengthened glass containers, and more particularly an apparatus for thermally strengthening glass containers in a glass container manufacturing line at a location intermediate the hot end and the cold end. Glass containers formed at an I. S. machine are conveyed through a special tempering Lehr that heats them uniformly to a high temperature that is short of temperatures at which they may become deformed. Subsequently, the glass containers are rapidly thermally strengthened in a cooling station in which the outer and inner surfaces including all areas of the glass containers are simultaneously cooled to a temperature below the Strain Point of the glass used in the glass containers.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2011Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Emhart Glass S.A.Inventors: Timothy A. Ringuette, Steven J. Brown, Kenneth L. Bratton
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Patent number: 8656742Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing strengthened glass containers, and more particularly the construction and operation of a bottom cooler in an apparatus for thermally strengthening glass containers in a glass container manufacturing line at a location intermediate the hot end and the cold end. Glass containers formed at an I.S. machine are conveyed through a special tempering Lehr that heats them uniformly to a high temperature that is short of temperatures at which they may become deformed. Subsequently, the glass containers are rapidly thermally strengthened in a cooling station in which the outer and inner surfaces including all areas of the glass containers are simultaneously cooled to a temperature below the Strain Point of the glass used in the glass containers, with the bottom coolers being used to cool the bottoms of the glass containers.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2011Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Emhart Glass S.A.Inventors: Robert J. Lockhart, Steven J. Brown, Timothy A. Ringuette
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Patent number: 8650908Abstract: A method of manufacturing of strengthened glass containers, and more particularly a method of thermally strengthening glass containers in a glass container manufacturing line while they are on a conveyor intermediate the hot end and the cold end. Glass containers formed at an I. S. machine are conveyed through a special tempering Lehr that heats them uniformly to a high temperature that is short of temperatures at which they may become deformed. Subsequently, the glass containers while being transported on a conveyor are subjected to a unique rapid thermal strengthening cooling process in which the outer and inner surfaces including all areas of the glass containers are simultaneously cooled to a temperature below the Strain Point of the glass used in the glass containers.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2011Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Emhart Glass S.A.Inventors: Steven J. Brown, Kenneth L. Bratton, Timothy A. Ringuette
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Patent number: 8117870Abstract: An improved and mechanically simplified blow head mechanism for blowing a parison and internally cooling the blown parison is disclosed which may be used with an I.S. machine to blow a parison to form a glass container and then internally cool the blown parison below the annealing point. The blow head mechanism has a cooling tube which supplies final blow and cooling air and which is raised or lowered by raising or lowering the blow head mechanism. The blow head mechanism supports a blow head with a pressurized cylinder which maintains the blow head in a position in engagement with the finish of a parison once initially lowered irrespective of the blow head mechanism being further lowered to lower the cooling tube into the blown parison.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2009Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Emhart Glass S.A.Inventor: Timothy A. Ringuette
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Cooling Tube Mechanism Operation in a Post-Manufacture Glass Container Thermal Strengthening Station
Publication number: 20110289978Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing strengthened glass containers, and more particularly the construction and operation of a cooling tube mechanism in an apparatus for thermally strengthening glass containers in a glass container manufacturing line at a location intermediate the hot end and the cold end. Glass containers formed at an I. S. machine are conveyed through a special tempering Lehr that heats them uniformly to a high temperature that is short of temperatures at which they may become deformed. Subsequently, the glass containers are rapidly thermally strengthened in a cooling station in which the outer and inner surfaces including all areas of the glass containers are simultaneously cooled to a temperature below the Strain Point of the glass used in the glass containers, with the cooling tube mechanism being used to cool the inner surfaces of the glass containers.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Inventors: Timothy A. Ringuette, Steven J. Brown, Kenneth L. Bratton -
Publication number: 20110289977Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing strengthened glass containers, and more particularly an apparatus for thermally strengthening glass containers in a glass container manufacturing line at a location intermediate the hot end and the cold end. Glass containers formed at an I. S. machine are conveyed through a special tempering Lehr that heats them uniformly to a high temperature that is short of temperatures at which they may become deformed. Subsequently, the glass containers are rapidly thermally strengthened in a cooling station in which the outer and inner surfaces including all areas of the glass containers are simultaneously cooled to a temperature below the Strain Point of the glass used in the glass containers.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Inventors: Timothy A. Ringuette, Steven J. Brown, Kenneth L. Bratton
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Publication number: 20110289973Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing strengthened glass containers, and more particularly the construction and operation of a bottom cooler in an apparatus for thermally strengthening glass containers in a glass container manufacturing line at a location intermediate the hot end and the cold end. Glass containers formed at an I. S. machine are conveyed through a special tempering Lehr that heats them uniformly to a high temperature that is short of temperatures at which they may become deformed. Subsequently, the glass containers are rapidly thermally strengthened in a cooling station in which the outer and inner surfaces including all areas of the glass containers are simultaneously cooled to a temperature below the Strain Point of the glass used in the glass containers, with the bottom coolers being used to cool the bottoms of the glass containers.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Inventors: Robert J. Lockhart, Steven J. Brown, Timothy A. Ringuette
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Publication number: 20110289975Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing strengthened glass containers, and more particularly the construction and operation of a cooling shroud in an apparatus for thermally strengthening glass containers in a glass container manufacturing line at a location intermediate the hot end and the cold end. Glass containers formed at an I. S. machine are conveyed through a special tempering Lehr that heats them uniformly to a high temperature that is short of temperatures at which they may become deformed. Subsequently, the glass containers are rapidly thermally strengthened in a cooling station in which the outer and inner surfaces including all areas of the glass containers are simultaneously cooled to a temperature below the Strain Point of the glass used in the glass containers, with the cooling shrouds being used to cool the outer surfaces of the glass containers.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Inventors: Steven J. Brown, Jarmo Kammonen, Kenneth L. Bratton, Timothy A. Ringuette, Pierre S. Lankeu Ngankeu
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Publication number: 20110289971Abstract: A method of manufacturing of strengthened glass containers, and more particularly a method of thermally strengthening glass containers in a glass container manufacturing line at a location intermediate the hot end and the cold end. Glass containers formed at an I. S. machine are conveyed through a special tempering Lehr that heats them uniformly to a high temperature that is short of temperatures at which they may become deformed. Subsequently, the glass containers are subjected to a unique rapid thermal strengthening cooling process in which the outer and inner surfaces including all areas of the glass containers are simultaneously cooled to a temperature below the Strain Point of the glass used in the glass containers.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Inventors: Steven J. Brown, Timothy A. Ringuette, Kenneth L. Brathon, Steven J. Pinkerton, Matthew R. Hyre
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Publication number: 20110289972Abstract: A method of manufacturing of strengthened glass containers, and more particularly a method of thermally strengthening glass containers in a glass container manufacturing line while they are on a conveyor intermediate the hot end and the cold end. Glass containers formed at an I. S. machine are conveyed through a special tempering Lehr that heats them uniformly to a high temperature that is short of temperatures at which they may become deformed. Subsequently, the glass containers while being transported on a conveyor are subjected to a unique rapid thermal strengthening cooling process in which the outer and inner surfaces including all areas of the glass containers are simultaneously cooled to a temperature below the Strain Point of the glass used in the glass containers.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Inventors: Steven J. Brown, Kenneth L. Bratton, Timothy A. Ringuette
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Publication number: 20110067449Abstract: An improved and mechanically simplified blow head mechanism for blowing a parison and internally cooling the blown parison is disclosed which may be used with an I.S. machine to blow a parison to form a glass container and then internally cool the blown parison below the annealing point. The blow head mechanism has a cooling tube which supplies final blow and cooling air and which is raised or lowered by raising or lowering the blow head mechanism. The blow head mechanism supports a blow head with a pressurized cylinder which maintains the blow head in a position in engagement with the finish of a parison once initially lowered irrespective of the blow head mechanism being further lowered to lower the cooling tube into the blown parison.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2009Publication date: March 24, 2011Inventor: Timothy A. Ringuette