Patents by Inventor Wayne E. Eilers

Wayne E. Eilers 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).

  • Method for forming wide mouth glassware
    Patent number: 5690714
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for making wide-mouth glassware comprises providing a solid blank mold, providing a split blow mold, providing a split neck ring, providing a plunger carrier having a movable plunger therein, moving the blank mold upwardly to position for receiving a gob of glass, positioning the neck ring on the blank mold, delivering a gob of glass to said blank mold, positioning plunger carrier into engagement with said neck ring, extending the plunger into said blank mold to deform the glass and force the glass into the neck ring to form a parison, thereafter retracting the plunger and moving the plunger carrier away from the neck ring, lowering the blanks, moving the neck ring with the parison thereon to a position between the open blow mold halfs while maintaining the parison in vertical upright position, closing the blow mold about the parison, opening the neck ring to release the parison in the blow mold, returning the neck ring to its original position adjacent the blank mold, blowing the paris
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignee: Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne E. Eilers
  • Apparatus for forming wide mouth glassware
    Patent number: 5588981
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for making wide-mouth glassware providing a solid blank mold, providing a split blow mold, providing a split neck ring, providing a plunger carrier having a movable plunger therein, moving the blank mold upwardly to position for receiving a gob of glass, positioning the neck ring on the blank mold, delivering a gob of glass to said blank mold, positioning plunger carrier into engagement with said neck ring, extending the plunger into said blank mold to deform the glass and force the glass into the neck ring to form a parison, thereafter retracting the plunger and moving the plunger carrier away from the neck ring, lowering the blanks, moving the neck ring with the parison thereon to a position between the open blow mold halfs while maintaining the parison in vertical upright position, closing the blow mold about the parison, opening the neck ring to release the parison in the blow mold, returning the neck ring to its original position adjacent the blank mold, blowing the parison into a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1996
    Assignee: Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne E. Eilers