Stephen GerberTraverse City, MI

6722488, Apr 20, 2004

Sep 4, 2002

10/235188

Stephen M. Gerber - Traverse City MI
William F. Mazur - Waterville OH
Larry N. Shue - Woodville OH

Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc. - Toledo OH

B65G 4734

1984682, 65260

A takeout device ( ) for transferring one or more, usually a plurality, of freshly-formed glass containers (C) from molds ( ) of a section of an I. S. machine to a deadplate ( ) of the machine. The takeout device has an oscillatable arm ( ) that carries a head ( ) from which a tong ( ) for each of the containers is suspended. Oscillation of the arm is powered by a reversible, linearly-acting electrical motor ( ), preferably an a. c. servo motor, that causes a rack ( ) to reciprocate. The rack drives an oscillatable gear ( ) that oscillatingly drives the arm. The motor is mounted at the top of a post ( ) at an elevation above the elevations of the molds and the deadplate, and the motor, therefore, is readily accessible for maintenance and adjustment.

6758065, Jul 6, 2004

May 31, 2002

10/161231

Stephen M. Gerber - Traverse City MI

Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc. - Toledo OH

C03B 526

65158, 65325, 65330

An apparatus for indicating concentricity of a rotatable glass flow control tube with respect to its axis of rotation on a tube support frame in a glassware forming system includes a base for securement on the tube support frame and a slide mounted on the base for radial movement toward and away from an outside surface of the glass flow control tube. A roller is positioned on the slide for rolling engagement with the outside surface of the flow control tube as it rotates on the frame, and an indicator is coupled to the slide for indicating radial movement of the slide, indicative of radial movement of the tube outside surface with respect to its axis of rotation, as the tube is rotated on the tube support frame.

6928836, Aug 16, 2005

Apr 12, 2004

10/822412

Stephen M. Gerber - Traverse City MI, US

Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc. - Toledo OH

C03B005/26

65 2912, 65 2917

An apparatus for indicating concentricity of a rotatable glass flow control tube with respect to its axis of rotation on a tube support frame in a glassware forming system includes a base for securement on the tube support frame and a slide mounted on the base for radial movement toward and away from an outside surface of the glass flow control tube. A roller is positioned on the slide for rolling engagement with the outside surface of the flow control tube as it rotates on the frame, and an indicator is coupled to the slide for indicating radial movement of the slide, indicative of radial movement of the tube outside surface with respect to its axis of rotation, as the tube is rotated on the tube support frame.