Glass manufacturing – Processes – With measuring – sensing – inspecting – indicating – or testing
Patent
1982-09-30
1984-04-17
Kellogg, Arthur D.
Glass manufacturing
Processes
With measuring, sensing, inspecting, indicating, or testing
65158, 65159, 65164, C03B 1116, C03B 940
Patent
active
044432410
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
This invention is concerned with a method of monitoring the closing action of a mould of a glassware forming machine in a cyclic process of forming glassware, the method comprising producing a signal representative of the position of a part of the mould at a time in the cyclic process when the mould should be closed and comparing the signal with a signal representative of the position of the mould part when the mould is correctly closed. Accordingly, the invention is also concerned with an apparatus for use in monitoring the closing action of a mould of the cyclicly-operating glassware forming machine, the apparatus comprising a position sensitive device operable to produce a signal representative of the position of a part of the mould, producing means operable to produce a signal representative of the position of the mould part when the mould is correctly closed, and comparing means operable to compare the signals produced by the position sensitive device and the producing means at a time in the cyclic operation of the machine when the mould should be closed.
BACKGROUND ART
In the manufacture of glassware by the conventional process using an individual section (I.S.) machine, a gob of molten glass is first formed into a parison by either pressing or blowing in a blank or parison-forming mould at one station of the machine. Subsequently, the parison is blown into the final shape of the desired article of glassware in a blow mould at another station of the machine as a result of the application of air under pressure to the inside of the parison. Both moulds are formed with mould parts which are separated to permit removal of a parison or article of glassware and brought together again in a closed position of the mould for formation of the next parison or article.
In this known process, difficulties arise from time to time due to breakage of a parison at the blank station and/or breakage of a parison or an article of glassware in the blow mould. When there is breakage of either the parison or the article as aforesaid, a residue of broken glass ("cullet") can be left in the blank or blow mould and the cullet can prevent the formation of a satisfactory parison or aritcle of glassware in the succeeding cycle of a machine.
Cullet which remains in either the blank mould or the blow mould following breakage or malfunction of the parison-forming or article-shaping process in either the blank mould or the blow mould will cool and harden and may impede the closing of the parts of the blank mould or the blow mould in succeeding cycles of the machine. Unless the presence of such cullet in either the blank mould or the blow mould is quickly detected by the operator of the machine and appropriate action taken to prevent several further cycles of the machine taking place, the presence of the cooled, and therefore hard, cullet in the mould can lead to serious damage to either of the moulds when their operating mechanisms, which generate very considerable forces, attempt to close the mould parts, with a result that the machine may be put out of operation for a considerable period until replacement of the damaged mould can be undertaken. There is thus a loss of manufacturing time while the moulds are replaced and the replacement moulds brought up to the correct working temperature.
It is clearly desirable therefore to provide some means by which the malfunction leading to breakage and formation of cullet which impedes the closing of either the blank mould or the blow mould is immediately detected and action taken to prevent more than one further cycle of operation taking place in at least that mould where the malfunction has occurred.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
In a method of monitoring the closure action of a mould in accordance with the invention, the signal representative of the position of the mould part when the mould part is closed is produced by averaging a selected number of the immediately preceding signals representative of a position of the part of the mould at the time when the mould should be
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Emhart Industries Inc.
Kellogg Arthur D.
Warzecha Gene
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