METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTRODUCING GLASS GOBS INTO A GLASS CONTAINER FORMING MACHINE

摘要

A gob of molten glass from a gob delivery system is introduced into a blank mold of glass container forming machine of the individual section type by way loading funnel immediately upstream of an opening into the blank mold. The loading funnel has a n upper annular gathering portion in the shape of an inverted frustum of a cone an d a cylindrical lower shaping and orienting section. The internal diameter of the sh aping and orienting section is somewhat less than the outer diameter of a gob passing ther ethrough, to thereby contact the gob in a substantially circumferential pattern, and the s haping and orienting section has a length that is sufficient to precisely align the longitu dinal central axis of the gob with a longitudinal central axis of the blank mold, to thereby e liminate or substantially eliminate the need to swab the interior of the blank mold with a m old dopant composition.