| 摘要 |
Apparatus for moving newly formed glass containers from a cooling dead plate to a moving machine conveyor in which the ware is engagedf by a finger, with the finger being generally horizontal and engageable with the container at a point on its sidewall which best suits the moving of the container by a sliding motion. The finger, or fingers in the case of plural containers being simultaneously moved, is moved through an arc approximately 90 DEG with respect to its vertical axis, moving the containers from the dead plate to the conveyor and then the finger is retracted out of contact with the containers on the conveyor. The cylinder for extending and retracting the fingers is mounted on the upper end of a vertical shaft, the shaft being oscillated through approximately 90 DEG . In the drive mechanism for the shaft, a sprocket-carrying housing surrounding the shaft is provided with an internally contained, flat spiral spring which connnects the housing to a coaxially positioned sleeve. The sleeve is fixed to the shaft by a disc, with the disc carrying a pin that rides in a slot formed in the lower surface of the sprocket. Oscillatory movement of the sprocket will drive the shaft and in the event interference occurs, the spring will take up the slack of the 90 DEG of movement without imposing a damaging force on the head of the mechanism.
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