The present disclosure discloses a glass assembly, for forming an electrochemical sensor, comprising a glass immersion tube, a glass membrane connected to a distal end of the immersion tube, wherein the glass which forms the immersion tube contains no lead, no lead compound, no lithium, and no lithium compound.

Methods and systems for controlling vertical glass distribution are provided. A traversing pyrometer periodically measures a parison actual temperature after the parisons exit a blank mold. The thermal camera takes a thermal image of each glass container after the glass container exits the blow mold. A vertical glass signature extraction module extracts a vertical glass distribution signature. A parison temperature estimator determines a parison estimated temperature for each vertical glass distribution signature obtained based on the vertical glass distribution signature, a most recently measured parison actual temperature and a parison stretch time. A parison temperature summer compares the parison estimated temperature to a parison set point temperature to determine a parison temperature error. A parison temperature control controls a blank mold contact time based on the parison temperature error.

An improved system and method for forming falling hot glass gobs which will be molded into glass containers in an Individual Section (IS) machine is disclosed which controls the weight, length, and shape of such glass gobs as they are produced. The system includes a gob feeder apparatus and a gob shearing mechanism a controller using models being used to correlate the effect of a number of feeder control settings on gob weight, length, and, shape. The controller is configured to adjust various feeder control settings based on a prioritized order of the feeder control settings such that gobs having different physical characteristics for different ones of the individual sections can be produced during a single machine cycle. By implementing the models, a closed loop system has been developed to set up controls to achieve the desired gob forming for each individual section and cavity.

A gob distributor for a glassware forming machine includes a housing; an arcuate or straight scoop located above the housing, having an upper end aligned at all times with an orifice of a feeder, and which radially moves so that its lower end coincides with the upper ends of straight fixed channels of a forming machine; an independent support structure connected by each scoop; at least one first shaft vertically placed within the housing to rotate on its own axis; at least one second shaft horizontally or vertically placed within the housing to rotate on its own axis, including a second gear section, each first gear section and each second gear section are coupled together to form a housing gear; and drive means coupled at each end of each second shaft to simultaneously move the supporting structures and scoops, radially.

An improved system and method for forming falling hot glass gobs which will be molded into glass containers in an Individual Section (IS) machine is disclosed which controls the weight, length, and shape of such glass gobs as they are produced. The system includes a gob feeder apparatus and a gob shearing mechanism a controller using models being used to correlate the effect of a number of feeder control settings on gob weight, length, and, shape. The controller is configured to adjust various feeder control settings based on a prioritized order of the feeder control settings such that gobs having different physical characteristics for different ones of the individual sections can be produced during a single machine cycle. By implementing the models, a closed loop system has been developed to set up controls to achieve the desired gob forming for each individual section and cavity.

The invention relates to a device and a method for measuring the kinematic characteristics of free fall of a glass gob with four distinct linear cameras each having an observed linear field intercepting the theoretical free fall path, respectively at a first high point of interception and at a first low point of interception, offset from each other according to the theoretical free fall path, and respectively at a second high point of interception and at a second low point of interception, offset from each other along the direction of the theoretical free fall path, the high respectively low optical axes being distinct from each other in projection on a plane perpendicular to the direction of the theoretical free fall path. The invention also comprises a method for controlling a glass article molding installation.

A molten glass cutting apparatus comprises a first support portion, a second support portion, a restriction portion and an applying portion. The first support portion supports a shear blade so as to be rotatable around a first axis extending in the width direction of the shear blade. The second support portion supports the shear blade so as to be rotatable around a second axis extending in the length direction of the shear blade. The restriction portion restricts rotation of the shear blade provided with the first support portion around the first axis so that inclined portions of a projecting portions of each of a pair of the shear blades face each other when a pair of the shear blades are separated. The applying portion applies an elastic force around the first axis for pressing a pair of the shear blades against each other to the shear blade provided with the first support portion.

A molten glass cutting apparatus comprises a first support portion, a second support portion, a restriction portion and an applying portion. The first support portion supports a shear blade so as to be rotatable around a first axis extending in the width direction of the shear blade. The second support portion supports the shear blade so as to be rotatable around a second axis extending in the length direction of the shear blade. The restriction portion restricts rotation of the shear blade provided with the first support portion around the first axis so that inclined portions of a projecting portions of each of a pair of the shear blades face each other when a pair of the shear blades are separated. The applying portion applies an elastic force around the first axis for pressing a pair of the shear blades against each other to the shear blade provided with the first support portion.

Method of filling a mold with a glass gob through an opening of the mold, for forming a glass product in the mold, by using a delivery system for delivering the glass gob to the opening of the mold. The delivery system has an inlet, an outlet, and guiding means for guiding the glass gob through the delivery system. The method includes observing the glass gob, at at least one moment and/or during at least one period after the glass gob has passed the inlet of the delivery system, by using an optical imaging device. The method includes determining a glass gob observation result that includes a glass gob velocity, for predicting a glass distribution of the glass product formed in the mold and/or for controlling a next glass gob.

Methods and systems for controlling vertical glass distribution are provided. A traversing pyrometer periodically measures a parison actual temperature after the parisons exit a blank mold. The thermal camera takes a thermal image of each glass container after the glass container exits the blow mold. A vertical glass signature extraction module extracts a vertical glass distribution signature. A parison temperature estimator determines a parison estimated temperature for each vertical glass distribution signature obtained based on the vertical glass distribution signature, a most recently measured parison actual temperature and a parison stretch time. A parison temperature summer compares the parison estimated temperature to a parison set point temperature to determine a parison temperature error. A parison temperature control controls a blank mold contact time based on the parison temperature error.