A glass blank feeding apparatus, system, and method for feeding a glass gob to an angled blank mold are disclosed. The glass blank feeding apparatus includes at least one scoop configured to receive a glass gob along a vertical axis from a gob feeder and a blank mold aligned along a longitudinal axis at a non-zero angle from the vertical axis, where the blank mold is configured to receive the glass gob directly from the at least one scoop along the longitudinal axis.

A glass blank feeding apparatus, system, and method for feeding a glass gob to an angled blank mold are disclosed. The glass blank feeding apparatus includes at least one scoop configured to receive a glass gob along a vertical axis from a gob feeder and a blank mold aligned along a longitudinal axis at a non-zero angle from the vertical axis, where the blank mold is configured to receive the glass gob directly from the at least one scoop along the longitudinal axis.

A method and a device for printing onto containers, in particular bottles, made of glass are described. Containers that have been heated and coated by hot end coating are received from a transport section and transferred to a printing machine. The containers are cooled to a printing temperature in the region of the transport section and/or of the printing machine are provided with a printed image in the printing maching by direct printing. This allows for high-quality direct printing with sufficient resistance to mechanical stresses without cold end coating of the containers prior to the direct printing and/or without the resulting effort of improving the adhesive action of the print or of removing the cold end coating in the print region at least in part.

A method of producing glass includes receiving unrefined molten glass in a stilling chamber of a stilling tank at a fluctuating flow rate. An intermediate pool of molten glass is held within the stilling chamber of the stilling tank and is heated therein by one or more non-submerged burners. Molten glass flows from the intermediate pool of molten glass to a transfer pool of molten glass held in a spout chamber of a feeding spout that is appended to the stilling tank. A molten glass feed can be drawn from the transfer pool of molten glass and delivered from the feeding spout at a controlled flow rate.

A method of producing glass includes receiving unrefined molten glass in a stilling chamber of a stilling tank at a fluctuating flow rate. An intermediate pool of molten glass is held within the stilling chamber of the stilling tank and is heated therein by one or more non-submerged burners. Molten glass flows from the intermediate pool of molten glass to a transfer pool of molten glass held in a spout chamber of a feeding spout that is appended to the stilling tank. A molten glass feed can be drawn from the transfer pool of molten glass and delivered from the feeding spout at a controlled flow rate.

A robotic mold lubrication system and glass container forming system having the robotic mold lubrication system. The robotic mold lubrication system includes a rail, a carriage moveable along the rail, a motor for moving the carriage along the rail, a tank carried by the carriage and holding lubricant, and a lubricant applicator subsystem having an applicator. The system further includes a robot, an object detection sensor, and an onboard control system carried on the carriage and having at least one processor and memory for storing computer instructions. The robot and the object detection sensor are carried by the carriage. The onboard control system is configured to use the at least one processor to control movement of the carriage along the rail based on sensor data obtained from the object detection sensor.

A robotic mold lubrication system and glass container forming system having the robotic mold lubrication system. The robotic mold lubrication system includes a rail, a carriage moveable along the rail, a motor for moving the carriage along the rail, a tank carried by the carriage and holding lubricant, and a lubricant applicator subsystem having an applicator. The system further includes a robot, an object detection sensor, and an onboard control system carried on the carriage and having at least one processor and memory for storing computer instructions. The robot and the object detection sensor are carried by the carriage. The onboard control system is configured to use the at least one processor to control movement of the carriage along the rail based on sensor data obtained from the object detection sensor.

A device for manufacturing hollow glass article consists of a plurality of modular stations that, among other things, comprise blank molds and finish molds, wherein a housing is provided and can be displaced along a blank mold side in order to carry out at least control and servicing functions, and wherein said housing is formed by a key-like structure that is open in the direction of the blank mold side and serves as a carrier for at least one manipulation element consisting of multiple sections. On its free end, this manipulation element carries a tool or a device that is ready for use after it has reached the respective station. The shielding effect of the housing reliably protects an operator side against accidents due to inadvertent interventions in machine motion sequences.

A device for manufacturing hollow glass article consists of a plurality of modular stations that, among other things, comprise blank molds and finish molds, wherein a housing is provided and can be displaced along a blank mold side in order to carry out at least control and servicing functions, and wherein said housing is formed by a key-like structure that is open in the direction of the blank mold side and serves as a carrier for at least one manipulation element consisting of multiple sections. On its free end, this manipulation element carries a tool or a device that is ready for use after it has reached the respective station. The shielding effect of the housing reliably protects an operator side against accidents due to inadvertent interventions in machine motion sequences.

Latent colorant material compositions, soda-lime-silica glass compositions, and related methods of manufacturing color-strikable glass containers. The latent colorant material compositions may be introduced into a plurality of base glass compositions having redox numbers in the range of ?40 to +20 to produce color-strikable glass compositions and color-strikable glass containers. The latent colorant material compositions introduced into the base glass compositions include a mixture of cuprous oxide (Cu.sub.2O), stannous oxide (SnO), bismuth oxide (Bi.sub.2O.sub.3), and carbon (C). After formation, the color-strikable glass containers may be heat-treated to strike red or black therein.