An apparatus and method for manufacturing glass containers handles the containers individually after a hot forming process and annealing to prevent glass-to-glass contact. By handling the containers individually and preventing glass-to-glass contact damage to the containers in the form of checks and scratches is avoided. To prevent contact of the containers and damage arising from the contact, the equipment including conveyors, pushers, starwheels, shuttles, and transfer heads that move the glass containers through the apparatus maintains the glass containers in uniform spaced relationship at each stage of container processing until the containers are packaged.

An apparatus and method for manufacturing glass containers handles the containers individually after a hot forming process and annealing to prevent glass-to-glass contact. By handling the containers individually and preventing glass-to-glass contact damage to the containers in the form of checks and scratches is avoided. To prevent contact of the containers and damage arising from the contact, the equipment including conveyors, pushers, starwheels, shuttles, and transfer heads that move the glass containers through the apparatus maintains the glass containers in uniform spaced relationship at each stage of container processing until the containers are packaged.

An apparatus and method for manufacturing glass containers handles the containers individually after a hot forming process and annealing to prevent glass-to-glass contact. By handling the containers individually and preventing glass-to-glass contact damage to the containers in the form of checks and scratches is avoided. To prevent contact of the containers and damage arising from the contact, the equipment including conveyors, pushers, starwheels, shuttles, and transfer heads that move the glass containers through the apparatus maintains the glass containers in uniform spaced relationship at each stage of container processing until the containers are packaged.

An apparatus and method for manufacturing glass containers handles the containers individually after a hot forming process and annealing to prevent glass-to-glass contact. By handling the containers individually and preventing glass-to-glass contact damage to the containers in the form of checks and scratches is avoided. To prevent contact of the containers and damage arising from the contact, the equipment including conveyors, pushers, starwheels, shuttles, and transfer heads that move the glass containers through the apparatus maintains the glass containers in uniform spaced relationship at each stage of container processing until the containers are packaged.

An unloading system comprises a rotatable table configured to be rotatable about a vertical axis parallel to a vertical direction, a plurality of fixing devices mounted on the rotatable table around a periphery of rotatable table and separated from each other, and a manipulator adapted to grip a product fixed on each of the fixing devices and move the gripped product to a predetermined position. The rotatable table is adapted to rotate the plurality of fixing devices mounted thereon into a work area of the manipulator one by one and the manipulator is adapted to unload the product from each of the fixing devices one by one.

An unloading system comprises a rotatable table configured to be rotatable about a vertical axis parallel to a vertical direction, a plurality of fixing devices mounted on the rotatable table around a periphery of rotatable table and separated from each other, and a manipulator adapted to grip a product fixed on each of the fixing devices and move the gripped product to a predetermined position. The rotatable table is adapted to rotate the plurality of fixing devices mounted thereon into a work area of the manipulator one by one and the manipulator is adapted to unload the product from each of the fixing devices one by one.