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.

A glass item shaped in a moulding machine and arranged on a supporting plate is moved along a discharge conveyor by means of a transfer assembly having at least one grasping member made in one single piece, and presenting one vertical attachment plate on one handling arm and at least one first plate-shaped body extending in an overhanging manner from the vertical plate and having a recess housing, at least partially, in use, an intermediate portion of the item; the recess being delimited by a supporting inner surface complementary to an outer surface of the intermediate portion.

A glass item shaped in a moulding machine and arranged on a supporting plate is moved along a discharge conveyor by means of a transfer assembly having at least one grasping member made in one single piece, and presenting one vertical attachment plate on one handling arm and at least one first plate-shaped body extending in an overhanging manner from the vertical plate and having a recess housing, at least partially, in use, an intermediate portion of the item; the recess being delimited by a supporting inner surface complementary to an outer surface of the intermediate portion.

A handling unit for hollow glass articles includes a plurality of fingers, each configured to engage a corresponding hollow glass article in correspondence of a gripping area and to drag the article along a connection trajectory between a gripping position and a release position, a displacement mechanism of the plurality of fingers between the gripping position and the release position, wherein each finger of the plurality includes a nozzle which can be supplied by means of pressurized air and arranged in correspondence of the gripping area, the nozzle being configured for the ejection of air in a direction tangent with respect to the gripping area so as to set a depression in correspondence of the gripping area to hold a hollow glass article arranged in the gripping area itself, the handling unit being characterized in that it includes at least two control units of the supply airflow of the nozzles, wherein each control unit of the airflow is configured to control at least one corresponding nozzle independently of the nozzles controlled by remaining control units of the airflow.

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.

The present invention relates to a system and a method for transferring glass items from machines for shaping glass items of the type that comprises: a rotary cooling platform for receiving, cooling and conveying items formed immediately prior in molds of said shaping machine to a conveyor belt, the rotary cooling platform having a rotational motion towards the left and towards the right, from a first position for receiving items to a second delivery position facing said conveyor belt; first drive means located under the rotary cooling platform in order to rotate same with said rotational motion from said position for receiving items to said second position for delivering items and from said position for delivering items to said position for receiving items; and a pushing mechanism coupled onto the rotary platform, the pushing mechanism being aligned in the first receiving position with each of the recently shaped items of the molds, the pushing mechanism being translated together with said rotary cooling platform from the first position for receiving items to the second position for delivering items; the pushing mechanism having a to-and-fro motion in the second delivery position for pushing the items along a diagonal path, at constant speed, from the rotary cooling platform positioned in said second position towards the conveyor belt in order to place the items aligned above same.

The present invention relates to a system and a method for transferring glass items from machines for shaping glass items of the type that comprises: a rotary cooling platform for receiving, cooling and conveying items formed immediately prior in molds of said shaping machine to a conveyor belt, the rotary cooling platform having a rotational motion towards the left and towards the right, from a first position for receiving items to a second delivery position facing said conveyor belt; first drive means located under the rotary cooling platform in order to rotate same with said rotational motion from said position for receiving items to said second position for delivering items and from said position for delivering items to said position for receiving items; and a pushing mechanism coupled onto the rotary platform, the pushing mechanism being aligned in the first receiving position with each of the recently shaped items of the molds, the pushing mechanism being translated together with said rotary cooling platform from the first position for receiving items to the second position for delivering items; the pushing mechanism having a to-and-fro motion in the second delivery position for pushing the items along a diagonal path, at constant speed, from the rotary cooling platform positioned in said second position towards the conveyor belt in order to place the items aligned above same.

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.