Owens-brockway Glass Container Inc.

David L Lewis

Robin L Flynn

Thomas R Kirkman

Stephen M Graff

Kenneth D Macleod

Robert Ponzi

David L Hambley

Adam W Steinecker

Joshua Peeno

A coolant box for a glass batch charger that includes a base, a front wall, a rear wall, a coolant labyrinth extending from the base between the front and rear walls, and including a plurality of curvate baffle walls establishing a plurality of curvate coolant channels.

Batch charger cooling

A neck ring for molding a glass container neck finish that includes at least one closure attachment feature. The neck ring includes two semi-annular bi-metal neck ring halves, each consisting essentially of a neck ring insert of wear-resistant metal construction, and a neck ring body of heat-conductive metal construction different from said wear-resistant metal construction and formed around said neck ring insert so as to embed it in said neck ring body. Each of said neck ring halves has a glass-contacting cavity face that includes a first surface portion formed by said inserts for molding the at least one closure attachment feature on the neck finish, and a second surface portion formed by said bodies for molding portions of the neck finish excluding the at least one closure attachment feature.

Neck ring and method of making for a glass container forming machine

Thermal conductivity of glassware forming blank molds and blow molds of Ni-Resist ductile iron is selectively controlled by formation of compacted graphite in the mold microstructure during preparation of the melt and casting of the mold bodies. Specifically, with a Type D5 Ni-Resist ductile iron according to ASTM-A439-84, compacted graphite is selectively formed in the cast microstructure of the mold body by reducing the magnesium and sulphur concentrations in the iron composition to the range of 0.01 to 0.04 wt % magnesium and 0.00 to 0.01 wt % sulphur, and adding titanium to the iron composition in the range of 0.10 to 0.25 wt % titanium. Whereas formation of compacted graphite in the cast microstructure is normally considered to be undesirable for glassware forming molds, it has been found that formation of a small but appreciable amount of graphite provides the opportunity selectively to tailor the thermal conductivity characteristics of the mold body.

Glassware forming mold and method of manufacture

A glassware forming mold that includes a body of heat conductive construction having a central portion with a forming surface for shaping molten glass and a peripheral portion spaced radially outwardly of the central portion. A plurality of coolant passages extend in a spaced array through the peripheral portion of the mold body, and liquid coolant is directed through such passages for extracting heat from the body by conduction from the forming surface. A plurality of openings extend axially into the body radially between at least some of the liquid coolant passages and the forming surface for retarding heat transfer from the forming surface to liquid coolant in the passages.

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Sylvania, OH, United States of America

David L Lewis