Libbey-owens-ford Co.

Earl A Hille

Donald E Shamp

Lloyd W Daman

Albert W Kleine, Jr

Richard G Gilts

An apparatus having a flat pivotal member for carrying and rotating a shipping container from its normal upright transporting attitude through an angle of less than 90.degree. to an attitude inclined from the horizontal for packing glass sheets therein. The glass sheets are placed in the shipping container when it is in the inclined packing attitude with sheets of paper interleaved therebetween and, when packed, the container is rotated to its upright transporting attitude.

Pivotal shipping rack supporting apparatus

Apparatus for removing uneven and crusty deposits from, and burnishing the surfaces of, conveyor rolls employed in the manufacture of flat glass. The apparatus includes a lower main unit comprising an elongated main frame having a pair of roll supporting stations for rotatably supporting at least one conveyor roll, and for supporting an upper removable surface cleaning or brushing unit comprising a frame slidably supporting a reciprocating carriage upon which is mounted a rotating annular brush for engaging the surface of the conveyor roll. The lower unit is provided with a series of burners for maintaining the temperature of the conveyor roll at a level sufficient to facilitate removal of encrustations thereon and to permit the roll to be reinstalled in a lehr immediately after being cleaned without the usual preheating.

Cleaning apparatus for conveyor rolls

A method of and apparatus for feeding glass making materials into the forward end of a continuous glass melting furnace whereby the melting rate of the materials is increased. In accordance with the improved method, the glass making materials are continuously deposited on the molten glass bath in the doghouse of the furnace, periodically compacted to remove entrapped air therefrom, and advanced into the furnace while thus compacted. The apparatus has a reciprocating pressing member which is periodically advanced from a rest position in a raised attitude over a transverse row of newly deposited glass making materials, lowered to compact the materials between it and the surface of the molten glass bath, and advanced in its lowered attitude to move the compacted glass making materials into the melting end of the furnace.

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Elmore, OH, United States of America

Earl A Hille