Owens-Illinois, Inc.

Owens-Illinois Glass Container Inc.

Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.

Paul W Graham

Robert N Clark

Frank J DiFrank

Ronald T Myers

Marvin L Barkhau

Ronald W Bradley

Alan D Ahl

Joseph F Billmaier

Thomas W Moore, Jr

Norman M Bouder, Jr

Mark B Schenk

Stephen H Zylka

Harry N Mills

Apparatus for measuring glass layer thickness in the sidewall of a glass container in which a container is placed in a bath of oil having an index of refraction matching that of the container outer sidewall surface. The body of the container is engaged within the bath to permit rotation while restraining lateral motion as the finish of the container is rotated. Light energy is directed through the bath and tangentially through the sidewall of the container so as to establish a pattern of light energy as a function of sidewall layer thickness, and layer thickness is determined as a function of such light pattern. As applied specifically to measuring thickness of the casing glass layer in a cased glass container in accordance with the preferred method of the invention, such casing glass thickness is determined as a function of the pattern in the light energy that emerges from the oil bath.

Measuring sidewall thickness of glass containers

A solid film lubricant composition for hot glass contacting surfaces of glass handling equipment and metal molds used in manufacturing glass articles. The solid film lubricant composition is a solution of a solvent, graphite, a solvent-soluble, further curable organopolysiloxane, and NaOH to make the solution alkaline. The solution is easily sprayed on hot glass contacting surfaces such as the interior of the molds to form a coating that is curable at room temperature.

Solid film lubricant compositions and methods of using same

Solid film lubricant compositions

A glass bottle forming system is described in which a main glass melter is connected to a forehearth with a fairly conventional feeder provided at the delivery end of the forehearth. The feeder opening in the bottom of the forehearth is closed by a first orifice member through which a molten core glass will flow. Beneath the first orifice there is positioned a second orifice member that has an orifice that is slightly larger than the orifice in the first orifice member. A small melter contains a glass of essentially the same composition as that in the main melter, but with a coefficient of expansion slightly less than that of the core glass. This lower expansion glass is fed to the second orifice member so that it can flow out of the orifice with the core glass in surrounding relationship with respect thereto. The skin glass melter is connected to the second orifice member by a gravity feed system in which the connection is thermally controlled so that the viscosity of the two glasses are maintained essentially the same. Two embodiments of the skin melter and the second orifice are disclosed. In one embodiment the second orifice is vertically adjustable so as to vary the volume of skin glass flow relative to the core glass flow. The second embodiment has the second orifice supporting an annular bushing that is vertically adjustable and it cooperates with the bottom of the upper orifice member to regulate the flow of glass into surrounding relationship to the core glass coming through the first orifice member.

Forming laminated glass containers from a composite encapsulated gob of

A completely automated system for inspection and sorting of molded containers, such as glass bottles, as a function of mold cavity of container origin. In a first system section, finished containers are one hundred percent inspected for defects, and a cavity identification device is controlled to reject all containers from cavities associated with defective containers. The cavity identification device is also coupled to feed sampled containers from selected cavities to an automatic sampling indexer wherein the sampled containers are fed to one or more stations for testing physical container properties, such as rupture pressure, wall thickness and internal volume. The cavity identification device and the automatic sampling indexer are controlled by a hierarchy of interconnected computers which receive cavity and test information from the various sections and stations of the system and control the sampling and sorting process based upon predetermined quality standards. A cavity map is maintained which relates cavity code to physical location in the container forming machine to help identify quality control trends.

Inspection and sorting of molded containers as a function of mold of

This invention relates to a method of sealing a container mouth, and especially the mouth of a glass container, and the glass container so sealed. The method involves oxidizing the container rim portion, applying a first annular thin coating of an organo-functional silane compound and then a second annular thin coating of an ethylene acrylic acid copolymer over the first coating on the rim portion. A thin imperforate membrane such as aluminum foil having a thermoplastic sealing material such as Surlyn copolymer over its sealing surface is sealed to the container rim portion with heat and pressure.

Method of sealing a glass container with a thin membrane closure

This invention relates to a process for strengthening glass articles immediately after their formation and prior to annealing to remove stresses, and more specifically to increasing the strength of glass containers in terms of internal pressure retention as well as in thermal shock and impact resistance. The process involves allowing the newly-formed glass containers to cool down to a limited extent immediately subsequent to their formation, subjecting the defect-bearing exterior surfaces of the glass containers, which contain surface checks or cracks, to an elevated temperature for a brief period of time to physically alter the crack geometry of the defects and partially heal the same, and then annealing the glass containers to remove stresses therefrom. The glass containers then exhibit a strengthening of at least 10 to 20 percent, and in some cases as much as a 50 percent increase over their average untreated strength based on internal pressure strength tests which are indicative of overall strengthening of glass surfaces.

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Toledo, OH, United States of America

Paul W Graham