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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 1985
Filed:
Nov. 17, 1983
David B Hindman, Rochester, NY (US);
Lawrence L Gerlach, Spencerport, NY (US);
Bruce A Wallace, Rochester, NY (US);
French Systems, Inc., Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A plurality of open trenches or sluices is suspended from the underside of the forming floor of a glass factory to register with the lower, discharge ends of hot gob reject or cullet chutes. Each sluice is suspended with one end higher than the other, and with their lower, discharge ends communicating with one end of a large quenching tank, which is mounted on the floor beneath the forming floor. The tank contains a supply of cooling water, which is continuously pumped to the upper ends of the sluices, so that as hot gobs drop from the chutes into the sluices they are immersed in the cooling water and travel by gravity with the cooling water downwardly in the sluices to the quenching tank. A conveyor in the tank transports the cullet through the cooling water to a discharge point adjacent the opposite end of the tank. The bottom of each sluice is generally V-shaped in configuration so that frictional engagement of the hot cullet with opposite sides of a sluice is minimized.