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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1996
Gary R Voisine, East Hartford, CT (US);
Vaughan Abbott, East Hartland, CT (US);
Emhart Glass Machinery Investments Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A pusher mechanism for transferring a selected number of containers from a dead plate of an I.S. machine to a conveyor. The mechanism has a finger assembly including a back support portion and a finger portion, with the back support portion and the finger portion defining a pocket having a corner at their juncture. The finger portion has an air jet with the center line thereof making an acute angle with the finger portion and selectively located so that a bottle placed on the deadplate within the pocket will be located on the side of the center line remote from the corner of the pocket, and the back support portion is selectively inclined to the finger portion to substantially prevent the bouncing of a bottle, drawn into the pocket by the air jet, off the finger portion in the direction of the air jet.