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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 06, 1997
John P Mungovan, Simsbury, CT (US);
Douglas J Roberts, Ellington, CT (US);
Emhart Glass Machinery Investments Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
An I.S. machine is disclosed which has a plurality of individual sections arranged side by side. Each section has a section box for supporting a blank mold opening and closing mechanism and a blow mold opening and closing mechanism. These section boxes are supported on a bed which has a top wall underlying the section boxes. A passages are provided through the bed, beneath the top wall of the bed, from one side to the other side of said I.S. machine and these passages slidably receive a plurality of adjacent fluid ducts. The top wall of the bed further includes openings for exposing each fluid duct within each section so that fluid connections can be established from these fluid ducts through the openings in the top wall of bed.