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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 03, 1999
Russell B. Gottlieb, Canton Center, CT (US);
Gary R. Voisine, East Hartford, CT (US);
Emhart Glass S.A., Cham, CH;
Abstract
A vacuum system is disclosed for opposed engaged pairs of blow mold halves on a section of an I.S. machine. The system includes a bottom housing which is open at the top and closed by a top plate assembly including a top plate having a vertical opening for each of the opposed pairs of blow mold halves and an annular manifold support portion below the top plate. A vacuum manifold which has a cylindrical inlet conduit and a vertical outlet conduit beneath each of the top plate vertical openings is supported by the annular mold support portion. A vacuum tube slides into the cylindrical inlet conduit and is mounted on the annular manifold portion. The vacuum tube has a hole for communicating with each of the vacuum manifold vertical outlets.