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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2003
Filed:
May. 14, 1997
E. Hugh Pemberton, Windsor, CT (US);
Stephen M. Giometti, Horseheads, NY (US);
Timothy W. Shay, Horseheads, NY (US);
Emhart Glass S.A., Cham, CH;
Abstract
A machine for inspecting glass bottles comprising an elliptical first conveyor having parallel linear front and rear portions. Bottles are displaced sequentially along the linear front portion of the elliptical first conveyor by a first cam and bottles are sequentially displaced along the linear rear portion of the elliptical first conveyor by a second cam. Inspection stations bottles are located along both the front and rear linear portions. A second conveyor delivers bottles to the elliptical conveyor proximate the start of the first cam, and a third conveyor receives bottles from the elliptical conveyor proximate the end of the second cam.