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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2002
Roy Krohn, York, PA (US);
Gregory Duane Taylor, York, PA (US);
Graham Packaging Company, L.P., York, PA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, mounted to a mold, for injecting air into a mold cavity and removing exhaust from the mold cavity, comprising: a blow cylinder body block mounted to the mold having a conduit to the mold cavity, wherein the blow cylinder body block comprises an insulator and the conduit has walls; a needle passing through the blow cylinder body block and the conduit, wherein the needle is connected to a piston, wherein the needle has a needle passage, and wherein compressed air is applied to the piston to extend the needle into the mold cavity and retract the needle from the mold cavity; and an insulator between the needle and the conduit walls.