Multi-station glass-forming machine

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Each station has a push-off unit which transfers glass articles produced at such station onto a common out-feed conveyor. Each push-off unit comprises a cylinder-piston unit mounted for swinging movement on a vertical swing shaft the, piston thereof carrying a push-off arm. The push-off arm extends and engages the articles to be transferred the cylinder swings, towards the belt transferring the article and the push-off arm, retracts and the cylinder swings back. The push-off units of the plural stations are activated sequentially in correspondence, to the sequence in which glass gobs are fed into the respective machine stations. Plural electric motors are provided one per, station, and the …