Patent ID: 6776009
Filing Date: 2004-08-17
Classification: C03B

Abstract:
A takeout mechanism for gripping a bottle formed at the blow station of an I.S. machine and removing it from the blow station and depositing the gripped bottle at a deposit location, wherein the bottle has an upper neck portion and a lower body portion comprisinga takeout head assembly including gripper means for gripping a bottle, a takeout arm for supporting said takeout head assembly, support means for supporting said takeout arm for displacement between a pick-up position and the deposit position, first displacement means for displacing said takeout arm between said pick-up and deposit positions, said takeout head assembly further comprising a cooling tube selectively displaceable between an up position and a down position, and said second displacement means including a profiled actuator including a displacement profile for controlling the displacement of the cooling tube from the up position to the down position, the displacement profile being selectively defined to correlate with the cooling requirements of the bottle as the cooling tube is displaced from the up position to the down position.