Improvements in Machines for Automatically Ladling Glass in Manufacturing Glassware.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Mar., 1899-Accepted, 2nd June, 1899
CONT LITE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Automatically Ladling Glass in
Manufacturing Glassware.
I, WILLIAM FRANCIS ALTENBAUGH, of Tiffin, in the County of Seneca and
State of Ohio, United States of America, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:
For the manufacture of articles of glass I have produced a machine whereby
the molten glass is automatically gathered from the working chamber or pot by
a ladle and automatically delivered from the ladle into a mold for its manufacture
into the pressed article. In this operation the ladle has the function of a
measurer, wherein the exact quantity of glass is gathered from which the article
is to be press-formed, and the gathering and the delivering operations are
effected by imparting to the ladle a movement whereby it is caused to enter the
pot with a dipping movement, gather the glass, and then, rising from the surface
and withdrawing from the chamber of the pot, is caused to have a sidewise
swinging movement to carry the ladle over a mold, at which point the swing of
the ladle is arrested and it is caused to have a tilting movement to deliver the
glass into the mold for being pressed into form. In being returned then to the
pot to repeat the gathering operation the ladle is caused to be turned up in
position to again enter the pot with a gathering action. In this returning move-
ment the ladle is passed through a cooling-bath. For carrying out such operation
my improvements consist of certain novel parts and combinations of parts herein-
after specifically set forth in the claims concluding this specification. Before
specifying such claims I will describe the machine illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
The following description, read in connection with the drawings, will enable
any one skilled in the art to which my invention relates to understand its nature
and to practice it in the form which I prefer to employ it; but it will be under-
stood that my invention is not limited to the precise form herein illustrated and
described, as various modifications may be made without exceeding the scope of
the concluding claims.
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The special work for which the machine is organized is what is known as
pressed ware,' and for this purpose the provision of a measuring-ladle and
mechanism whereby it is automatically operated in its gathering and in its
delivering functions at the pot and at the mold constitute the primary features
of my present invention.
In the drawings referred to, Figure 1 represents in side elevation the said
machine, wherein the gathering-ladle is shown in the position it occupies in its
forward movement into the working put or chamber. Fig. 2 is a like view of
so much of the machine as shows the gathering-ladle as having entered the
working chamber and dipped into the surface of the glass in the position it assumes
in moving forward to gather it. Fig. 3 is a top view of the machine, the
gathering-ladle being in the position shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a like view

page_text: of the machine, the gathering-ladle being shown in the position it occupies when
withdrawn from the pot and swung around at the side of the machine to deliver
the charge of glass to the mold. Fig. 5 shows the machine in cross-section and
the ladle-carrying parts in the positions they occupy when the ladle is passing
through the cooling-bath in its return movement to the pot. Fig. 6 is an axial
section of the ladle-carrying swing-head. Fig. shows the pivotally-hung cam
whereby the ladle is swung down into the bath. Fig. S shows so much of the
machine as illustrates the gathering-ladles in duplex arrangement for operation
single machine; and Fig. 9 shows in detail the geared turn-tables, the bifur-
cated arm carried by one of the turn-tables, and the fixed roll which engages
and actuates the said arm, as I have described, to actuate the duplex ladles.
as a
The operating parts of the machine are arranged upon horizontal beams 1, which
are suitably supported and have fixed relation to and extend from the opening 2
in the working chamber or pot 3, and upon these beams a carriage A is mounted
and caused to travel toward and from said chamber to carry therein the gathering-
ladle 5, and bring it out of the chamber filled with molten glass. In this outward
movement of the carriage the ladle is caused to be swung around to the side of
the machine and to deliver the glass into the press-mold 6, located within the
radius described by the swing of the ladle. The carriage is mounted to travel
upon flanged wheels, and for this purpose the beams form ways suited to the
extent of the travel of the carriage for carrying the ladle into and out of the
pot. A turn-table 7 is suitably mounted upon the carriage, and a swing-carrier S
for the ladle is pivotally mounted upon the turn-table. As shown, the carrier
consists of a part 9 preferably tubular, having its outer head end pivoted at 10
to the turn-table and its inner end freely resting by a roll 11 upon the upper end
of a vertical spring-sustained support 12, for a purpose which I will presently
state. The ladle has an arm 13. by which it is pivoted to the end of a rod 14,
which passes through and is seated within the pivoted swing-head. In their
normal positions these parts are horizontal, being so sustained by springs so that
the ladle-arm, its pivotally connected rod, and the pivotally connected swing head
will stand in line, as shown in Fig. 1. The ladle carrying head is adapted to have
a slight vertical swing movement upon its pivoted end, and the ladle is adapted
to have a vertical swing movement upon its pivotally connected rod, whereby the
ladle will be caused to have a determined dipping and a lifting movement
simultaneously with its movement into and out of the chamber, and this is one
of the features of my invention.
.
The spring-sustained support for the ladle-carrying head consists of a stem 12.
fitted to slide vertically in a guide 15 on the carriage and provided with a spring 16.
which constantly tends to press the stem up and to maintain the swing-head,
which rests thereon, in its normal position. The provision for depressing this
stem to allow that end of the swing-head which rests upon it to have a descending
movement I will presently describe. The provision whereby the ladle is caused
to have a dipping and a lifting movement in its gathering function consists of
a lever 17, pivoted to the ladle-carrying rod 14 and connected by a link IS to a
branch arm 19 on the pivoted end of the ladle-arm. A spring 20, connecting
the lever with the ladle-carrying rod 14. constantly tends to pull the ladle to a
horizontal position and in a line with its carrying-rod, as seen in Fig. 1, and
for this purpose the branch arm of the ladle has a stop 21, which engages the
ladle-carrying rod against the pull of the spring. The provision for causing
the ladle to lip consists of a suitable projection 22 on the carriage, arranged to
engage a cam 23 of the lever 17, which in the descent of the swing-head is forced
against the said projection thereby lifting the cam-arm, so as to push back the
lever 17 against the tension of its spring 20, and pushing forward the ladle-con-
necting rod 18, allows the ladle to dip into the molten glass as it is moving into
the pot. The limiting of this dipping brings the ladle in an inclined position in
relation to its carrying-rod and in a position to skim the surface of the molten
glass as it is carried forward into the pot and thereby filled to just what it will

page_text: take by its position. For this purpose the carriage need only advance a short
distance after the ladle has been dipped into the glass, and it will be seen that the
action of the dipping device is such as to give a comparatively slow dipping
movement to the ladle and a slow rising movement to its normal position. This
rising movement commences as the carriage commences its return movement,
and the inclined cam-arm 23 of the lever 17 is relieved from the action of the
lifting projection 22, so that the spring 20 pulls back the lever and its ladle-
connecting link to bring the ladle to a level. This lifting projection is preferably
a screw rising from the carriage, and by its vertical adjustment the dipping of
the ladle is regulated and fixed by a lock-nut, so that the quantity the ladle will
take is thereby measured to suit the mold and the article to be produced. By
raising the screw the ladle will dip more. Any shape and size of ladle may be
used.
The carriage is reciprocated within certain limits preferably by a sprocket-
chain 24, connected to it and passing around sprocket wheels 25, carried by
shafts 26, mounted at each end of the fixed frame, whereby the ladle is carried to
and out of the pot or chamber within which, it will be understood, the molten
glass is maintained at a uniform level and from the surface of which the ladle
gathers a measured quantity.
The machine is operated by power in any suitable way, us by belts running on
fast and loose pulleys on the sprocket-wheel shaft, the belts being shipped by
means of a suitable shifting device which I will presently explain.
The provision whereby the swing end of the ladle-carrying head is caused
to descend consists of a lever device actuated by fixed inclines, as I will now
describe.
To a hanger 27 on the under side of the carriage is pivoted a lever of two
separate parts, one of which 28, stands forward and is adapted to engage the
lower end of the spring-sustained stem 12, on the upper end of which the swing
end of the ladle-carrying head rests. The other lever part 29, normally stands
down, as in Fig. 1, and has a short arm 30 in position to be engaged by the stem-
connected lever part 28, as in Fig. 2, in a way to pull down said stem against
the tension of its sustaining-spring 16, so that when the stem is not pulled down
it will be maintained in its norimal position, holding the ladle-connecting rod
horizontal, as in Fig. 1.
In position near the working chamber or pot is a hanger 31, fixed to the under
side of the frameways and having a fixed incline of two parts standing downward
from each side of the hanger. That side 32, of this incline which stands away
from the working chamber is adapted to receive the lower lever part 29 as the
carriage moves forward to carry the ladle into the pot, and as said lower lever part
engages and rides up the incline 32 the lever part 29 is pushed back away from
the pot and brings its short arm 30 down upon the upper lever part 28, bearing
upon and pulling it down, and thereby pulling down its spring-sustained stemi,
the descent of which allows the swing end of the ladle-carrying head to descend
gradually, and the ladle is thereby caused to have a dipping swing as it enters
the chamber or pot, as in Fig. 2. The extent of the descent of the swing-head
is limited by the action of this incline 32, and the extent of the descent of the lever
device which effects the dipping of the ladle is also limited by this incline.
Having passed the limit of the depressing action of the incline 32, which is its
highest point, the lever part 29 descends the other side 33 of the incline and
releases the depressing action upon the spring-sustained stem 12, which under the
tension of the spring elevates said stem and the ladle-carrying head, and the
engaging end of the lever part 28, acting as a stop, limits the ascent of the stem,
brings said carrying-head to a horizontal position, and supports it while moving
back. The dropping of the lever off the incline 33 allows the lever part 29 to hang
down, so that it will pass back and ride over the double incline to its normal
position, as in Fig. 1. without acting upon the spring-sustained stem in the
reverse movement of the carriage to withdraw the gathering-ladle.

page_text: It will be understood that except at the instant of reversing the movement of
the carriage the advance and return of the ladle into and from the working
chamber will be continuous. The reversal of the movement of the carriage to
withdraw the ladle from, the chamber is effected as follows: As the forward.
movement of the carriage approaches its limit it is caused, preforably by one of its
wheels, to come in contact with a slide 34 or other device movably seated upon
or connected to the carriage-way beam, and so move or act upon said slide as to
cause it by means of a connecting rod 35 to shift the operating-belts and thereby
reverse the movement of the operating-gear and move the carriage back to the
position seen in Fig. 4. For this purpose the simple shifting device shown may
be used for actuating the reversing-rod 35 to return the carriage, the said rod
connecting a lever 36, pivoted at the driving end of the machine and suitably
connected with belts 37, to shift them from a loose pulley for each helt to a fast
pulley.
The provision whereby the ladle is caused to have an outward swinging move-
ment at the side of the machine to deliver the measure of glass to the mold consisis
of an arm 3S, preferably bifurcated, normally standing from the turn-table, which
arm as the carriage moves hack is carried into engagement with a roll 39, fixed
upon the frame and located so as to cause it to act upon the arm 38 as it moves
back and turn said arm around outward, and thereby turn the turn-table and
cause the ladle carried by the turn-table to he swung around at the working side
of the machine to carry and deliver the quota of glass which has been gathered
by the alle into the press. In this operation the position of the arm becomes
reversed, so as to stand forward, having made nearly a quarter-revolution. The
roll 39, which engages the turn-table arm to effect this sidewise swinging move-
ment of the gathering-rod as it is moving back, is fixed to a bracket at the side
of the frame, and said roll is made adjustable lengthwise of the frame, or the arm
may be adjusted so as to limit the swinging movement of the ladle to bring it
exactly over the press-mold for the delivery of the glass therein. In this action
of the roll-engaging arm for swinging out the ladle while the carriage is moving
back both the carriage and the ladle are stopped at the same time by the auto-
matic action of a can-arm 38' of the belt-shifting device, which as the carriage
moves back strikes the cam-arm 391 and shifts the belt-shifting lever, which
stops the carriage, as seen in Fig. 4. by placing both belts on the loose pulleys.
As the ladle reaches a point directly over the chamber of the mold the ladle-
carrying rod is rocked, which tilts the ladle to pour out the glass into the mold,
and the means for effecting this operation I will now describe. For supporting
the ladle in its lateral swinging movements I provide a horizontal ledge or way 40.
preferably fastened to the carriage, and which extends out from its side and
terminates in a gradual incline and in a sunken seat 41, preferably concave.
whereby at the limit of the lateral swinging movement the swing-head is caused
to slide down into said way-seat and be held over and just above the top of the
mold. In descending to said seat a pin or lug 42, fixed on the ladle-carrying
rod 14, is caused to engage an arm 48, fixed to the ledge or way, which engage-
ment by arresting the swing movement of the pin 42 turns or rocks the fadle-
carrying rod and tilts the bowl a quarter of a revolution, thereby pouring out the
glass, as in Fig. 4. In this position the ladle may remain only long enough to
empty it, when the carriage is started on its return movement by the operator
moving the arm 391 of the shifting-lever inward, which at once shifts the belts
and starts the carriage forward by its chain connection with the driving-gear. As
the carriage starts forward the ladle swing-head at the same time starts to swing
forward, rising from its seat 41, and in doing so the pin 42 of the ladle-carrying
rod passes free of the arm 43 and the rod 14 is caused to be turned or rocked on
its longitudinal axis to bring the ladle-bowl to its normal position. The ladle-
carrying rod for this purpose is fitted to turn or rock in its bearings in the
swing-head within which it is confined by a collar 44 on the end of the rod, while
a spring 45, fastened to the swing end 44 of the head and by its other end to the

page_text: ladle-carrying rod, acts by torsion to bring the ladle-bowl in its normal position
and to so hold it while being entered and withdrawn from the pot and
while being swung out at the side to deliver the charge and swung
back in position to receive another charge. In effecting and maintaining
this position of the ladle the torsional action of the spring is controlled by a pin
or lug 46 on the ladle-carrying rod engaging a stop 47 on the swing-head, said
pin being preferably on the outer end of said rod and the stop on the pivoted end
of the swing-head. In Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 the torsion-spring is seen connected
to the rod 14 by the collar of the pin 42 and to the end 442 of the head and by
its other end to the ladle-carrying rod, acts by torsion to bring the ladle-bowl in
its normal position and to so hold it while being entered and withdrawn
from the pot and while being swung out at the side to deliver the
charge and swung back in position to receive another charge. In effecting
and maintaining this position of the ladle the torsional action of the spring is
controlled by a pin or lug 46 on the ladle-carrying rod engaging a stop 47 on the
swing-head, said pin being preferably on the outer end of said rod and the stop
on the pivoted end of the swing-head. In Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 the torsion-spring
is seen connected to the rod 14 by the collar of the pin 42 and to the end 44% of the
swing-head, so that the torsional force of the spring is constantly exerted to prevent
the tilting of the ladle and to return it when tilted. Preferably the spring-head
is mounted by trunnions in brackets rising from the turn-table, and the swing
end of the head is provided with the roll 11, whereby it rolls off the upper end
of the spring-sustained stem 12, on which the spring-head rests directly upon
the ledge or way 40, and thereby renders easy the swing movements of the head.
The brackets form lateral supports for the swing movements of the ladle-carrying
head. As the carriage advances with the ladle-bowl held horizontal the normal
condition of the acting end of the lever cam arm 23 is about on a level with the
acting end of the stop 22, and it is by the relation of these two co-acting parts
that the descent of the swing-head will bring the said cam-arm in contact with
the stop, and it is by such contact that the weight of the swing-head is made the
means for bringing the ladle-bowl to a skimming position in the chamber, and
this constitutes one of the features of my invention.
In Fig. the shifting-lever is in position, having placed the belts on the loose
pulleys 48, which are on each side of the fast pulley, and stopped the backward
movement of the carriage to give time to deliver the glass into the mold. As
soon as the glass is delivered from the tilted ladle the carriage is started forward
by shifting the belts, by hand or otherwise, and the ladle, by the action of the
turn-table arm engaging the fixed roll, swings back into line with the frame and
is carried forward to repeat the operation while the operator is finishing an
article. In this shifting movement the belt-shifting rod 35, with its slide 4, is
drawn back, which places the said shifting slide in position again as the carriage
moves forward to carry the ladle into the pot.
To keep the heat of the ladle-bowl comparatively low, provision is made for
causing it to pass through a cooling-bath after having delivered the charge of
glass and while being swung back to the pot. This provision consists of a tank 49
for containing water placed between the mold and the pot and of sufficient length
to allow the fadle to remain in the water-trough during a part of its travel to the
pot. For this purpose the ladle is caused to swing down in position preferably
at right angles to its carrying-rod, as seen in Fig. 5. The means for swinging
down the ladle-bowl into the bath consists of a suitable cam 50, carried by the
carriage ledge or way in a position to engage the lever-arm 23 of the fadle-
dipping device, as seen in Fig. 4, whereby such engagement lifts the lever-arm 23
against the tension of its connected spring 20 and allows the ladle-bowl to swing
lown by its lever-connecting rod 18 into the bath as the ladle is swinging toward
the pot. This cam 50 I prefer to form with an inclined part 51, Fig. 7, and with
1. horizontal part 50, so that as the lever arm 23 strikes the cam inclined part the
adle-bowl will thereby descend into the bath, and as the lever-arm is passing

page_text: over the horizontal cam part the ladle-bowl will remain in the bath. As the lever-
arm leaves the horizonta! part of the cam the ladle-bowl will be caused to swing
up out of the bath and resume its normal position.
1 prefer to pivotally hang the cam 50 to a bracket 51 on the carriage ledge
or way and to form it so that a weight 52 will hold it in its normal position, as
in Fig. 7, to receive the action of the lever-arm 23 as the ladle is moving to the
pot but when the ladle is moving to the mold the lever-arm when it strikes the
pivoted cam will cause it to swing out of the way and give no resistance to
the movement of the swing-head or against the lever-arm.
It will be understood that whether the swing-head is moving from the pot or
from the mold the lever-arm 23 will stand down in the path of the hanging cam 50
and that the weighted end of the latter will engage a stop 533 to hold the cam from
swinging when the lever-arm is in engagement with it to bring the ladle into
the bath.
I have described the machine as operating with a single ladle; but two ladles
may be arranged for identical operation as shown in Fig. 8. The provision for
effecting the operation of the two ladles consists in mounting each ladle-carrying
head upon the carriage by separate turn-tables and gearing these turn-tables
together, so that the swinging movement of one at one side of the machine will
to the same extent effect and govern the extent of the movement of the other
at the other side of the machine. For this purpose the turn-tables are formed
with or provided with engaging gear 54 of equal size, so that they will be operated
synchronously. In this case the means, such as the bifurcated arm, for effecting
the swinging movements of the ladles may be arranged beneath the carriage and
connected with one only of the turn-tables, as shown in Fig. 9. The bifurcated
arm 38 can be set to give the proper movements to the ladle-carriers, and this arm
operates both ladles in relation to the one working chamber or pot and to a mold
for each ladle by means of the geared turn-tables. In the forward movement of
the carriage the swing-heads of both ladles are caused to swing together in
parallel relation and move into and out of the chamber in such relation, while in
the outward movement of the carriage the swing-heads of both ladles, after leaving
the chamber, open, swinging the ladles out at the opposite sides of the machine,
each ladle to its working mold.
The machine by its automatic operation takes the place in the factory of a
skilled workman, and its operation gives the gathering-ladle positive and exact
movements for every gathering in the pot and from the pot to the press, with the
gathered glass male uniform with every charge. In such operation the recipro
cation of the carriage and the swinging movements of the ladle are determined
as to the time of operation of each, so that the ladle will be brought into longi-
tudinal relation with the carriage in its advance into the chamber, while the
outward-swinging movement of the ladle will be brought to a stop at the same
time the rearward movement of the carriage is stopped. It is also important
to note that the ladle-bowl, having taken a measured quantity of glass, is brought
to a level position as it is being withdrawn from the chamber and is held level
by the co-acting functions of the springs which connect with the ladle and the
ladle-carrying rod and this is a feature of my invention. It is also important
to note that the provision whereby the swing-head is free to descend is for a
twofold purpose-that is to say, to lower the ladle-carrying rod as it advances.
and thereby lessen the inclination of the ladle to properly place the bowl for
skimming, and to utilize the weight of the swing-head and its ladle-connecting
parts as the means whereby the fadle-connecting lever is actuated to cause such
descent of the ladle. All the functions of the ladle are rendered automatic by
the reciprocating movements of the carriage and the vertical movements of the
swing-head, and these are matters which constitute features of my invention.
It will be understood that many of the devices above described are not
absolutely essential to the invention. This will be indicated in the concluding
claims, as in any given claim the omission of an element or the omission of

page_text: reference to the particular features of the elements mentioned is intended to be a
formal declaration of the fact that the omitted elements or features are not
essential to the invention therein described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. For gathering and conveying glass from a melting chamber to a mold, the
combination with a reciprocating carriage, a rod pivotally mounted thereon and
a ladle pivotally jointed on said rod, of means connecting said rod and ladle to
maintain them in alinement, a device on the carriage arranged to be engaged by
the ladle connections. to cause the ladle to dip on its pivot on the advance move
ment of the carriage, means constructed and arranged to cause said ladle
connections to effect such engagement, means constructed and arranged to cause
the ladle-carrying rod to have a laterally-swinging movement, and means on the
carriage for engaging the ladle-carrying rod on its outward swing whereby to cause
the ladle to be tilted.
2. In a machine for gathering glass and conveying it from a melting-chamber
to a mold, the combination with a reciprocating carriage, a rod pivotally mounted
thereon, and a ladle jointed upon said rod, of means connecting the ladle and the
rod to maintain them in alinement under yielding tension, a device on the carriage
arranged to be engaged by said ladle connections and means for depressing said rod
on the advance movement of the carriage whereby to effect the engagement of the
ladle connections with the said carriage device to cause the dipping of the ladle
on its joint in the operation of gathering a measured charge.
3. In a machine of the class described and in combination with a reciprocating
carriage, a swing-head pivotally mounted on said carriage, and a rod carried by
said swing-head, of a ladle jointed to flex on said rod, a bearing 22 on the carriage
and a pivotally-mounted device on said rod arranged to engage said bearing on
the forward movement of the carriage to cause the ladle to dip to gather a charge
and means on the carriage arranged to engage means 42 on the rod whereby to
till the ladle to deliver the charge.
4. In a machine of the class described, the combination of a pivotally-mounted
ladle, a carrying-rod therefor and a swing-head for said carrying-rod, a lever
pivoted on said red, a link connection for the ladle and said lever; a spring con-
necting said lever and rod for elevating the ladle, a stop for limiting such
elevation, means for operating said lever, whereby the descent of the ladle is
effected and determined, and a reciprocating carriage on which said swing-head
is pivotally mounted.
5. In a machine of the class described, the combination of a pivotally-mounted
ladle, a carrying-rod therefor and a swing-head for said carrying-rod, a lever
pivoted on said rod, a link connecting the ladle and said lever, a spring connecting
said lever and rod, a stop on the carriage co-acting with said lever to limit the
descent of the ladle a stop on the lalle co-acting with the rod to limit the ascent
of the ladle, and a reciprocating carriage upon which the swing-head is pivotally
mounted.
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6. In a ladling machine, and in combination with a reciprocating carriage,
rod pivotally mounted on said carriage, a ladle pivotally mounted on said rod,
means including a hearing or projection on said carriage and a device pivoted on
said rod for engaging the fadle and said carriage-hearing for causing the ladle to dip
and for limiting the dip, and means including said pivoted device for effecting and
for limiting the ascent of the ladle, the means for effecting said movements of the
ladle being controlled by the reciprocation of the carriage.
7. In a machine for automatically ladling glass in the manufacture of glass-
ware and in combination with a reciprocating carriage, a ladle, a rod to which
said ladle is pivoted, a swing-head for said rod pivotally mounted on the carriage,
means, including a pivoted device on said rod and a bearing on the carriage co-acting

page_text: with said pivoted device to tilt the ladle on the forward movement of the carriage
and means arranged and actuated to cause the weight of said swing-head to effect
such dipping of the ladle.
8. In combination, in a machine of the class described, with a reciprocating
carriage, of a ladle, a rod to which the ladle is pivoted, a pivotally-mounted swing-
head on said carriage carrying said rod, means including a pivoted device on said
rod connecting the rod and the ladle for maintaining their alinement, and means
arranged and constructed to engage said connecting means on the forward move-
ment of the carriage whereby the ladle is caused to advance into the working
chamber with an automatically-controlled dipping skimming movement.
9. The combination with a reciprocating carriage of a ladle, a rod to which the
ladle is pivoted, a pivotally-mounted swing-head carrying said rod, a turn-table
upon said carriage carrying said swing-head, means connecting the rod and the
Jadle for maintaining their alinement, a hearing part rising on the carriage, means
constructed and arranged to cause the ladle-and-rod connection to engage said
carriage-bearing part, means operating to turn said rod upon its longitudinal
axis to tilt the ladle, a torsion-spring connecting the rod and swing-head for
returning the ladle from its tilted position and means operating to swing out the
ladle to its point of tilting.
10. In a machine for gathering glass in the manufacture of glassware, and in
combination with a reciprocating carriage. a ladle, a rod on which it is pivotally
mounted, a lever on the rod connecting the ladle, a spring connecting the lever
and rod, a screw 22 on the carriage for engagement with said lever and a stop
carried by the ladle-arm for engagement with its carrying-rod, a lifting and
depressing device for the ladle mounted on the carriage and a fixed device co-
acting with said lifting device, the several elements connected and arranged for
operation by the reciprocation of the carriage.
11. The combination of a ladle, a rod upon which it is pivotally mounted, said
rod mounted to automatically turn upon its longitudinal axis for the purpose of
tilting the ladle to deliver the glass means for holding the ladle and its carrying-
rod in alinement during such movements, means constructed and arranged to
turn said rod to tili the ladle. means constructed, and arranged to
swing the ladle from the glass-containing chamber to deliver the glass, means
constructed and arranged to limit the tilting of the ladle, and means constructed
and arranged to return the ladle to a level position.
12. In a machine for gathering glass in the manufacture of glassware and in com-
bination with a reciprocating carriage, and a turn-table thereon, a swing-head
on said turn-table, a ladle, a rod, journaled in said swing-head and on which the
ladle is pivotally jointed. a lever pivoted on said rod, means for connecting the
lever and ladle, a screw on the carriage, means constructed and arranged to cause
said lever to engage with the screw, a torsion-spring connecting the rod and
swing-head, a stop 46 on the red engaging the swing-head against the torsional
action of the spring, a pin 42 on the rod, means for laterally swinging the ladle.
and an arm 43 on the carriage adapted to engage the rod-pin 42 whereby to tilt
the ladle against the torsional action of the spring the said elements constructed
and arranged to be actuated by the reciprocation of the carriage.
13. In combination, in a machine for gathering glass in the manufacture of
glassware, a reciprocating carriage, a turn-table thereon, a swing-head pivotally
mounted on the turn-table, a rod adapted to turn in its longitudinal axis within
said swing-head, a ladle pivotally mounted on said rod, means constructed and
arranged to actuate said ladle to gather a charge in the way described, means
whereby the ladle is swung out at the side of the machine, means constructed and
arranged to tilt the ladle to deliver the charge. a cooling-bath, and means con-
structed and arranged to turn down the ladle into and carry it through said bath
in its return movement.
14. In a machine for gathering glass in the manufacture of glassware, and in
combination with a carriage and a ladle pivotally mounted thereon, mechanism

page_text: whereby the ladle is caused to be presented to take up a charge, mechanism
whereby it is swung out at the side of the machine, mechanism whereby it is
tilted to deliver the charge, a cooling-bath in the return path of the ladle and a
cam on said carriage adapted to engage and actuate the ladle to cause it to be
swung down into the cooling-bath and permit it to resume its normal position in
leaving said bath.
15. In combination in a machine for gathering glass in the manufacture of
glassware, a gathering-ladle and means constructed and arranged to operate the
ladle to gather glass in a measured quantity from a working chamber, and to swing
the ladle out at the side of the machine to deliver the gather, a cooling-bath
located in the bath of the laterally-swinging ladle, and means constructed and
arranged to operate to cause the empty ladle to be swung down into said bath and
to be returned to its normal position on its way to receive a charge.
16. In a machine for gathering glass in the manufacture of glassware, and in
combination with a carriage, a ladle-carrier pivotally mounted thereon a ladle
pivotally mounted on said carrier, mechanism whereby the ladle is caused to be
presented to take up a charge, swung out at the side of the machine and tilted
to deliver the charge, a cooling-bath in the return path of the empty ladle, a
lever device connecting the ladle and its carrier, a cam device pivotally mounted
on said carriage in the path of the lever device, whereby the ladle is caused to
bc swung down into said bath and returned to its normal position in the way
described.
17. In a machine for gathering glass in the manufacture of glassware, and in
combination with a carriage, a ladle-carrier pivotally mounted thereon a ladle
pivotally mounted on said carrier, mechanism whereby the ladle is caused to be
presented to take up a charge swung out at the side of the machine and
tilted to deliver the charge, a cooling bath in the return path of the
empty ladle, and mechanism whereby it is caused to be swung down into
said bath and return to its normal position, consisting of the weighted cam
device 50 pivotally mounted on the carriage, the lever-arm 23 pivotally mounted
on the ladle-carrier and connected to the pivoted laille, and the spring 20 con-
necting said lever-arm and the ladle-carrier, the said weighted cam device being
adapted to yield to prevent actuating said lever-arm in the outward swinging
movement of the ladle.
1S. In a ladling-machine and in combination with a carriage, a rod pivotally
mounted thereon, a ladle provided with a handle having direct pivot connection
with said rod, means pivoted on said rod having direct connection with the pivoted
end of the ladle-handle, means for rocking said rod on its axis to tilt the ladle
and for limiting such rocking movement, and mechanism connecting the carriage
and its actuating power whereby the said means for dipping and tilting the ladle
are actuated and controlled by the movements of the carriage.
19. In a ladling-machine, a pair of ladles geared together, means to reciprocate
them and to gather in each a quota from a working chamber, means to swing
them from and toward each other, and means to tilt them, whereby the swinging
movements of one ladle are effected and controlled by the swinging movements
of the other.
20. In a machine for gathering glass in the manufacture of glassware, a pair
of ladles, each supported on an independent pivot and geared together for syn-
chronous swinging from and toward each other, a carriage upon which the pair
of ladles is mounted, and mechanism to cause the reciprocation of the carriage
to carry the pair of ladles into and from the chamber to gather and bring away each
a measure and mechanism to cause the ladles to swing out from each other and
to be tilted to deliver the measures in the continuous operation of the machine.
21. In a machine for gathering glass in the manufacture of glassware and in
combination with a frame, a carriage, means for reciprocating it, a pair of ladles,
a swing-head carrier for each ladle, a turn-table for each swing-head, a pair of
equal gears engaging said turn-tables, mechanism including engaging devices

page_text: on the swing-head and frame operating to swing said swing-head carriers laterally
toward and from each other and mechanism for tilting the ladles at the limit of
their outward swinging movements, whereby the ladles are moved together in
parallel relation with a skimming gathering action and outwardly swung and
tilted to deliver the charges.
22. In a ladling-machine, and in combination with a ladle a rod to which
the ladle is pivotally mounted, a pivotally mounted swing-head within which
said rod is fitted to rock, and a support for said swing-head, a torsion-spring
connecting said rod and swing-head and a lug on said rod engaging said swing-
head to hold the ladle in position to fill against the tension of the spring,
mechanism constructed and arranged to reciprocate the ladle, mechanismi con-
structed and arranged to swing the ladle laterally, and mechanism constructed
and arranged to tilt the ladle against the torsion of said spring.
23. In a machine for gathering glass and conveying it from the melting chamber
to the mold, a laille and a carrying-rod to which it is pivoted, in combination
with means to reciprocate the ladle, means pivotally connecting a second pivot-
joint of the ladle with its carrying rod, and means cooperating with said second-
joint connections to cause the ladle to dip in moving forward and to rise in moving
backward, and means cooperating with said carrying-rod to cause it to swing
laterally to tilt the ladle and to cause it to resume its normal holding position,
all the said functions of the ladle being effected and controlled by the reciprocating
movements of the carriage through the ladle connections.
24. In a machine for gathering and delivering glass, a spring-sustained ladle,
pivotally mounted, means constructed and arranged to cause the ladle to dip upon
its pivot against the tension of its sustaining-spring, and means constructed and
arranged for reciprocating said ladle into and from a working chamber.
25. In a machine for gathering glass and in combination with a reciprocating
carriage, a spring-sustained ladle pivotally mounted on said carriage, and means
connecting the laddle at its pivot with said spring, means constructed and arranged
and cooperating whereby on the advance of the carriage to the working chamber
the ladle by its connections is caused to dip in the operation of gathering a
charge and to be returned on the retreat of the carriage to its normal position by
the tension of its connected spring.
26. In a ladling-machine and in combination with a reciprocating carriage, a
rod pivoted at one end to said carriage, a ladle provided with a handle having
direct pivot connection with the other end of said rod, means supporting the
ladle-carrying end of the rod, a lever device pivoted directly on said rod, means
pivotally connecting the ladle-handle to said pivoted device, means fixed on the
carriage for engaging the pivoted device, means whereby such engagement is
effected, and mechanism for reciprocating the carriage whereby in its advance
movement the ladle-carrying rod is caused to engage the pivoted device with the
fixed device of the carriage to effect the dipping function of the ladle in the
operation of gathering the charge.
27. In an organized machine for gathering glass and in combination with a
reciprocating carriage, of a rod pivotally mounted on said carriage, a ladle pivoted
to flex on the end of said rod, a device pivotally mounted on said rod and cou-
nected to the ladle and having a spring connection with said rod, means on the
carriage arranged to engage the pivoted ladle-connecting device, and means
including a pivotally-mounted carrier for said rod arranged and constructed to
actuate by the pressure of said pivoted carrier upon the pivoted ladle-connecting
device to cause the ladle to dip to gather a measured charge from a working
chamber in the way described.
28. In a machine of the class described. the combination of a reciprocating
carriage, a rod device pivotally mounted thereon, a ladle pivotally mounted on
said rod device, connections constructed and arranged to engage the rod device
and the ladle to maintain the latter normally horizontal, means constructed and
arranged to engage the said rod device to hold the ladle from tilting, a vertically-

page_text: yielding device on the carriage for supporting the ladle-rod device, means for
depressing said yielding device, a fixed device on the carriage arranged to be
engaged by the ladle connection when depressed whereby to cause the ladle to
dip in its forward movement, means arranged and constructed to cause the carriage
to swing laterally, and means constructed and arranged to engage said rod device
in its outward swing whereby to cause it to tilt the ladle.
29. In a ladling-machine and in combination with a reciprocating carriage, a
ladle pivotally mounted on said carriage, and mechanism including connections
with the pivoted end of the ladle whereby it is caused to dip with a gathering
function, means whereby the ladle is caused to have a lateral swinging movement,
means connected to the ladle and including a fixed part of the frame, whereby
the ladle is caused to tilt, and means connected to the ladle whereby to limit its
dipping movement, the said movements of the ladle being effected by the recipro-
cating movements of the carriage.
30. In a ladling-machine and in combination with a reciprocating carriage, a
ladle pivotally mounted thereon, means arranged to hold the ladle level with a
yielding force, means on the ladle-rod connected with the ladle and arranged
to push it in dipping movement against such force, means to cause the ladle to
swing laterally and means to cause the ladle to tilt, the said several means being
connected with the ladle, and means on the carriage arranged to impart a pushing
force on said ladle connections to cause the ladle to dip; the several movements of
the ladle being effected and controlled solely by the movements of the carriage.
31. In a ladling machine and in combination a reciprocating carriage, a rod
normally parallel with said carriage and pivoted thereon and a ladle provided
with a handle pivoted normally in alinement with and on said rod, a device
pivoted on said rod and connected to the ladle-handle above said rod and a
separate projection arranged on the carriage for engaging said pivoted device and
means for reciprocating the carriage to effect such engagement to cause the ladle
to dip in its movement to gather the charge.
32. In a machine of the character described and in combination with a recipro-
cating carriage, a rod pivoted at one end thereon, a ladle provided with a handle
pivoted directly on the other end of said rod, means constructed and arranged on
the rod connecting it with the ladle-handle, and a fixed device on the carriage
arranged to engage said rod connection to cause the ladle to dip on the forward
movement of the carriage.
33. In a machine for gathering glass and conveying it from a melting-chamber
to a mold, and in combination with a carriage, a ladle provided with a handle
having direct pivotal connection with the carriage, means constructed and
arranged to be actuated by the forward movement of the carriage to cause the
ladle to dip in gathering the charge, means constructed and arranged to be
operated by the rearward movement of the carriage to cause the ladle to swing in
position to discharge the gather, and means also constructed and arranged to be
operated by said rearward movement to cause the ladle to tilt to empty the charge,
and means for reciprocating the carriage whereby to effect the several functions
stated.
34. In a machine of the class described and in combination with a reciprocating
carriage, a rod pivoted at one end thereon, a ladle pivoted directly on the other
end of said rod, means constructed and arranged to cause the descent of the rod on
its pivot, and means constructed and arranged to cause the ladle to have a separate
dipping movement on its pivot as the carriage moves forward.
35. In a machine of the character described and in combination with a recipro-
cating carriage, a rod pivoted at one end thereon, a ladle pivoted directly on the
other end of said rod, means constructed and arranged to cause the descent of the
rod on its pivot, means constructed and arranged to be actuated by the descent
of the rod to cause the ladle to dip on its pivot as the carriage moves forward.
and mean's constructed and arranged to separately cause the ascent of the rod and

page_text: the ascent of the ladle at the same time as the carriage moves back to bring the
rod and ladle to their normal position.
36. In a machine of the.class described and in combination with a reciprocating
carriage, a rod mounted to rock axially on said carriage, a ladle pivotally mounted
on said rod, a spring to hold the ladle level, a torsion-spring to hold the ladle
from tilting, and means to cause said rod to rock and tilt the ladle against the
action of said torsion-spring.
37. In a machine of the character described, and in combination with a recipro-
cating carriage, a rod pivoted at one end thereon, a ladle pivoted directly on the
other end of said rod, means constructed and arranged to cause the descent of the
rod, means constructed and arranged to cause the ladle to dip on its pivot at an
inclination greater than that of the rod as the carriage moves forward, and means
constructed and arranged to cause the rod and the ladle to resume their relation
of alinement as the carriage moves back.
38. In a ladling-machine, a carriage, a rod pivoted thereon, a ladle provided
with a handle pivoted at its end directly on said rod, means pivoted on said rod
directly connecting with the pivoted end of the ladle-handle, and means actuated
by the movements of the carriage whereby said pivoted means is actuated to cause
the ladle to dip as the carriage moves forward.
Dated this 9th day of March 1899.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.