Patent ID: 8099980

Claim:
A method for operating the blow mold of a blow station of an I.S. machine to transform a parison having a formed finish into a container within the blow mold wherein the blow mold includes a pair of opposed side molds that are movable towards and away from each other, the method comprising: determining when a parison is located at the blow station; when it has been determined that a parison is located at the blow station, displacing the side molds from a remote location to a cracked position around the parison whereat a selected separation exists between the side molds; said selected separation being selected so that a parison, when located within the blow mold with the side molds located at the cracked position, will be supported by the side molds while the parison reheats; and displacing the side molds to a closed position at the completion of the parison reheating and blowing the parison into a container in the closed blow mold.