Patent ID: 7533542

Claim:
A mechanism for delivering a cooling fluid to the interior of a glass bottle formed in an I.S. Machine comprising: at least one vertical cooling tube, a cooling tube supporting structure having a bottom wall, a hole in said bottom wall for each vertical cooling tube, a hollow releaseable gripping device for each cooling tube, said releaseable gripping device including a collet nut, a collet holder including a first threaded end portion for receiving said nut and a second end portion, a cooling tube-receiving through hole in said collet holder extending from the end of said first threaded end portion to the end of said second end portion, a collet in said collet nut for gripping said cooling tube, an inside/outside seal, said inside seal having a dimension selected to seal said cooling tube and said outside seal having a dimension selected to seal said through hole, and a fastening device for clamping the collet holder to said bottom wall with the second end portion of said collet holder communicating with the hole in the bottom wall.