Patent ID: 7856852

Claim:
A mechanism for delivering a cooling fluid to the interior of a hot glass bottle after it has been formed in an I.S. Machine comprising: a vertical post having a vertical slot, a lead screw within said post, a motor mounted on said post for rotating said lead screw, a nut operatively associated with said lead screw, a lower guide arm secured to said post, an upper cooling tube assembly including a plenum chamber having a bottom wall, at least one vertical cooling tube mounted on the bottom wall of said plenum chamber, and a slide housing for sliding vertically on said vertical post above said lower guide arm, said slide housing including a key extending through said vertical slot, said key interconnecting a collar coupled to said slide housing and said nut, wherein said upper cooling tube assembly releasably coupled to said slide housing, said upper cooling tube assembly is slidingly vertically displaceable independent of said lower guide arm from a first up position to a second down position, said lower guide arm including a vertical through hole including a tube guide slidingly receiving each of said at least one cooling tubes.