Patent ID: 8381898

Claim:
An apparatus for horizontally pushing articles, particularly hollow glass articles, from a stationary depositing plate of an IS glass molding machine onto a belt conveyor that moves rectilinearly with a uniform speed, comprising: a transfer pusher having an end that faces the articles and on which is situated at least one pushing finger intended for contacting the articles to be pushed; a drive system that comprises a first rotary drive that is functionally connected to the other end of the transfer pusher and a second rotary drive that can be controlled independently of the first rotary drive, wherein said drive system is designed for realizing a transfer curve that begins at a receiving point on the depositing plate and ends at a transfer point on the belt conveyor and lies in a horizontal plane by superimposing two rotational movements generated by the first and second rotary drives; wherein said one end of the transfer pusher is arranged rotatably in order to realize the first rotational movement about a vertical axis of a shaft generated by the first rotary drive; wherein the transfer curve is otherwise realized by superimposing the first rotational movement with only the second rotational movement that is generated by the second rotary drive and takes place about a stationary axle extending parallel to and at a distance from the shaft; wherein the second rotary drive is functionally connected to a rotary plate about said stationary axle, and wherein the shaft that carries the transfer pusher on its upper end is rotatably supported in the rotary plate; and wherein the first rotary drive is rigidly connected to the rotary plate such that the transfer curve is realized in the form of the superposition of the rotation of the rotary plate about said stationary axle caused by the second rotary drive and the rotation about the axis of the shaft that is caused by the first rotary drive that moves with the rotary plate together with the shaft.