Patent ID: 8429989

Claim:
An apparatus for rotating glass containers that are sequentially indexed into and out of an inspection station supporting a glass container to be inspected in vertical fashion on a surface, the inspection station having rollers for supporting the glass container in the inspection station for rotation on a side opposite a side of the glass container to be engaged by said apparatus for rotating glass containers, said apparatus for rotating glass containers comprising: a base member for installation in an adjustably fixed position with respect to the inspection station on the side of the glass container in the inspection station opposite the side of the glass container supported by the rollers; a pair of guides coupled to the base member; a carriage member slidingly mounted between the pair of guides coupled to said base member in a linearly moveable fashion, relative to the base member, toward and away from the glass container in the inspection station, said carriage member having opposite proximal and distal ends, said distal end being closest to the inspection station and said proximal end being furthest from the inspection station; a ware rotate wheel that is rotatably mounted on said carriage member near said distal end thereof such that a portion of said ware rotate wheel extends outwardly proximate said distal end of said carriage member; a motor having a drive belt pulley driven by said motor; and a ware rotate belt mounted on said drive belt pulley and said ware rotate wheel, said motor thereby driving both said ware rotate belt and said ware rotate wheel with the ware rotate belt configured to pull the whole carriage member toward the glass container as belt tension increases; wherein a portion of said ware rotate belt is located upon the portion of said ware rotate wheel that extends outwardly proximate said distal end of said carriage member, said ware rotate belt contacting the side of the glass container in the inspection station opposite the side of the glass container supported by the rollers to rotate the glass container.