US Patent Issued to Owens-Brockway Glass Container on March 3 for "Multiple gob feeder, gob feeding method and related system, and feeder orifice" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,438, issued on March 3, was assigned to Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc. (Perrysburg, Ohio).

"Multiple gob feeder, gob feeding method and related system, and feeder orifice" was invented by Walter Anderson (Maumee, Ohio), Javier Reyes (Perrysburg, Ohio), John Holmes-Libbis (Perrysburg, Ohio), Bernhard Altendorfer (Waldkirchen, Germany) and Alexandra Fuller (Neuburg am Inn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of loading glass gobs into blank molds includes producing glass gobs falling from laterally spaced orifices along falling gob axes, and receiving the glass gobs into laterally spaced blank molds having blank mold c...