Inventors:
John William Burns - Westminster CO
Dennis Ray Erickson - Arvada CO
Jack Devin McKeehan - Conifer CO
James Allen Gulka - Arvada CO
Assignee:
Coors Brewing Company - Golden CO
International Classification:
C03B 940
US Classification:
65 2912, 65158, 65160, 65261, 209524, 209526, 264 401
Abstract:
A glass bottle production line comprising a bottle mold which has a plurality of mold cavities arranged in a predetermined order for forming bottles from glass parisons and for transferring the bottles to a conveyor in a predetermined sequence corresponding to the predetermined order of the mold cavities. The conveyor has a hot end portion and a cold end portion for receiving bottles from the bottle mold at an elevated temperature at the hot end portion and conveying the bottles to the cold end portion. A hot bottle inspector located at a fixed inspection station along the conveyor at the hot end portion non-touchingly inspects the bottles as the bottles are conveyed past the inspection station by the conveyor. A mold transfer signal and bottle detection signal are processed to determine the mold cavity used to produce the bottle detected at the inspectors station.