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Feeder

We make your glass come true

Wide range of gob Feeders according to the end user production needs.
All the Olivotto Glass technologies feeders are designed to feed all the range of forming machines from presses to spinning to Press and Blow and Blow Blow machines. Modular construction: the plunger, the shears and the tube rotation could be supplied as stand alone mechanism (in an existing feeder) or integrated in a complete package.

The Feeder could be:
Mechanical Feeder, traditional system, interchangeable with existing feeder. Single or double gobs operations.
Fully Servo Control Gob Feeders: servo Feeder equipment based in the latest Control technologies allow a very high accuracy control loop and movements repeatability, high flexibility in production change and low maintenance operations.

Main features

Speed range: 3 to 200 cuts/min
Gob Weight range: 20 gr (0,7 oz). To 12 kg (26,4 lb).
Suitable for Single, Double, Triple gob run
Shears:
  • Parallel cut type indipendent arms servo driven
  • Parallel cut type indipendent arms linear servo driven
  • Polar cut type indipendent arms servo driven
  • Mechanical cam drive or pneumatic drive (mechanical feeder only)
Plunger:
  • Servo driven with indipendent servo control
  • Mechanical cam drive (mechanical feeder only)
Tube:
  • Revolving tube servo driven with speed control rotation direction control and special rotation cycles
  • Electric adjustment of tube height
Automatic gob weight control (servo feeder only)
User friendly operator interface and maintenance operations
Spanker device (glass retaining device)
Heated orifice ring

Configurations

Model EF10Model EF10DModel EF15DModel EF20
Type of ControlFully Electronics
Individual Plunger ControlAvailable
Pull (T/24 h)5-2010-3015-6035-120
SpoutType144 STD144 DEEP81 DEEP503 DEEP
Depth6"10"10"11"
Dia5"5"7" or 8"7" or 10"
Tube dia5" or 6"5" or 6"7" or 8"7" or 8" or 9" or 10" or 11"
Orifice Ring (max. dia.)Single gob operation4" 1/24" 1/26" 1/26" 1/2
Double gob operation2"2"3"3" 3/4
Triple gob operation2" 1/4
ShearsCutParallel
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Polar
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ControlServo indipendent