Takeout apparatus for glass forming machines

Claim 1

A WARE TAKEOUT DEVICE FOR A GLASS FORMING MACHINE IN WHICH A PAIR OF FORMED WARE IS CARRIED BY NECK MOLDS TO A PREDETERMINED POSITION AND RELEASED BY OPENING OF THE NECK MOLDS, COMPRISING A PAIR OF RETRACTABLE, WERE RECEIVING DEAD PLATES NORMALLY POSITIONED AT SAID PREDETERMINED POSITION, MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID DEAD PLATES FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY RAISING SAID DEAD PLATES INTO WARE RECEIVING POSITION IN COAXIAL ALIGNMENT IWTH THE BOTTOM OF THE WARE AND FOR LOWERING SAID DEAD PLATES AND WARE CARRIED THEREBY UNTIL THE BOTTOM OF THE WARE IS IN A FIXED HORIZONTAL PLANE, A PAIR OF WIND BOXES HAVING FLAT, WARE SUPPORTING, SURFACES LYING IN SAID HORIZONTAL PLANE SPACED FROM SAID DEAD PLATES AND MOUNTED PARALLEL THERETO, MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID DEAD PLATES FOR HORIZONTALLY SHIFTING SAID DEAD PLATES AS A UNIT INTO WIND BOX RECEIVING POSITION AFTER LOWERING THEREOF, A CONTINUOUSLY MOVING CONVEYOR ADJACENT SAID WIND BOXES AND HAVING ITS UPPER SURFACE MOVING SAID HORIZONTAL PLANE AWAY FROM SAID WIND BOXES ON THE SIDE OPPOSITE FROM THE DEAD PLATES, MEANS MOUNTED BESIDED THE WIND BOXES FOR MOVING SAID WARE LATERALLY FROM SAID DEAD PLATES TO SAID WIND BOXES AND SIMULTANEOUSLY LATERALLY MOVING WARE POSITIONED ON THE WIND BOXES ONTO SAID MOVING CONVEYOR, AND MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE MOVEMENT OF SAID WARE MOVING MEANS FOR CONTROLLING THE OPERATION OF SAID DEAD PLATE RAISING AND LOWERING MEANS, WHEREBY SAID WARE IS LOWERED FROM THE FORMING MACHINE AND MOVED STEP-BYSTEP FROM THE DEAD PLATES TO THE SUPPORT MEANS.