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Water at 70 degrees F has 1/100 poise Light oil at 70 degrees F has 1 poise Heavy oil at 70 degrees F has 7 poise Honey or syrup at room temperature is 100 poise Molasses in January (32 degrees F) is 10,000 poise Asphalt is from 1,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 poise depending on the temperature
A gob is a specific amount of molten glass, which is eventually formed into a glass container. The shape of the gob is important because it affects the way it enters into the Individual Section Machine. There is an optimum gob shape for each glass container produced. Gob length and diameter are dependent on the shape and weight of the container. Consider these facts about the size, weight and heat content of a gob during formation: Gob weights vary from oz. to 48 oz. Gob lengths typically range from inch to 6 inches. Gob diameter can be from 3/8 of an inch to 4 inches. A 7 oz. gob is typical for a 12 oz. beer bottle. At a temperature of 2,100 degrees F, the viscosity of a gob has the consistency of thick honey and it is uniform throughout. A typical 7 oz. gob contains 275 BTUs; 40 gobs contain the same amount of heat as a small kerosene heater puts out in 1 hour. An I.S. Machine can produce up to 700 bottles per minute.
The machines have anywhere from 6 to 20 sections and each section can produce one to four bottles simultaneously.
The total time need to produce a container varies, but beer and soda bottles take approximately 10 seconds. Depending on the containers size and shape, the machines production speed may be as fast as 700 containers per minute.
Parison
A parison is a hollow and partially formed container that will be blown up like a balloon in the blow mold to form a bottle. It has a cooler skin or enamel outer surface and a temperature of 1700 degrees F on its outer skin. Parisons are formed on the blank side of an I.S. Machine from gobs and greatly differ in shape for each type of container design.
Container Formation
Manufacturers use three different types of forming processes to make glass containers, depending on the type of container to be produced:
Blow and Blow Wide Mouth Press and Blow Narrow Neck Press and Blo
In the Blow and Blow process, compressed air blows a cavity into the molten gob in the blank mold of the forming machine thereby creating a preform shape known as a parison. From there the parison is transferred to the blow mold where compressed air is used to blow the bottle into its final shape.
In the Wide Mouth Press and Blow process, a metal plunger is used to press the cavity into the gob to create the parison in the blank mold. The parison is then inverted and compressed air blows the container into its final shape. This process is used to manufacture containers with wide finish diameters (38mm and larger).
The Narrow Neck Press and Blow process is similar to the wide mouth press and blow except the metal plunger in the blank mold is much smaller in diameter. This process is used to manufacture containers with narrow finish diameters (38mm and smaller). The introduction of this process has enabled glass manufacturers to increase overall productivity and reduce weight and variations in the thickness distribution of beer and beverage bottles.