A New Lehr Loader; Hemingray's Lehr Loader put on market by Simpson Engineering, photo shows installation at Hazel Atlas plant

A New Lehr Loader

An automatic device of novel design for transferring bottles and other glass products from a conveyor to a lehr is the Hemingray lehr loader, developed at the Hemingray Glass Company's plant and recently

HEMINGRAY LEHR LOADER AND SIMPSON BELT CONVEYOR AT HAZEL-ATLAS GLASS COMPANY'S ZANESVILLE OHIO PLANT

put on the market by the Simpson Foundry and Engineering Company, Newark, O. The illustration shows an installation of two of these machines at the Hazel-Atlas Glass Company's plant at Zanesville, O.

It is a completely automatic machine, simple in design and of substantial construction. In operation its entire action is governed by three cams. The cycle of the push bar is inward to the lehr on a horizontal plane, as shown in the machine serving the foremost lehr in the accompanying picture, then at the end of the horizontal movement a backing away from the ware, a rise in an angular direction to the position shown at the second lehr, then back on a horizontal plane and down in an angular direction to the starting point.

Two of the principal claims of its builders are that any delay of incoming ware is avoided by having the push bar rise to clear it, and that the pushing action is very gentle.

The loader with a Simpson conveyor as illustrated will handle any kind of ware that will ride on a flat conveyor such as bottles, tumblers, candy jars, etc., up to two-gallon jugs.