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An apparatus for extracting, trimming and discharging blow molded plastic bottles includes a rotary turntable and a plurality of bottle transfer units spaced around the turntable. A drive indexes the units past the stations at which bottles are extracted from mold halves in an inverted position, rig

An apparatus for extracting, trimming and discharging blow molded plastic bottles includes a rotary turntable and a plurality of bottle transfer units spaced around the turntable. A drive indexes the units past the stations at which bottles are extracted from mold halves in an inverted position, righted, trimmed and discharged to a take away conveyor.

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Apparatus for extracting, trimming and discharging blow molded plastic bottles having shoulder and tail flash comprising: A. A rotary turntable; B. A plurality of bottle transfer units mounted on the turntable at spaced circumferential locations, each bottle transfer unit including first bottle supp

Apparatus for extracting, trimming and discharging blow molded plastic bottles having shoulder and tail flash comprising: A. A rotary turntable; B. A plurality of bottle transfer units mounted on the turntable at spaced circumferential locations, each bottle transfer unit including first bottle support means for carrying a bottle; C. A drive for rotating the turntable to move the transfer units in steps between a number of stations spaced around the turntable, the stations including an extraction station, a trim station and a discharge station; D. Tooling at the extraction station including i. bottle extractor means for engaging flash on a blow molded bottle confined in closed mold halves located adjacent the extraction station and for moving such bottle along a first path from the mold halves when open to a pickup location, and ii. first bottle alignment means for orienting a bottle in a known position at the pickup location prior to transfer of the bottle to the first bottle support means on an adjacent bottle transfer unit; E. Tooling at the trim station including i. second bottle alignment means for orienting a bottle carried by an adjacent bottle transfer unit in a known position prior to flash trimming, and ii. a neck flash trimming unit and a tail flash trimming unit operable to sever neck and tail flash smoothly from the positioned bottle; and F. Tooling at the discharge station including i. a discharge transfer unit including a second bottle support means for carrying a bottle, and ii. transport means for moving the discharge transfer unit and carried bottle along a second path to a bottle discharge location.