Hard pressed [glass pressing]

Pressing itself was the first step to automation in the glass industry, but the job of automatically transferring a quantity of molten glass from the furnace to the moulds on an automatic press proved an obstacle to the complete mechanisation of the pressing process. it was not until 1915 that an automatic device for feeding a gob of glass to a mould on an automatic press was perfected in the USA. Fully automatic production of pressed glassware became feasible. The author gives an updated outline of the automatic production of pressed glassware