Plant for producing beverage containers with sterilisation of the blow moulding machine

US11351713B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KRONES AG · DE

Inventors

• Holger Mueller · Möhrendorf, DE
• Florian Geltinger · Donaustauf, DE
• Juergen Soellner · Beratzhausen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 22, 2018
• Grant date: Jun 7, 2022
• Expiry date: Feb 24, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B67C2003/228
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Apparatus for producing containers, and in particular beverage containers, having a heating device configured to heat plastic parisons, having at least one first transport device, which transports the plastic parisons along a predetermined transport path, a sterilization device configured to sterilize the plastic parisons, and a forming device arranged downstream of the sterilization device, as seen in a transporting direction of the plastic parisons, and configured to form the plastic parisons into plastic containers by the application of a free-flowing medium, wherein said forming device has a transport chamber within which the plastic parisons are transported. The apparatus has an application device configured to apply a free-flowing sterilization medium, at least temporarily, to the transport chamber.