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Installation for producing sterile bottles by blow molding sterilized preforms

US7806680B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS S.A.S · FR

Inventors

Eric Adriansens · Montivilliers, FR
Stéphane Hebert · Montivilliers, FR

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 6, 2006
Grant date	Oct 5, 2010
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 28, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB67C2003/227
WIPO fieldHandling
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An installation producing sterile bottles by blow molding starting from preforms (12), includes a sterilizing treatment unit (26), a thermal conditioning unit, a molding unit, where the sterilizing treatment unit (26) includes an atomizing device (36) provided with a nozzle (38) which sprays, onto each preform (12), in laminar-flow form, a stream (F) of vaporized sterilizing product at the interior of the preform (12) and along a mean axis of spraying (A2) of the nozzle (38), where this axis is generally parallel to the axis (A1) of the preform (12) during treatment and is radially off-center with regard to the axis (A1) of the preform (12).

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