Apparatus for shaping plastic preforms, comprising a sterile chamber

US8708680B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KRONES AG · DE

Inventors

• Florian Geltinger · Donaustauf, DE
• Josef Knott · Schierling, DE
• Juergen Soellner · Beratzhausen, DE
• Eduard Handschuh · Regensburg, DE
• Frank Winzinger · Regensburg, DE
• Josef Hausladen · Geisingen, DE
• Ulrich Lappe · Regensburg, DE
• Klaus Voth · Neumarkt-Sankt Veit, DE
• Oliver Martini · Konolfingen, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: May 20, 2011
• Grant date: Apr 29, 2014
• Expiry date: Feb 1, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B67C2003/227
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus for shaping plastic preforms into plastic containers includes a transport device on which a plurality of blow molding stations are arranged. Each of these blow molding stations comprises a blow mold inside which a plastic preform can be shaped into a plastic container. The apparatus includes a clean chamber inside which the plastic preforms can be transported. The region of the transport device in which the blow molding stations are arranged is arranged in the clean chamber and at least one further region of the transport device is arranged outside the clean chamber.