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Method and apparatus for blow molding and for filling containers

US9079343B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

KHS CORPOPLAST GMBH · DE

Inventors

Dieter Klatt · Wülfrath, DE
Dieter Jenzen · Uetersen, DE
Jan Fabian Meyer · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 29, 2010
Grant date	Jul 14, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 9, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB29K2067/00
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

The method and the apparatus are used for blow molding and for filling containers. To this end, after a thermal conditioning step, a preform is shaped into a container using blowing pressure inside a blow molding tool. The blow molded containers are positioned at least along part of the transport path thereof by a carrying element, which is held by a rotating transfer wheel. The transfer wheel provides at least part of a coupling between a blow molding module for producing the containers and a filling module for filling the containers. An outfeed wheel of the blow molding module can be arranged in a transport direction of the containers upstream of the transfer wheel, and an infeed wheel of the filling module can be arranged in said transport direction downstream of the transfer wheel, wherein each wheel can be equipped with carrying elements for the containers. The number of carrying elements (42) in the region of the transfer wheel (41) is varied in accordance with a production speed.

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