Krones Ag

Dieter Finger

Florian Geltinger

Klaus Voth

Thomas Kitzinger

Thomas Philipp

Eduard Handschuh

Andreas Brunner

Andreas Pense

Gerhard Schwoed

Dominik Meier

Christian Betz

Konrad Senn

Martin Seger

Thomas Hoellriegl

Gerald Huettner

Andreas Vornehm

Helmut Schneider

Cora Hanesch

Daniel Vogler

Frank Winzinger

Wolfgang Hahn

Heinz Humele

Hartmut Davidson

Thomas Spitzer

Johann Zimmerer

Harald Effenberger

Andreas Steiner

Thomas Höllriegl

Christoph Klenk

Andreas Eichenseher

Johannes Strauss

Helmut Asbrand

Robert Aust

Markus Kulzer

Paul Brinster

Markus Haller

Benedikt Hengl

Sebastian Langwieser

Peter Lex

Alexandra Donhauser

Thomas Rauschendorfer

Thomas Gerstenberg

Andrea Brunner

Hans-jurgen Fleischmann

Helmut Sehneider

Gerald HÜTTNER

Thomas HÖLLRIEGL

Hans-Jürgen Fleischmann

Apparatus for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers, having a forming device which has a plurality of forming stations each having a stretching bar for stretching the plastic preform and an application device act upon the plastic container with a flowable medium. The forming device has at least four pressure reservoirs for the flowable medium, which each have predetermined pressures, and a valve block with at least five process valves. The application device is configured for producing a fluid connection between the valve block and a mouth region of the plastic preform in order to act upon the plastic preforms with the pressurised flowable medium, and the process valves are configured to act upon the plastic preforms with different pressures, wherein at least one process valve is configured for producing a connection between the plastic preform and an environment.

Apparatus and method for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers with adjustable throttle

Provided is a method for heating plastic preforms, wherein the plastic parison are transported along a predetermined transport path and are heated during this transport, wherein at least one first heating section with at least one first heating element as well as at least one second heating section with at least one second heating element is arranged along the transport path, by a first temperature measuring device an actual temperature of the plastic preforms is measured in or before a start region of the transport path, and as a function of this actual temperature of the plastic preforms the at least one first heating element is controlled in such a way that the plastic preforms reach a predetermined target temperature after heating by this at least one first heating element.

Method and apparatus for heating plastic preforms

A system for processing containers with a transport device which transports the containers along a predetermined transport path, wherein a plurality of holding devices for holding the containers is arranged on the transport device, wherein the system has at least one rotating device which rotates the plastic parisons with regard to a rotational position with respect to the longitudinal directions thereof. According to the invention the rotating device has an electrically operated driving device for producing the rotary movement of the plastic parisons with respect to the longitudinal directions thereof as well as at least one measuring device, which at least at times determines at least an electrical characteristic quantity of this driving device.

System and method for processing containers with monitoring of drive motors

Provided is an apparatus for expanding plastics material parisons into plastics material containers by a liquid medium with at least two transforming stations which fill and expand the plastics material parisons with the liquid medium with at least one common delivery device, which delivers the liquid medium to both transforming stations, wherein the transforming stations in each case have filling devices which fill the liquid medium into the plastics material parisons. According to the embodiments these transforming stations and/or filling devices in each case have a throttle device which are suitable and intended for changing the volume flow of the liquid entering the plastics material parisons.

Apparatus for transforming and filling plastics material containers with controlled filling

ABSTRACT The invention provides a method for leakage detection in a device for shaping container preforms, comprising a compressed air system which is connected to a compressed air source and comprises at least two fluidically connected regions that can be separated from each other and/or from the environment by shut-off elements. The method comprises a leakage test run conducted in an automated manner in which at least one of the blocking elements and/or the compressed air supply into the compressed air system is controlled in such a way that it can be determined separately for each region whether compressed air escapes therefrom.

Method for leakage detection in a device for shaping container preforms

A forming unit () for forming plastic preforms into plastic bottles, wherein the forming unit comprises a blow mould () having a first lateral portion (), a second lateral portion () and a bottom portion (), wherein said lateral portions as well as the bottom portion () form a cavity (), within which the plastic preforms () can be formed into the plastic bottles, wherein the bottom portion () can be moved relative to the lateral portions () in a closed condition of the blow mould, wherein the forming unit () comprises a drive unit in order to move the bottom portion () relative to the lateral portions (), wherein the drive unit preferably has a movable piston element () which ist movable along a predefined stroke path. According to the invention, the apparatus has a first stroke path limiting means () that limits the stroke path of the bottom portion () and/or of the piston element () in a first direction, wherein this stroke path limiting means () is adjustable in order to modify the stroke path.

Apparatus and a method for forming plastic preforms into plastic bottles with a movable bottom portion

Provided is an apparatus for heating plastic preforms, with a transport device which transports the plastic preforms along a predefined transport path, wherein this transport device has a plurality of holding elements for holding the plastic preform, and with at least one first heating section which is arranged along the transport path, and at least one second heating section which is arranged along the transport path downstream of the first heating section, wherein the heating sections each include a plurality of independently controllable heating elements which allow heating of the plastic preforms in several heating zones, lying above each other in the longitudinal direction of the plastic preforms, with a temperature profile which changes in the longitudinal direction of the plastic preforms, wherein the apparatus includes a control device for controlling these heating sections.

Apparatus and method for heating plastic preforms with controllable heating power

Provided is a device for reshaping plastic parisons into plastic containers, including a plurality of blow moulding stations each having blow mould devices which form a cavity, inside which the plastic parisons can be reshaped into plastic containers, and including at least one application device by which a flowable medium can be applied to the plastic parisons for expansion thereof, and at least one valve device which is arranged between at least one pressure reservoir and at least one application device and by which the supply and/or removal of the flowable medium, in particular under high pressure, in particular the blowing pressure and/or volume flow thereof, to the application device can be influenced or controlled.

Device and method for switching time compensation on the valve block

A machine for expanding plastic parisons into plastic containers by a liquid medium with at least two transforming stations. These transforming stations fill and expand the plastic parisons with the liquid medium, with at least one pressure generating device. This pressure generating device is suitable and intended to deliver the liquid medium to at least one filling device which fills the plastic parisons with the liquid medium, wherein at least one shut-off device is installed in at least one connection channel between the pressure generating device and the filling device, inside which the liquid medium is conveyed. This shut-off device is configured and provided in order that a fluid path inside the connection conduit can be at least partially interrupted.

Machine for expanding plastic containers with shut-off valve between pressure generating device and filling device

A device for transporting containers comprises at least two transport devices for the containers, at least two servo motors, at least two position sensors, and at least one control unit. The at least one control unit is to control the at least two servo motors, by closed-loop control, based on a comparison of positions determined by respective position sensors of the at least two position sensors and respective target positions. The at least one control unit is further to bring the at least two servo motors to a standstill in the event of a fault of a position sensor, wherein: a) a servo motor is brought to a standstill in a closed-loop manner using the position if it is determinable by the position sensor, or b) the servo motor is brought to a standstill in an open-loop manner based on the target position if the position is not determinable.

Method for transporting containers

An apparatus for shaping plastics material pre-forms into plastics material containers has a conveying device which conveys the plastics material pre-forms along a pre-set conveying path. The conveying device has a movable station carrier arranged at least indirectly on a stationary base carrier and on which a plurality of shaping stations are arranged. The shaping stations have blow molding devices which form cavities inside which the plastics material preforms are shaped to form plastics material containers. The blow molding devices are arranged on blow mold carriers. The apparatus has a changing device suitable for removing at least the blow molding devices from the blow mold carriers and/or arranging blow molding devices on the blow mold carriers. A changing device has a gripping device for gripping the blow molding device, wherein this gripping device is movable in at least two different directions and is pivotable about at least three different axes.

Blow moulding machine with a changing robot and a gripping device and a method for its operation

An apparatus is provided for producing plastic containers, comprising a heating device that heats plastic preforms, and including a shaping device provided downstream of this heating device in the transport direction of the plastic preforms, which shaping device shapes the plastic preforms into the plastic containers, wherein a tempering device for tempering the plastic preforms heated by the heating device is provided in the transport direction of the plastic preforms between the heating device and the shaping device, which tempering device has at least one tempering unit provided on a carrier rotatable about a predetermined rotary axis, and which tempering unit has at least two contacting devices, between which at least one section of the plastic preform can be received, which contacting devices can be moved in relation to one another along a predetermined direction.

Apparatus and a method for producing oval plastic containers

A container treatment plant and a method for displacing an element of a valve or a diverting unit of a container treatment plant. The container treatment plant comprises at least one element for treating containers. The element is part of a valve or a diverting unit. The container treatment plant also comprises a displacing unit for displacing the element between a first position and a second position, wherein the displacing unit comprises a magnetically operating actuator such that a rotary motion caused by the actuator displaces the element with the aid of a mechanism between its first and second positions.

Container treatment plant and method for displacing a valve or a diverting unit of a container treatment plant

Apparatus for shaping plastics material pre-forms into plastics material containers includes a conveying device which conveys the pre-forms along a pre-set path. The conveying device has a movable station carrier arranged at least indirectly on a stationary base carrier on which are arranged a plurality of shaping stations which have in each case blow moulding devices which have cavities, inside which the pre-forms are shaped. The apparatus has a changing device for removing the blow moulding devices from the blow mould carriers and/or for arranging blow moulding devices on the blow mould carriers. The changing device has a first control device for controlling a removing and/or an arranging movement of the blow moulding devices on the blow mould carriers, and a second control device for controlling a blow moulding procedure, wherein the first control device and the second control device preferably co-operate at least for a time.

Blow moulding machine with changing robot and method of operating it

An apparatus () for the shaping of plastics material pre-forms () into plastics material containers () with a movable carrier () on which is arranged at least one shaping station (), wherein the shaping station has a blow molding device (), and wherein the shaping station additionally has a stressing device () which acts upon the plastics material pre-forms with a flowable medium for their expansion, wherein the shaping station additionally has a rod-like body () which is capable of being inserted into the plastics material pre-forms in order to stretch them in the longitudinal direction (L) thereof, wherein the shaping station has a drive device () which moves the rod-like body () with respect to the plastics material pre-form. According to the invention a coupling device () is provided which couples a movement of the rod-like body () with respect to the plastics material pre-form to a movement of the stressing device () with respect to the plastics material pre-form ()&#x2014;in particular in a mechanical manner&#x2014;at least for a time, and the apparatus has an influencing device () which influences a supply movement of the stressing device () towards the plastics material pre-form at least locally.

Blow moulding machine with controlled movement of the stretch rod and blow moulding nozzle

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Neutraubling, Germany

Dieter Finger