Krones Ag

Oliver Martini

Michael Dahmen

Juergen Soellner

Ulrich Lappe

Klaus Voth

Patrick Engelhard

Josef Hausladen

Frank Winzinger

Florian Geltinger

Michael Neubauer

Eduard Handschuh

Josef Knott

Sven Fischer

Roland Feilner

Jürgen Söllner

Stephan Mayr

Matthias Weinzierl

An apparatus for shaping plastic preforms into plastic containers is disclosed. Said apparatus comprises a conveying device on which a plurality of blowing stations are arranged. Each of said blowing stations encompasses a blow mold, within which a plastic preform can be shaped into a plastic container. The apparatus further comprises a clean chamber, within which the plastic preforms can be conveyed. According to the invention, the zone of the conveying device in which the blowing stations are arranged is located in the clean chamber, and at least one additional zone of the conveying device is located outside the clean chamber.

Method for shaping plastic preforms, comprising a sterile chamber

Apparatus for shaping plastic preforms, comprising a sterile chamber

An apparatus () for shaping plastic preforms () into plastic containers () is disclosed. Said apparatus () comprises a conveying device () on which a plurality of blowing stations () are arranged. Each of said blowing stations () encompasses a blow mold, within which a plastic preform () can be shaped into a plastic container (). The apparatus () further comprises a clean chamber (), within which the plastic preforms () can be conveyed. According to the invention, the zone of the conveying device () in which the blowing stations are arranged is located in the clean chamber (), and at least one additional zone of the conveying device () is located outside the clean chamber ().

An apparatus and method are described for cleaning gas in blow moulding machines for shaping plastics material pre-forms to form plastics material containers. The apparatus includes at least one gas-processing device, which is capable of filtering the gas in a sterile manner and/or of reducing a quantity of an oxidative disinfecting/sterilizing agent contained in the gas flowing through and/or flowing past, is arranged in at least one gas line which is a gas supply line or a gas removal line of a blowing station.

Apparatus and method of cleaning gas in blow moulding machines

A device for producing plastic containers may include a heating element for heating plastic parisons, a transport system for transporting the plastic parisons along a pre-defined transport path, and a shaping element arranged along the transport path, downstream of the heating device. The shaping element shapes the plastic parisons to form plastic containers. The device has a sterilization element that applies a free-flowing medium to a wall of the plastic parisons in order to sterilize said wall, the sterilization device being arranged along the transport path of the containers such that the sterilization takes place after the heating process applied to the containers in the heating device and before the end of the shaping process in the shaping element.

Device for sterilizing plastic parisons

An apparatus for shaping plastics material pre-forms to form plastics material containers may include a conveying device which conveys the containers along a pre-set conveying path, a stressing device which acts upon the containers with a flowable medium in order to expand them, a reservoir for storing the flowable medium, and a supply device which delivers the flowable medium from the reservoir to the container. A valve device controls the supply of the flowable medium into the containers, in order to expand the containers. The apparatus includes a first feed line in order to supply a flowable sterilization medium to the supply line between the reservoir and the container to be treated or in a removal line for the flowable medium, which removes the flowable medium from the containers.

Blow moulding machine with feed line sterilization

An apparatus for shaping plastic preforms into plastic containers may include a conveying device on which a plurality of blowing stations are arranged. Each of the blowing stations encompasses a blow mold, within which a plastic preform can be shaped into a plastic container. The apparatus further includes a clean chamber, within which the plastic preforms can be conveyed. The zone of the conveying device in which the blowing stations are arranged is located in the clean chamber, and at least one additional zone of the conveying device is located outside the clean chamber.

A method of treating devices of a plant for producing plastics material containers may include the steps of selection of at least one treatment device, acting upon the treatment device with a sterilization temperature in order to sterilize the treatment device, supplying at least one plastics material pre-form to the treatment device, shaping the plastics material pre-form to form a plastics material container, and removal of the at least one plastics material container from the treatment device.

Blow mould capable of being sterilized

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.

An apparatus for shaping plastics material pre-forms into containers has a plurality of blow molding stations arranged on a movable carrier The blow molding stations have two part blow molds with a cavity inside in which the plastics material pre-forms are expanded. The blow molding stations have stressing devices which act upon the plastics material pre-forms to expand them with a flowable medium. At least one first bearing device is provided for movable mounting of the blow mold carriers with respect to each other and at least one second bearing device is provided for movable mounting of the first locking element with respect to the second locking element. At least one of these bearing devices is a slide bearing without lubricant or a bearing which is injection molded at least in part from a plastics material between bearing parts movable relative to each other.

Blow moulding machine with pivot shafts guided on slide bearings

An apparatus for shaping plastics material pre-forms to form plastics material containers includes a conveying device on which a plurality of blowing stations are arranged. Each of these blowing stations has a blow mold inside which a plastics material pre-form is capable of being shaped to form a plastics material container. The apparatus has a clean room inside which the plastics material pre-forms can be conveyed. The region of the conveying device on which the blowing stations are arranged is situated in the clean room, and at least one further region of the conveying device is arranged outside the clean room.

Apparatus for shaping plastics material pre-forms with a sterile room

A device for feeding sterile closures, which have been delivered in bags, into a filling system for containers, such as bottles, having a housing that features an inlet opening for the bags, an outlet opening for the closures and a sterilization device, wherein a conveying device that transports the bags is provided in the housing, and wherein the conveying device for the bags is embodied as a suspended conveyer.

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