Krones Ag

Rainer Englbrecht

Konrad Senn

Heinz Humele

Andreas Apelsmeier

Johann Zimmerer

Günter Winkler

Guenter Winkler

An apparatus for heating plastic receptacles and particularly plastic parisons may include a transport device, which transports the plastic receptacles along a predetermined transport path, a microwave generation device, and a routing device, which routes the microwaves in the direction of the plastic receptacles which are to be heated The routing device may be at least sectionally in the form of a hollow conductor. The apparatus includes a control device which is in a form such that it controls the microwave energy hitting the plastic receptacles during the heating process.

Apparatus and method for the controlled heating of plastic receptacles

A device for forming plastics material preforms into plastics material containers includes a plurality of blowing stations, each comprising blow moulds, inside which preforms can be formed into containers. The device includes an admission arrangement to expose the preforms, for the forming thereof, to a free-flowing medium, and stretching rods to extend the preforms in the longitudinal direction thereof. The device includes a transport arrangement which transports the blowing stations with the preforms along a first predefined transport path, and a control arrangement which controls movement of the stretching rods and exposure of the preforms to the freeflowing medium so that predefined sub-steps of the forming process are carried out during transport of the preforms along the first path. Sub-steps of the forming process can be carried out irrespective of geometric position of the preforms along the first path, and an output rate of the device can thus be changed.

Device for forming plastics material preforms into plastics material containers with a variable output rate

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Kelheim, Germany

Rainer Englbrecht