Industriewerke Karlsruhe-Augsburg Aktiengesellschaft

Walter Bippus

Hermann Gernlein

Manfred Horst Simon

The apparatus comprises a tank, having a perforated wall disposed above its bottom, arranged to be flooded with a disinfectant and to have the disinfectant drained therefrom, and arranged to have a laminar flow of germ-free air under pressure directed against the surface of the liquid during draining thereof. A pair of laterally spaced guide rails extend longitudinally through the tank in parallel relation with each other. A plurality of container-working stations and a container-filling station are arranged linearly along the guide rails, each container-working station comprising a pair of mutually displaceable, mirror-reversed mating tool parts, each mounted on a respective guide rail. A pair of webs of thermoplastic material or metal foil, which have already been subjected to a preliminary aseptic treatment, are constantly supplied into the tank for step-by-step displacement along the several container-working stations and the container-filling station. The stations are mounted on the guide rails for adjustment longitudinally thereof to set predetermined stepped distances between these stations and also to permit the two tool parts of each pair to be properly adjusted relative to each other in the vertical direction. The step distance between the stations is simultaneously a function of two parameters, one of which is the desired width of a container and the other of which is the number of containers to be formed simultaneously.

Growing community of inventors

Ettlingen, Germany

Walter Bippus