Patents Assigned to Alpla-Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co.KG
  • Publication number: 20160001913
    Abstract: A stretch-blow molded plastic container includes a container body. A container neck, adjoins the container body via a shoulder region and has a container opening. The container body and the container neck are mutually separated by a support ring, which substantially radially protrudes, runs circumferentially in at least some regions and which has a support ring underside. The shoulder region has a first shoulder section, which runs in immediate proximity to the support ring underside, and a second shoulder support, which is integrally connected to the first shoulder support and which substantially radially adjoins the support ring. In a stretch-blow molding method a support ring of a preform, which is placed into a mold cavity of a blow molding tool, is overblown during radial and axial stretching of the preform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: ALPLA WERKE ALWIN LEHNER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Helmut KOENIG
  • Patent number: 9138930
    Abstract: An extrusion blow-molding method for plastic containers, for example, plastic bottles, is disclosed, wherein a one- or multi-layer plastic tube is extruded with a predetermined extrusion pressure through an annular gap, which is delimited by an extrusion die provided on an extrusion head and a axially adjustable mandrel and which can be adjusted with regard to the width thereof. The extruded plastic tube is introduced into a mold cavity of a blow-molding tool arrangement, blow-molded into a plastic container in accordance with the mold cavity by overpressure and then demolded. Additional plastic material is added in metered quantity to the extruded plastic tube at least in some regions in the direct vicinity of the mouth of the extrusion die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: ALPLA WERKE ALWIN LEHNER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Johann Künz
  • Publication number: 20150259090
    Abstract: A plastic container for storing liquid under a low overpressure having a container body, to whose one longitudinal end a container neck is connected, which neck has a pour opening. A bottom section has a container bottom and an edge area pulled up on the sides and that turns into the container body, is connected to the other longitudinal end of the container body. The container bottom has a curved concave section, whose periphery is connected via an axially projecting, graduated transition area to a platform that runs into the edge area pulled up on the sides. The platform and at least one partial area of the graduated transition area are interrupted by a first number of grooves. In the concave section, a second number of panel-like projections are made, which essentially extend between the graduated transition area and the longitudinal axis and end before the graduated transition area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: ALPLA WERKE ALWIN LEHNER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Christian DORNBACH
  • Publication number: 20150251794
    Abstract: An extrusion-blow-molded plastic container has a container body closed with a bottom and a neck with a pour opening. An inside wall of the container neck has at least one calibrated structuring, extending at least in places over a periphery of the inside wall. The calibrated structuring is limited in the direction of the container body by a material accumulation shaped as a collar extending at least partially along the periphery of the inside wall and essentially crosswise to a center axis of the neck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: ALPLA WERKE ALWIN LEHNER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Johann KUENZ, Herbert WOHLGENANNT
  • Publication number: 20150251837
    Abstract: The invention relates to a container and to the use thereof. The container has a chamber with a base for receiving a mixture component and an adapter for fixing the chamber to a second container. The adapter is connected to the chamber via a first connector and has a second connector to connect to the second container. Additionally, the adapter forms a flow channel for the mixture component, extending between the first and the second connector. The adapter also has a blade element in the flow channel, comprising a blade facing the base of the chamber in order to open the base. The first connector allows the chamber to rotate relative to the adapter and to the blade, said blade designed to cut through the base of the chamber along the edge of the base while the chamber rotates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: ALPLA WERKE ALWIN LEHNER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Christian Krammer
  • Publication number: 20150246468
    Abstract: An injection-molding device for producing at least one tube head having a tube shoulder and a neck formed thereon has a press-out opening comprising a mold that defines a mold cavity and a nozzle that interacts with the mold. The nozzle has a valve needle that can be moved in the nozzle body. The valve needle is surrounded by a first flow channel, through which a first material component can be pressed out. The opening of the nozzle is closed by the valve needle head in a retracted position of the valve needle and released by the valve needle head in an advanced position of the valve needle In the advanced position of the valve needle, an annular outlet opening is formed, which establishes a fluid connection into the mold cavity together with an annular gap of the mold serving as a gate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: ALPLA WERKE ALWIN LEHNER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Christian Krammer
  • Publication number: 20150217894
    Abstract: An extrusion blow-molded plastic container, for example, a plastic bottle, is described which has a container body having a longitudinal axis, a longitudinal end sealed by a container bottom, another longitudinal end adjoining a container neck provided with a pour opening, and a container shoulder. The container body has at least one deformable section which is made flat and which extends over a large part of an axial length of the container body and in the peripheral direction. The deformable section which has been made flat has two longitudinal sides which run essentially in the axial direction and which border regions of the container body which have a greater stiffness than the deformable section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: ALPLA Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Oliver KIES
  • Publication number: 20150202818
    Abstract: An injection-molded preform for manufacturing plastic containers, for example plastic bottles, in a stretch blow molding process is disclosed. The preform can have an essentially elongated preform body, whose one longitudinal end is formed closed. On an opposite longitudinal end, the preform body is connected to a neck section that is provided with a pour opening and whose outer wall has a connector to make an interlocking connection with a closure that is equipped with corresponding engagement. The neck section has at least one bottleneck that extends all the way around and has a wall thickness of between 0.4 mm and 0.8 mm. The injection-molded plastic material exists at least on the at least one bottleneck in a state that is highly oriented and at least partially crystalline, due to an injection-molding process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Dietmar MARIN
  • Publication number: 20140321898
    Abstract: A plastic container for a roll-on deodorant is described, which roll-on deodorant has a receptacle and a roll cage for the captive, rotatable holding of an applicator ball. The roll cage can be made integral with the receptacle. The plastic container can be produced in an extrusion-blow-molding method from a tube that is for example extruded continuously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: ALPLA Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Johann KÜNZ
  • Publication number: 20140314984
    Abstract: Method for producing a plastic bottle, and preform and blowing mold suited therefore are disclosed. An exemplary process can produce a plastic bottle, for example, a PET bottle. Such a bottle can be produced from a preform which has a body which is closed on one side, which is connected to a neck section with a pour opening, in which the preform which has been produced in a plastic injection process or an extrusion process is placed in the mold cavity of a blow mold and inflated using the blow nozzle by overpressure according to the mold cavity. Sealing can take place between the blow nozzle and the preform within the preform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co.KG
    Inventors: Alwin LEHNER, Johann KÜNZ, Markus DÜRINGER
  • Patent number: 8790568
    Abstract: Method for producing a plastic bottle, and preform and blowing mold suited therefore are disclosed. An exemplary process can produce a plastic bottle, for example, a PET bottle. Such a bottle can be produced from a preform which has a body which is closed on one side, which is connected to a neck section with a pour opening, in which the preform which has been produced in a plastic injection process or an extrusion process is placed in the mold cavity of a blow mold and inflated using the blow nozzle by overpressure according to the mold cavity. Sealing can take place between the blow nozzle and the preform within the preform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Alwin Lehner, Johann Künz, Markus Düringer
  • Patent number: 8772393
    Abstract: An exemplary plastic formulation is disclosed for the production of plastic bottles in a two-stage stretch blow-molding process, and includes at least 60% of HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) having a density of 0.941 g/cm3 to 0.965 g/cm3 and according to ISO 1133 a melt index 190° C./2.16 kg of 0.1 to 0.9 g/10 min. The HDPE contains a mono-modal or multi-modal HDPE having a second melt index 190° C./21.6 kg of 5 g/10 min to 50 g/10 min according to ISO 1133. A method is disclosed for producing a plastic bottle in a two-stage stretch blow-molding process using the plastic formulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Robert Siegl
  • Publication number: 20140077424
    Abstract: An exemplary plastic formulation is disclosed for the production of plastic bottles in a two-stage stretch blow-molding process, and includes at least 60% of HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) having a density of 0.941 g/cm3 to 0.965 g/cm3 and according to ISO 1133 a melt index 190° C./2.16 kg of 0.1 to 0.9 g/10 min. The HDPE contains a mono-modal or multi-modal HDPE having a second melt index 190° C./21.6 kg of 5 g/10 min to 50 g/10 min according to ISO 1133. A method is disclosed for producing a plastic bottle in a two-stage stretch blow-molding process using the plastic formulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Robert Siegl
  • Publication number: 20140076838
    Abstract: A plastic container with a cut neck is disclosed, which is produced by stretch blow-molding from a preform manufactured by plastic injection or plastic flow molding, and which immediately following production, or separated in space and/or time, is inserted into a mold cavity of a blow-mold tool of a stretch blow-molding device and with the aid of a blow-molding medium inflated and stretched according to the mold cavity. The preform is then shaped to form the desired plastic container by cutting off an excess section that includes an injection-molded neck part of the preform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: ALPLA WERKE ALWIN LEHNER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Robert SIEGI
  • Publication number: 20140069943
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for providing dimensional accuracy of a pour opening in or on a plastic container produced by extrusion-blow-molding. The method can include inserting a section of a plastic hose, extruded in one or more layers through an extrusion nozzle, into a mold cavity of a blow mold tool; and inflating the plastic hose by a calibrating blow pin according to a shape of the mold cavity, whereby at least one pour opening of the plastic container is determined with respect to its inside diameter and its inside contour to form a completed inflated plastic container, and wherein the calibrating blow pin is axially inserted into the plastic hose section after a head plate of the blow mold tool has been closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: ALPLA WERKE ALWIN LEHNER GMBH & CO.KG
    Inventor: Johann KÜNZ
  • Publication number: 20130327795
    Abstract: A plastic container is disclosed which can include a pour spout for mounting on a container neck and having one or more closable pour openings. At least one blow molded cam can project over a neck wall of the container neck, the pour spout having a body configured for connection to the container neck, and made to correspond with a peripheral contour of the container neck and to have a corresponding number of receptacles for cam(s) in a wall facing the neck wall. For example, at least one cam is formed in an inside wall of the container neck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: ALPLA WERKE ALWIN LEHNER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Christian Krammer
  • Publication number: 20130239675
    Abstract: An exemplary method and apparatus for function testing of plastic containers which have been produced in an extrusion blow molding method and include an ascending tube. The apparatus being configured to determine the flow rate of a fluid medium through the ascending tube. The determined flow rate is compared to a set flow rate range, and when upper and lower boundaries for the flow rate are not reached or are exceeded, the container is excluded from further processing and removed from the process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: ALPLA Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Gerold SPIEGEL
  • Publication number: 20130216748
    Abstract: A method for producing a preform and a preform produced by extrusion blow moulding for producing plastic containers in a stretch blow moulding process and having a neck portion and a body portion closed by a preform base, which portions are separated from each other by a supporting ring protruding from the outer wall. The preform has a body portion of which the outside diameter narrows from the supporting ring in the direction of the preform base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: ALPLA WERKE ALWIN LEHNER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Robert Siegl
  • Patent number: 8486325
    Abstract: A parison is described, as also is a method for the production of plastics bottles, in particular PET bottles, this having a rigid, substantially elongate body (2), which has a base (5) at one of its ends. At its opposite end, the body (2) of the parison (1) adjoins a neck section (3) which has been provided with a pouring aperture (6) and which is separated from the body (2) via a radially protruding, flange-like support ring (4), and which has a parison shoulder (A) below the support ring (4). The parison (1) has an external diameter of from 17.4 mm to 21.4 mm measured at the transition of the body (2) to the base (5), its wall thickness at that point being from 3.4 mm to 4.4 mm. The parison (1) also has a wall thickness of from 1.4 mm to 2.2 mm at the parison shoulder (A). The external diameter of the parison shoulder (A) has been judged in such a way that its separation (d) from the blow molding wall (12) is from 1.2 mm to 3 mm when the parison (1) is inserted into the blow mold (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. Kg
    Inventor: Robert Siegl
  • Publication number: 20120231191
    Abstract: A preform is disclosed for producing plastic flasks in a two-stage stretch blow-molding process, including a preform base, an elongated preform body, including one longitudinal end sealed to the preform base and another longitudinal end sealed to the neck portion a neck portion with threaded sections or positive protrusions, wherein the preform is manufactured from a plastic that is suitable for the stretch blow-molding process, which has a refractive index of 1.3 to 1.6 at a temperature of 10° C. to 120° C., and in that an outside wall and an inside wall of the preform base bound a flat divergent lens, and in each case have radii of curvature (c, b) that are larger by at least a factor 1.4 than a related radius of curvature (s) of an outside wall or a radius of curvature (R) of an inside wall of the preform in the area of the preform body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: ALPLA WERKE ALWIN LEHNER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Robert SIEGL