Abstract: The device comprises at least one piece of equipment that has a metering chamber (38) in which a piston (26) is mounted to move back and forth between a filling position and a discharge position. The metering chamber is, at least in part, defined inside a cylinder (24) in which the piston moves, which is disposed in a substance reservoir (10), and which is itself mounted to move back and forth between an open position in which a feed opening (36) of the cylinder is opened up and a closed position in which the feed opening is closed off. The piston is connected to a controlled back-and-forth movement mechanism.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacture of receptacles by thermoforming and the placing of decorative banderols on these receptacles, in which a first mould block is provided, which may include at least one thermoforming chamber and which is capable of tilting between a working position for the thermoforming of the receptacles and a tilted position for the introduction of a banderol into the thermoforming chamber before the thermoforming of a receptacle in the chamber. The invention is characterized in that a second mould block is provided analogous to the first mould block and in that while one of the mould blocks is in the working position for the thermoforming of a receptacle in the thermoforming chamber of this mould block the other mould block is in the tilted position for the introduction of a decorative banderol into its thermoforming chamber before the thermoforming of another receptacle in the chamber.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacture of receptacles by thermoforming and the placing of decorative banderols on these receptacles, in which a first mould block (24) is provided, which comprises at least one thermoforming chamber (28) and which is capable of tilting between a working position for the thermoforming of the receptacles and a tilted position for the introduction of a banderol into the thermoforming chamber (28) before the thermoforming of a receptacle (37) in the said chamber The invention is characterised in that a second mould block (26) is provided analogous to the first mould block (24) and in that while one of the mould blocks is in the working position for the thermoforming of a receptacle (37) in the thermoforming chamber (28) of this mould block the other mould block is in the tilted position for the introduction of a decorative banderol into its thermoforming chamber (28) before the thermoforming of another receptacle (37) in the said chamber.

Abstract: The invention provides apparatus for cutting out a row of capsules from a capsule strip and for fixing them on a transverse row of filled receptacles advancing stepwise in an installation for filling receptacles.

Abstract: The method and the installation of the invention enable re-entrant receptacles to be thermoformed, filled, and closed, the rim of each receptacle having a diameter that is smaller than the diameter of its body. Prior to thermoforming a row of receptacles, preliminary cuts separated by attachment points are made in a transverse stripe of the strip of the thermoplastic strip that is to be used for thermoforming in a subsequent cycle, and for each receptacle that is to be thermoformed, the cuts define practically the entire final periphery of the rim of said receptacle, the attachment points being broken when the receptacles are separated in a subsequent cycle after the filled receptacles have been closed.

Abstract: The invention provides apparatus for cutting out a row of capsules from a capsule strip and for fixing them on a transverse row of filled receptacles advancing stepwise in an installation for filling receptacles.