Abstract: A reusable container, made of a thermoplastic material, with at least one filler and drain opening (18) in the top panel (20) and with a circumferential upper and lower stacking ring (12, 16). To permit reuse, direct stackability, good residual drainability as well as good manipulability of the container, this invention provides for the upper stacking ring (12) to have a slightly larger diameter than the lower stacking ring (16) and to feature on the inside of its upper rim a recess matching the diameter of the lower stacking ring (16) and on the outside a vertically protruding circular flange, so that, when stacked one container atop the other, the lower stacking ring of the upper container fits into the recess in the upper stacking ring of the barrel underneath and is snugly centered therein by the vertically protruding circular flange. This allows for the direct, multiple, secure stacking of the containers that are the object of this invention.

Abstract: A reusable container, made of a thermoplastic material, with at least one filler and drain opening (18) in the top panel (20) and with a circumferential upper and lower stacking ring (12, 16). To permit reuse, direct stackability, good residual drainability as well as good manipulability of the container, this invention provides for the upper stacking ring (12) to have a slightly larger diameter than the lower stacking ring (16) and to feature on the inside of its upper rim a recess matching the diameter of the lower stacking ring (16) and on the outside a vertically protruding circular flange, so that, when stacked one container atop the other, the lower stacking ring of the upper container fits into the recess in the upper stacking ring of the barrel underneath and is snugly centered therein by the vertically protruding circular flange. This allows for the direct, multiple, secure stacking of the containers that are the object of this invention.

Abstract: This invention relates to a cylindrical, blow-molded lidded barrel (wide-mouthed drum) with a barrel lid and tension-ring closure. Previously known lidded barrels have comparatively little ability to withstand falls and are therefore not well-suited for handling liquids. Owing to the special configuration of the barrel lid and the barrel mouth edges as well as by a special matching of the individual components to one another, the lidded barrel according to the invention can be manipulated in the filled state with the same barrel-gripping tool (parrot's beak), ans is universally employed and in industrial use for modem plastic L-ring bung barrels or normal steel bung barrels. By improving the strength of the lidded barrel when it is dropped, the barrel is also made especially well-suited for handling liquids since it remains liquidtight even when dumped or dropped from great heights.

Abstract: A pallet container (10) has a thin-walled plastic container (12), a support casing (14) made of a wire grating and a bottom pallet (16). In order to improve the falling resistance of such a pallet container (10), some of the vertical rods (18) that form the wire grating of the support casing (14) are prolonged, extend through bores (20) provided in the bottom pallet (16) and are screwed from below against the bottom pallet by a screw nut (28).

Abstract: A blow molding machine, includes a base frame, a blow mold adapted for receiving a tubular parison and having a first mold support plate for support one mold half and a second mold support plate for support of another mold half. A transport unit is mounted to the base frame for so moving the first and second support plates that the mold halves are free from any direct, form-fitting coupling, with the transport unit including a first drive mechanism operatively connected to the first support plate and a second drive mechanism operatively connected to the second support plate and operating independent of the first drive mechanism. Secured to the support plates is a locking mechanism for pinching off the tubular parison and clamping the mold halves during the blow molding operation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a bung drum of thermoplastic synthetic material, having a circumferential carrying and transport ring disposed on the drum wall in the vicinity of the upper end and having at least one bung hole located in the edge region of the upper end. The upper end of the drum has a slope surface on both sides of the bung hole. When seen in the normal position of the barrel, the slope surface slopes downwardly in the direction of the edge of the drum with its lowest point in the vicinity of the bung hole.

Abstract: This invention relates to a cylindrical, blow-molded lidded barrel (wide-mouthed drum) with a barrel lid and tension-ring closure. Previously known lidded barrels have comparatively little ability to withstand falls and are therefore not well-suited for handling liquids. Owing to the special configuration of the barrel lid and the barrel mouth edges as well as by a special matching of the individual components to one another, the lidded barrel according to the invention can be manipulated in the filled state with the same barrel-gripping tool (parrot's beak), ans is universally employed and in industrial use for modem plastic L-ring bung barrels or normal steel bung barrels. By improving the strength of the lidded barrel when it is dropped, the barrel is also made especially well-suited for handling liquids since it remains liquidtight even when dumped or dropped from great heights.

Abstract: The object of this invention is a lidded barrel with a barrel lid and a clamping-ring closure. Between its flat lid plate and its outer rim, the barrel lid is provided with a circular, perimetric groove while also featuring in its periphery at least one bung well with or without a bunghole. When a barrel is dropped, the areas around the bung well are most vulnerable to breakage, i.e. it is in these areas that the barrel lid is most likely to slip out of the clamping ring with leaks resulting. In order to improve leak resistance of a lidded barrel, especially one suitable and approved for hazardous liquids, under extreme stress-load conditions, the area around the bung wells of the barrel lid is to be stress-relieved in the event of overstress (dropped barrel).

Abstract: A plastics barrel (10) with a substantially cylindrical barrel wall (12), a disk-shaped barrel floor (14) and a corresponding barrel top (16), in which a closable closure aperture is optionally arranged, and with a circumferential carrying and transporting ring (22), which is arranged on the outer barrel wall (12) in the vicinity of the barrel top (16) and comprises a downward facing horizontal and an inward facing vertical bearing surface (24, 26) for the grab claws of a barrel grab, characterised in that a recessed closure housing (28) with a projecting closure socket (30) is arranged in the centre of the barrel top (16), the internal diameter of the closure socket (30) measuring at least 100 mm or more and this closure socket (30) being closable in a gas-tight and liquid-tight manner by means of a screw lid (32, 34) which can be screwed thereon.

Abstract: A container has a neck formed with projections and a closure assembly for attachment to the neck and movable between a fully released position and a fully closed position. The closure assembly includes a screw cap and an index ring which serves as tamper-evident safety mechanism and is connected to the screw cap via several thin bridge portions forming predetermined breaking points and torn off when the screw cap is released from its fully closed position for the first time for the first time.

Abstract: The invention relates to a conical lidded drum made of thermoplastic.To avoid step-like changes in diameter or hollow borders as a stacking rim on the outer drum body, according to the invention, a second upset surface flange (12) is formed out in the region of the upper third of the drum (34) on the outer wall of the drum body (10). Advantageously, the conical drum wall (14) extends linearly in a straight line from the upper first surface flange (20) down to the vicinity of the drum base (18) over the entire periphery and in drum longitudinal direction. A third upset surface flange may be provided as a bottom rolling ring (38) in the transition region from drum wall to drum base.

Abstract: A plastic drum lid for a standard lidded drum using a clamping member to seal the lid to the drum. The lid includes a central top section of a smaller diameter then the diameter of the lid, with the central section spaced from the rim of the lid by a circumferential groove.

Abstract: The invention relates to a blow moulding machine for manufacturing blow moulded large-volume vessels with upset flange rings from thermoplastic synthetic material. By changing exchangeable ring inserts, it is possible for two generically completely different vessel types--a plugged vessel and a removable-cover vessel body--to be manufacturable in one and the same blowing mould.

Abstract: A blow molding machine designed as a two station machine (10) has at least one extrusion device (12) and an accumulator head which supplies a tubular thermoplastic parison to two blow molds arranged next to each other and having two horizontally movable blow molding halves. In order to simplify the construction of the machine at reduced space and to achieve a high productivity, the blow molding machine according to the invention has only a three-platen system with three mold mounting plates (22, 24, 26) for clamping the four blow molding halves (14, 16, 18, 20).

Abstract: The invention relates to a plastic pallet (10, 32) in a stable and torsionally rigid box-like construction for storing and transporting goods. The upper plate (12) is provided on its underside with ribs (14). Closed side walls (24), each having two recesses (26) for engagement by the carrying forks of a fork lifter, and the spacers (16) to which a thin base plate (20) is welded are formed in a single piece with the upper plate (12). In the base pallet (32) for a pallet container are formed a collecting trough (40) in the center of the upper surface (34) and a supporting ledge (32) extending at the outside around the circumferential area.

Abstract: The invention refers to a pallet container (10) for storage and transport of liquid contents with a thin-walled inner container (12) of thermoplastic material, with a support jacket (15) of wire cage bars or pipe bars which tightly enclose the inner container (12) and with a bottom pallet (16) suitable for application with a forklift and fixedly secured to the support jacket (14), wherein the inner container (12) is provided in the top plate (18) with a charging opening (20) and with a discharge valve (22) near the bottom. In order to improve the stacking capability and to increase the stackability, the top plate (18) of the inner container (12) is covered from above by a cover plate (26) which includes a central opening (28) for access to the upper charging opening (20) and is fixedly secured about its perimeter with the upper edge of the support jacket (14).

Abstract: The invention relates to a storage head for a blow moulding machine for discontinuous manufacture of multi-layer co-extruded and blow-moulded hollow bodies made of thermoplastic. To improve the product quality and to increase the throughput, each distributor element is designed as a spiral channel distributor (20) which distributes the individual molten plastic streams uniformly at the periphery. The ejector (14) consists of at least two concentric tubular pieces (42, 44) and the peripherally distributed plastic flows from the ejector (14) through an annular gap (46) into the storage space (16) in the storage head housing (10) below the ejector.

Abstract: The invention concerns a large-capacity stackable drum with a substantially cylindrical sidewall and top and bottom ends. To improve the stackability in particular the long-term stackability an internal hydrostatic pressure which supports the side wall is initially produced, when stacking several drums one on top of the other, in the gas space above the content and in the contents, of the drums stacked underneath, by virtue of the elastic flexibility of the top and/or the bottom of the drum, until a reduced stacking load acting through the top rim or grip ring of the drum into the drumwall is produced or support provided through the bottom rim or grip ring.

Abstract: A pallet container is disclosed as including a thin-walled container supported on a floor pallet and tightly surrounded by a wire grid connected to the floor pallet. The wire grid includes vertical edges which are joined together along a vertical junction region by a sheet-metal strip which is bent about the wire of the surrounding wire grid.