Patents Assigned to Sidel Participations
  • CONTAINER TRANSFER DEVICE HAVING A TRANSFER GUIDING MEMBER
    Publication number: 20100108473
    Abstract: Device (10) for transferring containers (2) from a feed rail (9) to a rotary star wheel (3), said device (10) comprising: a transfer wheel (11) provided, on its periphery, with a plurality of recesses (12) for engaging containers (2) under their neck (7) and moving the containers (2) along a transfer path (15) extending from a loading point (13) at an end of the feed rail (9) to an unloading point (16) at the periphery of the rotary star wheel (3), a guiding member (18) having a flat lower surface (19) extending at least partly above said transfer path (15) at a distance from the transfer wheel (11) substantially equal to the height of the container neck (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS
    Inventor: Michele Soncini
  • FILLING MACHINE PROVIDED WITH A CLEANING DEVICE WITH A DEFORMABLE MEMBRANE
    Publication number: 20100107557
    Abstract: The invention relates to a container filling machine including at least one filling spout, and a cleaning device including a stationary collecting member with a passage opening, a sealing member that can be displaced between a retracted position and a service position in which said sealing member is capable of tightly sealing the passage opening, and displacement means for displacing said sealing member between the retracted position and the service position thereof. The sealing member includes an elastically deformable membrane mounted on a holder and forming therewith a tight deformation chamber capable of receiving a pressurised fluid in order to deform the deformable membrane for sealing the passage opening when said holder is displaced into the service position by the displacement means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: Sidel Participations
    Inventors: Philippe Macquet, Jean-Marie Maubois
  • BLOW MOULDING OR STRETCH-BLOW MOULDING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CONTAINERS USING CLAMPING MEANS SUITABLE FOR SUPPORTING A BLANK BY ITS NECK
    Publication number: 20100109207
    Abstract: The invention relates to a blowing or stretch-blowing device (1) for making vessels from thermoplastic blanks with a collar, that comprises a blowing nozzle (3) mobile between an upper position and a lower position for blowing a pressurised fluid into a blank having a body provided in the moulding cavity of a mould and having a collar protruding outside the mould, the device includes a clamping means (4) provided above the mould and capable of holding a blank by the collar thereof, a holding means (20, 21) for the clamping means for moving the same between two raised or lowered positions, wherein at least one branch (7, 8) of the clamping means being transversally mobile; mechanical coupling means (5) provided between the clamping means and the blowing nozzle and capable of synchronising the movements of the clamping means with the movement of the blowing nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: Sidel Participations
    Inventors: Nicolas Rousseau, Laurent Danel
  • BLOW-MOLD ASSEMBLY FOR THE MANUFACTURING OF CONTAINERS, INCLUDING A MOLD AND A PLUG FOR FLUID CONNECTION
    Publication number: 20100104681
    Abstract: A Blow-mold assembly for the manufacturing of containers, comprising: A mold having a sidewall defining a mold cavity and provided with a channel for the circulation of a heating or cooling fluid, said channel having, on an outer face of the mold, an fluid inlet port and a fluid outlet port; A plug provided with a fluid supply line and a fluid discharge line; Wherein said mold and said plug are provided with complementary connection elements configured to provide removable connection of the plug to the mold with simultaneous connection of the supply line to the inlet port and connection of the discharge line to the outlet port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS
    Inventor: Daniel Dagorn
  • Thermoplastic material container, in particular bottle
    Patent number: 7703618
    Abstract: A container, in particular a bottle, made of thermoplastic material produced by blow molding or stretch-blow molding of a heated preform, the container designed to contain a liquid being flat and having a substantially domed base with outward-facing cavity defining a substantially planar peripheral annular seat for being set on a support, the base being provided with several grooves radiating from the base center. Each groove in its zone of intersection with the annular seat, has a portion of substantially increased width and the two edges of that portion of the groove are curved with relatively large radii of curvature and with respective concavities facing one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Sidel Participations
    Inventor: Mikaël Derrien
  • Method and device for filling a container with a predetermined quantity of fluid, filling machine
    Patent number: 7703484
    Abstract: A device includes a nozzle (14) for delivering a fluid flow into a container (12), a valve (16) having a movable valve member (27) for controlling the fluid flow, a member (54) for sending a position control signal to the movable valve member (27), such that the movable valve member (28) is expected to follow an expected displacement vs. time curve which adjusts the quantity of fluid delivered into the container (12) to the predetermined quantity. The device further includes a sensing element (56) for sensing a point of the actual displacement vs. time curve followed by the movable valve member (27) in response to the position control signal, and a comparing element (58) for comparing the sensed point to the corresponding point of the expected displacement vs. time curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Sidel Participations
    Inventors: Sandro Montavoci, Franco Mutti
  • Rotating machine with rotating column for electricity and fluid supply
    Patent number: 7699599
    Abstract: The inventive carousel-type rotating machine includes a rotating frame bearing several work stations, a power and fluid supply rotating column which is coaxial to the axis of the rotating frame and incorporates a rotatable electric collector connected to a fixed power source for supplying power to the work stations and a rotatable fluid connection connected to a fixed fluid source for supplying fluid to the work stations, wherein the rotatable fluid connection is disposed on the top of the rotating column above the rotatable electric collector, thereby having the reduced diameter of the part thereof rotatable at reduced linear speeds between the fixed and rotatable parts thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Sidel Participations
    Inventors: Laurent Danel, Gilles Robert, Cyril Savary, Patrick Mie
  • HEATING PLASTICS VIA INFRARED RADIATION
    Publication number: 20100089906
    Abstract: Process for heating a plastic by means of at least one source of electromagnetic radiation, characterized in that the electromagnetic radiation is emitted in the infrared at a wavelength or in a wavelength spectrum contained in one of the following ranges: 1110-1160 nm; 1390-1450 nm; 1610-1650 nm; 1675-1700 nm; 18802100 nm; 2170-2230 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS
    Inventor: Bernard Plantamura
  • Individual support device for a container provided with a neck and installation provided with transport devices with such a support device
    Patent number: 7694802
    Abstract: An individual support device (5) for a container provided with a neck (6), including a support member (4) that engages inside the neck (6) and support elements (7) which are elastically retractable in the radial direction and bear with friction against the internal wall of the neck (6). The support member includes a substantially axisymmetric cylindrical base (8) having a peripheral channel (9) defined between a core (10) and an external wall (11) perforated by at least one row of apertures (12) of circular contour, balls (13) forming the support elements (7), arranged in at least one row in the channel (9) opposite respective apertures (12), the balls (13) having a diameter greater than the diameter of the apertures (12), and elastic return mechanism (14) between the core (10) and the balls (13) such that the balls are pushed back into the respective apertures (12) and project outside thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Sidel Participations
    Inventor: Christophe Lapert
  • DRAWING-BLOWING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MOLDING THERMOPLASTIC MATERIAL CONTAINERS, IN PARTICULAR BOTTLES, WITH PETALOID BOTTOMS
    Publication number: 20100086635
    Abstract: The invention relates to manufacturing thermoplastic material containers (2) with a petaloid bottom (4) by drawing-blowing hot preforms (16) in a blowing mold that has a petaloid mold bottom (1) including radiating ridges (13) alternating with cavities (11) that are adapted to form the valleys (7) and the feet (5), respectively, of the container bottom; during drawing, heat losses are reduced in longitudinal zones (19) of the end part (20) of the preforms, extending over the bottom (18) and over an axial portion of their body (21), distributed over the periphery of the ends of the preforms facing respective cavities (11) of the mold bottom (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS
    Inventor: Philippe VIEILLOT
  • FILLING MACHINE PROVIDED WITH A CLEANING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20100084046
    Abstract: The invention relates to a container filling machine including at least one filling spout, and a cleaning device including a stationary collecting member with a passage opening, a sealing member that can be displaced between a retracted position and a service position in which said sealing member is capable of tightly sealing the passage opening of the collecting member for carrying out cleaning operations, and displacement means capable of displacing the sealing member from the retracted position to the service position thereof through at least one downward vertical translation displacement parallely to the longitudinal axis of the filling spout, followed by a horizontal displacement, perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the filling spout, such that the sealing member is substantially centred along the longitudinal axis of the filling spout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS
    Inventors: Philippe Macquet, Jean-Marie Maubois
  • Valve comprising a magnetic control device
    Patent number: 7690625
    Abstract: A valve including a shutter placed in a chamber which is arranged in the valve body and whose end is provided with a seat against which a plug-forming part of the shutter is pressed in the closed position of the valve and is remote in the open position thereof. The inventive valve also includes a magnetic control device provided with the shutter magnetic drive device disposed outside the chamber and displacing the shutter in the closed or open position thereof. The valve is characterized in that the magnetic control device includes at least one ball which is made of a magnetic material, disposed in the chamber and is coupled with an external magnetic drive device, wherein the ball is associated with the shutter in such a way that the shutter is driven in the chamber when the ball is moved by a magnetic drive device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Sidel Participations
    Inventors: Gerard Sabiron, Jean-Jacques Serin, Patrick Decarne
  • Method for measuring for permeability to gases with rapid conditioning and installation for carrying out this method
    Patent number: 7690244
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for measuring the permeability to gases of the wall of a hollow body (6) made of polymeric material, characterized: in that it comprises a first conditioning step during which a flushing gas flushes said hollow body (6), and a second measuring step during which a measurement gas is introduced into said hollow body (6); in that the flow of flushing gas is greater than the flow of the measurement gas, and; the flushing gas is sent into the hollow body (6) without mixing with the measurement gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Sidel Participations
    Inventor: Yann Pernel
  • METHOD AND INSTALLATION FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CONTAINERS
    Publication number: 20100072673
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing a container from a thermoplastic blank (2), comprising: a step in which the blank (2) is heated using at least one beam (22) of coherent electromagnetic radiation, and a step in which the container is formed from the blank (2) thus heated. The invention also relates to an installation (1) which is used to produce containers (2) and which comprises a unit (16) for heating the blanks (2) in order to form containers from the blanks (2) thus heated. The inventive installation (1) defines a path (23) along which the blanks (2) travel inside the heating unit (16). In addition, the heating unit (16) comprises at least one coherent electromagnetic radiation source (26) which is directed towards a zone (25) that is located on the aforementioned path (23).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS
    Inventors: Guy Feuilloley, Luc Desoutter
  • DEVICE FOR FETCHING DIE-CUT CARTONBOARD BLANKS
    Publication number: 20100068012
    Abstract: The fetching device has an arm which captures die-cut blanks located in the magazine of an erecting machine for erecting these blanks to form boxes or the like. The extractor arm is provided with suckers and these suckers are supplied by circuits and. The circuits and are connected to each end of the arm and they are also provided with dispenser-type devive and, respectively, so that they can be active together or separately. The suckers are wholly or partly provided with multifunction three-way valves. These valves are able to allow as many suckers as possible to be selected and used for the operation of extracting each die-cut blank and to isolate the circuits from each other in order to deactivate any suckers which are to be shunted in order to erect said die-cut blanks, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS
    Inventor: Yannick Petijean
  • Method and device for microwave plasma deposition of a coating on a thermoplastic container surface
    Patent number: 7678430
    Abstract: The deposition of a coating on a thermoplastic container surface using low pressure plasma by excitation of a precursor gas with UHF electromagnetic waves in a circular shaped vacuum cavity receiving the container is provided. It includes dimensioning the cavity with respect to the frequency of the UHF electromagnetic waves so as to obtain a coupling mode generating several electromagnetic fields inside the cavity. In particular a TM 120 coupling mode is provided which generates two central fields (4A, 4B) inside the cavity, whereby two containers can be simultaneously treated in said cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Sidel Participations
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Rius, Yann Pernel
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D611828
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Sidel Participations
    Inventor: Laurent Lepoitevin
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D612251
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Sidel Participations
    Inventor: Laurent Lepoitevin
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D614492
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Sidel Participations
    Inventor: Wilfried Hermel
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D614504
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Sidel Participations
    Inventor: Gilles Coat