Abstract: An oven for preforms and in particular a preform rotation system heats portions of the preform in a preferential manner. An oven (1) for blowing or stretch-blowing preforms (P) to provide containers (C) with oval section includes a path (2) for the preforms (P), transfer system (3) of the preforms (P) from a transport system upstream of the oven (1) and a transfer system (4) of the heated preforms (P) from the oven (1) to a downstream transport. Mandrels (9) are slidingly carried along the path (2), the mandrels temporarily engage with the preforms (P) to conduct the preforms along the path (2). The oven (1) includes at least one first heating module (10) and at least one second heating module (10?). The oven (1) includes elements (22, 25) for rotating the preforms (P) by 180°, the elements being in median position of the second heating module (10?).

Abstract: Described herein are a machine for packaging liquids or semisolid products in containers, in particular liquids in containers such as bottles, and a support system of such a machine. In particular, the machine for packaging liquids in containers includes two or more operating units selected from a preform oven, a blowing unit for blowing the preforms to form containers, a rinsing unit for rinsing the blown containers, a container filling unit, a filled container capping unit, a container labeling unit, an empty or filled container sterilization unit, and a container descent and orientation unit; distribution starwheels for transporting the preforms or containers between the operating units; and a base including an upper plate and a lower plate, wherein all the operating units and the distribution starwheels are placed on the upper plate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for the disinfection of containers in a blowing and filling system of the containers with a product, in particular a system for the internal disinfection of the containers by means of ultraviolet-C radiation LED emitters.

Abstract: A machine for blowing or stretch-blowing bottles or containers made of a polymer material includes molds movable on a transport system. Each mold includes a front, back, and bottom with a first and second half-molds hinged about a hinge axis and a base. Each of the molds includes a mechanism for synchronized actuation of the half-molds and the base independently from the machine's motor, to cyclically form with shaped portions, a closed cavity for receiving a preheated preform and to allow expansion by blowing or stretch-blowing the preform inside the cavity to obtain a bottle or container. The base is wedge-shaped with a horizontal closing surface facing the bottom of the mold, and an inclined surface. The actuation mechanism includes a wedge-shaped element having a surface inclining towards the front of the mold. The inclined surfaces of the base and of the wedge-shaped element are) being slidingly coupled.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heating system for preforms upstream of a blowing or stretch-blowing machine, in particular a heating system using monochromatic infrared radiation, preferably laser-generated. In particular, the invention relates to a heating system (301) for preforms (P), comprising a carousel for treating the preforms (P) comprising a plurality of heating elements (304) configured to be inserted either inside or outside each preform (P) and to radiate electromagnetic radiation in the infrared field which forms, in such a device, a disc of radiation according to a radial symmetry which departs from the center of the axis of the preform and which appropriately converges and diverges.

Abstract: Described herein is a preform heating device, in particular a heating device which uses monochromatic infrared radiation preferably generated by lasers. In particular, a heating device for preforms is configured so as to be positioned outside a preform and radiate an electromagnetic radiation in the infrared range, forming a radiation disk in such a device according to a radial symmetry with respect to the center of the preform axis.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a movement system of containers to and from operating units, in particular blowing units for bottles made of plastic material or filling units.

Abstract: A handling device includes a support element, a support plate fixed to the support element, a drive shaft, a rotation plate hinged to the drive shaft and an elastic return element. Clamps connect to the rotation plate and include first and second jaws, each having a handling portion and a drive portion. A conduction wheel connects to the drive portion of the first jaw. The second jaw drive portion has a slot with a pressure surface. The second jaw drive portion connects to the first jaw drive portion. A cam profile at a peripheral area of the support plate provides for opening. The first jaw opens when the conduction wheel rotates on the cam profile. A wheel mounts onto the first jaw drive portion inserts inside the slot. The second jaw opening couples to the first jaw opening by the wheel, which acts on the pressure surface.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a movement system of containers to and from operating units, in particular blowing units for bottles made of plastic material or filling units.

Abstract: A blowing or stretch-blowing machine for preforms made of polymer material. The blowing or stretch-blowing machine (1) has a plurality of molds (1) movable on a transport system, in which each of the molds (1) comprises a first half-mold (2a) and a second half-mold (2b) hinged around a hinge axis (3) and a bottom plate (4) adapted to cooperate with the half-molds (2a, 2b) for closing the bottom of the mold (1), and a mechanism for vertical/translational movement of the bottom plate, to cyclically form a closed cavity adapted to receive a preheated preform and allow expansion, by blowing or stretch-blowing of the preform inside the cavity, to obtain a bottle or container. Each of the molds (1) comprises a system for synchronized opening/closing of the half-molds (2a, 2b) and of the bottom plate (4) actuated by an actuator thereof (30) independent from motorization of the machine.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a filling device for food product packaging plants in special containers. Particularly, the invention relates to a filling device of the electronic type, in which a contact between the valve and the container to be filled does not occur.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a machine for filling containers, in particular bottles or the like with a product, particularly a liquid such as a drink, by means of a weighing system.

Abstract: An apparatus for palletizing a plurality of objects, for example bottle packs or containers, is provided. A conveying and sorting system to form an ordered set of objects is provided. A handling system having a support column and movably arranged thereon a first handling member suitable to handle the ordered set of objects from a discharge position of the conveying and sorting system to a pallet arranged at a workstation is provided. A handling system having a support column and movably arranged thereon a second handling-suitable to handle a pallet from a pallet stack to the workstation and/or a cardboard flap from a respective stack to said workstation is provided.

Abstract: Systems for spacing and transferring objects between operative stations are provided. Such systems can be used with ovens for preforms for plastic material, in blowing or stretch-blowing machines and for other applications in the packaging field. Such systems provide spacing and transferring of objects advancing in procession on transport elements, from a minimum pitch to a preset pitch larger than said minimum pitch, and for transferring said spaced objects to handling elements.

Abstract: A system for handling objects in rotary machines, and, more particularly, a system for handling preforms in blowing machines. The system picks up a pre-heated preform from a transferring star of the preform and takes it to a mold of a stretch-blowing machine by using movements entailing reduced acceleration values, in particular of the tangential acceleration component, so as to prevent uncontrolled oscillatory movements of the softened preform. In the blowing machine, the preform is blown to obtain a bottle, and the bottle thus obtained is picked up from the stretch-blow molding position and transferred to an unloading position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a filling device for food product packaging plants in special containers. Particularly, the invention relates to a filling device of the electronic type, in which a contact between the valve and the container to be filled does not occur. Specifically, the invention relates to the beverage bottling field. Particularly, the present invention relates to a filling device (1) comprising a valve body (2) in which a dispensing duct (3) for a filling fluid is obtained, the dispensing duct (3) ending inferiorly with a dispensing nozzle (4), in which the lower portion (2?) of the valve body (2) comprises a sleeve (13) surrounding the dispensing nozzle (4), so as to create an annular chamber (14) between the outer surface of the dispensing nozzle (4) and the inner surface of the sleeve (13), characterized in that said sleeve (13) is connected to a sanitization duct (15) which is arranged in flow communication with a source (19) of a gaseous sanitization fluid.

Abstract: A sheet separator machine for cartons for packaging from a warehouse, typically a well warehouse, in which the cartons are stacked. More particularly, a machine for separating sheets of cartons. The machine includes a frame on which a handling station of the cartons, a warehouse for at least one stack of cartons, and a gripping station of the cartons, are mounted, in an operatively contiguous position. The gripping station includes a pair of counter-rotating motorized rolls for withdrawing a carton from the stack of cartons.

Abstract: Machines are provided for the blowing or stretch blow moulding of bottles or containers having a plurality of moulding units, each moulding unit having a first half-shell and a second half-shell, laterally hinged around a hinge pin having a hinge axis, and a bottom suitable for cooperating to cyclically form a closed cavity suitable for receiving a pre-heated pre-form and for allowing the expansion by stretch blow moulding of the preform inside the cavity so as to obtain a bottle, said moulding unit being arranged to cyclically assume a closed mould configuration and an open mould configuration by means of opening and closing elements of the half-shells towards and away from a closure plane X-X passing through said hinge axis, and movement elements of the bottom, wherein said half-shells and said bottom are actuated in a synchronized manner stating from a single motion inlet comprising a single cam coupling.

Abstract: Ovens for preforms in plastic material, applicable in particular but not exclusively to blowing machines and stretch blowing machines, are provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an oven for preforms in plastic material, and particularly to a heating module to be used in said oven. Particularly, the present invention relates to a heating module (10) for ovens (1) for heating preforms (P).