Abstract: A machine for manufacturing hollow bodies by blow molding thermoplastic preforms includes at least one preform heating apparatus and an assembly of molding stations fixedly arranged in an arc of a circle. The molding stations each further include a finished product ejector. A rotary transfer device is provided between the heating apparatus and the molding stations to transfer the heated preforms. The transfer device preferably has the shape of a wheel coaxial with an arc of a circle on which the molding stations are arranged. The wheel includes a carrier distributed uniformly along a circle to take heated preforms and deposit them into receptors on the molding stations.

Abstract: Apparatus for forming containers by blow molding a closed end parison, comprising a chain conveyor for moving closed-end parisons on blow pins vertically dispased and extending above the conveyor. The invention includes electrically heated reciprocal cylinders which are sequentially lowered about the parisons for tempering same before the parisons are introduced into the blow molds on the blow pins.