Abstract: A device for cutting off the top part of a container such as a bottle neck, comprising a plurality of pivoted arms operating like nippers gripping round the bottle necks and which carry each one at least at one of their ends a cutting form roller disposed between two form rollers for driving and guiding the bottle necks, the device allowing the indivudual cutting of closed bottles of plastics material adapted to contain any food liquid such as milk for instance.

Abstract: A method and device for transferring lids into a machine for the sterile conditioning of containers, the device comprising two elongated parallel nipper-holding members extending with one end into a sterile container-conditioning enclosure, one of these two members being reciprocally movable with respect to the other nipper-holding member which remains stationary being held against translatory motion. The device is adapted to transferring, depositing and provisionally securing lids onto containers or cups filled with any product or foodstuff.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a machine for automatic packaging of food products in cup-shaped containers grouped in a row in a cardboard support. This machine comprises essentially a device for marking the support and its associated containers, as well as a device for bending down the sides of the support to a position substantially parallel with the axis of the containers. This latter device comprises essentially a vertically movable unit including two horizontal bars vertically movable with respect to the unit and capable of passing in the intervals between two successive plates supporting the containers so as to turn down the edges of the support.

Abstract: This invention essentially relates to a grid for guiding bottles advancing towards compartments of a packing case. The grid has vertically fastened thereto supports each including a sleeve containing axial-push means together with a rod cooperating therewith to resiliently maintain a group of short fingers while imparting to their free ends a spaced apart position under the action of the axial push.

Abstract: The process of the invention essentially consists in supplying sterile gas to an extruded parison confined between the two shells of a mould, this sterile gas being sequentially applied at a first pressure slightly higher than atmospheric pressure, at a second pressure much higher than the first pressure in order to inflate the parison, and at a third pressure which is much lower than the second pressure and corresponds to the desired inflating pressure of the hollow body to be formed.