Abstract: Provided is a device for treating containers and in particular plastic containers, including a first transport device having a continuous carrier on which a first plurality of transport elements are moveably arranged, each having at least one retainer for retaining plastic preforms and being designed and configured to transport said plastic preforms along a first transport path, and including at least one heating device arranged along the first transport path in order to heat the plastic preforms at least in sections during their transportation along the first transport path.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for molding plastic preforms into plastic containers using a blow mould assembly including a blow mould unit, wherein a part of the blow mould unit is retained on a blow mould holder element using negative pressure.

Abstract: A blowing mold array includes a blowing mold unit forming a cavity, inside of which plastic preforms are expanded to plastic containers. The blow mold unit includes a blowing mold retainer having at least two mold retainer elements for accommodating parts of the blowing mold unit, and a locking mechanism to arrest at least one part of the blowing mold unit against at least one mold retainer element. The locking mechanism includes an engagement element that can be pivoted and/or shifted relative to a default axis, which in an arrested state abuts a segment of a part of the blowing mold unit. The locking mechanism has an actuating element to loosen the arrest between the mold retaining element and the blowing mold unit. Actuation of the actuating element is coupled with actuation of the engagement element.

Abstract: A plant for reshaping plastic preforms into plastic containers, includes a heating device for heating the plastic preforms, and a device for reshaping the plastic preforms into the plastic containers, arranged downstream of the heating device in the transport direction of the plastic preforms, wherein the reshaping device includes a transport device, which transports the plastic preforms along a predefined transport path and wherein the transport device has a station carrier on which a multitude of reshaping stations are arranged, each having blow mold devices each arranged on blow mold carriers. The reshaping device includes a changing device, which is suited and intended for at least removing and/or attaching the blow mold devices to the blow mold carriers, wherein this changing device is further suited and intended for at least removing and/or attaching the changeable element to the heating device.

Abstract: A container treatment plant and a method for displacing an element of a valve or a diverting unit of a container treatment plant. The container treatment plant comprises at least one element for treating containers. The element is part of a valve or a diverting unit. The container treatment plant also comprises a displacing unit for displacing the element between a first position and a second position, wherein the displacing unit comprises a magnetically operating actuator such that a rotary motion caused by the actuator displaces the element with the aid of a mechanism between its first and second positions.

Abstract: Apparatus for shaping plastics material pre-forms into plastics material containers includes a conveying device which conveys the pre-forms along a pre-set path. The conveying device has a movable station carrier arranged at least indirectly on a stationary base carrier on which are arranged a plurality of shaping stations which have in each case blow moulding devices which have cavities, inside which the pre-forms are shaped. The apparatus has a changing device for removing the blow moulding devices from the blow mould carriers and/or for arranging blow moulding devices on the blow mould carriers. The changing device has a first control device for controlling a removing and/or an arranging movement of the blow moulding devices on the blow mould carriers, and a second control device for controlling a blow moulding procedure, wherein the first control device and the second control device preferably co-operate at least for a time.

Abstract: An apparatus for shaping plastics material pre-forms into plastics material containers has a conveying device which conveys the plastics material pre-forms along a pre-set conveying path. The conveying device has a movable station carrier arranged at least indirectly on a stationary base carrier and on which a plurality of shaping stations are arranged. The shaping stations have blow moulding devices which form cavities inside which the plastics material preforms are shaped to form plastics material containers. The blow moulding devices are arranged on blow mould carriers. The apparatus has a changing device suitable for removing at least the blow moulding devices from the blow mould carriers and/or arranging blow moulding devices on the blow mould carriers. A changing device has a gripping device for gripping the blow moulding device, wherein this gripping device is movable in at least two different directions and is pivotable about at least three different axes.

Abstract: An apparatus for shaping plastics material pre-forms into plastics material containers has a conveying device which conveys the plastics material pre-forms along a pre-set conveying path. The conveying device has a movable station carrier arranged at least indirectly on a stationary base carrier and on which a plurality of shaping stations are arranged. The shaping stations have blow molding devices which form cavities inside which the plastics material preforms are shaped to form plastics material containers. The blow molding devices are arranged on blow mold carriers. The apparatus has a changing device suitable for removing at least the blow molding devices from the blow mold carriers and/or arranging blow molding devices on the blow mold carriers. A changing device has a gripping device for gripping the blow molding device, wherein this gripping device is movable in at least two different directions and is pivotable about at least three different axes.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device (100) for sterilizing plastic parisons (1), with a sterilization chamber (3) and a transport device (2) disposed at least partially inside the sterilization chamber (3) for moving the plastic parisons (1) within the sterilization chamber (3), wherein the transport device (2) has at least one gripping system (4) for engaging round and supporting the plastic parisons (1) by means of a gripping clamp (41), wherein the gripping system (4) has a displacement means (5) for displacement during sterilization within the sterilization chamber of contact surfaces (1A) of the plastic parisons (1) which are shielded by the gripping system (4) from a sterilizing medium and/or sterilizing radiation.

Abstract: An apparatus for the shaping of plastics material pre-forms into plastics material containers, with a plurality of shaping stations which are arranged on a movable carrier, wherein the shaping stations have blow molds which are used for receiving the plastic pre-forms and inside which the plastic pre-forms are shaped into the plastic containers, and wherein the shaping stations have stressing devices which are movable relative to the plastic pre-forms and which act upon the pre-forms arranged in the blow molds with a sterile flowable medium to expand them, with a clean room, inside which the shaping stations are conveyed, wherein this clean room is arranged or demarcated from the environment by means of at least one wall. At least one supply device is provided for supplying a flowable control medium to at least one shaping station), wherein this supply device (60) is sealed off from the clean room.

Abstract: A container treatment plant and a method for the treatment of containers are described. The container treatment plant includes a plurality of treatment elements, wherein each treatment element is used for a pre-determined treatment of the containers and each treatment element has associated therewith a container nominal value which indicates which type of container the treatment element can treat, a detection device for detecting properties of one of the containers to be treated, and a comparator device for comparing a detection result of the detection device with the container nominal value for at least one treatment element.

Abstract: A container treatment plant and a method for displacing an element of a valve or a diverting unit of a container treatment plant. The container treatment plant comprises at least one element for treating containers. The element is part of a valve or a diverting unit. The container treatment plant also comprises a displacing unit for displacing the element between a first position and a second position, wherein the displacing unit comprises a magnetically operating actuator such that a rotary motion caused by the actuator displaces the element with the aid of a mechanism between its first and second positions.

Abstract: An apparatus for shaping plastics material preforms into plastics material containers includes a plurality of shaping stations each having two blow mould parts which are movable with respect to each other and which can be moved between a closed and an opened state. In the closed state the shaping station form a cavity, inside which the plastics material pre-forms are shaped. The shaping stations have a stressing device which acts upon the preforms with a gaseous medium to expand them, and stretch bars which are capable of being inserted into the preforms to stretch them in the longitudinal direction. The shaping stations each have at least one drive device which drives a movement necessary for the shaping procedure, as well as a control device for controlling this drive device. The control device is arranged on the apparatus through a damping device.

Abstract: A blow molding machine for producing plastic bottles, particularly PET bottles, including a plurality of blow molding stations, which have assigned thereto valve blocks with control valves and blowing nozzles for introducing or discharging blowing air; and a cleaning-in-place (CIP) system for cleaning the blow molding machine. Since the valve blocks are configured such that they can be included in the CIP process, the system components, such as the blowing nozzle, which are particularly important for the production of PET bottles in terms of hygiene, can be cleaned and sterilized without disassembly.

Abstract: A process for molding and filling plastic containers and a form-filling machine to implement the process. The process is used for molding and filling of plastic containers. Preforms in hollow molds are reshaped into the containers by at least partial addition of an incompressible molding fluid under the impact of overpressure. Due to the condition that the containers are also filled with a product in the hollow molds, in which the molding fluid is replaced by the product or partially replaced by at least one component of the product, the temporal or technological effort for the production of the containers and for bottling of the product can be reduced.

Abstract: The invention relates to a shaping apparatus (1) for the shaping of plastics material pre-forms (10) into plastics material containers (10A) with a plurality of blow moulding stations (8) and with at least one control device (55; 55A; 55B; 55C) for the control of blow molding pressures and/or volume flows at the blow molding stations (8), in which the at least one control device (55; 55A; 55B; 55C) comprises at least one control valve (56) with a control piston part (58) which is guided in a cylinder part (57) and by means of which a cross-section (59) of a blow molding air duct (60) is capable of being closed, wherein the control device (55; 55A; 55B; 55C) has a drive unit (61) operating in an electromagnetic manner in order to effect a change in position of the control piston part (58) inside the cylinder part (57) and thus also to control the blow molding pressures and/or volume flows at the blow molding stations (8).

Abstract: In an apparatus for shaping plastics material pre-forms into plastics material containers, the blow mould comprises a first mould part and a second mould part, the blow mould comprises a base part which is movable with respect to the mould parts along a lifting direction extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of the mould parts, in order to close off a cavity, in the closed setting, in the lifting direction, and wherein a plastics material pre-form is capable of being directly acted upon with pressure by a gaseous medium inside the cavity, wherein at least one second drive device which is designed in the form of an electric linear drive is set up and provided to move the base part relative to the mould parts in the lifting direction.

Abstract: An apparatus for reshaping plastic preforms into plastic containers includes a plurality of blow-molding stations that each have at least one receptacle space, within which the plastic preforms can be expanded into the plastic containers. The apparatus also includes a conveying device that conveys the containers along at least one specified travel path, wherein the apparatus has a plurality of heating devices that are arranged along the travel path of each container, upstream of the blow-molding stations, wherein at least one heating device is allocated to at least one blow-molding station.

Abstract: Methods for manufacturing a plastic container and for filling it with a fill product are described. The methods include introducing a perform into a blow mold, pressuring the preform with a blowing medium, evacuating the interior space of the container to an underpressure, and introducing a fill product in the interior space at an overpressure.

Abstract: A device optimized with regard to thermal management and an optimized method for the manufacture of containers are described in which the thermal energy of a plurality of consumers/generators of thermal energy is interchanged through a thermal energy combination. The device and the method are particularly suitable for stretch blow-molding machines and compressors.