Female Mold And Means To Shape Parison Directly By Internal Fluid Pressure, (e.g., Blow Mold, Etc.) Patents (Class 425/522)
  • Patent number: 11964420
    Abstract: A blow molding apparatus includes a machine bed, an upper base disposed at intervals in a vertical direction from the machine bed, a transport plate configured to rotate at a height position of the upper base to convey the preform between an injection molding part and a blow molding part, and an elevation mechanism configured to move the transport plate or the upper base up and down in the vertical direction with respect to a mold disposed on the machine bed. A support pillar includes a height adjusting part configured to adjust a stroke of the transport plate or the upper base in the vertical direction with respect to the machine bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Horigome, Toshio Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11883998
    Abstract: Apparatus for producing plastic containers has a heating device having a transport device for transporting the plastic preforms singly along a predefined transport path. The transport device has a plurality of holding devices for holding the plastic preforms, and at least one heating unit for heating the plastic preforms, wherein furthermore a rotating device is provided which rotates the plastic preforms held by the holding devices and is connected to a forming device, which transforms the plastic preforms transported by the heating device into plastic containers. The apparatus has an alignment device which enables alignment of the rotational position of the plastic preforms with respect to their longitudinal direction relative to the holding devices holding these plastic preforms and/or the apparatus has a rotational position alignment device arranged along the transport path which enables alignment of a rotational position of the holding devices with the plastic preforms arranged thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventors: Sebastian Steger, Gerhard Schwoed, Michael Eifler, Jochen Forsthoevel, Thomas Philipp, Simon Moewes
  • Patent number: 11833732
    Abstract: A blow mould for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers, having at least two blow to mould side parts and a base part, which form a cavity, within which plastic preforms can be formed into the plastic containers by being acted upon by a flowable medium, wherein an inner wall of the blow mould side parts and of the base part having a contour which produces a predetermined shape of the plastic containers to be produced, wherein a plurality of openings being provided in at least one section of the base part, which openings allow a gaseous medium to be discharged during an expansion process of the plastic container. A ratio between a surface area of the base part and a surface area of the openings is 3-350, preferably 4-200, and particularly preferably 3-100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Inventors: Bastian Tissmer, Peter Knapp
  • Patent number: 11826772
    Abstract: A variety of dispensing manifolds which are removable connectable to a single deformable container having a single exit portion are disclosed. The dispensing manifolds of the present disclosure provide a single deformable container having a single exit with one or more outlets from which a fluid can be controllably dispensed. The present disclosure also provides a single force generation mechanism, a deformable container holding a fluid or substance, and dispensing mechanisms all on one machine, i.e., a carrier; a system that may also include a pressurized air source that assists a flow of a fluid; and a system that allows for a continuous flow a substance. The systems of the present disclosure provide a deformable container and a method of dispensing wherein, during dispensing, an actuation member is continuously free of contact with the fluid or substance within the container and the actuation member only contacts the exterior surface of the deformable container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Rooftop Research, LLC
    Inventor: Robert S. Burns
  • Patent number: 11565867
    Abstract: A plastic container comprises an upper portion including a finish defining an opening into the container, a lower portion including a base defining a standing surface, a sidewall extending between the upper portion and the lower portion, the sidewall defining a longitudinal axis, and at least one substantially transversely-oriented pressure panel located in the lower portion. The pressure panel is movable between an outwardly-inclined position and an inwardly-inclined position to compensate for a change of pressure inside the container. The standing surface defines a standing plane, and the entire pressure panel is located between the standing plane and the upper portion of the container when the pressure panel is in the outwardly-inclined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: C02PAC LIMITED
    Inventors: David Melrose, John Denner, Paul Kelley, Gregory Trude
  • Patent number: 11457323
    Abstract: A method of making a mold, the mold having an interior cavity for containing a first material and a second material, wherein the mold comprises a first port configured to receive the first material, a second port configured to receive the second material, and a first channel for directing the second material to within the first material, the method includes: determining an electronic file having data representing a shape of an ear; processing the electronic file to create an electronic model of the mold, the electronic model of the mold having sprue features; and creating the mold based on the electronic model of the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventors: Russell L. Schreiner, Gustavo A. Morales
  • Patent number: 11299245
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for inflating an inflatable object, such as a floatation device. The inflation apparatus includes a component with a primary opening, the primary opening sized and shaped to accept air from an air source, such as a hair dryer. A secondary opening on an inflation adapter is sized and shaped to be in communication with a valve opening on the inflatable object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Inventor: Bruce Raymond Harris
  • Patent number: 11135759
    Abstract: A temperature adjustment part is configured to stretch a preform by moving a temperature adjustment rod toward a bottom surface portion (lower body portion) side of a body portion by a predetermined distance, after inserting the temperature adjustment rod into the preform to bring the temperature adjustment rod into contact with an inner surface of the body portion of the preform other than a boundary portion between the body portion and a neck portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junichi Maruyama
  • Patent number: 11117308
    Abstract: The invention relates to a half-mold comprising a joint face; an opposing assembly face), where the longitudinal cross-section of the assembly face is in the form of an arc of a circle centered on a reference axis. The reference axis is offset longitudinally towards the front relative to the joint face. The invention also concerns a molding assembly, a molding unit and a forming facility comprising such half-molds. The invention also concerns a method for producing such half-molds and a method for producing a surface for receiving such half-molds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS
    Inventors: Damien Hellouin, Olivier Alix, Alexandre Toutoux, Cedric Bianchini
  • Patent number: 11059215
    Abstract: A liquid-containing container manufacturing method includes: a liquid blow molding step of, in a state in which a reversal panel formation part forms a convex surface projecting toward inside of a cavity, supplying a pressurized liquid into a preform placed inside a cavity, to mold the preform into a container including a reversal panel; and a headspace formation step of pressing the container by a press part to reverse the reversal panel, and thereafter releasing press by the press part to increase a volume of the container and thereby form a headspace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshimasa Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10919247
    Abstract: A method of making shear webs (16) for a wind turbine blade (10) is described. The method comprises providing an elongate male mould tool (32) having a longitudinally-extending upper mould surface (34) and a longitudinally-extending first side wall (36). A shim (40a) is provided adjacent and attached to the first side wall (36) of the mould tool (32). The shim (40a) has an inner surface (48) facing towards the first side wall (36), an outer surface (50) facing away from the first side wall (36), and an upper surface (56) defining an extension of the upper mould surface (34). A flange structure (74) is provided that comprises a flange portion and a projecting portion (78). The projecting portion (78) extends along the length of the flange portion and projects transversely from a surface of the flange portion. Fibrous reinforcing material is arranged on the upper mould surface (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
    Inventors: Christopher Boon, Olav Davis
  • Patent number: 10864672
    Abstract: A device for blow molding containers, which is provided with a supporting frame for at least one station for blow molding preforms in order to obtain containers, the blow molding station including two lateral bodies and a bottom which are adapted to provide by blow molding at least one container, at least one of the two lateral bodies being movable on command by way of means for cyclic opening and closing, with respect to the supporting frame, about an articulation axis that is substantially parallel to the axis of the at least one container, means being provided for kinematic connection between the at least one movable lateral body and the bottom and being adapted to produce cyclically the movement of the bottom along a movement direction substantially parallel to the; the cyclic opening and closing means include an actuation body which is supported by a first link rod which can be moved with respect to the supporting frame about a pivoting axis which is substantially parallel to the articulation axis (101),
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: SACMI IMOLA S.C.
    Inventor: Filippo Mazzotto
  • Patent number: 10286591
    Abstract: A blow molding mold is adapted to be mounted to a blow molding device and having a cavity surface. The blow molding device has a pressurized liquid supply function of supplying a pressurized liquid to stretch the preform toward the cavity surface and also has a head space defining function of defining head space in the container by drawing back a part of the liquid filled into the container through a blow nozzle or by withdrawing a stretching rod from the container filled with the liquid. The cavity surface includes a bottom forming surface, a trunk forming surface, a shoulder forming surface, and a mouth forming surface, and the trunk forming surface includes a flattened portion that, in the transverse section, has a flattened shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: DISCMA AG
    Inventors: Shinichi Tabata, Toshimasa Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9555559
    Abstract: A cavity insert for a mold stack is disclosed, the cavity insert being dimensioned to define a continuous annular cavity insert cooling chamber. The cavity insert also provides a first and second decompression chamber in fluid communication with each end of the cavity insert cooling chamber. Also disclosed is a chamber extension feature in fluid communication with the cavity insert cooling chamber to promote cooling in the downstream region of the cavity insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Mold-Masters (2007) Limited
    Inventor: Manfred Lausenhammer
  • Patent number: 9555575
    Abstract: Blow molding tools and a method of blow molding which provide that the tool have a retractable push up section in the base which allows for the article molded by the tool to have a recessed base internal to an otherwise hollow structure. As the push up is moveable, adjustment of the push up portion can be performed during an automated blow molding operation so as to allow release of the blow molded article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Pretium Packaging, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Raymond C. Eble
  • Patent number: 9446551
    Abstract: An apparatus for forming a blow-molded container includes a mold, a mandrel, and a die. The mold includes a bottom section for forming a container bottom, a sidewall section for forming a plurality of sidewalls, a spout section for forming a spout, and a neck section for forming an upwardly converging neck member coupling the sidewalls to the spout having a convex radius transition section of approximately three inches in a container having an overall height of approximately ten inches. The mandrel and the die are operative to form a parison that assumes an ovoid cross-section within the mold with the outer surfaces of the parison positioned approximately equidistant from sidewall section of said mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Mid-America Machining, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Lobbestael, Al Vanover, Kevin D Gaydosh, Gregory T Hall
  • Patent number: 9039404
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for the shaping of plastics material pre-forms into plastics material containers with at least one blow moulding station which is arranged on a conveying device rotatable about a pre-set axis of rotation (D). The blow moulding station has a blow mould and this blow mould forms a cavity in the interior of which the plastics material pre-forms are capable of being expanded by being acted upon with a gaseous medium to form the plastics material containers, with a stressing device, which acts upon the plastics material pre-forms with the gaseous medium in order to expand them, and with a clean room, which surrounds the blow moulding station at least in part. The clean room is bounded off from an environment by at least two walls which are movable relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Florian Geltinger, Franz Braun, Yasin Kerim
  • Publication number: 20150140159
    Abstract: A blow mold unit including a blow mold including first and second blow cavity split molds and a plurality of raised bottom molds, first and second pressure receiving plates, a first fixing plate to which the first blow cavity split mold and the first pressure receiving plate are fixed, a second fixing plate to which the second blow cavity split mold and the second pressure receiving plate are fixed, a third fixing plate interposed between the first and second fixing plates and to which the plurality of raised bottom molds are fixed at a first surface thereof, a shaft portion extending vertically from a second surface of the third fixing plate, an elevation guide block fixed to one of the first and second fixing plates and elevation guiding the shaft portion, and an elevating rod extending vertically from the second surface. There is also a blow molding machine which includes the blow mold unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki YOKOBAYASHI, Daizaburo TAKEHANA
  • Patent number: 9022776
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mold hanger for supporting a bottle mold in a blow molding station, the mold hanger comprising a piston and piston sleeve fully contained within the mold hanger configured to push a moveable insert into the mold. Also disclosed is a method of retrofitting an original rotatable blow molding module having multiple existing blow molding stations, each existing mold hanger defining an existing outer envelope. The disclosed method may include providing an improved mold hanger substantially contained within the respective existing outer envelope and including low-profile drive mechanisms configured opposably to drive moveable inserts into the mold. Further disclosed is a method of manufacturing a blow molded bottle with a deep pinch grip, the method including providing within a mold hanger a drive mechanism to drive a moveable insert into the mold. A bottle made by such methods is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Graham Packaging Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Stephen R. Guerin, David R. Piccioli, Thomas E. Nahill, Keith J. Barker
  • Publication number: 20150107080
    Abstract: The present invention provides a packaging carton for fragile, apparatus for making cartoon bottom, and method for making the carton bottom. The packaging carton includes a bottom and peripheral wall which jointly define a receiving space far storing fragile glass substrate with the bottom. The bottom has a skeleton configuration and is made from plastic blowing technology. By the forgoing, the present invention can effectively reduce the packaging cost, and which in turn reducing the cost of the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 1, 2015
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shih Hsiang CHEN, Yi-cheng KUO, Qianshuang HU, Jiahe CHENG
  • Patent number: 9004897
    Abstract: The support cooperates with the half-molds (2, 3) of a molding unit used to shape a container from thermoplastic material. This support comprises: a pedestal in the form of an actuating cylinder (11), the rod (12) of which is solidly connected to the mold base (1); and, between the rod (12) of the actuating cylinder (11) and the mold base (1), an assembly system (13) formed by a female part in the form of a nut (14) and of a male part in the form of a screw (15). The nut (14) is trapped at the end of the rod (12) of the actuating cylinder (11) and the screw (15) is associated directly or indirectly with the mold base (1). A system of shim(s) (40, 41) can be used to adjust the working stroke of the rod (12) of the actuating cylinder (11) as required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sidel Participations
    Inventor: Jean-Christophe Langlois
  • Patent number: 9004906
    Abstract: A cavity insert for a mold stack is disclosed, the cavity insert being dimensioned to define a continuous annular cavity insert cooling chamber. The cavity insert also provides a first and second decompression chamber in fluid communication with each end of the cavity insert cooling chamber. Also disclosed is a chamber extension feature in fluid communication with the cavity insert cooling chamber to promote cooling in the downstream region of the cavity insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Mold-Masters (2007) Limited
    Inventor: Manfred Lausenhammer
  • Patent number: 9004904
    Abstract: An apparatus for molding plastic preforms into plastic containers, includes a clean room, at least one blow station having a blow mold for shaping the plastic preforms by at least one process pressure, and a venting device for venting or reducing the process pressure into the atmosphere. The venting device has at least one venting valve through which pressure can be vented into the atmosphere via a sound absorber, and a pressure drop safety device for closing the venting valve before the atmospheric pressure level on the venting device is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Eduard Handschuh, Juergen Soellner
  • Patent number: 8985991
    Abstract: An apparatus for transforming plastic preforms into containers may include at least one blow mould which forms a cavity, inside which the plastic preforms can be transformed into containers. The apparatus may include a pressure application device for applying a medium to the plastic preforms in order to expand the preforms against an inner wall of the blow mould delimiting the cavity. The apparatus may include a stretching rod for stretching the plastic preforms in the longitudinal direction. The apparatus may include a cleaning device for cleaning regions of the blow mould. The cleaning device may include at least one outlet opening for a cleaning medium for cleaning the blow mould, and this outlet opening is arranged at least at times inside the blow mould.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Frank Winzinger, Ulrich Lappe
  • Publication number: 20150079212
    Abstract: Apparatus for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers, with at least one blowing station arranged on a moving carrier, wherein the blowing station has a blow mould carrier for holding a blow mould and the blow mould carrier has a first blow mould carrier part and a second blow mould carrier part, wherein the second blow mould carrier part can be moved away from the first blow mould carrier part in order to open the blow mould for removal of a plastic container and/or for insertion of a preform, and wherein the second blow mould carrier part can be moved towards the first blow mould carrier part in order to transfer the blow mould into a closed state for forming the preform, wherein that the second blow mould carrier part has a lower density and/or strength than the first blow mould carrier part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Eduard Handschuh, Florian Geltinger, Michael Neubauer, Thomas Philipp, Klaus Voth
  • Patent number: 8979524
    Abstract: An apparatus for forming a blow-molded container includes a mold, a mandrel, and a die. The mold includes a bottom section for forming a container bottom, a sidewall section for forming a plurality of sidewalls, a spout section for forming a spout, and a neck section for forming an upwardly converging neck member coupling the sidewalls to the spout having a convex radius transition section of approximately three inches in a container having an overall height of approximately ten inches. The mandrel and the die are operative to form a parison that assumes an ovoid cross-section within the mold with the outer surfaces of the parison positioned approximately equidistant from sidewall section of said mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Mid-America Machining, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Lobbestael, Al Vanover, Kevin D Gaydosh, Gregory T Hall
  • Publication number: 20150072041
    Abstract: An apparatus for the sterilization of containers with a conveying device which conveys the containers along a pre-determined conveying path (P), with a sterilization device which acts upon at least one area of the containers with charge carriers in the course of the sterilization, with a screening apparatus for screening off beams from the environment, which has at least two screening bodies which are arranged with respect to each other in such a way that one screening body is situated on the side of the screening apparatus facing the conveying path (P) and one screening body is situated on the one facing away from it, wherein the screening bodies are thermally insulated from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Hans Scheuren, Josef Knott, Michael Neubauer
  • Patent number: 8974211
    Abstract: A system for aiding in the replacement of a mold in a molding unit of a machine for manufacturing containers, includes at least one transport device (16) for transporting a joined mold (18) forming a transportable unit subassembly, the transport device (16) including at least one robotic arm (96) for positioning, in space along a trihedron (X, Y, Z) and with respect to the molding unit (12), elements (76) for handling at least one joined mold (18) so as to carry out a replacement of the at least one mold (18) of the molding unit (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sidel Participations
    Inventors: Damien Cirette, Arnaud Prieur
  • Publication number: 20150061196
    Abstract: A blow mould for producing plastic containers comprises at least two blow mould parts and a hollow space formed from the at least two blow mould parts at which plastic parisons are transformed by an application of a flowable medium to the plastic containers. The hollow space includes an interior wall that has a contour which produces a predetermined configuration of the plastic containers. A first portion of at least two blow mould parts produces a bottom of the plastic containers. A second portion of the at least two blow mould parts has an opening region for discharging a gaseous medium during an expansion process of the plastic containers. The opening region extends along a first line and a second line, wherein the first and second lines run at least in some sections of the blow mould at an angle different from 0° relative to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Alexander Dachs, Gerald Huettner, Heinrich Deyerl, Jochen Forsthoevel, Peter Grassl, Ulrich Lappe
  • Publication number: 20150037518
    Abstract: A method for production control in stretch blow molding of plastic containers in a blow molding machine, and a test preform for the use therewith, and a blow molding machine for performing the method. At least one test preform with a regular and/or in particular equidistant, printed test pattern is fed into a stream of product preforms entering the blowing molding machine. Furthermore, the product preforms and the test preform are in the continuous operation of the blow molding machine blown to form product containers and to form a test container and the test container is imaged with at least one camera. The product quality during the ongoing test operation can thereby with imaged test container be performed flexibly and selectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Arno Haner, Gerald Huettner
  • Patent number: 8944794
    Abstract: A device for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers with a mobile carrier on which is arranged a plurality of blowing stations, each comprising blow mold carrier parts to hold blow mold parts, wherein at least one of these blow mold carrier parts is mobile in relation to the other blow mold carrier part, and wherein the blowing stations each comprise a carrier element to carry at least one blow mold carrier part. The device includes a clean room within which the plastic preforms can be expanded into plastic containers. The blow mold carrier parts together with the carrier element form a unit which can be demounted as a whole from the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Florian Geltinger, Eduard Handschuh, Josef Hausladen, Thomas Hoellriegl, Ulrich Lappe, Michael Neubauer, Thomas Philipp, Juergen Soellner, Klaus Voth
  • Patent number: 8939749
    Abstract: What is described is a blow-molding machine for plastic containers, comprising a plurality of platens for supporting blow mold halves, wherein at least two of the platens are in the form of movable multi-carriers for simultaneously supporting at least two blow mold halves which are assigned to different blow-molding cavities. Since the multi-carriers are driven in such a manner that at least one of the blow-molding cavities can be opened and at the same time at least one other of the blow-molding cavities can be closed by means of a continuous movement of the multi-carriers, acceleration and deceleration ramps can be reduced upon opening and closing and it is possible to gain process time for the blow molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventor: Frank Winzinger
  • Patent number: 8936455
    Abstract: A device for transforming parisons into containers with a plurality of transforming stations which are disposed on a movable carrier, wherein the transforming stations each have blow molds, within which the parisons can be transformed into containers by a supply of a flowable medium, and blow mold supports for holding these blow molds, wherein the blow mold supports have at least two blow mold support parts which are movable relative to one another for opening and closing the blow molds, with a clean room which is demarcated with respect to the surroundings by means of at least one wall and which at least partially surrounds the individual transforming stations, so that the transforming stations are movable within this clean room, and with at least one supply unit in order to supply flowable sterilizing medium to at least one region of the transforming stations which are movable within the clean room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Klaus Voth, Florian Geltinger, Michael Neubauer, Juergen Soellner, Josef Hausladen, Eduard Handschuh
  • Patent number: 8920151
    Abstract: A method for removing blow molds from a forming device for transforming plastic preforms into plastic containers may include arranging a multi-piece blow mold on a blow mold carrier. The method may include separating the blow mold in at least partly assembled state from the blow mold carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Rupert Meinzinger, Konrad Senn, Thomas Albrecht
  • Publication number: 20140374964
    Abstract: UA method for producing a plastic article includes extruding an approximately tubular blank from an extrudate and shaping the blank into a hollow body inside a blow-mould using differential pressure, wherein at least one insertable part is introduced into the interior of the partially moulded plastic article before the latter is fully shaped into a finished plastic article, and the tubular blank is arranged between at least two halves of a blow-mould by means of an intermediate frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Rene Vanmarcke, Thilo Schmidt, Willi Doehmen, Olaf Weiland, Stefan Walbroel
  • Publication number: 20140374965
    Abstract: To prevent core misalignment when performs are stretched during blow molding, provided is a blow molding device that blow molds a preform into a container in a forming mold. The blow molding device includes a support pin that is disposed in the forming mold. The support pin includes a head that supports a bottom portion of the preform, and a shaft that is connected to the head and that is displaceable upward and downward in a direction of an axis of the preform. The head is provided, at one end thereof supporting the bottom portion of the preform, with a concave portion for receiving at least a part of the bottom portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshimasa Tanaka, Shinichi Tabata
  • Publication number: 20140377400
    Abstract: The invention relates to a holding ring for a blow mould for locking and fixing a plastics material pre-form, with a support face for supporting a collar of the plastics material pre-form and a receiving cavity extending at a right angle to a main extension plane of the support face for receiving a neck region of the plastics material pre-form, wherein the receiving cavity is widened radially outwards in a conical manner at least locally in the cross-sectional area thereof starting from the support face along a longitudinal direction (L) of the plastics material pre-form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventor: Gerhard Schuster
  • Patent number: 8915729
    Abstract: A blow mould for containers wherein the mould base comprises a first member (5) and a second member (6) connectable to each other by means of a quick coupling system comprising at least one first connection pin, wherein said second member (6) includes a first slider (13), defining a first sliding direction on a plane orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the mould and capable of taking an unlocking position and a locking position, said first slider (13) being provided with at least a hole in order to lock the first connection pin when the first slider (13) is in the locking position, and a second slider (16) defining a second sliding direction on said plane, intersecting said first direction; said second slider (16) being slidable along said second direction from a position of mechanical connection with the first slider (13) to a position of releasing from said first slider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: S.I.P.A. Societa′ Industrializzazione Progettazione E Automazione S.p.A.
    Inventors: Matteo Zoppas, Ernesto Eusebione, Franco Cavallini, Massimiliano Fornasier
  • Publication number: 20140345733
    Abstract: A method for producing a damper for an air line of an internal combustion engine includes the following steps: providing a temperature-controlled inner part having passages; producing a tubular preform of an outer jacket from a thermoplastic melt; and attaching the temperature-controlled inner part to a blowing mandrel of a blow mold which is open. The blowing mandrel has outlet openings and the passages are positioned over the outlet openings. The method further includes bringing the temperature-controlled preform over the inner part and closing the blow mold such that the preform is blown against the walls of the blow mold whereby an outer jacket is obtained. Simultaneously, local connections between the inner part and the outer jacket are obtained by pressing the preform and the inner part against each other in some regions. Finally, the blow mold is opened and the damper is removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicants: UMFOTEC GMBH
    Inventors: Reinhard Schuetz, Paul Lippke
  • Patent number: 8881937
    Abstract: Mold for manufacturing, by blowing blanks made of plastic material, containers having a body and a bottom and a wall defining a cavity around a principal axis of the mold and a lateral surface. The wall has, in a lower part, an opening defining a passage for a mold bottom, an upper surface that confers at least in part the shape to the bottom of the container, with said opening having an upper edge. The mold, in any plane containing the axis of the wall: the ratio between a transverse dimension of the upper edge of the opening and a transverse dimension of a lower end of the lateral surface of the wall is greater than 0.95, and the tangent to the lateral surface of the wall, at the lower end thereof, forms with the axis of the wall an angle equal to or less than 30°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sidel Participations
    Inventors: Mikael Derrien, Michel Boukobza
  • Publication number: 20140312538
    Abstract: A molding system for molding a container includes a first blow mold operable for blow molding a first form of the container and a second blow mold operable for blow molding a second form of the container. The system further includes a counter stretch rod and/or a base pushup operable for reducing a height of the first form of the container before blow molding the second form of the container. A corresponding method of forming a container is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: AMCOR LIMITED
    Inventors: Bradley Wilson, Peter Bates, Frederick C. Beuerle, George David Lisch, Reinhard C.J. Luchies, Luke A. Mast
  • Publication number: 20140312537
    Abstract: A system for forming a container from a preform includes a first mold operable to receive the preform and operable to blow mold a first form of the container from the preform. The system also includes a second mold operable to receive the first form and operable to blow mold a second form of the container from the first form. The preform, the first form, and the second form each include a substantially common transitional wall. Also, the first form can include various features that ensure that material will be distributed as desired throughout the container, to ensure high wall strength, and to ensure high crystallinity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: AMCOR LIMITED
    Inventors: Bradley Wilson, Peter Bates, Frederick C. Beuerle, George David Lisch, Richard Steih
  • Patent number: 8858862
    Abstract: A stretch blow molding machine may include a blow molding unit, having at least a first and a second mold carrier for receiving at least one mold part, which can be moved relative to one another, connected to one another to form a first working space for receiving the containers, and detached from one another to release the containers. A second working space may be formed between at least one mold part and at least the first mold carrier. A fluid communication system can feed a working fluid to the first and second spaces. At least one valve device for intermittent complete disconnection of fluid communication between at least one of the working spaces and the fluid system is arranged such that pressure of the working fluid within the fluid system is independent of changes in the state of the second space when the fluid communication is disconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventor: Klaus Voth
  • Publication number: 20140255533
    Abstract: A blow mold unit including a blow mold including first and second blow cavity split molds and a plurality of raised bottom molds, first and second pressure receiving plates, a first fixing plate to which the first blow cavity split mold and the first pressure receiving plate are fixed, a second fixing plate to which the second blow cavity split mold and the second pressure receiving plate are fixed, a third fixing plate interposed between the first and second fixing plates and to which the plurality of raised bottom molds are fixed at a first surface thereof, a shaft portion extending vertically from a second surface of the third fixing plate, an elevation guide block fixed to one of the first and second fixing plates and elevation guiding the shaft portion, and an elevating rod extending vertically from the second surface. There is also a blow molding machine which includes the blow mold unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Yokobayashi, Daizaburo Takehana
  • Patent number: 8828290
    Abstract: A method of treating devices of a plant for producing plastics material containers may include the steps of selection of at least one treatment device, acting upon the treatment device with a sterilization temperature in order to sterilize the treatment device, supplying at least one plastics material pre-form to the treatment device, shaping the plastics material pre-form to form a plastics material container, and removal of the at least one plastics material container from the treatment device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Klaus Voth, Oliver Martini, Ulrich Lappe, Juergen Soellner, Frank Winzinger, Josef Hausladen
  • Patent number: 8827689
    Abstract: Device for forming containers from blanks made of plastic material, having a mold provided with a wall defining a cavity intended to receive the blank; a boxing insert mounted movably with respect to the mold between a retracted position in which the insert is retracted into the wall, and an extended position in which the insert projects from the wall toward the interior of the cavity; a plate, on which the insert is rigidly fixed; a support on which the plate is removably mounted; and a system for the quick attachment of the plate to the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Sidel Participations
    Inventors: Arnaud Briard, Nicolas Chomel, Sylvain Auvray, Jean-Christophe Langlois
  • Publication number: 20140238951
    Abstract: Plastic container (1) being composed of a neck (3), a shoulder (5), a body (4) and a base section (2), where the base section (2) comprises at least two tie members (6a) extending from a central area (8) to the side wall of the base (2). According to the invention, the tie members (6b, 6c) and/or the function of the tie members (6b, 6c) of the base (2) at least in certain areas extend into the body section (4) or into the body (4) and the shoulder section (5) of the plastic container (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Krones AG
    Inventors: Jochen Forsthövel, Alexander Schau, Gerald Hüttner, Andrew Dimitri Peykoff, Jay Clarke Hanan
  • Publication number: 20140227399
    Abstract: A one piece plastics material container has mouth, a wall portion adjoining the mouth in a longitudinal direction (L) and a base portion in the form of a standing face. The base portion has an injection point—situated on the inside in a radial direction (R) with respect to the longitudinal direction (L)—on the outer wall of the plastics material container, a central area which surrounds the injection point, and a transition portion which extends from the central area to the wall portion. The transition portion has in at least one radial direction (R) and preferably in each radial direction (R) a curvature with a finite radius of curvature in at least one portion. The base portion has a plurality of reinforcement ribs which starting from the central area extend in the direction of the wall portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Joerg Wortmann, Gerald Huettner, Bastian Tißmer
  • Publication number: 20140224814
    Abstract: Provided are an angular resin container, which while being thin, retains excellent appearance in respect of luster, transparency or the like, as well as a blow molding die for subjecting the container to biaxial stretch blow molding. Biaxial stretch blow molding is conducted with a blow molding die having a scallop height for the surface of the blow molding die, that corresponds to the side wall part of the body part of the angular resin container, of 3 to 30 ?m, thereby to obtain an angular resin container having a thickness of the body part of 0.5 mm or less and in which a horizontally-directed processed part having a depth of 3 to 30 ?m is formed on the outer surface of the side wall part of the body part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventor: Masaki Miura
  • Patent number: 8794953
    Abstract: Disclosed is a molding device (10) for a machine for manufacturing containers, in particular bottles, made of a thermoplastic material by blow-molding or stretch blow-molding a preheated preform. The molding device (10) includes: two half-molds (14), each of which is provided with a half-cavity (16) and each of which includes a sealing surface (18) and an outer surface (20); two mold carriers (34), each of which has a recess (40) for receiving a corresponding half-mold (14); and an attachment element (44, 52) for removably attaching each half-mold (14) into the recess (40) of the corresponding mold carrier (34), characterized in that the attachment element (44, 52) is controlled by the attraction of the half-mold (14) against the back wall (42) of the recess (40) of the mold carrier (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Sidel Participations
    Inventor: Jose Blanchard