An apparatus for the orientation and alignment of plastic preforms provided with collars having greater dimensions than the preform body, includes a device for feeding the preforms at a first end of an unloading and conveyance surface that includes a conveyor device for conveying the preforms from the first end towards a second end, the conveyor device includes a slot formed by a pair of longitudinal movement bodies which move the preforms along a direction of longitudinal extension of the slot. The conveyor device includes at least one conveyor element which forms a resting surface for the preforms and is adapted to move the preforms arranged on the resting surface along a movement direction, which is opposite to the conveyance direction, in order to move the preforms not received by the slot from the second end toward the first end.

The present invention relates to a plant equipped with operating stations and at least one rest station for making a support element for the human body, as well as a method for making a support element for the human body obtainable with the aforementioned plant.

A method of operating a container treatment system, wherein a plurality of parameters of the container treatment system, which are characteristic for the treatment of containers in the container treatment system, are variable and wherein the parameters are each linked to at least one value characteristic of the containers to be treated, wherein for each parameter a plurality of reference parameter values are stored in a storage device, wherein at least one characteristic value of the containers to be treated is entered at a user interface and, on the basis of this entry and the stored reference parameter values, a combination of parameter values for the parameters is calculated.

Disclosed is a moulding system for providing a hollow moulded fibre product, the moulding system comprising: a first mould defining a first mould cavity and having a first mould body portion wall having a first mould length, the first mould configured to provide a hollow moulded fibre product precursor having a precursor body having a first body length in a longitudinal direction of the hollow moulded fibre product precursor; and a second mould defining a second mould cavity and having a second mould body portion wall having a second mould length greater than the first mould length, the second mould configured to provide the hollow moulded fibre product; wherein the moulding system is configured, with the hollow moulded fibre product precursor in the second mould cavity, to stretch the precursor body of the hollow moulded fibre product precursor from the first body length to a second body length, the second body length equal to the second mould length, to thereby provide the hollow moulded fibre product from the hollow moulded fibre product precursor.

An apparatus for continuous processing of caps, wherein each cap has a side wall extending around a longitudinal axis between a first end and a second end, a transverse wall joined to the first end and a plurality of tabs projecting from the second end. The apparatus includes: a bending station including a bending carousel and a plurality of bending units, each configured to bend the plurality of tabs of the cap towards the longitudinal axis; a feed unit, configured for moving the caps along a movement path, located upstream of the bending station and for feeding the caps to the bending station, where each cap, along the movement path, adopts a predetermined orientation at a first inspection position; a pericentric camera, located along the movement path and defining an optical axis of its own, aligned with the longitudinal axis of the cap disposed at the first inspection position; a control unit, connected to the pericentric camera to drive it synchronously with the caps moving along the movement path.