A beverage bottle filling machine and a method of filling beverage bottles and similar containers.

[Problem] To provide a composite preform that can ensure that worsening of the appearance of a surface of a plastic member caused by near-infrared heating prior to blow molding is effectively prevented and that an inner preform is efficiently heated.

[Solution] The composite preform of the present invention includes a preform and a heat-contractive plastic member, the preform including a mouth part; a trunk part linked to the mouth part; and a bottom part linked to the trunk part, and the heat-contractive plastic member being disposed so as to surround the outside of the preform and including at least a colored layer that contains a resin material and a colorant, wherein the heat-contractive plastic member has a near-infrared transmittance of 50% or higher.

A plural preform assembly having nested preforms. The preforms are held together by an interference fit. The interference fit is provided by the friction between the preforms which occurs when the inner preform is inserted into the outer preform. At least one preform may have ribs extending radially towards the other preform. The ribs provided concentricity and interference to hold the preforms together during subsequent operations. The preforms may later be blow molded to provide a bag in bottle or similar container.

This resin-made container is provided with: a neck portion having a content inlet-outlet portion; a lateral surface portion connected to the neck portion; and a bottom portion that is disposed on the side opposite to the neck portion and that is connected to the lateral surface portion. The resin-made container is produced by a stretch blow molding process. The bottom portion has formed therein a bulge section that protrudes downward in the vertical direction. The bulge section is disposed in an eccentric region, of the bottom portion, positioned outside a region demarcated by perpendicularly projecting an opening plane of the inlet-outlet portion of the neck portion.

There is provided a resin container manufacturing apparatus configured to stretch a preform disposed in a stretch blow molding mold by a stretching rod and stretch the preform by introducing blow air into the preform so as to form a resin container. The resin container manufacturing apparatus includes detection means for detecting an actual position of the stretching rod inserted into the preform, and supply control means for controlling a supply state of the blow air based on a detection result of the detection means.

An apparatus for heating plastic preforms includes a first transport device that transports the plastic preforms in a separated manner, wherein said first transport device has a plurality of recesses for receiving the plastic preforms, and a second transport device that takes over the plastic preforms transported by the first transport device and transports said plastic preforms along a predetermined transport path. The second transport device has a plurality of holding elements for holding the plastic preforms. The apparatus also includes at least one heating device that heats the plastic preforms transported by the second transport device, wherein at least the first transport device is a circulating transport device, wherein a relative position of the recesses of the first transport device in the circulation direction of the first transport device relative to a position of the holding elements in respect of the transport path can be changed.

A plural preform assembly having nested preforms. The preforms are held together by an interference fit. The interference fit is provided by the friction between the preforms which occurs when the inner preform is inserted into the outer preform. At least one preform may have ribs extending radially towards the other preform. The ribs provided concentricity and interference to hold the preforms together during subsequent operations. The preforms may later be blow molded to provide a bag in bottle or similar container.

A blow molding apparatus for mitigating a difference in flow rates of a liquid supplied from a blow nozzle to a preform. The blow molding apparatus includes a blow nozzle that mates with an open tube portion of a preform and a seal body that opens and closes the blow nozzle. A filling head extends along an axial direction of the blow nozzle and is provided at one end with a liquid supply channel connected to the blow nozzle and with a liquid introduction channel connected to the liquid supply channel from the side. A pressurized liquid supply unit is connected to the liquid introduction channel and supplies a pressurized liquid to the liquid introduction channel. A spiral guide groove is provided around an axial center of the liquid supply channel in an inner peripheral surface of the liquid supply channel.

A blow molding apparatus for mitigating a difference in flow rates of a liquid supplied from a blow nozzle to a preform. The blow molding apparatus includes a blow nozzle that mates with an open tube portion of a preform and a seal body that opens and closes the blow nozzle. A filling head extends along an axial direction of the blow nozzle and is provided at one end with a liquid supply channel connected to the blow nozzle and with a liquid introduction channel connected to the liquid supply channel from the side. A pressurized liquid supply unit is connected to the liquid introduction channel and supplies a pressurized liquid to the liquid introduction channel. A spiral guide groove is provided around an axial center of the liquid supply channel in an inner peripheral surface of the liquid supply channel.

A blow molding device and a blow molding method are disclosed that can blow-mold a container with a handle without requiring a handle inserter that inserts a handle into a blow molding section. A blow molding method for blow-molding a container with a handle includes heating a preform (2) that is held by a heating transfer jig (370), transferring the preform from the heating transfer jig to a blow transfer jig (420), and transferring the blow transfer jig in a state in which a handle (500) is held by the blow transfer jig to be adjacent to the preform in a transfer direction.