Disclosed is an apparatus for treating containers with a transport device which transports the containers to be treated along a predetermined transport path, wherein said transport device has a rotatable transport carrier at which a plurality of treatment stations for treating the containers is arranged, wherein the apparatus has a clean room within which the containers are treated in a predetermined manner, and with a sealing device which seals said clean room from an environment, wherein said sealing device has a reservoir which can be filled with a liquid medium, and with a sensor device for measuring a filling level of said liquid medium at least indirectly. The sensor device is arranged in a supply line which can be brought into flow connection with the reservoir.

Disclosed is an apparatus for shaping plastic preforms into containers, having a transport device, which transports the plastic preforms to be shaped along a transport path, wherein the transport device has a rotatable transport carrier wherein a plurality of shaping stations are arranged. The shaping stations each have blow-molding devices which the preforms are shaped by applying a flowable medium. The shaping stations have application devices which apply the flowable medium to the preforms, wherein the shaping stations have stretching devices for stretching the preforms in a longitudinal direction. The stretching devices have at least one stretching rod which can be moved in the longitudinal direction of the preforms and can be inserted into the plastic preforms. The device has a clean room, which the plastic preforms are expanded into the plastic containers, and a sealing device to seal the clean room from a non-sterile environment, and closed with a cover device.

A system for producing plastic containers with a heating device for heating plastic preforms, wherein the heating device has a transport device for transporting plastic preforms along a predetermined first transport path, and a plurality of holding devices for holding the plastic preforms and at least one heating device which heats the plastic preforms during the transport thereof and comprising a forming device for forming the plastic preforms to form plastic containers. The forming device is configured for expanding the plastic preforms heated by the heating device by applying a flowable medium, and includes a plurality of forming stations which form the plastic preforms to form the plastic containers. Both the heating device and the forming device have changeable elements, wherein the system has a changing device configured for changing both changeable elements of the heating device and changeable elements of the forming device.

A feed device (1) for a conveyor system (10) for preforms (4) is described, which is designed to convey preforms (4) coming in an orderly manner from an upstream module (109) of the conveyor system (10) to a downstream module (1011) of the conveyor system (10), the feed device (1) comprising a first and a second conveyor belt (11; 12), wherein a conveying path for the preforms (4) is formed between a first belt section of the first conveyor belt (11) and a second belt section of the second conveyor belt (12), wherein the first and second conveyor belts (11; 12) are arranged in such a way that a lateral edge surface (110) of the first conveyor belt (11) and a lateral edge surface (120) of the second conveyor belt (12) form a support for a supporting ring (41) of a preform (4), wherein the support can be brought into engagement with the underside of the supporting ring (41) in such a way that an accumulation force is applied in the conveying direction (F) to the preform (4) located in the conveying path.

An apparatus for the manufacture and unloading of preforms for the manufacture of plastic containers includes a device for the injection molding of preforms and a device for the cooling and extraction of the preforms from the molding device, and further includes a device for the selective extraction of a predetermined subset of preforms supported by the unloading plate in an orderly manner along at least one pickup direction. The apparatus also includes a component for the orderly transfer of the predetermined subset of preforms to a control and inspection device adapted to perform at least one control on the predetermined subset of preforms.

An apparatus for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers, having a transport device which transports the plastic preforms to be formed along a predetermined transport path, wherein the transport device has a rotatable transport carrier wherein a plurality of forming stations are arranged. The forming stations each have blow-molding devices within which the plastic preforms can be formed into the plastic containers by applying a flowable medium. The forming stations each have application devices for applying the flowable medium to the plastic preforms, and the apparatus has a feed device for feeding plastic preforms to be formed to the transport apparatus, and a discharge device for discharging formed containers from the transport device. The apparatus has a clean room within which the plastic preforms or the plastic containers are transported at least sectionally. The apparatus has an ejection device to eject plastic preforms or plastic containers from the transport path.

A preform is heated, the heated preform is sealed in a sealing apparatus including a neck portion mold, a trunk portion mold and a bottom portion mold at a predetermined temperature range, and the heated preform sealed in the molds is blow-molded into a bottle. Any molded bottle is removed if the mold surface temperature of the neck portion mold, the trunk portion mold and the bottom portion mold are outside of the predetermined temperature range. A sterilizer is blasted to any molded bottle not removed when the mold surface temperature of all of the molds is in the predetermined temperature range.

An apparatus (1) and a method for optical inspection of parisons (2) made of thermoplastic material comprises: a conveyor (3) comprising a pair of lateral, under-flange guides 31A for holding each parison by its flange, and configured to transport the parisons (2) in succession along an inspection path; an inspection station (41, 42, 43, 51, 52), located along the inspection path and including at least one inspection camera (410, 411, 412, 413, 421, 431, 510, 511, 520, 521, 522), configured to capture image data of a parison (2) positioned in the inspection station (41, 42, 43, 51, 52), wherein the conveyor (3) has a first operating configuration for transporting parisons (2) of a first size and a second operating configuration for transporting parisons (2) of a second size, different from the first size, the conveyor (3) including at least one adjustment actuator (7), configured to move the conveyor (3) between the first and the second operating configuration.

A resin container manufacturing device includes: an injection molding part configured to injection-mold a first number of bottomed resin preforms by using an injection molding mold including an injection core mold and an injection cavity mold; a temperature adjustment part including a housing member configured to receive and perform temperature adjustment on the preforms demolded from the injection core mold in a high-temperature state; and a blow molding part configured to receive the preforms from the temperature adjustment part and blow-mold the preforms into resin containers. The injection core mold is configured to reciprocate between an injection molding position and a demolding position of the preforms. The temperature adjustment part is configured to perform the temperature adjustment by dividing the preforms housed in the housing member into a third number of groups each including a second number of preforms smaller than the first number.

An installation for regulation of the angular position of hollow bodies in an installation for production of containers. The hollow bodies are moved by individual support members each of which is equipped with means for causing the hollow body to turn about its axis. The installation includes a means for measuring, in a first step an angular offset of at least one particular hollow body relative to a reference angular position in a particular measurement zone. The installation also includes a means for compensating, in a second step the angular position of the subsequent hollow bodies in a compensation zone upstream of said measurement zone during which the angular orientation of the subsequent hollow bodies is modified by an updated compensation angle that is a function of the angular offset measured for the at least one particular hollow body.