Provided is a method for verifying holding members in a heating station equipped with a device for transporting the preforms. The device includes a plurality of movable supports circulating in a closed circuit and members for individually holding the preforms by their neck, where each of the holding members is borne by a movable support. The method includes setting the movable supports in movement to bring them successively into an acquisition zone, acquiring an image of each individual holding member in the acquisition zone, and automatically verifying the presence of a holding member on each of the images taken.

The invention relates to a device for gripping a container preform having a base, a spindle which is mounted on the base, and an ejector at least partially surrounding the spindle. The spinner includes a spindle mounted such that it pivots in a sliding manner in relation to the base and a spinner tip removably fixed to the spindle. The ejector partially surrounds the spinner and is able to occupy a working position in which it is secured to the base. The spinner tip and the ejector are respectively provided with an imprint and a complementary counter-imprint. The ejector can be removed from the base and can occupy a tooling position in which the counterpart thereof cooperates with the cavity of the spinner tip so that they rotate together.

The invention relates to a transport system for transporting preforms in a device for the blow-molding production of finished containers, wherein the transport system comprises a transport chain, the chain elements of which have a support element for transporting the preforms, wherein the support element comprises a shaft part and a head part, and the head part has a head end region that can be introduced into the opening section of the preform, characterized in that the head part is retained on the shaft part and can be detached from the shaft part via actuation of a first actuation element, wherein the first actuation element is arranged in the shaft part end region facing away from the head part. The invention also relates to a device for the blow-molding production of finished containers from preforms, a use, as well as a method for exchanging at least one head part, each making use of the transport system according to the invention.

The present invention relates to a container manufacturing apparatus having three-dimensional shape, and more specifically, to a container manufacturing apparatus capable of quickly manufacturing a container having three-dimensional shape in quantity by using a pre-form manufactured in advance.

The present invention provides an apparatus for manufacturing the container with three-dimensional shape, comprising: a pre-form supply unit for supplying the pre-form manufactured in advance; a pre-form heating unit for heating the pre-form discharged and transferred from the pre-form supply unit; a pre-form discharge unit for discharging, to the outside, the heated pre-form having passed through the pre-form heating unit; a transfer unit for forming a container for transmitting the pre-form discharged from the pre-form discharge unit; a container forming unit, through which the transfer unit for forming a container passes, having a mold which provides an exterior of the container having three-dimensional shape when the heated pre-form transferred by the transfer unit for forming a container expands; an air supply unit, which is provided adjacent to the container forming unit, for providing air to the pre-form accommodated in the mold so that the pre-form expands; a label supply unit, which is provided adjacent to the container forming unit, for supplying a label for in-mold labeling to an inside of the mold provided in the container forming unit; and a container withdrawal unit, which is provided adjacent to the container forming unit, for withdrawing, to an adjacent region, the container discharged and transferred from the container forming unit by the transfer unit for forming a container.

A system for processing containers with a transport device which transports the containers along a predetermined transport path, wherein a plurality of holding devices for holding the containers is arranged on the transport device, wherein the system has at least one rotating device which rotates the plastic parisons with regard to a rotational position with respect to the longitudinal directions thereof. According to the invention the rotating device has an electrically operated driving device for producing the rotary movement of the plastic parisons with respect to the longitudinal directions thereof as well as at least one measuring device, which at least at times determines at least an electrical characteristic quantity of this driving device.

A blow molding machine is subjected to a sterilizing treatment in a simple manner. A liquid sterilizer is filled into preforms of at least the same number as the number of spindles. In a heating unit that heats the preforms to a molding temperature, some of the liquid sterilizer is caused to diffuse, and blow air is blasted into preforms in which the liquid sterilizer remains to cause the liquid sterilizer to diffuse in a molding unit, and molded bottles are discharged.

A hollow article 10 is molded in a state where an inner surface of a neck portion 11 including an inner screw portion is held by an inner neck mold 52, and then, the hollow article 10 is demolded from the inner neck mold 52 by inserting an ejection rod 81 into the hollow article 10 to be engaged with an inner surface of the hollow article 10 and rotating the hollow article 10 together with the ejection rod 81.

The invention relates to a transport system for transporting preforms in a device for the blow-molding production of finished containers, wherein the transport system comprises a transport chain, the chain elements of which have a support element for transporting the preforms, wherein the support element comprises a shaft part and a head part, and the head part has a head end region that can be introduced into the opening section of the preform, characterized in that the head part is retained on the shaft part and can be detached from the shaft part via actuation of a first actuation element, wherein the first actuation element is arranged in the shaft part end region facing away from the head part. The invention also relates to a device for the blow-molding production of finished containers from preforms, a use, as well as a method for exchanging at least one head part, each making use of the transport system according to the invention.

An injection molding apparatus comprises a support base and a mold carrier removably mounted to the support base. The mold carrier includes a mounting plate with attachment features for engaging the support base. A mold with two mold plates is slidably mounted to the mounting 5 plate. A clamp is operable to move the plates between open and closed positions. In the closed position, the plates abut one another. In the open position, the plates are spaced apart for removing molded articles.

Provided is an apparatus for heating plastic parisons, including a transport device or transporter, which transports the plastic parisons at least in sections along a predefined transport path, wherein the transport device or transporter has a plurality of holding devices or holders for holding the plastic parisons, with a heating device or heaters for heating the plastic parisons at least at times, while they are being transported by the transport device or transporters, wherein the apparatus has at least one heat shielding device or heat shield which is suitable and intended to counteract the heating of mouth regions of the plastic parisons.