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 fluid channel of a container processing system for processing containers, such as bottles, is described, the container processing system comprising a blow molding machine and a container processing machine arranged downstream of the blow molding machine in the process direction. The fluid channel is arranged downstream of the blow molding machine and upstream of the downstream container treatment machine in the process direction and comprises at least one component, through which the fluid can flow and which comprises at least one outlet opening through which the fluid can escape from the fluid channel in the direction of a bottom of a container transported in the process direction. The component is produced by a generative manufacturing method.

A gravity rail system for transferring wide-mouth preforms comprising a first rail configured to support a first portion of the wide-mouth preform, and a second rail proximate the first rail, where the second rail further comprises a body that defines a cavity. The cavity is configured to receive a second portion of the wide-mouth preform. The cavity has an inner surface configured to prevent jamming of the wide-mouth preform as the preform is transferred along the gravity rail.

Disclosed is a method for controlling a conveyor for conveying hollow bodies through a hollow-body heating station including: a heating tunnel defining a heating path, a conveyor including at least one travel track and shuttles capable of moving along the track while picking up at least one hollow body, the movement of each shuttle being controlled individually, a travel-track loading portion on which two consecutive shuttles move at a first predetermined input separation, and a travel-track unloading portion. Two consecutive shuttles moving on this unloading portion are spaced apart by a predetermined output separation that is different from the first input separation.

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.

The present disclosure relates to a device for guiding and pivoting bodies via sliding the bodies through the device. The device is produced using a generative manufacturing method. A system includes at least two of the devices arranged in parallel, a conveyor device, and a control device. The control device controls the conveyor device responsive to receiving a control command and feeds bodies selectively to one of the devices. A treatment line for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) containers includes a process path, a preform storage unit, a preform oven of a stretch blow-molding machine, and the device arranged between the preform storage unit and the preform oven. A treatment line for PET containers includes a process path, a container closure storage unit, a closing unit for closing the PET containers, and the device arranged between the container closure storage unit and the closing unit.

The invention relates to an apparatus for cooling a plurality of preforms made of thermoplastic material which continuously move on a conveyor belt. The apparatus includes a cylindrical casing with a vertical extension formed by two coaxial cylinders, such a casing contains a guide crossed by a chain or a cable for transporting the preforms therein. The guide, which forms a closed path, comprises a first helical stretch, which raises from the lower plane starting from a station in which the preforms coming from a conveying device are hooked by the chain or by the cable, a second straight stretch, which returns the preforms to the lower plane once they have reached the upper plane, and a third flat stretch at the height of the lower plane, which returns the preforms to the arrival station. The helical stretch of the guide is contained within a cooling tunnel formed in the gap between the two walls of the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder of said casing. The cooling air is conveyed within the cooling tunnel by a specific manifold which is located within the casing.

Disclosed is a method for controlling a conveyor for conveying hollow bodies through a hollow-body heating station including:a heating tunnel defining a heating path,a conveyor including at least one travel track and shuttles capable of moving along the track while picking up at least one hollow body, the movement of each shuttle being controlled individually,a travel-track loading portion on which two consecutive shuttles move at a first predetermined input separation, and a travel-track unloading portion. Two consecutive shuttles moving on this unloading portion are spaced apart by a predetermined output separation that is different from the first input separation.

Objects, such as, for example, preforms for producing PET bottles, are feedable to silo as bulk material by a bulk material feeding device. A fill level sensor of the silo is connected to the control device. The control device actuates the feed drive in order to refill the silo with objects in dependence on the determined fill level of the silo. Connected downstream of the silo is an overhead conveyor and downstream of the overhead conveyor a separating-into-singles system. Both the overhead conveyor and the separating-into-singles system comprise sensors and drives, all the sensors being connected to the control device and the control device controlling all the drives.

A system for feeding preforms to a container blow-molding machine includes a sorting and alignment device fed with randomly arranged preforms and parallel alignment rollers that rotate about their respective axes and arrange the preforms in conveyance tracks inclined with respect to the horizontal. The system includes elements for removing the incorrectly positioned preforms, which are individually laid flat and arrive from the alignment rollers on the conveyance tracks and are oriented parallel to the longitudinal advancement direction. The removal components include an upper guide having a flow control portion arranged at least in one active blocking position thereof, above the end of the alignment rollers proximate to the conveyance tracks distanced from the alignment rollers to allow passage below the flow control portion of the correctly oriented preforms and block the longitudinal end.