Abstract:
Device (1) for blowing and stretching a plastic parison (3) for obtaining a container, comprising: a blowing nozzle (4) having a first end (4a) to be applied to an inlet (3a) of said parison (3), said first end (4a) emerging in a controlled-contamination environment (5) wherein said parison (3) is blown; a stretching rod (2); means for injecting mid and high pressure air in said parison (3); a non-magnetic tube (7) secured to a second end (4b) of the blowing nozzle (4) and defining a chamber (8) for housing, at least partially, the stretching rod (2), said chamber (8) being tight-sealed relative to a contaminated area (22) from which said controlled-contamination environment (5) is isolated; a first magnet arrangement (9) and a second magnet arrangement (10) coupled together, said first magnet arrangement (9) being located outside said chamber (8) and said second magnet arrangement (10) being integral to said stretching rod (2) and located within said chamber (8).
Abstract:
Transfer star-wheel (1) for containers (100) of thermoplastic material, comprising: a rotary carousel (2) bearing a plurality of supporting stations (S) for supporting containers (100) by their neck (100b), in each supporting station (S) being provided a pliers (3) hinged to the rotary carousel (2) at a hinge axis (AA) in such a way that it assumes at least a first configuration in which the pliers (3) is fixed, that means it cannot rotate about its hinge axis (AA), and a second configuration in which the pliers (3) can oscillate about its hinge axis (AA); a cam kinematic motion that is operatively active on each pliers (3) for maintaining it in the first configuration, characterized in that it comprises a reactivating device (8) for each pliers (3), that comprises elastic means (9, 10) operatively active on the pliers (3) to bring it from the second to the first configuration following an accidental event that deactivated the pliers.
Abstract:
A bottling apparatus (1) in aseptic conditions of containers (100) made of a thermoplastic material, comprising: at least one mobile organ such as, for example, a blowing nozzle (24) that is partially located in a contamination-controlled environment (3) isolated from an external environment (4); a linear motor (6) for driving the mobile organ (24), the linear motor (6) comprising a cylindrical stator (7) and a rotor or magnetic shaft (8) integrally connected to the mobile organ (24), the separation volume between the rotor (8) and the cylindrical stator (7) being sanitisable by means of a sanitising fluid that passes through a grooved surface (14, 15, 18).
Abstract:
A bottling apparatus (1) in aseptic conditions of containers (100) made of a thermoplastic material, comprising: at least one mobile organ such as, for example, a blowing nozzle (24) that is partially located in a contamination-controlled environment (3) isolated from an external environment (4); a linear motor (6) for driving the mobile organ (24), the linear motor (6) comprising a cylindrical stator (7) and a rotor or magnetic shaft (8) integrally connected to the mobile organ (24), the separation volume between the rotor (8) and the cylindrical stator (7) being sanitisable by means of a sanitising fluid that passes through a grooved surface (14, 15, 18).
Abstract:
An apparatus (1) for producing sterile receptacles (2), comprising: a molding unit (13) for molding parisons (4) starting from granules of thermoplastic material; a stretch-blowing forming unit (3) which receives the parisons (4) from the molding unit (13), the forming unit (3) having a plurality of forming stations (5) in each of which there is a mold (6) and a sterilization device (12) so as to form and sterilize the corresponding parison (4).
Abstract:
Method for moulding and sterilizing a container made of plastic material, comprising the steps of: opening a mould (4) made of metal material; inserting a parison (3) into the mould (4); closing the mould (4); inserting a stretching rod (23) made of metal material into the parison (3); blowing and stretching the parison (3) in such a manner as to obtain the container; keeping the stretching rod (23) inside the moulded container; evacuating the blowing fluid; applying a voltage difference between the stretching rod (23) and the closed mould (4) in such a manner as to transform the fluid at atmospheric pressure remaining inside the moulded container into plasma.
Abstract:
A treatment apparatus (1) of closures (2, 22) for containers using a sterilizing substances, comprising: a rotating unit (6); dispensing means (16) of the sterilizing substance; at least two types of rails (7a, 7b), longitudinal and parallel, of which a first type of rails (7a) houses, by force of gravity, a first format of closures (2) and a second type of rails (7b) houses, by force of gravity, a second format of closures (22), the rails (7a, 7b) being solidly constrained to the rotating unit (6) and being arranged in such a way as to follow a circumferential extension thereof.
Abstract:
Method for moulding a receptacle (2) starting from a parison (3) of plastic material, comprising the steps of: positioning the parison (3) inside a mould (5); progressively introducing a stretching rod (8) into the parison (3) until it reaches a bottom thereof; injecting pressurised air into the parison (3), passing radiation through the stretching rod (8), in order to sterilise the inner walls of the parison (3).
Abstract:
Molding apparatus (1) comprising:a molding station (3) equipped with a machine (4) for molding containers (2) obtained from parisons of plastic material and drive components (5) of said machine (4);an isolation device (6) for the molding machine (4), suitable for defining a controlled-contamination environment (7) for housing the machine (4), said drive components (5) being situated outside said environment (7);at least one service section (19) having one or more points of access (19a) with seal-tight protection to enable adjustment, maintenance or size change operations to be performed inside the controlled-contamination environment (7);molds (11) fixed to said machine (4);tubular bodies (13) disposed partly inside and partly outside said environment (7), said tubular bodies (13) defining tubular cavities suitable for the passage of the drive components (5), in particular of drive members (12) for opening and closing the molds (11).
Abstract:
A treatment apparatus for treating closures for containers. The treatment apparatus includes a box-like body and a treating chamber inside the box-like body. The treating chamber configured for treating the closures. The treatment apparatus further includes a dispensing pipe located inside the treating chamber and configured to dispense a sterilizing substance and a supplying circuit configured to supplying the sterilizing substance. The supplying circuit including a feeding line, a main line, and a secondary line. Both the main line and the secondary line branching-off from the feeding line and the main line emerging into the dispensing pipe and the secondary line emerging inside the box-like body. The treatment apparatus further includes one or more valves operatively active on the supplying circuit to establish a selective fluid communication between the feeding line and the main line or between the feeding line and the secondary line.