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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8075834 | Blow molding machine and associated mechanisms A machine (10) for blow molding containers (110). The machine (10) has a stationary flow head (26) located above a turntable (12) with molds (16) mounted on carriages (38). The carriages (38) are mounted on ram... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7641846 | Method for adjusting distance between preforms and adjusting structure of the method A method and a structure are disclosed for adjusting the distance between two preforms. Thus, the distance between two preforms is changed by adjusting the proportion in the number of two carriers on the track. In addition, the possibility of wear of the carriers is... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7611659 | Method and apparatus for making a plastic container having an oriented finish portion A method of making a plastic container, comprises injection molding a container preform having a finish portion and a body portion, engaging the container preform with a transfer arm with the finish portion located in a predetermined orientation with respect to the ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7476355 | Blow molding apparatus and method An injection blow molding apparatus has a rotatable turret with three laterally facing faces. The turret is rotatable between an injection position, a blow position and an ejection position that are angularly spaced from each other around an axis of rotation of the ... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7264464 | Cooling tube with a low friction coating An intimate fit preform cooling tube with an inner mating surface that includes a polymeric coating to increase its lubricity and thereby reduce friction with a preform to be engaged therewith. The cooling tube of the present invention substantially reduces or elimi... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7172721 | Thermoplastic molding process The invention provides a novel thermoplastic molding process useful in the manufacture of hollow, deformable thermoplastic articles such as hollow doll heads. In the process of the instant invention, a parison is formed at a first injection station and is transferre... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7156647 | Device for cooling and thermal conditioning of a tubular object A device (1) for cooling and/or thermal conditioning of hot preforms or parisons (6), in particular of parisons for the production of blow-moulded bottles made of plastic material, limits and/or reduces the deformations of said parisons during cooling ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7025924 | Dual container system and method of manufacturing the same There is provided a container system adapted to withstand a single impact or repeated impacts. The container system features a first container having a first container body. The container system further features a second container which has a second container body. ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6976836 | Biaxial stretch blow molding method and apparatus for wide-mouthed containers In a biaxial stretch blow molding apparatus (10) for wide-mouthed containers, preforms (6) that are in an inverted state are conveyed on a single plane by preform carriers (40) that go around a carrier circuit (30) in the form of a loop, ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6814923 | Preform, intermediate article and method for manufacturing a blown finish container A dimensionally-stable, injection-molded portion of a blow molded intermediate article is engaged by a conveyance mechanism of a trimmer to controllably drive the intermediate article within the trimmer to permit accurate and high speed severing of the injection mol... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6770239 | Method for localized preform cooling outside the mold An apparatus and method for providing targeted cooling to a pre-molded article, such as a preform. A cooling pin is inserted into the preform such that it makes contact with targeted area, such as the mold gate area. This permits conductive cooling of the targeted a... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6737007 | Cooling tube with porous insert An injection-molding machine cooling tube, which cools molded plastic parts, includes a porous cooling tube having an outer surface and an inner surface. Preferably, the porous cooling tube has a porosity in the range of 3-20 microns. A cooling fluid passageway is p... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6730260 | Parts transfer method and apparatus for an injection stretch blow molding system The invention provides a method and apparatus for transferring parisons from an injection-molding machine to a blow-mold machine on an indexed table. The injection-molding machine creates multiple groups of parisons during an injection cycle. The groups from each cy... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6726466 | Injection blow molding machine and clamping device A clamping device for an injection blow molding machine incorporates separate clamp movement actuators for joining or separating opposing mold parts and clamping actuators for applying a clamping force to closed mold parts. Opposing locking columns and locking colla... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6649118 | Rotary in-mold labeling An in-mold labeler (24) and a method for in-mold labeling a rotary plastic blow molding machine (22) includes a dispensing assembly (38) having a dispensing wheel (42) that is rotatably mounted on a base (40) and supports a plurality of dispensing head as... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6649119 | Rotary plastic blow molding system having in-mold labeling A plastic blow molding system (20) and a method for blow molding utilize an in-mold labeler (24) and a method for in-mold labeling a rotary plastic blow molding machine (22) includes a dispensing assembly (38) having a dispensing wheel (42) that is rotata... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6582217 | Process and device for the manufacture of hollow plastic bottles A process and a device for the manufacture of hollow plastic bodies, particularly of plastic bottles, in which plastic molding blanks are guided, by means of a shuttle system with at least one guide rail, through a tempering station, and are brought to a ... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6451243 | Method of molding heat-resistant containers A heat-resistant container molding apparatus and method which are compact and inexpensive and can reliably increase the crystallinity, reduce the residual stress in a container filled with a hot content such as thermally sterilized fruit juice, and preven... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6432351 | Injection stretch blow molding method An injection stretch blow molding apparatus has an injection molding station and a blow molding station, with a transfer station positioned therebetween. The injection molding station has an injection molding section which molds preforms and a removal sec... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6428735 | Method for making a carbonated soft drink bottle with an internal web and hand-grip feature A machine and method for blow molding a polyester bottle for carbonated beverages with an internal web structure positioned between two hand-grip depressions. The machine and method uses an injection-molded preform having a web feature and maintains the w... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6299431 | Cooling apparatus for injection molding machines The present invention is related to a rotary cooling station to be used in conjunction with a high output injection molding machine and a robot having a take-out plate. More particularly, the present invention teaches a high speed robot that transfers war... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6264457 | Servo infeed system for transferring preforms in a container manufacturing facility A system for transferring preforms to an oven starwheel of a blowmolding manufacturing facility includes a transport mechanism that is constructed and arranged to be able to hold at least one plastic preform member, a first sensor for sensing a transport ... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6241938 | Single-stage apparatus and method for producing containers made of thermoplastic material A method of producing parisons of thermoplastic material, which includes the steps of injection of plasticized resin into a plurality of multiple-cavity molds, removal of the parisons from the respective injection molds and transferring parisons to condit... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6193925 | Method for applying labels to blow-molded articles A method and an apparatus are provided for inserting labels into blow-molded hollow articles. The blow-molding apparatus includes a carrousel mounted to rotate within a support frame. The carrousel carries four multi-cavity molds around a circular mold pa... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6099766 | Method and apparatus for forming preforms with crystallized necks A preform molding method and apparatus which can utilize a part of an injection mold to crystallize a neck of a preform. A rotary disc includes a plurality of neck cavity molds. An injection molding station, first heating station, second heating station a... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6019933 | Injection stretch blow molding method with upright preform molding and inverted blow molding In an injection stretch blow molding method, at least one injection molded preform is transferred from a preform molding section to a blow molding section by way of a transfer section and the at least one preform is blow molded into at least one container... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5919498 | Apparatus for applying labels to blow-molded articles A method and an apparatus are provided for inserting labels into blow-molded hollow articles. The blow-molding apparatus includes a carrousel mounted to rotate within a support frame. The carrousel carries four multi-cavity molds around a circular mold pa... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5863571 | Machine for making containers by blow-moulding plastic parisons The invention concerns a machine for manufacture of containers (13), such as bottles, pots, and all other types of hollow bodies, by heat treating, then blow-molding, plastic preforms (1). The machine includes at least two wallet-type molds (41, 44) posit... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5783232 | Blow molding machine using reheat method for producing hollow plastic articles To be able to guide the parisons in a reheat type blow molding machine having separate heat and blow paths along the path where they are heated up to blow temperature, i.e., in narrowly spaced relationship past the heating devices, with the spacing being ... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5683729 | Apparatus for making containers by blow moulding plastic parisons A machine manufactures containers such as bottles, pots, or other hollow bodies by thermal conditioning and blow molding of plastic preforms. The machine has two portfolio molds on the periphery of a carousel, and each has at least two molding cavities. T... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5582788 | Method of cooling multilayer preforms Method of making multilayer preforms which resist delamination and in a reduced cycle time. A first array of preforms are molded onto a first array of cores in an associated array of mold cavities, the cores and preforms are removed from the mold cavities... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5552105 | Injection blow molding machine with stacked molds A method and apparatus for forming plastic hollow articles such as containers which includes a turret that includes an upper head and a lower head, each of which supports circumferentially spaced sets of core rods. The heads are rotated about a vertical a... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5516274 | Stretch blow molding machine with movable blow mold assembly A blow molding machine configured to receive plastic parisons and output blow mold formed containers has a support frame having a trackway. A parison conveyor is attached to the support frame, and a blow mold assembly is positionable in its operating posi... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5424022 | Method and apparatus of injection stretch blow molding An injection stretch blow molding method blow molds a preform into a hollow member while maintaining the preform at a temperature provided by an injection molding step. The method circulatively conveys neck mold support plates each for supporting and conv... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5403177 | Injection stretch blow molding machine A two station machine forms a parison from a plastic resin and then stretch blowing into a hollow-molded product. The machine has a preform station for forming a parison and a blow mold station for stretching and inflating the parison into the hollow mold... | 04/04/1995 |
| 5321341 | Drive module for machine A drive module of a machine having a turret adjacent the upper end and a motor adjacent the lower end. The turret is driven by the motor to move between different stations of the machine by the controlled rotation of the turret about an axis of rotation. ... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5253999 | Rotary injection molding machine A rotary molding machine having an arrangement for securely positioning lip and injection molds independently of the length of the vertical stroke; the arrangement does not require a guiding member for each lip mold. A lip mold is mounted on each of a plu... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5129814 | Frame construction for an injection blow molding machine An injection blow molding machine construction utilizes pairs of C-shaped cut plate members to support clamps for the injection mold and for the blow mold, respectively. The injection molding frame members are angularly disposed at 60 degrees with respect... | 07/14/1992 |
| 5124110 | Temperature adjusting and compressing in injection stretch blow molding for forming raised portions in the container produced A process for forming a hollow container from a hot closed-end parison includes the steps of injection molding a hot closed-end parison, adjusting the temperature of the hot closed-end parison by heating or cooling the hot closed-end parison in a predeter... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5080574 | Rotary type injection molding machine The present invention relates to a rotary type injection molding machine including a base plate provided in its surface with a rotary disk having hold molds at three portions on the lower surface thereof and having required core insert holes bored at stop... | 01/14/1992 |
