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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7381045 | Quick change blow mold tooling Quick change blow mold tooling includes a pair of mold cavity blocks that cooperate to define a series of blow cavities. The tooling further includes a pushup plate having a series of bottom contours that plug the otherwise open bottoms of the cavities when the push... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7378047 | Method and apparatus for monitoring wall thickness of blow-molded plastic containers A method of inspecting wall thickness of blow-molded plastic containers includes providing a blow-molder having a plurality of molds and a plurality of associated spindles. The containers are inspected by impinging infrared light thereon and detecting the portion of... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7374713 | Method for manufacturing and inspecting blow-molded plastic containers A method of manufacturing plastic containers. The method may comprise the steps of (1) forming a plastic container from a preform in a blow-molder, where the blow-molder comprises a plurality of molds and spindles; and (2) inspecting the plastic container after form... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7354538 | Container manufacturing inspection and control system A system and a method for controlling a container manufacturing machine include a thickness monitor (10) for determining an average wall thickness of containers produced by the machine. The system uses the average wall thickness to adjust machine control to c... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7300273 | System for forming a hollow body A system for forming a hollow body may include at least one closing unit positioned beneath the die of a tube extrusion device. The closing unit may include a first vertical closing plate and second vertical closing plate. Specifically, an upper horizontal closing p... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7153127 | Method and apparatus for blow molding hollow plastic containers A mold system for blow molding hollow plastic containers includes an extruder for providing a hollow tube of plastic material having a longitudinal axis. Three mold segments include at least two mold segments that are movable against the third mold segment, in direc... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7114945 | Blow mold device The shifting of the parting line between split molds due to mold clamping force is prevented. A blow mold device (11) wherein a pair of split molds forming a blow cavity (12) are a set of molds, and a plurality of such sets are attached in parallel to ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 6994543 | Internally label-sticking mold An internally label-sticking mold includes an outer mold and an inner mold. The outer mold has an interior hollow for containing a shaped material and the inner mold, and the inner mold has an interior hollow for containing a label therein. Thus, when the outer mold... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6979188 | Extrusion head for producing a plastic strand in the form of a flexible or rigid tube An exemplary extrusion head for producing a plastic strand in the form of a flexible or rigid tube can be made to communicate with the outlet of an extruder and has a nozzle tool, which includes a mandrel, or core, and a nozzle ring. The mandrel and the nozzle ring ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6971864 | Device for producing plastic hollow bodies using an extrusion blow molding method An apparatus for producing plastic hollow bodies using an extrusion blow molding process has an extrusion unit, which is mounted in a housing, and at least one blow molding station. The extrusion unit has an extruder and an extruder head, connected to the extruder, ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6923637 | Blow molding machine Each of the clamping plates of the closing unit of the blow molding machine has secured thereto a pivotable locking means which in the calibration position in the swung-up state comes into engagement with a plate which is part of the calibration device. A short fric... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6893602 | Shuttle-type blow molding method and apparatus Shuttle blow molding apparatus having an extruder for substantially continuously extruding a thermoplastic material in tubular form at a moldable temperature downwardly along a vertical axis. A first finite length of the thermoplastic material is grasped by a first ... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6863860 | Method and apparatus for monitoring wall thickness of blow-molded plastic containers A method of inspecting wall thickness of blow-molded plastic containers includes providing a blow-molder having a plurality of molds and a plurality of associated spindles. The containers are inspected by impinging infrared light thereon and detecting the portion of... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6770238 | Method and device for blow-forming containers The method and the device are used for blow forming containers of a thermoplastic material. The preforms that are used are first temperature treated and then shaped into containers in the area of at least one blow station. Moulds to define the container shape are he... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6730257 | Shuttle-type blow molding method and apparatus Shuttle blow molding apparatus having an extruder for substantially continuously extruding a thermoplastic material in tubular form at a moldable temperature downwardly along a vertical axis. A first finite length of the thermoplastic material is grasped by a first ... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6713013 | Single-row and multi-row stretch blow molding method and apparatus therefor In a single-row and expandable into a multi-row stretch blow molding method and apparatus, at least one row of tray plates in a tray unit is used to collect molded preforms ejected from the opening clamp of a preform-molding unit, transfer the preforms with or witho... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6709611 | Method for making, by blow moulding, plastic hollow bodies, device and installation therefor To blow plastic hollow bodies, each mold (7) has its respective compression chamber (21) connected to it, constituted by a cylinder (20)-piston (19) assembly; pressure is initialized in the chamber; the fluid is compressed in the chamber;... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6702567 | Multi-station shuttle blow molding machine A shuttle blow molding machine having two groups of mold units located on opposite sides of a series of workstations spaced along a horizontal workstation path. Each mold unit includes a mold that reciprocates in a direction transverse to the workstation ... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6692686 | Blow molding method and apparatus A blow molding method includes steps of moving a split mold to a parison receiving position where a parison is supplied and receiving a parison, closing the split mold, performing blow molding at a blow molding position, and opening the split mold at a pr... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6692684 | Method and apparatus for producing a sterile packaging container The disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for producing a sterile packaging container from a thermoplastic blank or preform which, during stepwise displacement between different processing stations (A-H), is subjected to a first heating to a tem... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6649120 | Blow molding apparatus and method A blow molding apparatus (10) including four molds (21, 22, 23, 24) that move into a common parison receiving position (26) from directions different from the directions that the molds move out of the parison receiving position (26). When in the parison r... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6471907 | Shuttle-type blow molding method and apparatus Shuttle blow molding apparatus having an extruder or a blow head for substantially continuously emitting a thermoplastic material in tubular or parison form at a moldable temperature downwardly along a vertical axis. A finite length of the thermoplastic m... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6454988 | Indexing labeling magazine A method and apparatus for applying labels to cylindrical portions of plastic bottles by in-mold labeling utilizes an indexing label magazine which dispenses labels to first label engaging heads and, following indexing of said label magazine, dispenses la... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6196829 | Apparatus for forming hollow article Provided is a swing-driving device for driving two low molding units so as to swing around corresponding swinging fulcrums, each of the blow molding units having a carriage, one end portion of which is supported by the swinging fulcrum so as to swing, and... | 03/06/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6099790 | Method of manufacturing hollow bodies and blow molding machine for effecting the method A method of manufacturing hollow bodies including inserting into spaced mold halves of a blow mold of a blow molding machine plastic hose-shaped blanks at an extrusion station of the blow molding machine and closing the blow mold, displacing the closed bl... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5975880 | Apparatus and 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... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5921416 | Double-wall bottle and method and apparatus for molding the same This invention relates to a method of molding a double-wall bottle consisting of an outer bottle (12) and an inner bottle (14). A outer bottle (12) is first formed from a first preform by biaxial Stretch blow molding. After this molding step, a plurality ... | 07/13/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5785921 | Method and an istallation for manufacturing thermoplastic receptacles, in particular bottles The invention relates to manufacturing a receptacle (23) suitable for being subsequently subjected to severe temperature conditions without deforming significantly, in which an intermediate receptacle (2) is molded by blowing or by stretching-blowing a pr... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5770003 | Moulding of containers A system for moulding containers in thermoformable and heat-weldable material. The system includes a heating and welding station and a forming and shape-stabilizing station, with at least one welding and forming station in-between, producing progressive f... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5753279 | Injection stretch blow molding apparatus An injection stretch blow molding apparatus and method wherein while the preforms are amply cooled the injection molding cycle time is shortened and furthermore a small number of blow cavities are used. In an injection molding section, N (Nࣙ2) preforms ... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5744176 | Injection stretch blow molding apparatus An injection stretch blow molding apparatus and method wherein while the preforms are amply cooled the injection molding cycle time is shortened and furthermore a small number of blow cavities are used and the operation rate of these blow cavities is incr... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5681520 | Method of molding large containers by the process of stretch blow molding There is provided a method of molding a large container including the steps of preparing a preform from an injection-molded, thick-wall, closed-end parison by repeatedly and intermittently applying an air blow pressure to the parison and releasing the air... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5576034 | Apparatus for the production of hollow bodies from thermoplastic material by an extrusion blow molding process In an apparatus for the production of hollow bodies from thermoplastic material by use of extrusion blow molding, having at least two blow molding units and an extrusion system, in an operating cycle each blow molding unit is movable between a receiving p... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5518392 | Injection blow molding apparatus including stacked molds A multi-station injection blow molding apparatus for producing hollow plastic articles, including vertically stacked preform injection molds at a first station, vertically stacked blow molds at a second station and an indexing head assembly having upper a... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5501591 | Blow-moulding machine with calibration stations A blow molding machine comprising two calibration stations and an extruder arranged between the two calibration stations. The machine produces hose-shaped parisons to be blown into hollow bodies by mold forms in an alternating sequence and in a periodical... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5316184 | Foldable plastic bottle, blow mold form to make the bottle, and method of making the bottle To place material accumulations, which is unavoidable upon blow-molding a bottle, in a separable two-part blow mold form away from a bottom fold line (2) of the bottle, in which the bottom portion of the bottle is formed with a generally inverted V-shaped... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5223073 | Apparatus for forming cells in continuous strips, particularly for packaging suppositories and the like The apparatus includes advancement clamps which move two mutually facing films along an advancement direction on which the following are arranged in sequence: two welding half-molds, which by mutually welding the two films in preset regions define cells w... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5183673 | Apparatus for controlling weight and wall thickness of a blow molded article A mold for controlling the weight and wall thickness distribution in a blow molded plastic manufactured article or a family or related articles involves simultaneous formation of the manufactured article and a waste article. The waste article is removed a... | 02/02/1993 |
