Apparatus for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers with preform cooling

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11565458-B2
Application number	US-202117363822-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 30, 2021
Priority date	Jul 13, 2020
Publication date	Jan 31, 2023
Grant date	Jan 31, 2023

Abstract

Provided is an apparatus for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers, having a blow mould which forms a cavity within which the plastic preforms can be expanded to form the plastic containers, and having an application device which is suitable and intended for acting upon the plastic preforms with a flowable medium in order to expand them, which is suitable and intended for acting upon the plastic preforms with a flowable medium in order to expand them, wherein the application device is placed against a mouth area of the plastic preforms in order to act upon these with the flowable medium. The application device forms at least one first flow channel for the flowable medium, which guides and/or directs at least a portion of the flowable medium to an inner wall of the mouth area in order to temper and, in particular, cool this inner wall.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An apparatus for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers, having a blow mould which forms a cavity within which the plastic preforms can be expanded to form the plastic containers, and with an application device which is suitable and intended for acting upon the plastic preforms with a flowable medium in order to expand them, wherein the application device can be placed against a mouth area of the plastic preforms in order to act upon these with the flowable medium, wherein the application device forms at least one first flow channel for the flowable medium which guides and/or directs at least a portion of the flowable medium to an inner wall of the mouth area in order to temper this inner wall, wherein the application device has a tubular body which projects into the plastic preform during an expansion of the plastic preform and which forms a flow path of the flowable medium which does not reach the inner wall of a mouth region and the flow path is given by a distance between the tubular body and a wall surrounding this tubular body.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the application device forms at least two flow paths for the flowable medium, which are at least partially separated from one another, wherein at least one of these flow paths being designed in such a way that it guides and/or directs at least a portion of the flowable medium to an inner wall of the mouth area.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the second flow path is designed in such a way that it does not direct the flowable medium onto an inner wall of the mouth area.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the tubular body is rotationally symmetrical with respect to a longitudinal axis of the application device.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the first flow path extends at least partially radially outside the second flow path.

6. The apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the first flow path surrounds the second flow path in a circumferential direction of the application device.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the tubular body comprises at least one opening through which the medium can exit in a radial direction, wherein the opening forming a portion of the first flow path.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the opening is an elongated hole.

9. An application device for acting upon plastic preforms with a gaseous medium in order to expand these plastic preforms, having an annular sealing section which is suitable and intended, during the application of the plastic preform with the gaseous medium, to seal off the air flow entering the plastic preform from an environment, and having a tubular body, which during the expansion process projects at least partially into the plastic preform to be expanded, wherein the application device forms at least one first flow channel for the flowable medium, which conducts and/or directs at least a portion of the flowable medium to an inner wall of the mouth area in order to temper this inner wall, wherein the application device has a tubular body which projects into the plastic preform during an expansion of the plastic preform and which forms a flow path of the flowable medium which does not reach the inner wall of a mouth region and the flow path is given by a distance between the tubular body and a wall surrounding this tubular body.

10. A method for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers, wherein the plastic preforms are expanded within a blow mould by being acted upon by a flowable medium and are expanded by an application device with the flowable medium, wherein the application device is applied to a mouth area of the plastic preforms, wherein the application device forms at least one first flow channel for the flowable medium which guides and/or directs at least a portion of the flowable medium to an inner wall of the mouth area in order to temper this inner wall, wherein the application device has a tubular body which projects into the plastic preform during an expansion of the plastic preform and which forms a flow path of the flowable medium which does not reach the inner wall of a mouth region and the flow path is given by a distance between the tubular body and a wall surrounding this tubular body.

Assignees

• Krones Ag

Inventors

• Hoellriegl Thomas
• Stiegler Markus
• Apfelbacher Oliver
• Kulzer Markus
• Huettner Gerald

Classifications

• B29C49/58 Primary

  Blowing means · CPC title

• B29L2031/7158

  Bottles · CPC title

• B29C2049/5841

  Plural independent blowing paths · CPC title

• B29C2049/5827

  Blowing means not touching the preform · CPC title

• B29C49/6466

  on the inside · CPC title