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7572123 Apparatus for stretching and crystallizing the neck finish of a molded plastic article  
Apparatus and method for making a molded plastic article having a stretched and crystallized neck finish. In one embodiment, a series of platforms are carried by a conveying apparatus for...
7553156 Furnace for heating a preform, provided with two cooling fans  
A furnace ( 22 ) for heating a preform ( 10 ), includes an upper longitudinal heating tunnel ( 24 ) bounded transversely by the longitudinal vertical internal faces ( 36, 38 ) of two walls ( 40, 42...
7550105 Apparatus and method for strengthening blow molded articles  
A method and apparatus are provided for strengthening a portion of a blow molded bottle. The method includes directing a jet of cooled air at a preform before it is molded, causing the wall...
7540737 Apparatus for producing bottle-type synthetic resin containers  
A method for producing bottle-type containers made of a synthetic resin, e.g., polyethylene-terephthalate resin, includes a heat treatment step for heating and crystallizing a neck portion of a...
7503760 Method and apparatus for blow molding  
A mold for blow molding has a base component for forming at least one portion of a concave base of a container and comprising a mounting plate having connections for supply and return of a heat...
7491358 Method and device for regulating the temperature of parisons  
A method and device serve the tempering preforms of a thermoplastic material. The preforms are modeled subsequent to tempering into a container inside a blow-molding mold by the action of a medium...
7473388 Method of producing a polyester resin container and device for performing same  
Method of producing a polyester resin container, such as a PET bottle, from a preform ( 10 ) includes a step whereby the preform ( 10 ) is heated to a temperature above a glass-transition...
7465164 Apparatus for forming medical device balloons  
Medical device balloons are formed from a tubular parison by a process or apparatus which establishes a controlled location (initiation zone) on the parison where radial expansion is initiated....
7448866 Preform heating module equipped with aerodynamically profiled air baffle  
A module for heating a plastic container perform, includes a longitudinal heating tunnel bounded transversely by the longitudinal vertical internal faces of two walls, one a heating wall, being...
7435077 Catheter balloon molding device  
A mold for a medical device balloon has a cavity adapted to receive a hollow parison expandable therein to form the balloon. The cavity has a cone region and a body region. The cone region is...
7435076 Apparatus for thermally conditioning plastic items  
The method for thermally conditioning preforms in accordance with the invention comprises the following steps:—Placing the preforms on a chain conveyor ( 2 );—Conveying the preforms through a...
7425296 Method and system for wavelength specific thermal irradiation and treatment  
A system for direct injection of selected thermal-infrared (IR) wavelength radiation or energy into articles for a wide range of processing purposes is provided. These purposes may include heating,...
7338278 Cooling system for cooling a rotary mount, a rotary mount including such a system, and a machine, in particular a blow-molding machine, including such a system and such a mount  
The invention provides a cooling system for cooling a rotary mount ( 2 ) comprising two rings ( 4, 7 ) capable of rotating relative to each other, each ring having a raceway, the mount further...
7331778 Process and arrangement for the production of blow-molded hollow bodies  
The present invention refers to an arrangement for the production of blow-molded hollow bodies from plastic with a blow molding machine, wherein a cooling medium can be blown via a conduit into a...
7314364 Slotted mold for making a balloon catheter  
A method of making a catheter balloon, and a balloon formed thereby, in which a polymeric tube is radially expanded in a mold having a wall with an outer surface and an inner surface defining a...
7306452 Cooling system for sleeves that are fixed to a carrier plate  
A cooling system for cooling sleeves ( 2 ) fixed to a carrier plate ( 1 ), by means of a fluid which is passed from a fluid inlet ( 15 ) to a fluid outlet ( 22 ) by way of fluid conduits ( 7, 14,...
7293980 Porous member for a post-molding molded article conditioning apparatus with an integrally formed cooling structure  
A cooling tube assembly for operating on a malleable molded plastic part. The cooling tube assembly comprising a porous tube/insert having a profiled inner conditioning surface, and a vacuum...
7284778 Device for carrying preforms comprising improved gripping means  
A device for carrying a preform in a temperature condition oven, including a gripping device provided with gripping claws, which enclose an outer surface of the neck of the preform. An inner core...
7284402 System and process for superplastic forming  
A system and method for superplastic forming a workpiece. The system includes a superplastic forming cell formed of a plurality of individual stations or modules, each one performing a specific...
7270529 Apparatus for blow molding  
A mold assembly for blow molding comprises first and second mating mold components, each mating mold component comprising molding surfaces open to a mating face of the mold component and defining...
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...
7264458 Process and apparatus for forming medical device balloons  
Medical device balloons are formed from a tubular parison by a process or apparatus which establishes a controlled location (initiation zone) on the parison where radial expansion is initiated....
7232306 Modified injection takeout tube  
A cooling device and method useful for reducing the total injection molding cycle time of an injection molded tube, and more particularly to applying cooling to areas of a preform that are not in...
7220378 Method and apparatus for the measurement and control of both the inside and outside surface temperature of thermoplastic preforms during stretch blow molding operations  
A stretch blow molding system that condition preforms such that the temperature distribution within the cross-section of each preform is optimized prior to blow molding operations is provided. The...
7172405 Metal mold device for blow molding  
Fluid flow grooves ( 11 ) with a flat cross section being formed between the back surface of a metal mold ( 2 ) for blow molding and a back-up member ( 4 ) which adheres tightly to this back...
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...
7132076 Method and apparatus for blow molding  
An apparatus and method for blow molding an article having a concave base wherein a mold has a base component comprising a molding surface for forming at least a portion of the concave base and a...
7125241 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...
7121821 Device for heating preforms provided with supporting ring  
A device for heating parisons made of a thermoplastic material and having a supporting ring for blow molding hollow bodies, having a conveyor means, a plurality of holding means which are arranged...
7037099 Device for blow-molding containers  
The device serves for the blow molding of containers that comprise a thermoplastic material, wherein the device has at least one blowing station with at least one blow mold. The blow mold is formed...
7025584 Mold base assembly  
A base assembly used as a part of a mold assembly for forming a container has a base insert and a flow divider plate that co-operate to define a continuous fluid passageway for cooling or heating...
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...
6957954 Post-mold cooling apparatus  
The present invention relates to an improved method and apparatus for injection molding and cooling molded articles such as preforms so as to avoid crystallinity. The apparatus and method make use...
6951453 Injection mold 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...
6951452 Cooling station for post mold cooling of plastic pieces  
Method and apparatus for cooling molded plastic pieces preferably includes a take out structure/step configured to hold the plurality of plastic parts oriented such that closed ends thereof are...
6948924 Mold assembly with modular mold shells  
A mold assembly for forming a container has two modular mold half shells that are adapted to be surrounded by mold half carriers. Each modular mold half shell has an upper body mold section and at...
6942480 Apparatus for handling injection molded articles  
A method and apparatus for handling preforms from an injection molding machine whereby an array of molded articles received from the mold is reconfigured into a single row to assist in downstream...
6916167 Method and apparatus for extrusion blow molding of shapes with an even wall thickness and varying radii  
A method of extrusion blow molding is disclosed; the method allows the finished part to have consistent and even wall thickness within a broad range of local mold radii. This result is achieved...
6913455 Hot fill mold shell assembly with reduced heat transfer  
A hot fill hot fill mold assembly has two mold half shells and two mold half carriers for supporting the mold half shells. The shells each have an inner wall that defines the shape of at least a...
6888103 Preform preheater  
A housing is mounted to a slide that transports a series of preforms downward under the influence of gravity through a pre-heating apparatus toward a reheat blow molding machine. The housing is...
6875396 Hot fill container  
A PET hot fill bottle ( 2 ) has a neck ( 3 ) and a body ( 4 ). It is stretched and blown into a cavity ( 14 ), with internal pressure holding the body against the cavity. During a first period, the...
6848900 Apparatus for handling injection molded preforms  
A simplified perform handling device including an end-effector arranged to substantially conform, in use, to an end portion of a preform and to seal therewith. The device also includes an aligning...
6848899 Injection stretch blow molding device with transfer station and pitch changing for 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...
6843646 Nickel blow mold and holder defining heat transfer passages therebetween  
An air cooled or heated blow mold is shown having a mold cavity shell and a mold holder. The mold cavity shell is made by a process of nickel vapour deposition and so requires no hand finishing or...
6814922 Method and device for production of a blown container  
The invention relates to a method for the production of a container ( 45″ ), with an opening ( 53 ), whose opening axis ( 57 ) is at an angle to the container axis ( 23 ), whereby a blank ( 45 )...
6811389 Thermal processing oven in a blow-forming facility for thermoplastic receptacles  
An oven in a production facility for thermoplastic receptacles, including a conveyor chain which is provided with gripping devices ( 16 ), whereby each gripping device engages axially with the neck...
6802705 Post mold cooling assembly for molded article neck finishes  
A cooling apparatus and method for the post mold cooling of injection molded articles where an exterior portion of the article is exposed to a cooling atmosphere separately from any other cooling...
6787096 Device for treating preforms to obtain containers made of plastics  
A device for treating preforms to obtain containers made of plastics, for example bottles for food applications, comprising an ejector adapted to pick up and release one or more preforms, arranged...
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...
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...