US 12,258,255 B2
Apparatus and method for producing plastic bottles
Christoph Klenk, Wenzenbach (DE); and Wolfgang Hausladen, Moetzing (DE)
Assigned to KRONES AG, Neutraubling (DE)
Filed by KRONES AG, Neutraubling (DE)
Filed on Oct. 23, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/168,444.
Application 16/168,444 is a continuation of application No. 12/875,336, filed on Sep. 3, 2010, granted, now 10,138,106.
Claims priority of application No. 102009040363.9 (DE), filed on Sep. 7, 2009.
Prior Publication US 2019/0055113 A1, Feb. 21, 2019
Int. Cl. B67C 7/00 (2006.01); B29C 49/36 (2006.01); B29C 49/06 (2006.01); B29C 49/64 (2006.01); B67C 3/22 (2006.01)
CPC B67C 7/002 (2013.01) [B29C 49/36 (2013.01); B67C 7/004 (2013.01); B29C 49/06 (2013.01); B29C 49/6418 (2013.01); B67C 2003/227 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for producing plastic bottles, the apparatus comprising:
a molding machine to manufacture preforms for plastic bottles;
a blow molding machine to receive the preforms from the molding machine and to stretch blow mold the preforms into bottles; and
a labeling machine to receive the bottles from the blow molding machine and to label the bottles, the molding machine being bloc-synchronized with the blow molding machine to space the molding machine a first distance from the blow molding machine, the blow molding machine being bloc-synchronized with the labeling machine to space the blow molding machine a second distance from the labeling machine,
wherein the molding machine is an injection molding machine.