US 12,285,899 B2
Means of sterilizing the stretching means of a container molding device, and container manufacturing installation
François Quetel, Octeville-sur-Mer (FR); Benjamin Yger, Octeville-sur-Mer (FR); and Sandy Letellier, Octeville-sur-Mer (FR)
Assigned to SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS, Octeville-sur-Mer (FR)
Filed by SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS, Octeville-sur-Mer (FR)
Filed on Mar. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/684,349.
Application 17/684,349 is a division of application No. 16/065,619, granted, now 11,292,179, previously published as PCT/FR2016/053625, filed on Dec. 22, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 1563052 (FR), filed on Dec. 22, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0324154 A1, Oct. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. B29C 49/06 (2006.01); A61L 2/20 (2006.01); B29C 49/00 (2006.01); B29C 49/42 (2006.01); B29C 49/64 (2006.01); B29C 49/12 (2006.01); B29C 49/46 (2006.01); B29K 67/00 (2006.01); B29L 31/00 (2006.01); B65B 55/10 (2006.01)
CPC B29C 49/06 (2013.01) [A61L 2/208 (2013.01); B29C 49/006 (2022.05); B29C 49/42069 (2022.05); B29C 49/42822 (2022.05); B29C 49/6418 (2013.01); A61L 2202/23 (2013.01); B29C 49/12 (2013.01); B29C 49/46 (2013.01); B29K 2067/003 (2013.01); B29L 2031/712 (2013.01); B65B 55/10 (2013.01); B65B 2210/06 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
17. An installation for manufacturing containers made of thermoplastic material, the installation comprising a sterilizing mode and a production mode, the installation comprising:
a molding machine equipped with at least one molding device having stretching means, the molding device being designed to manufacture by stretch blow molding said containers from preforms when the installation is in production mode;
a transfer wheel for conveying, when the installation is in production mode, said manufactured containers between the molding machine and a second machine located downstream;
a decontamination device for use in sterilizing mode and designed for introducing a sterilizing agent into at least one preform, the molding machine transforming the preform into a hollow body that is at least partially stretched by said stretching means;
at least one computerized control to prolong the time of holding the at least partially stretched hollow body within a mold of the molding machine; and
a removal actuator that operates in the sterilizing mode to remove the at least partially stretched hollow body the transfer wheel upstream form the second machine, the transfer wheel being desynchronized from the second machine during use of the removal actuator.