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20110208438 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY TESTING A FLUID SPECIMEN - A system for automatically testing a fluid specimen, e.g., urine, to indicate the presence of specified chemical components in the specimen. The system preferably utilizes an assaying device comprised of a collection cup and a cap which carries at least one test strip. The device includes an integrated aliquot delivery mechanism actuatable to wet the test strip with an aliquot delivered from the fluid specimen. The assaying device is configured to operate in conjunction with an electronic reader device capable of actuating the aliquot delivery mechanism and reading the reaction of the test strip. A preferred reader device defines a keyed receptacle for accommodating a complementary shaped cup housing in a particular orientation. The reader device is comprised of a camera for capturing the image of a test strip, an actuator for actuating an aliquot delivery mechanism, and a microprocessor/controller for (1) controlling the camera and actuator and (2) processing the image. | 08-25-2011 |
20120284054 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY TESTING A FLUID SPECIMEN - A system for automatically testing a fluid specimen to indicate the presence of specified chemical components in the specimen. The system utilizes an assaying device having a collection cup and a cap that carries at least one test strip. The device includes an integrated aliquot delivery mechanism actuatable to wet the test strip with an aliquot delivered from the fluid specimen. The assaying device operates in conjunction with an electronic reader device capable of actuating the aliquot delivery mechanism and reading the reaction of the test strip. A reader device defines a keyed receptacle for accommodating a complementary shaped cup housing in a particular orientation. The reader device includes a camera for capturing the image of a test strip, an actuator for actuating an aliquot delivery mechanism, and a microprocessor/controller for (1) controlling the camera and actuator and (2) processing the image. | 11-08-2012 |
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20080206390 | BLOW MOLD - Blow mold for producing plastic containers, having a base body in the interior of which a body of the container to be produced can be accommodated and the inside wall of which completely surrounds the container that is to be produced, such that the blow mold has a ring for supporting a neck of the container with respect to the blow mold, along with a spacer device protruding inward with respect to the circumferential edge of the ring, for preventing the body of the container from coming in contact with the inside wall of the blow mold in the event of tilting of the container with respect to the blow mold. | 08-28-2008 |
20090261513 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING PLASTIC CONTAINERS WITH INFRARED ABSORPTION MONITORING - An apparatus and a method for manufacturing plastic containers, where the plastic containers are produced from a plastic material such as recycled plastic. The plastic preforms are heated in a heating unit and expanded into plastic containers in an expansion device. An infrared absorption degree of the plastic material or of the plastic preforms produced from said plastic material is then examined at least once in the course of the production process. From this examination conclusions can be drawn with respect to the quality of the preforms and their behavior when they are being heated. | 10-22-2009 |
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20110037187 | BLOW MOULDING MACHINE WITH CLEANING SYSTEM - An apparatus for transforming plastic preforms into containers may include at least one blow mould which forms a cavity, inside which the plastic preforms can be transformed into containers. The apparatus may include a pressure application device for applying a medium to the plastic preforms in order to expand the preforms against an inner wall of the blow mould delimiting the cavity. The apparatus may include a stretching rod for stretching the plastic preforms in the longitudinal direction. The apparatus may include a cleaning device for cleaning regions of the blow mould. The cleaning device may include at least one outlet opening for a cleaning medium for cleaning the blow mould, and this outlet opening is arranged at least at times inside the blow mould. | 02-17-2011 |
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20110298145 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PLASTIC CONTAINERS - A device for manufacturing plastic containers, including a clocked preform manufacturing means, a temperature control means for thermal conditioning preforms manufactured in the preform manufacturing means, and a continuously working blow molding machine, where the temperature control means is designed and/or configured such that preforms that have been manufactured in one cycle of the preform manufacturing means can be differently temperature controlled. | 12-08-2011 |
20110309557 | BLOW MOULDING MACHINE WITH FEED LINE STERILIZATION - An apparatus for shaping plastics material pre-forms to form plastics material containers may include a conveying device which conveys the containers along a pre-set conveying path, a stressing device which acts upon the containers with a flowable medium in order to expand them, a reservoir for storing the flowable medium, and a supply device which delivers the flowable medium from the reservoir to the container. A valve device controls the supply of the flowable medium into the containers, in order to expand the containers. The apparatus includes a first feed line in order to supply a flowable sterilization medium to the supply line between the reservoir and the container to be treated or in a removal line for the flowable medium, which removes the flowable medium from the containers. | 12-22-2011 |
20110311675 | BLOW MOULD CAPABLE OF BEING STERILIZED - A method of treating devices of a plant for producing plastics material containers may include the steps of selection of at least one treatment device, acting upon the treatment device with a sterilization temperature in order to sterilize the treatment device, supplying at least one plastics material pre-form to the treatment device, shaping the plastics material pre-form to form a plastics material container, and removal of the at least one plastics material container from the treatment device. | 12-22-2011 |
20120042611 | Apparatus for Treating Packagings - An apparatus for treating packagings, and in particular containers, may include at least one transport unit which transports the containers along a specified transport path. The transport unit includes a transport element which contacts at least an area of the containers during transport via a first contact surface. The apparatus includes at least one treatment unit which treats the containers in a specified manner. The treatment unit has a treatment element which is in contact, at least temporarily, with a surface of the container via a second contact surface. At least one of the first and second contact surfaces is designed to be germicidal. | 02-23-2012 |
20120070522 | APPARATUS FOR SHAPING PLASTICS MATERIAL PRE-FORMS WITH A STERILE ROOM - An apparatus for shaping plastics material pre-forms to form plastics material containers includes a conveying device on which a plurality of blowing stations are arranged. Each of these blowing stations has a blow mould inside which a plastics material pre-form is capable of being shaped to form a plastics material container. The apparatus has a clean room inside which the plastics material pre-forms can be conveyed. The region of the conveying device on which the blowing stations are arranged is situated in the clean room, and at least one further region of the conveying device is arranged outside the clean room. | 03-22-2012 |
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20120126456 | Apparatus and method of producing plastics material containers - An apparatus for the conditioning of plastics material pre-forms with a tempering space for receiving a plurality of plastics material pre-forms, with a supply device a removal device, and a conveying device which conveys the plastics material pre-forms from the supply device to the removal device in such a way that each plastics material pre-form remains in the tempering space for a preset duration of the dwell period. The temperature of the plastics material pre-forms upon leaving the removal device is substantially constant irrespective of a duration of the dwell period of the plastics material pre-forms in the tempering space and the conveying device is designed in such a way that each plastics material perform remains in the tempering space for a period of time of at least five minutes. | 05-24-2012 |
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20120193837 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PLASTIC CONTAINERS - Method and device for the production of plastic containers by blow molding or stretch blow molding of preforms, whereby the preforms are tempered, whereby the blow molds or stretch blow molds are possibly pre-heated before or during the blow molding or stretch blow molding process and whereby compressed air is injected into the preforms as blowing medium during the blow molding process. The blow molding and/or stretch blow molding devices as well as handling means and transport means are provided with operating power. The compressed air supply and/or the pre-heating means and/or the heating means and/or the drive means are powered by primary energy provided by at least one energy conversion device. | 08-02-2012 |
20120294973 | HYDRAULIC STRETCHING - A stretching system for stretch-blow molding machines for stretch blow molding containers from preforms, having at least one stretching unit which is hydraulically actuated for stretching a preform, with a hydraulic pressure tank which is at least partially filled with a hydraulic medium, for example water, and which is at least partially filled with a gaseous medium, for example compressed air; and wherein the stretching unit includes a stretching cylinder and a stretching piston, the stretching system being designed to conduct the hydraulic medium out of the hydraulic pressure tank to the stretching cylinder of the stretching unit, whereby the stretching piston in the stretching cylinder can be moved hydraulically. | 11-22-2012 |
20120321741 | BLOW MOULDING MACHINE WITH PIVOT SHAFTS GUIDED ON SLIDE BEARINGS - An apparatus for shaping plastics material pre-forms into containers has a plurality of blow moulding stations arranged on a movable carrier blow moulding stations have two part blow moulds with a cavity inside in which the plastics material pre-forms are expanded. The blow moulding stations have stressing devices which act upon the plastics material pre-forms to expand them with a flowable medium. At least one first bearing device is provided for movable mounting of the blow mould carriers with respect to each other and at least one second bearing device is provided for movable mounting of the first locking element with respect to the second locking element. At least one of these bearing devices is a slide bearing without lubricant or a bearing which is injection moulded at least in part from a plastics material between bearing parts movable relative to each other. | 12-20-2012 |
20140178519 | BLOW MOULDING MACHINE WITH CLEANING SYSTEM - An apparatus for transforming plastic preforms into containers may include at least one blow mould which forms a cavity, inside which the plastic preforms can be transformed into containers. The apparatus may include a pressure application device for applying a medium to the plastic preforms in order to expand the preforms against an inner wall of the blow mould delimiting the cavity. The apparatus may include a stretching rod for stretching the plastic preforms in the longitudinal direction. The apparatus may include a cleaning device for cleaning regions of the blow mould. The cleaning device may include at least one outlet opening for a cleaning medium for cleaning the blow mould, and this outlet opening is arranged at least at times inside the blow mould. | 06-26-2014 |
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20130064920 | BLOWING MACHINE WITH DEMOUNTABLE BLOWING STATIONS - A device for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers with a mobile carrier on which is arranged a plurality of blowing stations, each comprising blow mould carrier parts to hold blow mould parts, wherein at least one of these blow mould carrier parts is mobile in relation to the other blow mould carrier part, and wherein the blowing stations each comprise a carrier element to carry at least one blow mould carrier part. The device includes a clean room within which the plastic preforms can be expanded into plastic containers. The blow mould carrier parts together with the carrier element form a unit which can be demounted as a whole from the carrier. | 03-14-2013 |
20140110873 | BLOW MOULDING MACHINE WITH VARIABLE INTERMEDIATE PRESSURE LEVEL - A method for the shaping of plastics material pre-forms into plastics material containers, wherein the plastics material pre-forms are introduced into a blow mould and are expanded to form the plastic bottles by being acted upon with a gaseous medium in the blow mould, includes the steps of:
| 04-24-2014 |
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