US 7,481,636 B2
Device for the production of plastic containers by means of stretch blow moulding and device for coating the inner walls of a plastic container
Damerow Volker, Uelversheim (Germany); Heinrich Gruenwald, Niddatal (Germany); Jens Fuchs, Uelversheim (Germany); Hanno Käβ, Darmstadt (Germany); Lothar Wilhelm, Karben-Groβ-Karben (Germany); Hans Kindinger, Bensheim (Germany); Eberhard Sendobry, Rimbach (Germany); and Rudiger Wlach, Buttelborn (Germany)
Assigned to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A., Pully (Switzerland)
Appl. No. 10/507,569
PCT Filed Mar. 17, 2003, PCT No. PCT/EP03/02736
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Jan. 18, 2006,
PCT Pub. No. WO03/078136, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 25, 2003.
Claims priority of application No. 102 11 878 (DE), filed on Mar. 18, 2002; and application No. 102 31 345 (DE), filed on Jul. 11, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2006/0110483 A1, May 25, 2006
Int. Cl. B29C 49/46 (2006.01); B29C 49/58 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 425—1  [425/90; 425/170; 425/529; 425/535; 425/540] 35 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus (2), for producing plastic containers (13) by means of stretch blowing comprising a rotatable rotor; at least one distributor block (10) connected to the rotor, said distributor block having a mixing chamber (21) which can be directly connected to an internal space of a preform (14) so that a combustion chamber (21) is formed from the mixing chamber (21) and the internal space of the preform (14); a feed device for feeding an explosive fluid into the combustion chamber (21); and a firing device for firing the explosive fluid in the combustion chamber (21), characterised in that the distributor block (10) can be connected directly to a preform (14) or a container.