Claims for Patent: 9,908,650

Summary for Patent: 9,908,650

Title:	Method and device for producing containers
Abstract:	A method for producing containers (10) filled with liquid, more particularly drinks containers, wherein plastic preforms are shaped into plastic containers (10) by means of a shaping device (2), these plastic containers are transported to a filling device (4) and are filled with a liquid by means of this filling device, wherein, on their transport path between the shaping device (2) and the filling device (4) the containers (10) are cooled, at least partly, by being charged with a liquid medium. According to the invention the containers are transported, at least during filling, within a clean room (20) which is delimited from an environment by means of a sealing device (62).
Inventor(s):	Sollner; Jurgen (Neutraubling, DE), Muller; Holger (Neutraubling, DE)
Assignee:	Krones AG (Neutraubling, DE)
Application Number:	14/425,638
Patent Claims:	1. A method of producing containers (10) filled with liquid, wherein plastics material pre-forms are shaped to form plastics material containers (10) by a shaping device (2), these plastics material containers are conveyed to a filling device (4) and are filled with a liquid by the filling device, wherein the containers (10) are cooled on their conveying path between the shaping device (2) and the filling device (4) at least in sections by being acted upon with a liquid medium, wherein the containers are conveyed at least during the filling inside a clean room (20) which is bounded off from an environment by a sealing device (62), and wherein at least one clean room (12, 20) is sealed off by the use of a sterile liquid conveyed in a continuous duct (62a, 62b, 72a, 72b), and the liquid from this duct (62a, 62b, 72a, 72b) is also used in order to cool the containers. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the containers are acted upon with a sterile liquid medium in order to cool them. 3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the containers are also conveyed inside a clean room (12) during their shaping procedure in the shaping device (2). 4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the liquid used for cooling the containers (10) is conveyed in a liquid circuit. 5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the liquid medium drips off into a collecting container and being returned. 6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the liquid used for cooling the containers (10) is itself cooled. 7. The method according to claim 5, wherein a cooling unit which cools the liquid is provided in the cooling circuit. 8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the liquid to be filled into the containers (10) is a CO.sub.2-containing beverage. 9. The method according to claim 1, wherein a base area of the containers (10) is acted upon with the liquid medium. 10. The method according to claim 9, wherein stressing devices are provided which apply the liquid medium to the base area of the containers (10). 11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the stressing devices are nozzles. 12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the liquid which is used to seal off at least one clean room (20) and for the cooling liquid for the containers (10) to originate from the same source. 13. The method according to claim 12, wherein at least for a time a flow connection is present between the sealing device (62) for sealing off at least one clean room (20) and the cooling device. 14. The method according to claim 1, wherein the liquid medium is sterile water which is mixed with an oxidative sterilization agent and which is produced with a production device. 15. An apparatus (1) for the production of containers (10) filled with liquid, with a shaping device (2) which shapes plastics material pre-forms into plastics material containers (10) by acting upon them with a gaseous medium, with a filling device (4) which is arranged in a conveying direction of the plastics material pre-forms downstream with respect to the shaping device (2) and which fills the plastics material containers (10) with a liquid, and with a cooling device (6) which is arranged between the shaping device (2) and the filling device (4) and which acts upon the plastics material containers (10) with a liquid medium at least in sections in order to cool them, wherein at least the filling device (4) has a clean room (20), inside which the containers are capable of being conveyed during the filling thereof and which is bounded off from an environment by at least one sealing device (60), and wherein at least one sealing device (60, 70) has a continuous duct (62a, 62b, 72a, 72b) capable of being filled with a liquid, and a line (66) is provided by way of which liquid is capable of being supplied from this duct (62a, 62b, 72a, 72b) to the container (10) for the cooling thereof. 16. The apparatus (1) according to claim 15, wherein the shaping device (2) has a clean room (12), inside which the containers are capable of being conveyed during the shaping thereof and which is bounded off from the environment by at least one further sealing device (70). 17. The apparatus (1) according to claim 15, wherein the apparatus (1) has a cooling device (14) for cooling the liquid supplied to the containers for the cooling thereof. 18. The apparatus (1) according to claim 15, wherein the cooling medium used for the cooling of a base of the containers (10) is the same medium which is also used for filling the duct of the rotating parts of the filling machine, the closing machine and/or the blow moulding machine.

Details for Patent 9,908,650

Applicant	Tradename	Biologic Ingredient	Dosage Form	BLA	Approval Date	Patent No.	Expiredate
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