Method and apparatus for producing a filled SBM bottle

A method for producing a container filled with an infusion solution and having a main body which includes a width extending along a first transverse axis (B) of the container, and a depth extending along a second transverse axis (T) of the container, which runs perpendicularly to the first transverse axis (B), and wherein the width of the main body is larger than the depth of the main body, the method comprising the following method steps:

• providing a preform having a hanger which is disposed on a base of the preform, wherein a transverse axis (QH) of the hanger is disposed so as to be substantially transverse, to the first transverse axis (B) of the container;
• heating the provided preform in a heating installation;
• infeeding the heated preform to a stretching and blowing apparatus;
• stretching and blowing the preform in the stretching and blowing apparatus such that the container for the infusion solution is molded from the preform;
• cleaning the molded container and optionally drying the cleaned container in a drying installation;
• filling the cleaned and optionally dried container with at least one infusion solution in a filling system, by way of a filling opening which is present in the container,
• closing the container by attaching a closure to the filling opening of the container;
• sterilizing the closed container in an autoclave, wherein the hanger of the preform prior to stretching and blowing in the stretching and blowing apparatus is aligned and turned over in the direction of the first transverse axis of the container molded from the preform, wherein two mutually opposite regions of the preform that extend in the direction of the first transverse axis (B) of the container molded from the preform are heated more intensely that two mutually opposite regions of the preform that extend in the direction of the second transverse axis (T) of the container molded from the preform.

A method for producing a container filled with an infusion solution and having a main body which includes a width extending along a first transverse axis (B) of the container, and a depth extending along a second transverse axis (T) of the container, which runs perpendicularly to the first transverse axis (B), and wherein the width of the main body is larger than the depth of the main body, the method comprising the following method steps:

• providing a preform having a hanger which is disposed on a base of the preform, wherein a transverse axis (QH) of the hanger is disposed so as to be substantially transverse to the first transverse axis (B) of the container;
• heating the provided preform in a heating installation;
• infeeding the heated preform to a stretching and blowing apparatus;
• stretching and blowing the preform in the stretching and blowing apparatus such that the container for the infusion solution is molded from the preform;
• cleaning the molded container and optionally drying the cleaned container in a drying installation;
• filling the cleaned and optionally dried container with at least one infusion solution in a filling system, by way of a filling opening which is present in the container,
• closing the container by attaching a closure to the filling opening of the container;
• sterilizing the closed container in an autoclave, wherein the hanger of the preform prior to stretching and blowing in the stretching and blowing apparatus is aligned and turned over in the direction of the first transverse axis of the container molded from the preform, wherein
• the stretching and blowing apparatus is provided having a mold which on a lower side at least in portions has an elevation which along a circumference is at least in portions surrounded by a trench, wherein the heated preform is initially stretched such that at least the hanger comes to bear on the elevation and the preform is then blown such that the latter at least in portions comes to bear in the trench, and a plurality of feet are molded therein, and/or
• the closure is provided as a closure cap, in particular wherein the closure cap at least in portions is heated and/or the filling opening of the container at least in portions is heated, and closing of the container is performed in that the closure cap is welded onto the filling opening of the container, and/or characterized by checking the sterilized container in an inspection installation, and/or attaching a label to the checked container, and/or disposing a multiplicity of labeled containers in a carton, and closing the carton.