Device for producing container products from plastics material

An apparatus for producing a container product from plastic material, the apparatus comprising:

• an extruder forming a plastic tube;
• a blow molding device being located vertically below and downstream of said extruder and having relatively movable individual mold parts being rotatable about a horizontal axis, forming a container that is empty and open from the plastic tube, having a content filler filling the container with a predeterminable container content and having a sealing device sealing the container after filling to produce, fill and seal the container product while still in the molding device, the respective mold parts being movable toward and away from one another in pairs to open and close the mold parts and discharging the container product after being produced, filled and sealed downwardly along a vertical axis;
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• a temperature influencer in a post-treatment zone downstream of said sealing device extending along the vertical axis and exerting a temperature-influencing effect on the container product, said temperature influencer being a cooler through which the container product passes into and completely through said cooler along the vertical axis after exiting said blow molding device, said cooler being a conveyor advancing the container product vertically along the vertical axis and having conveyor elements cooled by a coolant flowing through said conveyor elements.

A method for producing a blow-molded and filled container product, comprising the steps of:

• extruding a plastic tube from an extruder;
• forming a container that is empty and open made from the plastic tube by blow molding in a molding device being located vertically below and downstream of the extruder and having individual molding parts rotatable about a horizontal axis and moveable toward and away from one another in pairs to open and close a manufacturing mold in which the container is molded;
• filling the container with a container content while the container is still in the molding parts;
• sealing the container after filling while still in the molding parts to produce the container product;
• discharging the container product after sealing from the molding parts along a vertical axis;
• supplying the container product into a post-treatment zone being downstream of and at an exit point of the molding device and extending along the vertical axis;
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• subjecting the container product to cooling after exiting the molding device and when passing into and completely through the post-treatment zone, a cooling tunnel extending along the vertical axis and having a passage through which the container product is conveyed along the vertical axis within and completely through the passage within tunnel walls of the cooling tunnel that are cooled by a cooling medium flowing through the tunnel walls.

A method for producing a blow-molded and filled container product, comprising the steps of:

• extruding a plastic tube from an extruder;
• forming a container that is empty and open made from the plastic tube by blow molding in a molding device being located vertically below and downstream of the extruder and having individual molding parts rotatable about a horizontal axis and moveable toward and away from one another in pairs to open and close a manufacturing mold in which the container is molded;
• filling the container with a container content while the container is still in the molding parts;
• sealing the container after filling while still in the molding parts to produce the container product;
• discharging the container product after sealing from the molding parts along a vertical axis;
• supplying the container product into a post-treatment zone being downstream of and at an exit point of the molding device and extending along the vertical axis;
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• subjecting the container product to cooling after exiting the molding device and when passing into and completely through the post-treatment zone by conveyor elements extending and movable along the vertical axis and being cooled by coolant flowing through the conveyor elements.