Continuous blow moulding machine, preforms, system and process

A non-incremental, continuously rotating, stretch-blow-moulding machine fed with non-symmetric injection moulded preforms with integral handles and producing stretch-blow-moulded containers with integral handles from the non-symmetric injection moulded preforms with integral handles;

• the handles extending from a first junction on a body portion of the preform;
• the body portion of the preform and the integral handle constituted from the same material;
• the machine including a preform orientation system to orient the handle of the preform into a known orientation at arrival at a pick off position;
• the known orientation of the preform maintained from the pick off position and during movement through a preheating stage;
• preforms being extracted from the preheating stage having been rotated into a position in which the handle is oriented for insertion into a continuously rotating stretch blow moulding die.