Facility for Producing Containers by Means of Thermoforming
AssigneeErca
InventorsDominique SCHWAB, Timothy COOPER
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Abstract
The facility comprises a plurality of processing stations (14A, 14B, 14C, 16, 18, 20, 20, 22, 24) for producing containers from a thermoplastic substrate. The facility comprises a plurality of basic conveyors (30) that cooperate with a travel track (32), for the purpose of conveying the sheets to the processing stations, the respective movements of the basic conveyors being controlled according to respective movement control commands generated by a control unit (ECU).
Claims18
An installation for producing containers by thermoforming, wherein a thermoplastic substrate is driven in a series of processing stations along a conveying direction, the processing stations comprising at least one station for heating the substrate and one station for thermoforming containers in the heated substrate, each processing station defining a processing length measured in the conveying direction,
- characterized in that the installation comprising a plurality of basic conveyors for driving the thermoplastic substrate in the processing stations, the thermoplastic substrate comprising a plurality of basic sheets, each basic conveyor configured to drive, in the processing stations, a basic sheet whose length, measured in the conveying direction, is substantially equal to the processing length, the basic conveyors cooperating with a travel track and the respective movements of the basic conveyors being controlled according to respective movement control instructions generated by the control unit.
The installation according to 1, wherein each basic conveyor is equipped with a basic motorization, the movement control instructions comprising instructions for activating the basic motorizations of the respective basic conveyors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.