Apparatus for cooling preformed articles and method of cooling preformed articles
AssigneeToyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.
InventorsKunihiro Takatomi, Shoichiro Takano, Masayuki Sasaki, Ken Itou
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Abstract
An apparatus for cooling preformed articles, which is capable of very effectively cooling the preformed articles and is, further, capable of sufficiently suppressing or preventing the preformed articles from being locally damaged as a result of coming in contact with each other as they are conveyed neighboring one another in a state of not yet fully cooled. A spray is blown onto the preformed articles 34 conveyed passing through a predetermined conveyer passage 42, a cooling liquid is blown next thereto, and a gas stream is further blown thereto.
Claims13
An apparatus for cooling preformed articles, wherein the preformed article as formed by a forming machine but before being subjected to a blow-forming includes a mouth-and-neck portion and a blow-formed portion, the mouth-and-neck portion being of a cylindrical shape and having a ring-like flange formed at the lower end thereof, and the blow-formed portion being of the shape of a cylinder with bottom continuous to the lower end of the mouth-and-neck portion, the apparatus for cooling preformed articles, comprising:
- conveyer means for conveying the preformed articles through a conveyer passage inclusive of a spray zone and a cooling zone arranged downstream of said spray zone;
- holding means for holding the preformed articles in at least said spray zone and said cooling zone;
- spray blow means for blowing a spray of water onto said preformed articles in said spray zone;
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- cooling liquid blow means for cooling said preformed articles by the cooling water in said cooling zone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.