# US 8,770,957 B2 · Blow moulding machine, method of exchanging blow moulding station components and beverage filling plant and/or beverage container production plant > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 8,770,957 B2 - Document ID: US8770957B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 13/563,476 - Filed: 2012-07-31 - Published: 2013-02-14 - Granted: 2014-07-08 - Earliest claimed: 2011-08-11 - Assignees: Krones AG - Applicants: Roland Laumer - Inventors: Roland Laumer - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8770957B2 ## CPC - B29C 49/42808: {Filling the article} - B29C 49/12: Stretching rods - B29C 49/46: characterised by using particular environment or blow fluids other than air - B29C 49/36: rotatable about one axis - B29C 2049/4697: {Clean room} - B29C 2049/4856: {Mounting, exchanging or centering moulds or parts thereof (B29C2049/5893 takes precedence)} - B29C 2049/4892: {Mould halves consisting of an independent main and bottom part} - B65B 3/02: Machines characterised by the incorporation of means for making the containers or receptacles - B67C 2003/227: {Additional apparatus related to blow-moulding of the containers, e.g. a complete production line forming filled containers from preforms} - Y10T 29/49716: Converting - Y10T 29/49718: Repairing - B29C: SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING (making preforms B29B11/00; making laminated products by combining previously unconnected layers which become one product whose layers will remain together B32B37/00 - B32B41/00) - B65B: MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING (bundling and pressing devices for cigars A24C1/44; devices for tensioning and securing binders adapted to be supported by the article or articles to be bound B25B25/00; applying closure members to bottles, jars or similar containers B67B1/00-B67B6/00; concurrent cleaning, filling and closing of bottles B67C7/00; emptying bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels or similar containers B67C9/00) - B67C: CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS - Y10T: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION ## Abstract A blow molding machine for shaping plastics material pre-forms into plastics material containers, has a plurality of blow molding stations with blow mold carriers for holding blow molds, including a clean room for arranging or conveying the blow molding stations under aseptic conditions and having an installation access to the clean room for installing the blow mold carriers with blow molding station components. The installation access includes at least one sterile room which is positioned in front of the clean room with the plurality of blow molding stations on the environment side. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A blow moulding machine for shaping plastics material pre-forms into plastics material containers, comprising a plurality of blow moulding stations with blow mould carriers for holding blow moulds, comprising a clean room for arranging or conveying the blow moulding stations under aseptic conditions and comprising an installation access to the clean room for installing the blow mould carriers with blow moulding station components, wherein the installation access comprises at least one sterile room which is positioned in front of the clean room with the plurality of blow moulding stations on the environment side. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The blow moulding machine according to claim 1, wherein the blow moulding station components embrace blow moulds, floor moulds, stretch bars, stretch bar stops, holding clamps, gripping clamps, blow moulding nozzles or the like. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The blow moulding machine according to claim 1, wherein the installation access comprises an environment lock for access to the sterile room on the one hand and an exchange lock for separating the blow moulding station components into and out of the clean room on the other hand. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The blow moulding machine according to claim 1, wherein the installation access has a housing which envelops the sterile room and which is arranged in a releasable manner on a wall of the clean room. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The blow moulding machine according to claim 1, characterized by an exchange lock for separating the blow moulding station components into and out of the clean room, wherein the exchange lock comprises a separating wall—capable of being opened—of the installation access, and a separating wall on the side towards the clean room. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The blow moulding machine according to claim 1, wherein the installation access comprises a device capable of being actuated automatically or at least semi-automatically for transferring the blow moulding station components from the sterile room into the clean room and/or vice versa. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The blow moulding machine according to claim 6, wherein the transfer device has a gripper for gripping and transferring the blow moulding station components. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The blow moulding machine according to claim 1, wherein the installation access comprises a blow moulding station component holding device. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The blow moulding machine according to claim 1, wherein the installation access comprises a sterile gas supply which has a connection to a gas sterilizer for the clean room. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The blow moulding machine according to claim 1, wherein a clean room working air pressure is higher than a sterile room working air pressure of the installation supply and the sterile room working air pressure is higher than the atmosphere air pressure. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) A beverage filling plant and/or a beverage container production plant, characterized by a blow moulding machine according to claim 1. ### Claim 12 A method of exchanging components of a blow moulding station in a clean room of a blow moulding machine, in which the clean room is opened and in which the blow moulding station components are exchanged, and wherein an installation access to the clean room for exchanging the blow moulding station components is comprised which has at least one sterile room which is positioned in front of the clean room on the environment side, wherein the blow moulding station components are exchanged in the at least one sterile room or through the at least one sterile room in a sterile environment under sterile conditions. ### Claim 13 (depends on 5) The blow moulding machine according to claim 5, wherein the separating wall is a separating wall on the side towards the sterile room. ### Claim 14 (depends on 8) The blow moulding machine according to claim 8, wherein the blow moulding station component holding device is capable of being rotated.