An apparatus for shaping plastics material pre-forms into plastics material containers with a blow mould which has at least two blow mould parts which are arranged so as to be movable with respect to each other and which in a closed state of the blow mould form a cavity, in the interior of which the plastics material pre-forms are capable of being expanded to form the plastics material containers by being acted upon with a flowable medium, wherein the first blow mould part is arranged on a first blow mould carrier part and the second blow mould part is arranged on a second blow mould carrier part and the first blow mould carrier part is movable with respect to the second blow mould carrier part in order to open and close the blow mould, and wherein a pressure pad arrangement is arranged between at least one blow mould carrier part and the blow mould part arranged on this blow mould carrier part, wherein a pressure pad of this pressure pad arrangement is capable of being acted upon with a flowable pressure medium, in order to force apart from each other the at least one blow mould carrier part and the blow mould part arranged on latter by a force acting between the blow mould carrier part and the blow mould part, wherein the pressure pad arrangement is designed in such a way that the force acting between the blow mould carrier part and the blow mould part has a first force component (F1) which acts in a first pre-set region (B1) in the peripheral direction of the blow mould part and a second force component (F2) which acts in a second pre-set region (B1) in the peripheral direction of the blow mould part, wherein tile first region (B1) and the second region (B2) are arranged at a distance from each other and the directions of the first force component (F1) and the second force component (F2) extend at an angle different from 0° with respect to each other, and wherein the pressure pad arrangement has a continuous sealing device which demarcates the space acted upon with the flowable pressure medium and this sealing device abuts against a flat wall area.