Stretch blow molding machine with rapid prototyping components
AssigneeKrones AG
InventorsThomas Albrecht, Kaj Fuehrer
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Abstract
A method for producing a component for a blow molding module of a stretch blow molding machine which as a component to be produced includes at least one of a blow valve, a blow nozzle, a valve block, a stretching rod, a mold carrier, a shell mold one or more single- or multi-part mold inlay(s) with a container contour, and which entails that the component to be produced is completely or partly produced by use of an additive rapid prototyping method, for example by 3D printing or laser sintering, and is produced from one or more of metal, plastic materials, ceramic materials, or from a combination of metal, plastic materials and/or ceramic materials.
Claims21
A method for producing one or more components for a blow molding module of a stretch blow molding machine, each of the components to be produced comprising at least one of a group including a blow valve, a blow nozzle, a valve block, a stretching rod, a mold carrier, a shell mold, and one or more single- or multi-part mold inlays, with a container contour, wherein each of the components to be produced is completely or partly produced by use of an additive rapid prototyping method, and is produced from at least one of a group including metal, plastic materials, ceramic materials, and combinations of at least two of metal, plastic materials, or ceramic materials, and wherein producing the components partly or completely by the use of the additive rapid prototyping method includes producing the components with at least one of continuous material transitions or continuous transitions in material properties.
A blow molding module of a stretch blow molding machine, comprising at least one of a group including:
- a blow valve,
- a blow nozzle,
- a valve block,
- a stretching rod,
- a mold carrier,
- a shell mold, and
- one or more single- or multi-part mold inlays with a container contour, the blow molding module defining one or more interchangeable components of the stretch blow molding machine, and the components comprising at least one of continuous material transitions or continuous transitions in material properties.
A method for producing containers using a blow molding module of a stretch blow molding machine, the blow molding module of the stretch blow molding machine producing the containers comprising one or more components selected from a group including a blow valve, a blow nozzle, a valve block, a stretching rod, a mold carrier, a shell mold, one or more single- or multi-part mold inlays with a container contour, wherein at least one of the one or more components is produced by an additive rapid prototyping method and is produced from one or more of metal plastic materials, ceramic materials, or one or more of a combination of metal, plastic materials, or ceramic materials, and wherein producing the at least one of the one or more components by the use of the additive rapid prototyping method includes producing the at least one of the one or more components with at least one of continuous material transitions or continuous transitions in material properties.
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