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OT-2026-000001347

Apparatus for handling preforms

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Material Handling › Conveying Systems
Inventors
ZANELLI MATTEO
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SACMI IMOLA SC
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US-12589948-B2, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 31 March 2026
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Abstract

An apparatus for handling plastic preforms includes a feeding line for preforms that comprise a preform body and a preform mouth, a conditioning oven, a setdown device for the preforms being provided which is designed to feed the preforms to a transfer or blow-molding carousel, the conditioning oven being associated with a closed conveyance circuit which includes supporting elements to support respective preforms. The feeding line has a feeding device to feed the preforms to respective supporting elements; the setdown device has an overturning element adapted to pick up the preforms and to bring them to a pickup condition in which the respective mouths are directed upward. The setdown device further includes a pickup device to pick up the preforms in the pickup condition from the overturning element to feed them to the transfer or blow molding carousel.

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OpenTechnical Publication OT-2026-000001347, “Apparatus for handling preforms,” published September 15, 2026 at 19:05:14 UTC, https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000001347.

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