Patent ID: 9738017
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: B29B,B29C,B29K,B29L

Claim:
1. An injection-compression apparatus for manufacturing thermoplastic containers P, in particular PET preforms, having a vertical rotation axis Y, comprising a fixed supporting base, a rotating carousel, rotating about the vertical rotation axis Y with respect to the fixed supporting base, a plurality of injection-compression molds of the containers P arranged along a periphery of the rotating carousel, said plurality of injection-compression molds being gathered together into molding modules of at least two injection-compression molds each, a plurality of lateral feeding conduits of the injection-compression molds rotating along with the rotating carousel, a single lateral feeding conduit being provided for each molding module, a distribution device connecting the fixed supporting base to the rotating carousel so as to allow melted thermoplastic to be conveyed, comprising a passage channel, fixed and coaxial to the vertical rotation axis Y, adapted to be connected from an inlet thereof to an extruder and from an outlet thereof to the plurality of lateral feeding conduits, the injection-compression apparatus being configured to carry out a sequence of steps of a molding process at a same time in the two or more injection-compression molding of each molding module.