Patent ID: 6119433
Filing Date: 2000-09-19
Classification: B29C,B29K,B65B,B67C

Abstract:
A beverage packaging system comprising a resin supplier unit, a preform molding machine for molding a preform, a blow molding machine for molding a container by inflating the preform, a beverage supply source for supplying a sterilized beverage, the container moving from the blow molding machine to the beverage supply source such that the sterilized beverage is supplied to the container after the molding by the blow molding machine, a cap supplier unit, a cap sterilizer unit for sterilizing the caps supplied from the cap supplier unit, a filler unit for filling the sterilized beverage supplied from the beverage supply source in a container molded by the blow molding machine and a cap clamping unit for sealing the container filled with the beverage by the filler unit with the sterilized cap supplied from the cap sterilizer unit, said packaging system having said blow molding machine, filler unit and cap clamping unit within a sterile chamber, the sterile chamber having different portions with different grades of sterile criteria being in the different portions of the chamber.