Patent ID: 8684716
Filing Date: 2014-04-01
Classification: B29C,F16C

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for the shaping of plastics material pre-forms into plastics material containers with a plurality of blow moulding stations which are arranged on a movable carrier, wherein the blow moulding stations have blow moulds which in each case have at least two blow mould parts and which in their interior form a cavity inside which the plastics material pre-forms are capable of being expanded, and wherein the blow moulding stations have in each case stressing devices which act upon the plastics material pre-forms in order to expand them with a flowable medium, wherein the blow mould parts are arranged in each case on blow mould carriers and the blow mould carriers are movable with respect to one another in order to open and close the blow mould and the blow moulding stations have a locking mechanism in order to lock the blow mould carriers together in a closed state, and this locking mechanism has a first locking element and a second locking element which is movable with respect to the first locking element, wherein at least one first bearing device is provided for the movable mounting of the blow mould carriers with respect to each other and/or at least one second bearing device is provided for the movable mounting of the first locking element with respect to the second locking element, and at least one of these bearing devices is designed in the form of a slide bearing without lubricant or in the form of a bearing which is injection moulded at least in part from a plastics material between bearing parts movable relative to each other.