Patent ID: 8640860

Claim:
Device for gripping an object in the form of a blow-moulding container preform, comprising: a guiding body; a stop body, mounted so as to move axially relative to the guiding body along an axis of the device; a mandrel support, equipped with a gripping mandrel, able to move axially relative to the guiding body and having an insertion stroke going from a retracted position to an insertion position in which the gripping mandrel is capable of gripping the object; an insertion direction defined as being parallel to the axis of the device and oriented from the retracted position towards the insertion position, a retraction direction defined as being parallel to the axis of the device and opposite the insertion direction, and a return means mounted between the guiding body and the stop body, for the purpose of driving the stop body in the retraction direction, wherein the stop body has, together with the mandrel support, a system of support stops arranged so that the mandrel support drives the stop body axially over an end portion of the insertion stroke.