Patent ID: 8205416

Claim:
A method of producing and filling containers, comprising the steps of: extruding a tube of softened plastic material into an open mold; closing the tube at a projecting end thereof by closing the mold to form a bottom of a container; separating the tube above the mold by a separating element to form a filler opening; moving the mold with the tube having the filler opening in the mold into a filling position; after the tube is formed into the container by generating a pressure gradient acting on the tube in the mold to expand the tube, filling the container through the filler opening; sealing the filler opening; covering the filler opening by a sterile barrier at least from a formation time for the filler opening to filling of the tube; and conveying at least one sterile medium in a direction of the filler opening from the sterile barrier by a media delivery device.