Apparatus and method for the external sterilization of plastics material pre-forms

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PATENT NO 9339573
APP PUB NO 20140322074A1
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14221088

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An apparatus (1) for the sterilization of plastics material containers (10), and in particular of plastics material pre-forms (10), with a conveying device (2) which conveys the plastics material containers (10) along a pre-set conveying path, with at least one stressing device (4) which acts upon an external surface of the plastics material containers to be sterilized with a flowable medium. According to the invention the stressing device is arranged in such a way that it acts upon a pre-set area of the plastics material containers (10)—situated below an aperture of the plastics material pre-forms—with the sterilization medium.

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KRONES AGBOEHMERWALDSTRASSE 5 NEUTRAUBLING 93073

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Bedoe, Ute Ergoldsbach, DE 4 3
Goldbach, Marina Bad Abbach, DE 1 2
Kohl, Bettina Ensdorf, DE 1 2
Loy, Michael Regensburg, DE 4 15
Schmitt, Robert Schierling, DE 29 278
Seidenberg, Katharina Karlsruhe, DE 4 125
Soellner, Juergen Beratzhausen, DE 48 139

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