Apparatus for injection blow-molding plastic containers

Claim 1

IN AN APPARATUS FOR MAKING A PLASTIC CONTAINER HAVING AN INJECTION MOLDED NECK AND A BLOWMOLDED BODY, A VERTICALLY FIXED, HORIZONTALLY OSCILLATABLE PLATE; MEANS FOR OSCILLATING SAID PLATE TO A PLURALITY OF ARCUATELY ADJUSTED POSITIONS; SAID PLATE HAVING A PLURALITY OF APERTURES THERETHROUGH; A PLURALITY OF INJECTION MOLDS CARRIED BY SAID PLATE FOR OSCILLATION THEREWITH AND VERTICALLY ALIGNATED WITH SAID APERTURES, RESPECTIVELY; MEANS FOR VERTICALLY DISPLACING SAID INJECTION MOLDS RELATIVE TO SAID PLATE; A SINGLE PARISON MOLD LOCATED BENEATH THE PLATE IN A FIXED POSITION AND REGISTERING WITH SUCCESIVE APERTURES AS SAID PLATE IS MOVED TO EACH OF ITS SAID ADJUSTED POSITIONS, RESPECTIVELY. EACH OF SAID INJECTION MOLDS BEING DISPLACEABLE THROUGH ITS ALIGNED APERTURE AND INTO ABUTMENT WITH SAID PARISON MOLD, RESPECTIVELY WHEN SAID ALIGNED APERTURE REGISTERS WITH SAID PARISON MOLD, BLOW MOLD SECTIONS MOUNTED ON SAID PLATE FOR OSCILLATION THEREWITH; SAID BLOW MOLD SECTIONS BEING HORIZONTALLY ACTUATABLE RELATIVE TO SAID PLATE TO A CLOSED POSITION OVERLYING SAID APERTURES AND TO OPEN POSITIONS STRADDLING AND APERTURES, RESPECTIVELY, AND MEANS FOR ACTUATING SAID BLOW MOLD SECTIONS.