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At a blow-molding machine for fabricating hollow blow-molded articles from a thermoplastic material a hollow blow mold is moved back and forth with a swinging or pendulum movement upon a transport device containing a mold-supporting platform between a receiving station for the hose-like thermoplastic material to be blow molded and a blow molding station. The platform carries article receiving and transfer means which move in unison therewith and serve to receive the hollow blow-molded bodies or articles formed at the blow-molding station and for delivering the same to an article outfeed or delivery station. To reduce the energy requirements for operating the machine, and specifically, for the movement of the transport device and the various facilities carried by the swing platform and to thereby increase the production capacity of the blow-molding machine itself, the receiving station, the blow-molding station and the delivery station are essentially arranged in a common plane which is substantially horizontally disposed in space. The blow-molding machine is designed such that a substantially arcuate-shaped or curved path of travel is described by the platform, although the platform itself remains essentially in a horizontal position as the transport device moves through such arcuate-shaped path of travel. Such arcuate-shaped path of travel of the transport device is located below the common horizontal plane containing the various work stations and such path of travel extends in a concave configuration with respect to such plane. The transfer means for receiving and delivering the hollow blow molded bodies may be provided with a deflashing device for removing flash from the hollow molded bodies at least no later than the time when the same reach the delivery or outfeed station.
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