System and method for simultaneously filling containers with different fluent compositions

US10643875B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Ryan Andrew Burkhard · Sharonville, US
• Nathan E Moore · Montgomery, US
• Elizabeth Marie Fikes · Cincinnati, US
• Daniel Richard Royce · Blue Ash, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 8, 2017
• Grant date: May 5, 2020
• Expiry date: Sep 8, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/40554
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A system and method for simultaneously filling containers with different fluent products are disclosed. The system includes a plurality of vehicles that are independently routable along a track system to deliver containers to at least one unit operation station for dispensing fluent materials into the containers. The containers receive one or more fluent materials that differ from another in ingredients and/or weight percentage of at least one ingredient.