Device and method for filling a fill product into a container to be filled in a beverage bottling plant

US11370646B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KRONES AG · DE

Inventors

• Josef Doblinger · Neutraubling, DE
• Holger Mueller · Möhrendorf, DE
• Franz Braun · Borken, DE
• Christian Gebauer · Hanau, DE
• Angela Gruenwald · Neutraubling, DE
• Bruno Landler · Neutraubling, DE
• Sebastian Passberger · Neutraubling, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 3, 2019
• Grant date: Jun 28, 2022
• Expiry date: Apr 6, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B67C3/2617
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A device for filling a fill product into a container to be filled in a beverage bottling plant. The device includes a fill product reservoir for storing the fill product, a fill product channel, and a filling member in fluid communication with the fill product reservoir via the fill product channel. The filling member is configured to introduce the fill product into the container to be filled and the filling member communicates via media channels to provide media flows for two or more functions: flushing the container with a flushing gas, pre-pressurizing the container before it is filled, returning gas displaced during the filling of the container, relieving a gas overpressure in the container, and circulating a hot fill product through the filling member for controlling a temperature. A single media channel of the media channels is configured to provide the media flows for at least two of the functions.