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Arrangement for a bottle handling machine

US4445549A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 5, 1982
Grant dateMay 1, 1984
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Expiry dateFeb 5, 2002

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB67C3/22
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A bottle filling machine having a lower part and an upper part rotatable relative thereto. The upper machine part includes a circular ring machine table having lift elements for the bottles to be filled, and has associated therewith filling elements connected to a liquid container, as well as a filling column having a central inflow fitting and a central rotary distributor. In the central section of the filling column is a receiving chamber for a control device, embodied as a digital computing system, for the control of the filling process; the receiving chamber is delimited by a protective cover capable of being placed in a maintenance or servicing position.

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