Adjustment devices for a machine for filling bottles and the like

US4653551A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Holstein und Kappert Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventor

• Siegmar Sindermann · Bönen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 20, 1985
• Grant date: Mar 31, 1987
• Expiry date: Dec 20, 2005

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B67C3/2614
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a filling machine for filling liquid into containers, such as bottles or the like, the lower end of a return gas tube inserted into the container determines the filling height. Rapid adjustment of the position of the lower end of the return gas tube can be provided when different sized containers are used in the filling machine. Two different adjustment devices are used, one for the movement of the return gas tube with a centering device which holds the container during the filling operation and another one for producing precise adjustment of the lower end of the return gas tube with respect to the desired filling height and with such movement being relative to the centering device in the container holding position.