Foaming apparatus for driving out residual air from containers filled with a foamable liquid

US4827988A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Seitz Enzinger Noll Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Rainer Gotz · Pfaffen-Schwabenheim, DE
• Gerhard Pfeiffer
• Paul Knodel · Jersey City, US
• Willi Scheid · Bad Sobernheim, DE
• Ludwig Clüsserath · Bad Kreuznach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 6, 1987
• Grant date: May 9, 1989
• Expiry date: Nov 6, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B67C3/222
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A foaming apparatus for driving out residual air from containers, especially bottles, that are filled with liquid material that can foam. The apparatus has a nozzle mechanism that cooperates with a control device and is disposed above a conveying section. To foam the material in the containers and to drive out the residual air from the latter as they move past below the nozzle mechanism, the latter is provided with a plurality of individual nozzles that in the conveying direction of the conveying section are fixedly disposed one after the other above the path of movement of the containers, with the spray nozzles being adapted to communicate with a common supply channel for the medium that induces foaming. Each spray nozzle is furthermore provided with a separately controllable control valve for establishing the communication of the spray nozzles with the supply channel. The control valves are operatively connected to a control device in such a way that the latter can select and open at least one control valve as a function of the conveying speed of the conveying section.