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Bottle filling machine and filling head therefor

US4967813A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 21, 1989
Grant dateNov 6, 1990
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Expiry dateFeb 21, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T137/7847
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A filling head for a machine for automatic filling of bottles to a constant level, particularly in free air, and a filling machine equipped with such filling heads. The filling head has a circulation chamber into which the filling liquid enters via a feed orifice and from which the filling liquid leaves via a lower outlet orifice which is extended by a discharge tube for penetrating inside a neck of a bottle during filling. A membrane with a projection opens or closes the outlet orifice in response to control signals emitted by a detector of the filling level arranged on a zone of the discharge tube situated inside the bottle during filling.

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