Plant for filling beverage into beverage bottles and other beverage containers having apparatus for replacing remaining air volume in filled beverage bottles or other beverage containers
US6494238B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 9, 2001 |
| Grant date | Dec 17, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 9, 2021 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB67C3/222
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Foaming apparatus for displacing the remaining air volume in a container, particularly bottles (2), filled with filling material using foaming, with the apparatus comprising a nozzle arrangement which comprises at least one injection nozzle (12) disposed above a transport conveyor (4) and which apparatus is provided for the displacement of the remaining air volume and is configured to impact the bottle with a jet of a gaseous or liquid foaming medium. It is thereby provided that the foaming medium is guided through a protection gas space (40) into the bottle opening, with the protection gas space being configured in part in the ambient air.
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