Filling device

US8794275B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KRONES AG · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Gruber · Bischofswerda, DE
• Walter Neumayer · Geisingen, DE
• Erwin Knieling · Pfatter, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 11, 2011
• Grant date: Aug 5, 2014
• Expiry date: Nov 22, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B67C2003/2668
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A filling device for filling containers with a liquid, including several filling elements, each of the filling elements having a filling valve, a filling tube and a return gas tube, where the filling tubes of the filling elements are arranged at a first common support and the return gas tubes of the filling elements are arranged at a second common support, and where the position of the second common support can be adjusted relative to the position of the first common support.