Multi-container filling machine, valves, and related technologies
AssigneeAbc Fillers, Inc.
InventorsJoseph A. DiCarlo, Kenneth E. Damon, Jr., Scott G. Little, Scott Frash, Raymond E. McHugh, Joseph Ryan DiCarlo
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Abstract
An apparatus for filling differently sized containers with fluid includes a filling head having a fluid holding area. At least one multi-container filling nozzle connected to the filling head, wherein at least two containers with differently-sized openings are fillable with a quantity of fluid from the fluid holding area without changing the multi-container filling nozzle. Related methods and devices for filing containers with differently-sized openings with fluid without changing a fluid nozzle are also disclosed.
Claims20
An apparatus for filling containers with fluid, the apparatus comprising:
- a filling head having a fluid holding area;
- at least one multi-container filling nozzle connected to the filling head, wherein at least two containers with differently-sized openings are fillable with a quantity of fluid from the fluid holding area without changing the at least one multi-container filling nozzle;
- a valve located above the at least one multi-container filling nozzle, the valve having a valve stem, wherein the valve stem extends through the at least one multi-container filling nozzle and has a terminating end located above a lowermost point of the at least one multi-container filling nozzle;
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- a laminar flow nozzle located at the terminating end of the valve stem, wherein fluid flowing through the at least one multi-container filling nozzle contacts the laminar flow nozzle and is radially directed to a sidewall of the container at an immediate opening of the container.
An apparatus for filling containers with fluid, the apparatus comprising:
- a filling head having a fluid holding area;
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- at least one multi-container filling nozzle connected to the filling head and capable of filling at least two different containers with differently-sized openings with a quantity of fluid from the fluid holding area without changing the at least one multi-container filling nozzle, wherein the at least one multi-container filling nozzle has an annular container engagement portion for engaging with an opening rim of a container, wherein the annular container engagement portion has two opposing angular sides that converge to a lowermost point of the at least one multi-container filling nozzle, and wherein a first side of the two opposing angular sides is engageable with an opening rim of a first container and a second side of the two opposing angular sides is engageable with an opening rim of a second container, wherein the first container has a different-sized opening than the second container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.