Apparatus and method for filling containers with a filling product
AssigneeKrones AG
InventorErwin Knieling
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Abstract
A device for filling a container with a filling product in a beverage filling plant is provided. A transporting device for transporting a container to be filled during the filling process is provided, wherein the transporting device transports the container to be filled along a transporting path, and wherein at least one determining unit for determining the fill level of the filling product in the container is provided, wherein at least one of the determining units can be displaced synchronously with the transporting device at least in a sub-section of the transporting path of the container.
Claims18
A device for filling a container with a filling product in a beverage filling plant, comprising:
- a transporting device configured to transport the container along a transporting path during a filling process;
- and
- at least one determining unit configured to determine a fill level of the filling product in the container and to be displaced synchronously with the transporting device in a sub-section of the transporting path of the container, wherein:
- the at least one determining unit is guided on a prescribed motion path, and the prescribed motion path comprises:
- at least one working region in which the at least one determining unit is displaceable synchronously with the container in order to measure the fill level in the container, and
- a return region in which the at least one determining unit is displaceable to a start of the at least one working region, and is configured to be guided at a different speed and/or to undergo a different acceleration, from a speed and/or an acceleration in the at least one working region.
A method for filling a container with a filling product, comprising:
- transporting the container with a transporting device;
- guiding at least one determining unit on a prescribed motion path, wherein the prescribed motion path comprises:
- at least one working region in which the at least one determining unit is displaceable synchronously with the container in order to measure a fill level in the container, and
- a return region in which the at least one determining unit is displaceable to a start of the at least one working region, and is guided at a different speed and/or undergoes a different acceleration, from a speed and/or acceleration in the at least one working region;
- filling the container with the filling product during transport of the container;
- and
- measuring a fill level of the filling product in the container with the at least one determining unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.