Cleaning, filling, and capping containers

An apparatus for filling and sealing a container, the apparatus comprising:

• a portable housing having an opening for receiving containers;
• a rotary assembly disposed in the housing, the rotary assembly comprising a plurality of mount assemblies, each mount assembly configured to hold a set of the containers, the rotary assembly operable to rotate the plurality of mount assemblies about a central axis of the rotary assembly;
• a washing station disposed in the housing;
• a filling station disposed in the housing;
• a steam injector disposed in the housing, the steam injector comprising:
• an inline steam generator operable to heat water to steam;
• and
• discharge piping coupled to the inline steam generator to receive steam from the inline steam generator and configured to inject equal amounts of steam onto each cap of a set of caps as a set of containers of a mount assembly approaches or is aligned with the steam injector;
• and
• a capping station disposed in the housing;
• and
• a water heating system disposed in the housing, the water heating system comprising:
• an immersion heater installed directly into a hot water holding tank, and
• a distribution manifold having a lower thermal conductivity than a water heater, the distribution manifold being external to the hot water holding tank,
• wherein the steam injector comprises a steam injector manifold having a plurality of dispensing ports, the steam injector is configured to provide an equal pressure drop across the plurality of dispensing ports, and wherein the plurality of dispensing ports have different orifice diameters to maintain an equal pressure drop across the plurality of dispensing ports.