Machine block and method for filling bottles with liquid products
AssigneeKrones AG
InventorBruno Landler
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Abstract
A machine block and a method for filling bottles with liquid products, in particular beverages, are described. Accordingly, at least a first and second filler of circulating design with infeed starwheels and outfeed starwheels are provided. Filling can take place with a small amount of required space and comparatively low machine output in that the empty bottles are alternatingly removed from a transport path which runs linearly at least in some portions and supplied by means of the infeed starwheels to the first and second fillers interlocking with said transport path, and the bottles thus filled are transferred again to the transport path into transport gaps produced between the bottles during removal.
Claims18
A machine block for filling bottles with liquid products, comprising at least a first filler of a circulating design having a first infeed starwheel and a first outfeed starwheel and a second filler of a circulating design having a second infeed starwheel and a second outfeed starwheel, and further comprising a transport path for the bottles which runs linearly along the first and second infeed and outfeed starwheels, wherein the first and second infeed starwheels are designed, viewed in a transport direction, to alternatingly take the bottles from the transport path, and wherein the first and second outfeed starwheels are designed to return the bottles filled on the associated first or second filler to the transport path into transport gaps produced while being taken by the associated first or second infeed starwheel.
A method for filling bottles with liquid products,
- wherein the empty bottles are alternatingly taken from a transport path:
- at a first linear transport section by a first infeed starwheel and transferred to first filler of a circulating design that interlocks with the transport path;
- and at a second linear transport section following in a transport direction by a second infeed starwheel and transferred to a second filler of a circulating design that interlocks with the transport path,
- wherein the bottles filled in the first filler are returned to the transport path by means of a first outfeed starwheel by placing the bottles in transport gaps produced between the bottles in the first infeed starwheel, and
- wherein the bottles filled in the second filler are returned to the transport path by means of a second outfeed starwheel by placing the bottles in transport gaps produced between the bottles in the second infeed starwheel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.