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US 12,371,207 B2Granted
Cleaning, filling, and capping containers
AssigneeBoomerang Water, LLC
InventorsJason Dibble, Marc Haydt, Zach Hilton
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Abstract
Systems and methods for filling and sealing a container can include a housing having an opening for receiving containers, a rotary assembly including mount assemblies disposed in the housing, the rotary assembly operable to rotate the of mount assemblies about a central axis, a washing station, a filling station, a steam injector, and cap setter disposed in the housing.
Claims17
A method for filling and sealing a container, the method comprising:
- sanitizing the container at a washing station;
- filling the container at a filling station;
- injecting equal amounts of steam with a steam injector onto each cap of a set of caps the container approaches or is aligned with the steam injector, wherein the steam injector comprises discharge piping coupled to an inline steam generator to receive steam from the inline steam generator;
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- engaging a cap on the container aligned with the steam injector and a capping station, such that the cap is pressed radially towards the container aligned with the steam injector and capping station, wherein the capping station comprises a cap setter comprising a bar with an engagement surface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.