Device for filling containers and method for monitoring the filling process
AssigneeKrones AG
InventorsInes Bradshaw, Stefan Poeschl, Valentin Becher, Eva Beierle, Hubert Auer, Joerg Zacharias
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Abstract
Device for filling a container with a filling product, for example in a beverage filling system, and method for monitoring a filling process, wherein the device comprises: at least one filling member with a product chamber for receiving the filling product and introducing the filling product via an outlet into the container to be filled; and a measuring portion with a least one spectral sensor which is configured to determine one or more properties of the filling product on the basis of a spectroscopic measuring principle.
Claims17
A device for filling a container with a filling product, comprising:
- a filling member comprising:
- a product chamber that is configured to receive the filling product and to introduce the filling product via an outlet into the container, and
- an inlet that is configured to introduce the filling product or a component of the filling product into the product chamber, wherein the product chamber is of an annular configuration and tapers in a lower region to form an annular outlet so that the filling product can be swirled when introduced into the container, and the inlet leads tangentially into the product chamber;
- a measuring portion comprising a spectral sensor that is configured to determine one or more properties of the filling product based on a spectroscopic measuring principle, wherein the spectral sensor is installed in the product chamber, and the filling product comprises a filling product in the product chamber;
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- a controller configured to control a filling process and communicate with the spectral sensor and is further configured to measure a difference between a first base liquid and a second base liquid in or out of the filling member via the spectral sensor.
A method for monitoring a process for filling a container with a filling product, comprising:
- introducing a liquid into a product chamber of a filling member, wherein the product chamber is configured to introduce the filling product into the container and the filling member further comprises an inlet that is configured to introduce the filling product or a component of the filling product into the product chamber, the product chamber is of an annular configuration and tapers in a lower region to form an annular outlet so that the filling product can be swirled when introduced into the container, and the inlet leads tangentially into the product chamber;
- determining one or more properties of the liquid based on a spectroscopic measuring principle via a spectral sensor of a measuring portion, wherein the spectral sensor is installed in the product chamber, and the filling product comprises a filling product in the product chamber;
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- measuring a difference between a first base liquid and a second base liquid in or out of the filling member via the spectral sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.