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AssigneeKHS GmbH
InventorsLudwig CLÜSSERATH, Dieter-Rudolf KRULITSCH
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A filling system for unpressurized hot filling of beverage bottles or containers in a bottle or container filling plant. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.” The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims. Therefore, any statements made relating to the abstract are not intended to limit the claims in any manner and should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any manner.
A bottle filling system configured to unpressurizedly fill bottles with a hot liquid, said bottle filling system comprising:
A container filling system configured to fill containers with a liquid, said container filling system comprising:
A filling system for an unpressurized filling of a liquid product in bottles or similar containers (2), said filling system having at least one filler element (3) with a product chamber or liquid channel (8), which is formed in a filler element housing (7), is connected to a reservoir (6) for the liquid product and forms a liquid product dispenser (11), by way of which the liquid product flows into the respective container (2) to be filled, a liquid valve (10) that is positioned at the liquid channel (8), a return gas channel (13, 14) which during the filling process is connected to the interior space of the container (2) that is arranged in a sealing position against the filler element (3), and a first flow path (16), which is realized in the filler element housing (7), is connected to the return gas channel (13, 14) and is switchable for slow filling into a throttled state in a manner controlled by valves to discharge the gas or air quantity displaced by the liquid product out of the interior space of said container during the filling of a container (2), wherein the first flow path (16) has a single control valve (17), which is provided in at least one first channel section (15.1, 15.2) of the first flow path (16) that is connected to the return gas channel (13, 14) for the controlled opening and closing of said channel section, and in that the first flow path has at least one additional throttled channel section (20) that bridges the control valve (17).
The filling system according to claim 15, wherein in said reservoir (6) there is a liquid space (6.2) for the liquid product and located above said liquid space (6.2) a gas space (6.1), and in that the gas space (6.1) of the reservoir (6) is connected to the first flow path (16) or to the first collecting chamber (18).
The filling system according to claim 16, wherein said return gas channel is formed partially by a gas space (14) in the filler element housing (7), to which the first flow path is connected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.