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AssigneeKHS GmbH
InventorsLudwig CLÜSSERATH, Dieter-Rudolf KRULITSCH
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A filling system for filling beverage bottles in a beverage bottling 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 rotary beverage bottle filling system being configured to fill beverage bottles with a hot liquid beverage material in a beverage bottling plant, which rotary beverage bottle filling system is configured to permit substantially continuous flow of hot liquid beverage material upon a beverage bottle being filled and prior to a new, empty beverage bottle being disposed below a filling element, said rotary beverage bottle filling system comprising:
A container filling system being configured to fill containers with a hot liquid material in a container filling plant, said container filling system comprising:
Filling system of a filling machine for hot filling of bottles or similar containers (2), with at least one filling element (3), with a liquid channel (8) fashioned in a housing (7) of the filling element (3), which communicates on the one hand with a kettle (14) for the liquid fill product and on the other hand forms a dispensing region (5) for dispensing the liquid product into the respective container (2), and with a liquid valve (10) in the liquid channel (8), which can be controlled between a closed state and at least one opened state, characterized by a first flow channel (16) fashioned in the housing (7) of the filling element (3), which connects a segment (8.1) of the liquid channel in the direction of flow upstream from the liquid valve (10) to a collecting channel (17) in common for several filling elements (3), and by a second flow channel (19) fashioned in the housing (7) of the filling element (3), by which the collecting channel (17) can be connected to a rinsing space (20) containing the dispensing region (5) for a cleaning and/or sterilization of the filling system (1), wherein there is provided in the first as well as the second flow channel (16, 19) a valve (18, 22) controlled by the pressure at least in the respective flow channel (16, 19), of which the at least one first valve (18) provided in the first flow channel (16) automatically opens the first flow channel (16) when the liquid valve (10) is closed and automatically closes it when the liquid valve (10) is opened, and the at least one second valve (22) provided in the second flow channel (19) closes the second flow channel (19) both when the liquid valve (10) is opened and closed and opens it automatically only at a pressure (P2) which is greater than a pressure (P1) of the fill product against the second valve (22) during the filling.
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