Device For Filling Food Products

A device for filling liquid or pasty food products in prefabricated individual containers which form a sealing rim, the device comprising

• carrier elements which are run through the device by a drive in a continuous cycle and which include receiving openings for the individual containers;
• operating stations into whose operating area the carrier elements move during the continuous cycle through the device;
• at least one operating station configured as a sealing device which fixes a sealing foil on the sealing rim of each individual container using a sealing tool;
• a web shaped sealing foil spanning the carrier elements transversal to their width measured transversal to their feed direction wherein the sealing foil is run between the sealing rim of the individual containers and a sealing head;
• a pulley device which is arranged upstream of the sealing device in the feed direction and which transfers the sealing foil into an orientation that is parallel to the feed direction and configured for sealing;
• a gas exposure device arranged upstream of the sealing device in the feed direction;
• and
• at least one sealing foil down holder that is arranged in a portion of the sealing device,
• wherein the gas exposure device fills an unfilled head portion of the individual containers with an oxygen reduced or oxygen free gas,
• wherein the sealing foil down holder is oriented parallel to the feed direction, and
• wherein the sealing foil down holder supports the sealing foil between the sealing foil down holder and the carrier elements at a defined distance from the carrier elements.