# US 2017/0283102 A1 · Device For Filling Food Products > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2017/0283102 A1 - Document ID: US20170283102A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 15/449,985 - Filed: 2017-03-05 - Published: 2017-10-05 - Earliest claimed: 2016-03-30 - Assignees: Hamba Filltec GmbH & Co. KG - Applicants: Hamba Filltec GmbH & Co. KG - Inventors: Fritz Strauch - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20170283102A1 ## CPC - B65B 31/02: Filling, closing, or filling and closing, containers {or wrappers} in chambers maintained under vacuum or superatmospheric pressure or containing a special atmosphere, e.g. of inert gas - B65B 1/04: Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles - B65B 7/164: {Securing by heat-sealing} - B65B 7/28: by applying separate preformed closures, e.g. lids, covers - B65B 25/001: {of foodstuffs, combined with their conservation (B65B25/041, B65B25/062, B65B25/067 take precedence)} - B65B 31/043: {the nozzles acting horizontally between an upper and a lower part of the container or wrapper, e.g. between container and lid} - B65B 43/42: Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position (by means of filling-nozzles B65B39/00); Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation (by filling-nozzles B65B39/00) - B65B 43/52: using roller-ways or endless conveyors - B65B 43/54: Means for supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation - B65B 55/10: by liquids or gases - B65B 2210/06: Sterilising or cleaning machinery or conduits - B65B: MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING (bundling and pressing devices for cigars A24C1/44; devices for tensioning and securing binders adapted to be supported by the article or articles to be bound B25B25/00; applying closure members to bottles, jars or similar containers B67B1/00-B67B6/00; concurrent cleaning, filling and closing of bottles B67C7/00; emptying bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels or similar containers B67C9/00) ## Abstract A device for filling liquid or pasty food products in prefabricated individual containers which form a sealing rim, the device including 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. ## Claims ### Claim 1 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. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1, wherein the sealing foil down holder includes at least one rotatably supported wheel, wherein the sealing foil is essentially supported without friction at the rotatably supported wheel when the sealing foil runs between the sealing foil down holder and the carrier elements. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The device according to claim 2, wherein the sealing foil down holder includes plural wheels that are arranged in the feed direction behind each other. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The device according to claim 3, wherein a belt runs continuously about the wheel assembly and the sealing foil is run along the continuously running belt essentially without friction. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1, wherein a respective sealing foil down holder is arranged above each edge portion of the carrier elements running through the sealing device, and wherein the edge portion is parallel to the feed direction. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The device according to claim 5, wherein a sealing tools are enveloped by a frame below which the sealing foil is run and which supports the sealing foil down holders.