Container-filling assembly

An apparatus comprising a container-filling assembly, said container-filling assembly comprising a container-filling machine comprising filling elements, a filling tank, a circulation line, beverage-component supplies, a controller, and a sensor system, wherein said filling tank feeds beverage to said filling elements, wherein said circulation line connects to said filling tank at a location for drawing beverage from said filling tank and at a location for adding beverage to said filling tank, wherein said beverage-component supplies lead into a dosage section of said circulation line, wherein said controller connects to said measuring system, wherein said measuring system is connected to at least one of said filling tank and said circulation line, and wherein said controller controls addition of beverage components from said beverage-component supplies into said circulation line at said dosage section at least in part based on a measurement signal received from said measuring system, wherein said beverage-component supplies comprise a water supply and a syrup supply.

A method comprising filling containers in a container-filling assembly, said method comprising causing at supplies of beverage component to supply beverage components into a circulation line according to a given mixing ratio until a given fill level of a filling tank is achieved, wherein supplying said beverage components comprises supplying beverage from said filling tank to a sensor system via a circulation line, based at least in part on a signal from said sensor system, continuously comparing a composition of said beverage with a reference composition, upon detecting a deviation from said reference composition, causing at least one of said beverage-component supplies to add a beverage component to said circulation line to reduce said deviation, and causing containers to be filled when a level of beverage in said filling tank has reached a desired value and a composition of said beverage is within a desired threshold of said reference composition.

Container-filling assembly comprising a container-filling machine having a plurality of filling elements for filling containers, which filling elements are fed by a common filling tank of the filling machine, wherein the filling tank is connected to a circulation line by means of which product is conveyed out of the filling tank and back into the filling tank, wherein at least two beverage component supplies, e.g. a water supply and a beverage base-material supply, lead into the circulation line, which container-filling machine is also connected to a controller which is connected to at least one measuring sensor system which in turn is connected to the filling tank and/or the circulation line, wherein the controller is designed to control the beverage component supplies in accordance with an output signal of the measuring sensor system.

Container-filling assembly of claim 36, characterized in that it does not comprise a buffer tank.