Apparatus and method for filling containers with liquid contents

An apparatus for filling containers with a product, said product being a liquid filling-product, said apparatus comprising a filling element, a supply line that supplies said product, a switching valve, a control valve, a vessel that is disposed between said switching valve and said control valve, and a volumeter that is disposed between said switching valve and said control valve, wherein said vessel supplies a pre-metered quantity of said product for discharge via said switching valve to said filling element, said quantity having been pre-metered by said volumeter, wherein said supply line provides said product to said vessel at a first flow rate, and wherein discharge of said product through said switching valve and into said filling element occurs at a second flow rate that exceeds said first flow rate, said first and second flow rates being volumetric flow rates.

A method for filling containers with a product, said product being a liquid filling-product, said method comprising providing a product at a first flow rate, using a volumeter that is disposed between a switching valve and a control valve to pre-meter a quantity of said product for discharge via said switching valve into a filling element, storing said quantity in a vessel that is disposed between said switching valve and said control valve, and discharging said quantity from said vessel into said filling element at a second flow rate that exceeds said first flow rate, said first and second flow rates being volumetric flow rates.