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US 2022/0024747 A1Published application
Bottle filling arrangement for filling bottles and similar containers, such as glass bottles, with a beverage, and a method of operating a bottle filling arrangement
AssigneeKHS GmbH
InventorLudwig CLÜSSERATH
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Abstract
A bottle filling arrangement for filling bottles and similar containers, such as glass bottles, with a beverage, and a method of operating a bottle filling arrangement.
Claims20
A container filling arrangement for filling beverage bottles or similar containers with a liquid beverage or similar liquid filling material, the container filling arrangement comprising:
- a rotor being rotatable about a vertical machine axis;
- a reservoir being configured and disposed to store a supply of liquid beverage or similar liquid filling material;
- filling devices being disposed about the circumference of said rotor;
- said filling devices being operatively connected to said reservoir to permit dispensing of liquid filling material by said filling devices;
- spray nozzle units being configured and disposed to spray said filling devices in a filling device treatment;
- each of said spray nozzle units being mounted adjacent and to rotate with a corresponding filling device;
- each of said spray nozzle units comprising a nozzle opening being disposed to face towards its corresponding filling device;
- said spray nozzle units comprising valves configured to be opened and closed to start and stop spraying of said filling devices;
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- a control arrangement being operatively connected to said valves to individually control the opening and closing of said valves.
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A method of filling beverage bottles or similar containers with a liquid beverage or similar liquid filling material using a container filling arrangement comprising:
- a rotor being rotatable about a vertical machine axis;
- a reservoir to store a supply of liquid beverage or similar liquid filling material;
- filling devices disposed about the circumference of said rotor and operatively connected to said reservoir to permit dispensing of liquid filling material by said filling devices;
- spray nozzle units mounted at and to rotate with a corresponding filling device;
- said method comprising the steps of:
- filling beverage bottles or similar containers with a liquid beverage or similar liquid filling material while said filling devices are rotated by said rotor;
- and
- upon one of said filling devices being in a contaminated condition:
- individually activating at least one spray nozzle unit disposed at said contaminated filling device by opening a controllable valve of said at least one spray nozzle unit;
- emitting a spray jet directed onto at least one section of said contaminated filling device;
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- continuing spraying said contaminated filling device until the contaminated condition is treated.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.