Beverage dispenser
AssigneeKrones AG
InventorsMichael Neubauer, Alexander Hafner, Benedikt Paulus, Linda Feldmeier, Christoph Sonnauer
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Abstract
Provided is an apparatus for filling containers with a positioning surface on which a container to be filled can be arranged, with a filling device which is suitable and intended for filling the container via its container opening. According to embodiments of the invention, the apparatus has a contour detection device which is suitable and intended for determining a contour of the container to be filled, as well as a determination device which, taking into account the contour of the container, detects an internal volume of the container.
Claims10
An apparatus for filling containers with a positioning surface on which a container to be filled can be arranged, with a filling device which is suitable and intended to fill the container via its container opening, wherein the apparatus has a contour detection device which is suitable and intended for determining a contour of the container to be filled, and a determination device which, taking into account the contour of the container, detects an internal volume of the container.
A method for filling containers, wherein a container arranged on a positioning surface is filled by a filling device via its container opening, wherein a contour of the container is detected by a contour detection device and an internal volume of the container is determined taking this contour into account.
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