Apparatus and method for filling a container with a filling product
AssigneeKrones AG
InventorValentin Becher
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for handling a container, comprising filling the container with a filling product, for example with a beverage in a beverage bottling plant, wherein the apparatus has: a valve main body with an outlet for introducing the filling product into the container and with a swirl chamber which is fluidically connected to the outlet and is configured to induce a swirling motion in the filling product as the latter is being introduced into the container; a valve cone which is at least partially arranged in the valve body, defines an axial direction and through which a gas duct penetrates in the axial direction; and a sensor device with a sensor head which is configured to detect at least one signal and is arranged in the gas duct.
Claims20
An apparatus for filling a container with a filling product, comprising:
- a valve main body comprising:
- an outlet configured to introduce the filling product into the container, and
- a swirl chamber fluidically connected to an outlet and configured to induce a swirling motion in the filling product as the filling product is introduced into the container;
- a valve cone that is at least partially arranged in the valve main body, defines an axial direction, and through which a gas duct penetrates in the axial direction;
- and
- a sensor device comprising a sensor head that is configured to detect at least one signal and is arranged in the gas duct.
A method for filling a container, comprising:
- providing an apparatus comprising:
- a valve main body comprising:
- an outlet configured to introduce a filling product into the container, and
- a swirl chamber fluidically connected to an outlet and configured to induce a swirling motion in the filling product as the filling product is introduced into the container,
- a valve cone that is at least partially arranged in the valve body, and defines an axial direction and through which a gas duct penetrates in the axial direction, and
- a sensor device comprising a sensor head that is configured to detect at least one signal and is arranged in the gas duct;
- introducing the filling product into the swirl chamber of the valve main body;
- inducing a swirling motion in the filling product in the swirl chamber;
- discharging the swirling filling product from the swirl chamber via the outlet of the valve main body into the container, resulting in the filling product flowing along a container inner wall into the container;
- and
- detecting at least one signal that propagates from the container through the gas duct by the sensor head of the sensor device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.