Machine block and method for filling bottles with liquid products
AssigneeKrones AG
InventorBruno LANDLER
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Abstract
A machine block and a method for filling bottles with liquid products, in particular beverages, are described. Accordingly, at least a first and second filler of circulating design with infeed starwheels and outfeed starwheels are provided. Filling can take place with a small amount of required space and comparatively low machine output in that the empty bottles are alternatingly removed from a transport path which runs linearly at least in some portions and supplied by means of the infeed starwheels to the first and second fillers interlocking with said transport path, and the bottles thus filled are transferred again to the transport path into transport gaps produced between the bottles during removal.
Claims18
A machine block for filling bottles with liquid products comprising at least one first and second filler of a circulating design, each having an infeed and outfeed starwheel, comprising a transport path for the bottles which runs linearly along the infeed and outfeed starwheels, wherein the infeed starwheels are designed, viewed in the transport direction, to alternatingly take the bottles from the transport path, and wherein the outfeed starwheels are designed to return the bottles filled on the associated filler to the transport path into transport gaps produced while being taken by the associated infeed starwheel.
A method for filling bottles with liquid products wherein the empty bottles are alternatingly taken from a transport path at a first linear transport section by a first infeed starwheel and at a second linear transport section following in the transport direction by a second infeed starwheel, and are always transferred to filler of a circulating design that interlocks with the transport path, and wherein the bottles filled there are each returned to the transport path by means of an outfeed starwheel by placing the bottles in transport gaps produced between the bottles in the associated infeed starwheel.
The method according to claim wherein the liquid products are beverages.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.