Adjustable neck alignment assembly
AssigneeFogg Filler Company
InventorsRandall JOHNSON, Todd KEMME
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Abstract
An adjustable neck alignment assembly for aligning a fill structure to control a fill level of flowable material being dispensed within a container is provided. The adjustable neck alignment assembly includes an alignment structure, and a height adjustment knob configured to be rotated around the alignment structure to move a position of a component that controls a depth position, of a flowable material fill tube of a fill valve, within the container during filling to control an amount of flowable material being dispensed within the container
Claims11
An adjustable neck alignment assembly for aligning a fill structure to control a fill level of flowable material being dispensed within a container, the adjustable neck alignment assembly comprising:
- an alignment structure;
- a height adjustment knob configured to be rotated around the alignment structure to move a position of a component that controls a depth position, of a flowable material fill tube of a fill valve, within the container during filling to control an amount of flowable material being dispensed within the container.
A filling apparatus for a container, comprising:
- a fill tube for delivering liquid into the container;
- an adjustable neck alignment assembly associated with the fill tube and including:
- an alignment structure;
- a height adjustment knob disposed about at least part of the alignment structure and configured to be rotated around the alignment structure;
- wherein an axial position of the height adjustment knob relative to the alignment structure remains fixed during rotation of the height adjustment knob;
- wherein the height adjustment knob is operatively linked such that rotation of the height adjustment knob causes axial movement of a position of a fill tube depth setting structure relative to both the alignment structure and the height adjustment knob;
- wherein the position of the fill tube depth setting structure sets an axial depth that the fill tube will achieve within a container during a filling operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.