Cocktail filling machine and method

In a cocktail filling machine for introducing measured amounts of different kinds of fruit into containers, conveyor means having a plurality of elongated parallel flight members extending laterally at right angles to the direction of conveyor movement, the movement of the flights being through a fruit receiving zone and then through a container filling zone, each flight having means forming a single row of spaced pockets disposed along the length of the same, each pocket being formed to receive a measured amount of one kind of fruit, feed means in the fruit receiving zone for separately introducing one kind of the different fruits into each pocket to fill the same, container guide means underlying the flights in the filling zone for guiding containers along a zigzag path below the flights, container pusher means extending parallel to each flight and moving with the same to move the open containers through the filling zone in the guide means below a flight and at the same speed as the flight, the zigzag path of the guide means to successively present the container along the length of the flight beneath each of the pockets of the flight while the flight is progressed through the filling zone, and closure means for closing the lower sides of the pockets, said closure means terminating the closing of the pocket when a container is below a pocket in the filling zone to allow the filling of said container.