Arrangement for filling beverages into containers
AssigneeOrtmann & Herbst GmbH
InventorManfred Mette
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Abstract
An arrangement for filling containers with beverages has a housing with a wall bounding a closed air chamber, a filling pipe vertically displaceable in the housing so that the filling pipe can be lifted to thereby allow the exchange of containers, and a drive for vertically displacing the filling pipe and including a shaft which cooperates with an upper end portion of the filling pipe so as to vertically displace the latter, which drive is accommodated in the closed air chamber and its shaft extends through the wall of the air chamber. The filling pipe may be provided with inlet openings arranged below the air chamber in the region of a liquid inlet in the housing. A liquid valve may control the liquid inlet and be provided with a further drive operating independently of the drive of the filling pipe.
Claims9
An arrangement for filling containers with beverages, comprising a housing including a closed air chamber;
- a filling pipe being vertically displaceable in said housing and including an upper end portion with an upper end and forming a return air pipe and a lower pipe portion having inlet openings located below said air chamber;
- drive means for vertically displacing said filling pipe so that said filling pipe can be lifted to thus allow the exchange of the containers;
- said air return pipe having an extension extending into the interior of said lower portion;
- liquid inlet means in said housing in the vicinity of said inlet openings;
- a valve for controlling said liquid inlet means located in said housing in the region of said liquid inlet means;
- first sealing means on said valve adapted to seal said inlet means from said inlet openings;
- a pressurized gas conduit above said air chamber and adapted to communicate therewith;
- and second sealing means between said air chamber and said conduit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.