Filler on packing machines
AssigneeTetra Pak International AB
InventorHans A. Rausing
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Abstract
The invention relates to a filler for metering liquid products, into containers. The filler includes a vessel which is provided with a number of filling pipes communicating with the inside of the vessel and projecting from the bottom of the vessel, and which is provided with a feed pipe both ends of which open inside the vessel. In the feed pipe a pump is arranged which pumps product from the vessel to the outlet opening of the feed pipe which can be joined successively with the filling pipes as a function of the rotation of the vessel.
Claims16
A filler for packing machines in which a liquid product is metered into packing containers, comprising:
- a rotatable vessel for containing the liquid product which is to be filled into the containers;
- a plurality of filling pipes rotatable with the vessel and projecting from a bottom of the vessel and communicating with the vessel;
- a stationary feed pipe having two ends, both of which open below the liquid level in the vessel, one outlet end of said feed pipe being adapted to be joined successively for communication with an inlet end of each of the filling pipes as a function of relative movement between the filling pipes rotatable with the vessel and the stationary feed pipe;
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- a pump arranged between the ends of the feed pipe for feeding liquid from the vessel to the containers when communication has been established between the outlet end of the feed pipe and the inlet end of the filling pipe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.