Filling apparatus for viscous foods
AssigneeShikoku Kakoki Co., Ltd.
InventorsMichio Ueda, Takahiro Sawabuchi, Masakatsu Kondo
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Abstract
A filling apparatus for viscous foods comprising a vertical tubular filling nozzle having a flow inlet formed in a tubular wall close to the lower end thereof and a piston-incorporating metering cylinder in communication with the flow inlet, and a plunger accommodated in the filling nozzle so as to open or close the flow inlet. The plunger has an air discharge annular opening defined by a lower-end peripheral portion thereof for blowing off adhering food and a recess formed inside the air discharge opening and providing an air reservoir for preventing adhesion of the food.
Claims6
A filling apparatus for viscous foods comprising:
- a vertical tubular filling nozzle having a flow inlet formed in a tubular wall close to a lower end thereof and a piston-incorporating metering cylinder in communication with the flow inlet, and
- a plunger accommodated in the filling nozzle so as to open or close the flow inlet,
- the plunger having a skirt at a lower-end peripheral portion thereof, a food adhesion preventing member accommodated inside the skirt, an air discharge annular clearance formed between the skirt and the preventing member for blowing off adhering food, and a recess formed in a lower face of the preventing member and providing an air reservoir for preventing adhesion of the food.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.