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US 5,400,836 AGranted
Filling flowable products into receptacles
AssigneeCarnaudMetalbox plc
InventorJohn E. Divall
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AssigneeCarnaudMetalbox plc
InventorJohn E. Divall
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An apparatus for and a method of filling a flowable product into a succession of receptacles as they pass continuously along a predetermined path is defined by an elongated hollow containment member mounted above the predetermined path which is formed with an axially extending slot therein. A metering screw having a helical thread is mounted for rotation within the containment member and is biased into sealing engagement with the containment member on each side of the slot. A distribution chamber is formed within the containment member substantially around the screw member except that the sealing engagement and the slot whereby flowable products supplied to the distribution chamber when the screw is rotated is distributed through the slot between adjacent screw portions of the screw member and leaves the containment member in a succession of spaced moving streams.
Apparatus for filling a flowable product into a succession of receptacles as they pass continuously along a predetermined path comprising an elongate hollow containment member mountable to extend along and above a predetermined container path and formed with an axially extending slot, a metering screw having a helical thread, said metering screw being mounted for rotation within the containment member, the metering screw being movable away from the slot but biassed towards and into sealing engagement with the containment member on each side of the slot, and a distribution chamber formed within the containment member substantially abound the screw member except at the sealing engagement and the slot whereby flowable product supplied to the distribution chamber when the screw member is rotating may be distributed to pass through the slot between adjacent screw portions of the screw member and leave the container member as a succession of spaced moving streams.
A method of filling a flowable product into a succession of receptacles as they pass continuously along a predetermined path comprising the steps of rotating a screw member having a helical thread within a containment member having an elongate dispensing slot on either side of which the turns of the thread make sealing engagement, and supplying the flowable product to a distribution chamber formed within the containment member substantially around the screw member except at the sealing engagement and the slot so that the flowable product issues through the slot between adjacent thread portions of the thread.
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