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US 8,944,291 B2Granted
Dosing unit for CIP/SIP
AssigneeIMA Life S.r.l.
InventorsLuca Sassatelli, Claudio Trebbi
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Abstract
A dosing unit includes a piston movable along a first axis in a cavity of a casing, provided with an inlet and with an outlet for a product to be dosed, and in a further cavity of the casing, connected to and substantially coaxial with the cavity and provided with a further outlet for cleaning and/or sterilizing fluids. The casing includes an internal tubular element in which the cavity is made and a covering element that externally envelops the internal tubular element and extends from an end of the internal tubular element in such a way as to form the further cavity.
Claims16
A dosing unit, comprising
- (a) a housing including an inner tubular member containing a first cavity and an outer cover enveloping said inner tubular member and containing a second cavity communicating with said first cavity, said housing containing an inlet and a first outlet for a dose of a product and a second outlet for at least one of cleaning and sterilizing fluids;
- (b) a piston arranged within said first and second cavities for movement along a first axis to open and close said inlet and first and second outlet openings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.