Beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage material having a filling machine

#1. Technical Field

#The present application relates to a beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage material having a filling machine for filling bottles, cans and similar containers as described herein below.

#2. Background Information

#The present application is described in greater detail below on the basis of an exemplary embodiment which is illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

#FIG. 1A is a schematic illustration of a beverage bottling plant in accordance with one possible embodiment;

#FIG. 1 shows a filling valve of the prior art with a gas cutoff of the prior art;

#Developments, advantages and potential applications of the present application are described in greater detail below with reference to exemplary embodiments and the accompanying drawings. All the characteristics described and/or indicated in the illustrations, individually or in any arbitrary combination, are thereby the object of the present application, regardless of their placement in the claims or the cross-references among the claims. The text of the claims is also hereby incorporated by reference into this description.

#FIG. 1A shows schematically the main components of one possible embodiment example of a system for filling containers, specifically, a beverage bottling plant for filling bottles B with at least one liquid beverage, in accordance with at least one possible embodiment, in which system or plant could possibly be utilized at least one aspect, or several aspects, of the embodiments disclosed herein.

#FIG. 1A shows a rinsing arrangement or rinsing station 101, to which the containers, namely bottles B, are fed in the direction of travel as indicated by the arrow A1, by a first conveyer arrangement 103, which can be a linear conveyor or a combination of a linear conveyor and a starwheel. Downstream of the rinsing arrangement or rinsing station 101, in the direction of travel as indicated by the arrow A1, the rinsed bottles B are transported to a beverage filling machine 105 by a second conveyer arrangement 104 that is formed, for example, by one or more starwheels that introduce bottles B into the beverage filling machine 105.