Krones Ag Hermann Kronseder Maschinenfabrik

Krones Ag

Egon Ahlers

In a bottle filling machine having a toroidal liquid tank and several filling units arranged circularly about the tank, each filling unit has a support which can be moved radially by means of an actuator. Each movable support supports a liquid flow inverter cup which can be connected to the filling unit for closing the opening of the gas return tube of the unit when cleansing solution is circulated through gas and liquid passageways of the machine. The converter cup, during a normal filling operation, is parked behind a circular barrier wall which is mounted radially inwardly from the filling units for surrounding the inverter cups and their movable support members during normal bottle filling operations. There is a doorway hole in the barrier wall aligned with each movable inverter cup support and a door is mounted to the movable support so that it keeps the doorway closed during regular bottle filling operations. In this way, the movable supports and the inverter cups thereon are protected against damage and soiling when they are in parked position.

Bottle filling machine and a cleansing system accessory including an

In a machine for closing a filled bottle wherein a bottle is removed from the filling valve of a filling device and closed in a closing device by placing and flanging a crown cap to the bottle's opening to permit a tight closing of the bottle in a simple way and within the shortest time possible, the crown cap which is kept ready in the closing device and a closing tool which is used for flanging the crown cap are positioned in a positioning phase between bottle's opening and the filling valve to immediately close the filled bottle, and the crown cap is then placed on the bottle opening without pressure being exerted on the top thereof, and the closing phase is then initiated.

Method and apparatus for closing bottles

By means of a combined heat/internal pressure treatment, reusable bottles of plastic material have their volume enlarged before they are filled. The shrinkage caused by cleaning with a hot cleaning liquid is thus compensated for and the attainable number of cycles is substantially increased.

Method and an apparatus for treating reusable bottles of plastic material

A process and device for filling a vessel with a liquid. The vessel is placed on a lifting plate and guided up to a filler spout a predetermined distance measured from its base, the vessel's opening being lifted into a sealed filling position below the filler spout. The vessel is filled up to a predetermined filling level by opening a valve associated with the filler spout, whereupon the supply of liquid is terminated, and a volume of liquid still present between the valve and the filling level flows into the vessel. This after-flowing liquid volume is controlled as a function of the vessel height so that in the case of a vessel having a height smaller than a mean vessel height there is an afterflow of a larger volume of liquid than in the case of a greater vessel height where the afterflow is of a smaller volume of liquid.

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Neutraubling, Germany

Egon Ahlers