Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC

Julio A Gonzalez

Arthur A Sagy

An apparatus includes means for providing one-way degassing valves to be installed on corresponding containers; means for placing a viscous liquid in each of the plurality of one-way degassing valves to provide a corresponding plurality of installable one-way degassing valves; means for capturing an image of at least a portion of at least some of the plurality of installable one-way degassing valves; and control means for automatically and non-destructively determining for the at least some of the plurality of installable one-way degassing valves, prior to installation on the corresponding containers, by using the image, whether the viscous liquid has been properly placed.

Apparatus to facilitate determining proper placement of a liquid

One provides () a plurality of one-way degassing valves () that are to be installed on corresponding containers and places () a viscous liquid (such as silicon oil) () in each of the plurality of one-way degassing valves to provide a corresponding plurality of installable one-way degassing valves (). These teachings then provide for automatically and non-destructively determining (), prior to installation of these valves on the corresponding containers, whether the viscous liquid has been properly placed. By one approach, this can comprise using a captured image () of at least a portion of each such one-way degassing valve to make this determination.

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Jacksonville, FL, United States of America

Julio A Gonzalez