Khs Gmbh

Khs Maschinen- Und Anlagenbau Ag

Seitz Enzinger Noll Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft

Khs Corpoplast Gmbh

Deutsche Granini Gmbh & Co. Kg

Khs Ag

Khs Maschinen- Und Alnagenbau Ag

Seitz Enzinger Noll Maschinebau Aktiengesellschaft

Ludwig Clüsserath

Dieter-Rudolf Krulitsch

Bernd Bruch

Manfred Härtel

Jonathan Lorenz

Andreas Fahldieck

Jochen Ohrem

Manfred Hartel

Wilfried Ehmer

Michael Linke

Rolf Baumgarte

Michael Litzenberg

Dieter Klatt

Frank Haesendonckx

Niels Meyer

Thomas Stolte

Achim Kunz

Max Stolz

Volker Till

Dieter Rudolf Krulitsch

Gerhard Klöpper

Michael Beisel

Timo Jakob

Thomas Berger

Egbert Diehl

Klaus Kaiser

Karl Lorenz

Jean Marti

Klaus-Werner Jung

Werner Lesinski

Norman Gras

Bernd Link

Helmut Graff

Willi Scheid

Paul Knodel

Gerhard Pfeiffer

Rainer Gotz

Manfred Hãrtel

Udo Grunewald

Matthias Damerow

Andreas Lohner

Hans-Martin Schwarz

Matthias Niemeyer

Manfred HÄRTEL

Udo GRÜNEWALD

Dieter- Rudolf Krulitsch

Härtel Manfred

Dieter-Rolf Krulitsch

A filling machine includes filling elements, each having a seal that seals a container's mouth, a filling valve, a gas valve, a liquid channel that, when the filling valve is opened, is in fluid communication with the container's interior, and a gas channel that, when the gas valve is open, is in fluid communication with the container's interior. The filling machine introduces an inert gas into the container's interior via the gas channel to create a preload pressure in the container such that the inert gas in the container dissolves in the liquid when the liquid is later introduced into the container. The filling machine is further configured to introduce a volume of liquid into the container's interior through the liquid channel at a filling pressure that exceeds the preload pressure.

Machine and method for filling containers with liquid contents

In a method of filling and closing containers, such as bottles and similar containers, for containing liquid products, such as beverages and similar products, the filling and closing can be performed in a filling and closing machine or arrangement.

Method of filling and closing containers, such as bottles and similar containers, for containing products, such as beverages and similar products

A bottle filling arrangement for filling bottles and similar containers, such as glass bottles, with a beverage, and a method of operating a bottle filling arrangement.

Bottle filling arrangement for filling bottles and similar containers, such as glass bottles, with a beverage, and a method of operating a bottle filling arrangement

A filling element has a gas valve that controls flow of gas through a gas channel that extends into or faces the container during filling thereof. The gas valve transitions between discrete states, which includes a fully-open state, a closed state, and one or more partially-open states.

Filling element, filling system, and method for filling containers

An apparatus for filling containers with a product includes a filling element, a supply line that supplies the product, a switching valve, a control valve, a vessel that is disposed between the switching valve and the control valve, and a volumeter that is disposed between the switching valve and the control valve. The vessel supplies a pre-metered quantity of the product for discharge via the switching valve to the filling element, the quantity having been pre-metered by the volumeter. The supply line provides the product to the vessel at a first flow rate. Discharge of the product through the switching valve and into the filling element occurs at a second flow rate that exceeds the first flow rate, the first and second flow rates being volumetric flow rates.

Apparatus and method for filling containers with liquid contents

A container-treatment machine includes a foaming unit that introduces foaming medium into a container that is filled with a foamable liquid. This causes a foam to form in the container. A sensor downstream obtains an image of the foam and provides it to a controller. The controller decides whether or not to eject the container based on the extent of a foam nose that forms on the container's outer surface.

Device and method for treating containers filled with foamable liquid filling material

A filling method includes executing a pre-stressing phase, during which, at plural time intervals, gas is drawn from a gas space that lies above the filling material in a tank. The gas pre-stresses a container up to a second pressure that is below the pressure in the gas space. During a filling phase, a liquid valve opens to allow the filling material in the tank to enter into the container. This valve is above the level of the filling material, thus preventing gravity from driving the flow.

Method and filling system for filling containers

A filling method includes sealing a container against a filling element of a filling system, after the container has been sealed against the filling element and before beginning a filling phase, connecting the container to an annular vacuum duct, while the container is connected to the vacuum duct, carrying out an evacuation-and-flushing step in which the container is evacuated and flushed with flushing gas that comprises steam from an annular steam duct that carries pressurized steam, connecting the container to an annular pre-tensioning duct, pre-loading the container with inert gas from the pre-tensioning duct, filling the container with the liquid, and relieving pressure into the vacuum duct.

Method for filling containers with a liquid filling material

In order to perform a cleaning-in-place or CIP cleaning of a filling element of a filling machine for the filling of containers with a liquid filling content, at least one closure element can be used, together with the filling element, to form a flushing chamber, in which a filling valve and a filling-level probe are at least partially disposed for the cleaning-in-place cleaning of the filling element. A control unit controls the flow of cleaning medium into the flushing chamber and the performance of at least one electrical measurement with the filling-level probe during the cleaning-in-place cleaning of the filling element.

Container filling arrangement for filling bottles and similar containers with a beverage and a method of operating the container filling arrangement

A filling element includes a radar for measuring fill level in a container during filling thereof and an antenna connected to the radar. The antenna is disposed along a flow path formed in a gas pipe that forms a flow path for fluid while the container is being filled. The antenna provides the radar with a signal indicative of a measurement of a level of the filing material in the container.

Filling system for filling containers with a fluid filling material and filling machine

A gaiter seal for shielding a functional element of a container-processing machine extends between parts of a working head of the container-processing machine includes axially-adjacent gaiter modules that extend along an axis and support-and-sliding elements at interfaces between adjacent gaiter modules. The support-and-sliding elements radially support and guide the first and second gaiter-modules along the functional element.

Gaiter seal and working head of a device or machine for producing and/or treating containers, said working head comprising such a gaiter seal

An actuator for controlling a fluid path includes an actuator having a seat part, either a fluid-valve membrane or a movable part, and a magnetorheological elastomer that changes form when a magnetic field changes. This causes the path to open or close.

Magnetorheological actuator for a filling unit of a beverage filling system

An apparatus for transforming a preform into a container filled with liquid filling material includes a mold that forms a mold head, a sterilization system, a chamber that is common to a group of mold heads, an evacuation system that is connected to the chamber, and conduit lines, each of which connects a mold head to the chamber. The sterilization system sterilizes the interior of the preform while it is in sealing engagement with the mold head. The evacuation system creates a vacuum in the preform. Liquid filling material enters the preform under pressure and causes it to transform into a container.

Method and device for producing and filling containers

Using a filling point to fill a container with liquid filling-material fed by a supply line through which filling material at a supply-line pressure is made available for filling the containers includes using a control circuit to regulate flow velocity at which filling material flows into the container by opening a liquid valve, opening a regulating valve upstream of the liquid valve, sensing flow velocity of the filling material, comparing the flow velocity with a target flow velocity, and using the regulating valve to regulate the flow velocity such that the flow velocity is independent of a pressure difference between the supply-line pressure and a filling pressure set in the container.

A filling machine for pressure-filling containers includes a container receptacle arranged beneath the filling element, a first lift that vertically adjusts the filling element to accommodate different container sizes, a shield that adjusts relative to the filling element and comprises a single-piece partition and that, in a protection position, at least partially surrounds the container during filling thereof. An adjuster adjusts the shield and the receptacle relative to one another between a protection position and a release position by changing the receptacle's position relative to the shield in a region of a feeding-and-discharge device. The adjuster comprises at least one of a second lift and a rotation mechanism that rotates a container about a container axis thereof.

Filling apparatus

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Bad Kreuznach, Germany

Ludwig Clüsserath