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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
May. 08, 2025
Pierre Vincent Boucher, Georgetown, GY;
Pierre Vincent Boucher, Georgetown, GY;
Abstract
A bottling apparatus includes a valve block having several valves that are configured to selectively open or close a respective tubing line of several tubing lines that pass through the valve block. The valves are each individually controlled by a respective cam wheel that are all rotatable about a common axis that is in line with the valves. Each valve is at a valve position relative to the cam wheel. Each cam wheel includes a cam about its circumference that has one or more reliefs in the cam. The cams maintain their respective valves closed as they rotate, until the relief is rotated into alignment with the valve position, which allows the valve to open. The cam wheels are rotated in a forward direction during a bottling process through a sequence of rotational positions that each correspond to one step of the bottling process. To clean the valves, the cam wheels are rotated in a reverse direction, wherein one or more of the cam wheels do not rotate for one or more rotational positions, allow reliefs on all of the cam wheels to line up in the valve block to simultaneously open all of the valves.