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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 1992
Filed:
Apr. 18, 1991
Manfred Mette, Hamburg, DE;
alfill Getranketechnik GmbH, Hamburg, DE;
Abstract
Apparatus for filling large bottles with a beverage has a rotating vessel which contains a supply of pressurized beverage and admits the beverage into a series of metering chambers forming part of container filling modules at the underside of the vessel. The outlet opening of each metering chamber is controlled by a valve which can permit or prevent the flow of beverage into a casing having an inlet for reception of beverage from the metering chamber, an outlet which is radially and vertically offset relative to the inlet, and a helical swirling channel which extends from the inlet to the outlet and surrounds the central vertical axis of the outlet along an arc of approximately or exactly 360.degree.. The cross-sectional area of the channel decreases proportionally with the distance from the inlet, and the intermediate portion of the channel communicates with the outlet by way of a conical passage. The swirling stream of beverage which issues from the outlet continues to circulate in the neck of a bottle so that it provides room for the escape of gas from the bottle in the course of the beverage admitting operation.