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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 13, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Iver J Phallen, Youngstown, NY (US);
Richard J Jezuit, Jr, Lancaster, NY (US);
Robert Comfort, Buffalo, NY (US);
Scott McIlhagga, Cheektowaga, NY (US);
David J Noworyta, Hamburg, NY (US);
Peter B Millett, Jr, Buffalo, NY (US);
Assignee:
Oden Corporation, Buffalo, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
141 83 ; 141192 ;
Abstract
Liquid filling apparatus and method of producing a fill or dose of a defined quantity of liquid based upon the mass of the liquid. In one embodiment, a servo motor driven rotary positive displacement pump is used to produce flow through a Coriolis mass flow meter to feed a positive shut-off filling nozzle, wherein mass flow data from the meter is used to control the servo motor-pump-nozzle to produce a precise fill dose of liquid based upon its mass.