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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2007
Per Gustafsson, Bjärred, SE;
Per Gustafsson, Bjärred, SE;
Ecolean Research & Development A/S, Copenhagen, DK;
Abstract
A device for filling a container with a liquid product, the container having a compartment which communicates with the surroundings via a filling duct. The device comprising a filling tube with an end portion, which is insertable into the filling duct. The device includes a clamp which is adapted to grasp the end portion and the filling duct when said end portion is inserted into said filling duct to provide a seal. The clamp has gripping surfaces which are arranged to cooperate with the end portion when the clamp grasping the filling duct. Each gripping surface has opposite edge portions, a bead being arranged in each edge portion. The end portion has a circumferential surface which is formed of two opposite partial surfaces which each comprise a convexly curved central portion and a concavely curved side portion arranged on each side of the central portion.