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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2011
Roland Laumer, Regensburg, DE;
Manfred Schmid, Aufhausen, DE;
Juergen Soellner, Beratzhausen, DE;
Krones AG, , DE;
Abstract
An apparatus for filling containers with a liquid and, in particular, with a beverage, with a plurality of filling elements which in each case have an outlet in order to pour the beverage into the containers, as well as a valve device in order to control the supply of the liquid into the containers, with a conveying device which conveys the containers along a pre-set conveying path at least for a time during the filling thereof with the liquid, and with a cleaning device which acts with a cleaning medium upon at least one region contacted by the liquid to be filled. At least one filling element is designed in such a way that the cleaning medium is freely discharged out of this filling element during a cleaning operation.