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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2013
Kraft Foods Group Brands Llc, Northfield, IL (US);
Arthur A. Sagy, Guttenberg, NJ (US);
Julio A. Gonzalez, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC, Northfield, IL (US);
Abstract
An apparatus includes means for providing one-way degassing valves to be installed on corresponding containers; means for placing a viscous liquid in each of the plurality of one-way degassing valves to provide a corresponding plurality of installable one-way degassing valves; means for capturing an image of at least a portion of at least some of the plurality of installable one-way degassing valves; and control means for automatically and non-destructively determining for the at least some of the plurality of installable one-way degassing valves, prior to installation on the corresponding containers, by using the image, whether the viscous liquid has been properly placed.