EP3140242B1 - Dispositif de remplissage - Google Patents

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EP3140242B1
EP3140242B1 EP15722463.5A EP15722463A EP3140242B1 EP 3140242 B1 EP3140242 B1 EP 3140242B1 EP 15722463 A EP15722463 A EP 15722463A EP 3140242 B1 EP3140242 B1 EP 3140242B1
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Ludwig Clüsserath
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67C—CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS
    • B67C3/00—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus; Filling casks or barrels with liquids or semiliquids
    • B67C3/02—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus
    • B67C3/20—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus with provision for metering the liquids to be introduced, e.g. when adding syrups
    • B67C3/206—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus with provision for metering the liquids to be introduced, e.g. when adding syrups using arrangements of cylinders and pistons
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67C—CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS
    • B67C3/00—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus; Filling casks or barrels with liquids or semiliquids
    • B67C3/02—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus
    • B67C3/20—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus with provision for metering the liquids to be introduced, e.g. when adding syrups
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67C—CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS
    • B67C3/00—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus; Filling casks or barrels with liquids or semiliquids
    • B67C3/02—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus
    • B67C3/22—Details
    • B67C3/28—Flow-control devices, e.g. using valves
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67C—CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS
    • B67C3/00—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus; Filling casks or barrels with liquids or semiliquids
    • B67C3/02—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus
    • B67C3/22—Details
    • B67C2003/228—Aseptic features

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  • the present invention relates to a filling device, in particular for filling containers with a liquid, solid or viscous medium.
  • These fillers increasingly include liquids containing fibers or solids such as fruit pieces or cereals.
  • a filling device in which a double-valve cylinder with its upper valve cylinder releases or closes an inlet opening from a reservoir and opens with its lower valve cylinder the outlet to a container to be filled out or closes.
  • the lifting and supporting rod of these two coupled valve cylinder traverses a Vorhellraum whose walls are partially formed of elastic membrane walls.
  • the rearward space of these elastic membrane walls or inner linings of the prefilling volume can be traversed and stretched in a defined manner by means of metering cylinders, so that when the lower valve cylinder is open and the upper valve cylinder is closed, a defined amount of fluid can be displaced from the prefilling volume and filled into a container.
  • a problem with such filling devices is that sliding sealing surfaces can be poorly cleaned, for example by a CIP (cleaning in place) valve piston or valve cylinder.
  • the filling device has a product feed, for example a product container, a prefilling space and a controllable outlet.
  • the spout is usually formed by an electrically or pneumatically controlled valve, which has two relatively movable parts, which release or close an outlet opening.
  • the filling device furthermore has a, for example, linear, movable sealing arrangement, specifically a piston arrangement which connects the product feed with the pre-filling space in an open position and separates the product feed from the pre-filling space in a closed position.
  • a sealing arrangement is designed as a piston arrangement which can be actuated in the direction of the pre-filling space, this has the advantage that the piston of the piston arrangement can be pressed against a sealing seat of the pre-filling space, whereby the pre-filling space is separated from the product feed.
  • no relative sliding movement occurs between the sealing surfaces, but only a pressing movement. Therefore, the corresponding sealing surfaces can be easily cleaned in a CIP and SIP process.
  • the sealing arrangement can be moved on any tracks, e.g. linear or circular or helical.
  • the filling device has a flexible displacement arrangement, the volume of which is adjustable in the pre-filling space.
  • a displacement arrangement can be formed, for example, by a bellows or by an expandable elastic body, for example a rubber bladder.
  • the volume change of the bellows or elastic body can be done for example by a mechanical arrangement, eg piston arrangement or hydraulically or pneumatically.
  • the essential aspect of the displacer arrangement is that it has a surface layer towards the pre-charge space, which is constant or unchanged, because it has at least one elastically deformable wall or at least one deformable wall section.
  • the size of the wall or surface layer changes at most by their elastic material deformation (eg: in a rubber bladder, balloon) or flexibility of the wall (eg in a bellows), ie change the position of portions of the wall or surface layer to each other, such as in a bellows.
  • a suitable control or drive means such as an incompressible fluid, a mechanical arrangement, e.g. Piston assembly or a combination of hydraulic and mechanical drive.
  • An elastic material is defined as a material having a reversible deformability of at least 10 to 20%.
  • the term "flexible” may also be interpreted to mean that solid components are arranged movably with respect to each other, e.g. at a plate bellows.
  • the advantage here is also that after the separation of the Vor colllraums from the product supply a defined volume can be ejected solely by the increase in volume of the displacer in Vorhellraum (with open outlet), without this surfaces of a coming into contact with the product metering slide together ,
  • Another advantage of the filling device according to the invention is that the delivery of the contents is no longer carried out by the movement of a piston in a cylinder, in which case there are sliding sealing surfaces, which come into contact with the product, but by a flexible displacer assembly whose volume is adjustable in the Vor colllraum.
  • the displacer assembly is expanded to fill the contents of a first smaller volume to a larger first volume and the dispensed amount corresponds exactly to the volume displaced by the expansion.
  • Displacement may, for example, be via a piston which is sealed by a bellows opposite the pre-charge space, in which case the expanded bellows define the displacement volume.
  • the displacement volume may also be formed by an elastic geometric shape, for example by an elastic bladder, for example made of rubber or the like, in which case the volume of this elastic body is adjusted by the action of the interior of the elastic body with a gas or a fluid can.
  • the only sealing surfaces that come into contact with each other are the sealing surfaces of the sealing assembly for sealing the product feed from the prefilling space.
  • the sealing arrangement may be formed only as a piston or punch, the connection between Product container and Vor refllraum covers. This may be a sealing lip, which comes to lie, for example, on the product container. A sealing of the sealing arrangement can thus be carried out without a sliding relative movement of two sealing components, whereby also here an easy cleaning is possible.
  • the contents are in particular a solid, a liquid containing solids or a liquid of any viscosity, but should be flowable or free-flowing.
  • the sealing arrangement is designed as a particularly linearly movable piston assembly, in which way it can be moved to seal the Vorglallraums against the product supply to be moved between the closed position and open position. Such an embodiment is technically easy to implement.
  • the piston assembly is formed as a double piston assembly with an outer and an inner piston, which are arranged concentrically to each other and cooperate telescopically.
  • the outer piston form the sealing arrangement and the inner piston form the displacer arrangement.
  • the sealing function of the prefilling space and the displacing function can thus be technically easily implemented in a functional unit, wherein both the inner and the outer pistons can be actuated by a common actuating element and / or by separate actuating elements.
  • the outer piston can be actuated by an actuator, so that it is controlled from the closed position to the open position movable
  • the outer piston is sealed with a bellows against the product supply, for example the product container, in which way no moving sealing surfaces which come into contact with the product also occur between the product supply and the outer piston.
  • the relative movements of the double piston assembly are due to the elastic deformation of the bellows upon actuation of the inner and outer pistons sealed against the product.
  • the actuating element for actuating the inner piston is preferably a push rod, which cooperates via a roller or a sliding shoe with a control surface.
  • the push rod may also be driven by its own drive, e.g. a hydraulic cylinder or stepping electric motor to be actuated.
  • the push rod is connected to a piston member and the outer piston has an axial bore in which the piston member is movable.
  • the inner piston together with bellows is preferably mounted on one end of the outer piston and communicates with the bore, wherein between the piston member and the inner piston, ie the bellows, a fluid is arranged.
  • the spout is arranged as a controllable valve, whereby the filling process is easily controlled by an electronic control of the filling equipment, e.g. a microprocessor control is controllable / controllable.
  • the valve has an elastic membrane surrounding an outlet opening which cooperates with a closing element.
  • the Voryogllraums opening by means of the controllable outlet is done here by a relative movement of the elastic membrane relative to the central sealing element, which relative movement can also be realized without sliding surfaces, which could come into contact with the product.
  • a moving closure element is created by the elastic membrane in the outlet or valve, which manages without sliding sealing surfaces.
  • This process variant represents a further acceleration, since the refilling of the dosing chamber is shortened.
  • the filling device according to the invention due to its good cleaning ability, in particular CIP and SIP, especially when filling solids or liquids with solids excellent to use.
  • the invention allows a closed CIP and SIP. This is relevant in view of the fact that the consumption of fruit, wellness and sports drinks, which also contain smaller fruit pieces, fruit fibers or cereals, is becoming increasingly widespread today.
  • the filling device can also be used alone for filling solids or liquids.
  • a load cell can be used in the pre-filling space, wherein the weight determination only takes place after completion of the filling.
  • the load cell by means of the load cell, the filled mass or the weight can be determined exactly.
  • the inner and outer pistons of the double piston assembly are mechanically driven, in particular by an actuator such as a push rod.
  • a particularly advantageous application is that the filling volume to be diverted is determined indirectly hydraulically via a coupling fluid (fluid), which is located in the inner volume of the second bellows, the Dosierfaltenbalg.
  • This coupling liquid can either be present in an inner volume variable by means of a cylinder and be introduced into and out of the metering bellows (second bellows) by means of a displaceable cylinder or, which is not in accordance with the invention, a fixed internal volume is provided which can be filled with at least one compensation container Connection is, wherein the coupling liquid by means of pumps and are discharged and the amount of liquid the coupling fluid is detected and controlled by means of suitable volume measuring systems.
  • a supply line is provided, which allows the initial filling and determining the volume of the coupling liquid.
  • Fluidically connected reservoirs can be provided as needed for one or more such filling elements or the coupling fluids.
  • the bellows which seals the inner piston against the outer piston, is preferably made of Teflon or soft metal or a fairly rigid plastic, so a material prevents radial constrictions in the applied pressures.
  • the invention realizes a mechanically very simple construction, which is very easy to clean by minimizing contact surfaces. A very good cleaning is particularly possible because with CIP all contact surfaces can be separated from each other and no sliding surfaces are provided.
  • the filling device according to the invention thus allows a cold aseptic filling.
  • the product supply may be in any other way, e.g. be designed as a supply channel.
  • Fig. 1 to 8 show the chronic sequence of a filling operation of a first embodiment of a filling device according to the invention.
  • identical or functionally identical parts are provided with the same reference numerals.
  • the filling device 10 contains a product container 12, which acts as a product feed. At the bottom of the product container 12, a Vorhellraum 14 connects.
  • the filling device further includes a double piston assembly 16 having two concentric pistons 18, 36, namely an inner piston 36 and an outer piston 18, which are axially movable relative to the product supply 12 and relative to each other.
  • the double piston assembly 16 is held by means of a guide 15 on the product container 12 or a construction element connected thereto.
  • the outer piston 18 of the dual piston assembly 16 is actuated by means of an actuator 17, e.g. a hydraulic or pneumatic cylinder or an electric motor relative to the product container 12 axially adjustable.
  • the outer piston 18 is surrounded by a first bellows 24 made of an elastic material, whereby it is sealed against the product container 12.
  • the Vor alternllraum 14 is sealed against the product container 12 by the outer piston 18 by the Vorchirllraum facing the lower end 20 of the outer piston 18 presses against the bottom 22 of the product container 12.
  • the outer piston 18 as a sealing arrangement without sliding sealing surfaces separate the Vor glycollraum 14 from the product container 12, whereby no sliding sealing surfaces are provided in the entire product area.
  • the inner piston 36 is sealed with a second bellows 38 against the outer piston 18 and acts as a displacer assembly as soon as the outer piston 18 has sealed the Vorhellraum 14 against the product container 12.
  • an outlet 28 is arranged, which is formed by an electrically or pneumatically controllable valve.
  • the valve 28 includes a fixedly arranged, for example, spherical sealing element 32, which is arranged above an outlet opening 34 in the middle of an elastic membrane 30.
  • the membrane 30 is encompassed or held by an axially adjustable actuating cylinder 31, by means of which the membrane 30 can be pressed against the sealing element 32 for closing the outlet opening 34 or moved away from it for opening.
  • the inner piston 36 is movable relative to the product container 12 by means of a push rod 40.
  • the inner piston can in this case take the outer piston 18, provided that the movement is released by the actuator 17, or both pistons move together.
  • the push rod 40 carries at its upper end a roller 42 which moves along a guide surface 44 of a control element 45.
  • the push rod 40 is connected to the end of the inner piston 36.
  • the deflection of the push rod 40 corresponds to the vertical course of the guide surface.
  • the Dosierfaltenbalg the movement of the push rod 40 is transmitted from the inner piston 36 to the outer piston 18.
  • the element 16 is only a guide sleeve, which is not moved.
  • Useful sealing elements between the stationary sleeve 16 and the outer, moving piston 18 are not shown.
  • the space between element 16 and the piston 18 can also be flushed with a liquid or a gas or at least be connectable to a cleaning circuit via corresponding connections.
  • the inner piston 36 protrudes from the lower end 20 of the outer piston 18, causing a corresponding displacement of product in the Vorphilllraum 14, the volume corresponding to a product delivery through the valve 28 in a to be filled Container, such as a can, bottle or keg leads.
  • the position of the individual components of the filling device 10 is in the in the FIGS. 1 to 8 shown chronological sequence of a filling process visible.
  • Fig. 1 shows the outer piston 18 in the open position at the beginning of the filling process, in which between the lower end 20 of the outer piston 18 and the bottom 22 of the product container 12, an inlet 26 is formed, through which the product can pass from the product container 12 in the Vor Heilllraum 14 ,
  • the movable diaphragm 30 is pressed by the adjusting cylinder 31 against the sealing member 32, so that the outlet opening 34 is closed in the middle of the membrane by the sealing member 32. In this way, the Vor sympatraum 14 is completely filled with product.
  • the total movement is caused by the actuator 17, esp.
  • the inner piston moves with suitable stops.
  • the control cam is suitably adapted to the movements.
  • the actuating cylinder 31 is moved downwards by means of a drive, not shown, controlled by a control of the filling device, whereby the discharge opening 34 is released for a product delivery.
  • Fig. 4 shows that the roller 42 has moved at the upper end of the push rod 40 to the lower end of the guide surface 44, in which position the inner piston is pressed as a displacement assembly in the Vorhellraum in which it displaces a defined amount of product through the open outlet opening 34th is ejected. In this case, the second bellows 38 is stretched.
  • the actuator 17 is actuated to move the outer piston 18 from its closed position upwards into the open position, wherein the lower end 20 of the outer piston 18 lifts from the bottom 22 of the product container and the inlet 26 from the product container 12 in the Vor Struktur 14 is reopened.
  • the roller 42 of the push rod on the guide surface slides back up, also moves the inner piston 36 back to its retracted position, as in Fig. 8 is shown. This in turn is the starting point for a new filling process as in Fig. 1 is shown.
  • FIG. 9 shows one to the Fig. 1 to 8
  • the push rod 62 has on its underside a piston element 64 which can slide axially in a central bore 65 of the outer piston 18.
  • an incompressible fluid 66 for example water or an oil, arranged so that the deflection of the bellows 38 in the Vorhellraum 14 via the piston member 64 by means of the fluid 66 and thus wear-free and largely low-friction.
  • the fluid 66 pushes against the entire inner surface of the bellows 38, so that it does not constrict.
  • Fig. 10 shows a further embodiment 50 of a filling device according to the invention.
  • This embodiment is different from the embodiment of the Fig. 1 to 8 in that the push rod 40 is not deflected here by a guide surface but by a single drive 52, for example a linear motor or actuating cylinder, whereby the displaced volume can be adjusted by means of exact control of the linear motor.
  • This embodiment of the invention additionally has an optional load cell 56 in order to check the correctness of the filled volume and / or to build up a control loop.
  • the push rod 40 is optionally driven by a single drive 52, such as a linear motor or actuator cylinder.
  • Fig. 11 shows an embodiment as in Fig. 10 illustrated, but in aseptic construction.
  • the membrane extends into an inlet pipe which is filled into the container mouth of a container to be filled, eg a bottle. Since the membrane 30 is tightly secured to the lower edge of the Vorhellraums, a separation between the sterile room and other filling elements is ensured.
  • a load cell 56 may also be arranged in this embodiment.
  • a sterile room is provided below the filling valve, in which the containers are arranged and guided completely or partially during filling, wherein essentially only the container carriers are provided as manipulation elements within this sterile space.
  • the filling elements and all other elements belonging to the filler are located above or outside the sterile room.
  • Fig. 12 shows the embodiment analogous to Fig. 10 when performing a closed CIP (cleaning in place).
  • the push rod 40 is as in the embodiments of FIGS. 9 to 11 operated by a single drive 52, but can also by a drive 42, 44, 45 as in the FIGS. 1 to 8 be operable.
  • the displacer assembly 36 (second bellows) protrudes freely suspended or cantilever in the Vor Stahlllvolumen 14 and displaced by volume expansion on several sides, the filling volume in the filling step from the Vor Stahlllvolumen.
  • the displacer arrangement 36 is ideally kept or stored only on one face or room side of the prefill volume.
  • Fig. 13 1 shows a further embodiment of a filling device 70 with a prefilling space 72, a product feed 74, a product container 75 and a shut-off valve 76 arranged between the product feed 74 and the pre-filling space 72.
  • the product in the product container 75 can in particular contain a liquid containing product pieces and / or higher viscosity be.
  • Vor alternllraum 72 protrudes from above a Verdrängeran Aunt 78, comprising an outlet or supply pipe 80 and a surrounding this Vorhellraum 72 in the rubber layer or elastic polymer layer 82 in the manner of a balloon.
  • the polymer layer 82 abuts the supply tube 80 when the pressure in the fluid container 88 is less than the pressure in the product container 75.
  • the polymer layer 82 is secured to the top of the pre-fill space 72 and sealed.
  • a metering valve 84 is arranged above the pre-filling chamber 72, and a flow meter 86 (eg MID) is arranged above the metering valve.
  • the flow meter 86 ideally can detect the volume flow for both directions of flow.
  • the upper end of the feed tube 80 terminates in a fluid container 88, which receives the pressurized fluid to expand the space within the polymer layer 82.
  • a filling valve 89 is arranged. The control of the filling device 70 is accomplished by simply switching valves 76, 84 and 89 alternately and the fact that 3 different pressure levels are used: p1 (product)> p2 (pressurized fluid)> p0 (atmospheric).
  • the coupling fluid can be introduced and removed via a fluid reservoir 88 with suitable actuating and control elements.
  • a fluid reservoir 88 with suitable actuating and control elements.
  • These central fluid containers are esp. Run as a ring channels or containers. To set the desired pressure level in the respective fluid container only one central unit, such as a pump or feed is required in each case.
  • the check valve 76 is closed and the metering valve 84 and fill valve 89 are opened to provide a defined amount of pressurized fluid, e.g. Oil or water to press into the interior space within the polymer layer 82.
  • the polymer layer 82 expands to the balloon-like shape shown in dashed lines, whereby a defined product volume from the Vorhellraum 72 via the filling valve 89 into a container 96, e.g. a bottle is dispensed.
  • the filling valve 89 is closed and the check valve 76 is opened. Now, the amount of pressurized fluid forced into the interior space within the polymer layer 82 is pushed back into the fluid container 88 by the higher pressure in the product container 75 relative to the pressure in the fluid container 88 or by means of a pump, whereby the polymer layer 82 rests against the supply tube 80 again.
  • the defined amount of product from the product container 75 is introduced into the Vorphilllraum 72, whereby the filling device 70 is ready for the next filling.
  • Fig. 14 shows one too Fig. 13 largely identical embodiment of a filling device 90, in which identical and functionally identical parts are provided with the same reference numerals.
  • a bellows 92 is part of the displacer assembly 94, which has the same function as the polymer layer 82 in FIG Fig. 13 Has.
  • the bellows 92 may consist of a relatively inelastic material, since the change in volume can be realized here by the relative movement of the parts of the bellows relative to each other.
  • the bellows 92 is acted upon by a pressurized fluid. The control takes place as in connection with Fig. 13 explained.

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  1. Dispositif de remplissage pour le remplissage de récipients avec un produit de remplissage, avec une alimentation de produit (12) et un espace de préremplissage (14, 72) séparable de l'alimentation de produit, qui présente une sortie commandable (28), lequel dispositif de remplissage présente un agencement étanche mobile qui sépare dans une position de fermeture l'alimentation de produit de l'espace de préremplissage, dans lequel l'agencement étanche présente un agencement à piston (16), et avec un agencement de déplacement (36) pénétrant et/ou pouvant pénétrer dans l'espace de préremplissage (14, 72), dans lequel l'agencement de déplacement (36) présente au moins une paroi déformable élastiquement ou au moins une section de paroi, et dans lequel l'agencement de déplacement (36) est en outre en liaison active avec un moyen de commande ou agent de commande de telle manière que le volume puisse être varié dans l'espace de préremplissage (14) par la modification de volume élastique de l'agencement de déplacement (36) et la quantité de produit pouvant être déchargée par le biais de la sortie (28) puisse être commandée, caractérisé en ce que
    l'agencement à piston est réalisé comme une partie de l'agencement à double piston (16) avec un piston extérieur (18) et un piston intérieur (36) qui sont agencés de manière concentrique l'un à l'autre et coopèrent de manière télescopique.
  2. Dispositif de remplissage selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que l'au moins une paroi déformable élastiquement ou l'au moins une section de paroi est formée par un soufflet (38).
  3. Dispositif de remplissage selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, où le piston extérieur (18) de l'agencement à double piston (16) rend étanche en position de fermeture l'espace de préremplissage (14) par rapport à l'alimentation de produit (12) et le piston intérieur (36) forme l'agencement de déplacement.
  4. Dispositif de remplissage selon la revendication 3, où le piston intérieur (36) est mobile en position de fermeture du piston extérieur (18) dans l'espace de préremplissage (14) afin d'y déplacer une quantité de produit prédéfinie.
  5. Dispositif de remplissage selon la revendication 3 ou 4, où le piston intérieur (36) est rendu étanche par rapport au piston extérieur (18) avec un second soufflet (38) ou le piston intérieur (36) est réalisé comme un soufflet (38).
  6. Dispositif de remplissage selon la revendication 3, 4 ou 5, où le piston extérieur (18) est rendu étanche avec un premier soufflet (24) par rapport à l'alimentation de produit (12).
  7. Dispositif de remplissage selon l'une quelconque des revendications 4 à 6, où le piston intérieur (36) est mobile par un élément d'actionnement (40).
  8. Dispositif de remplissage selon la revendication 7, où la résistance de mouvement du mouvement relatif entre le piston intérieur (36) et le piston extérieur (18) est supérieure à la résistance de mouvement du mouvement relatif entre le piston extérieur (18) et l'alimentation de produit (12).
  9. Dispositif de remplissage selon la revendication 7 ou 8, où l'élément d'actionnement (30) est raccordé à un élément de piston (64), et le piston extérieur (18) présente un perçage axial (65) dans lequel l'élément de piston (64) est mobile, et où le piston intérieur (36) est agencé à une extrémité (20) du piston extérieur (18) et est en liaison avec le perçage, et dans lequel un fluide (66) peut être agencé entre l'élément de piston et le piston intérieur.
  10. Dispositif de remplissage selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, où le piston extérieur (18) est mobile par un actionneur (17).
  11. Dispositif de remplissage selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, où l'alimentation de produit (12) est formée par un récipient de produit.
  12. Dispositif de remplissage selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, où une soupape commandable (30, 32, 34) est agencée dans la sortie (28).
  13. Dispositif de remplissage selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, où la soupape (30, 32, 34) contient un élément de fermeture (32) qui coopère avec un élément de membrane (30) élastique agencé autour d'une ouverture de sortie (34), et l'élément de membrane est mobile par rapport à l'élément de fermeture au moyen d'un organe d'actionnement (31).
  14. Dispositif de remplissage selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, où l'agencement de déplacement contient un soufflet (38).
  15. Dispositif de remplissage selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 14, où le soufflet (38) peut être actionné par un piston mécanique ou par voie hydraulique/pneumatique.
  16. Dispositif de remplissage selon la revendication 15, où un fluide (66) peut être introduit et évacué comme liquide de couplage dans le volume intérieur du soufflet (38) en ce que le fluide incompressible (66) se présente dans un volume intérieur modifiable au moyen d'un élément de piston (64) mobile axialement et peut être introduit et évacué au moyen de l'élément de piston (64) dans le second soufflet (38).
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