EP3663255A1 - Dispositif et procédé de remplissage d'un produit de remplissage dans un récipient à remplir dans une installation d'embouteillage - Google Patents

Dispositif et procédé de remplissage d'un produit de remplissage dans un récipient à remplir dans une installation d'embouteillage Download PDF

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EP3663255A1
EP3663255A1 EP19213956.6A EP19213956A EP3663255A1 EP 3663255 A1 EP3663255 A1 EP 3663255A1 EP 19213956 A EP19213956 A EP 19213956A EP 3663255 A1 EP3663255 A1 EP 3663255A1
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Josef Doblinger
Franz Braun
Christian Gebauer
Angela Gruenwald
Bruno Landler
Holger Mueller
Sebastian Passberger
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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
    • B67C3/06—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus using counterpressure, i.e. filling while the container is under pressure
    • B67C3/10—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus using counterpressure, i.e. filling while the container is under pressure preliminary filling with inert gases, e.g. carbon dioxide
    • 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
    • B67C3/04—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus without applying pressure
    • B67C3/045—Apparatus specially adapted for filling bottles with hot liquids
    • 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
    • B67C3/06—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus using counterpressure, i.e. filling while the container is under pressure
    • 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
    • B67C3/06—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus using counterpressure, i.e. filling while the container is under pressure
    • B67C3/14—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus using counterpressure, i.e. filling while the container is under pressure specially adapted for filling with hot liquids
    • 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
    • B67C3/26—Filling-heads; Means for engaging filling-heads with bottle necks
    • B67C3/2614—Filling-heads; Means for engaging filling-heads with bottle necks specially adapted for counter-pressure filling
    • B67C3/2617—Filling-heads; Means for engaging filling-heads with bottle necks specially adapted for counter-pressure filling the liquid valve being opened by mechanical or electrical actuation

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  • the present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for filling a filling product into a container to be filled in a beverage filling system, preferably for filling a carbonated beverage or for hot filling a beverage.
  • Such devices comprise a filling product reservoir, in which the filling product to be filled is received before filling, and a filling member, which is in fluid communication with the filling product reservoir via a filling product channel.
  • Devices for filling carbonated beverages are known in which the container to be filled is pretensioned to a pretensioning pressure before being filled with a prestressing gas.
  • the filling element is brought into sealing contact with an opening in the container to be filled and the clamping gas is then introduced from the filling element into the container.
  • the prestressing pressure in the container reduces or prevents outgassing of carbon dioxide from the filling product when the container is subsequently filled with the carbonized filling product.
  • the filling element is in fluid communication with a gas region of the filling product reservoir by means of a media channel, also called a biasing channel.
  • the gas area of the fill product reservoir has a gas, usually carbon dioxide, which is present in the fill product reservoir at a predetermined pressure and prevents outgassing of carbon dioxide from the carbonized fill product in the fill product reservoir.
  • the gas from the filling product reservoir is therefore used as the biasing gas as the biasing gas in these devices.
  • the gas overpressure received in the container is released via another media channel, the so-called relaxation channel.
  • the gas under pressure in the container is discharged to the environment or to the outside via the expansion channel.
  • the container to be filled When filling carbonated beverages, which are sensitive to the presence of oxygen, such as beer, the container to be filled is additionally rinsed with pure carbon dioxide before being tempered.
  • the oxygen in the air which is initially in the container to be filled, can be flushed out of the container before filling.
  • the filling element is connected to an additional media channel, the pure CO2 channel, which delivers pure carbon dioxide to the filling element.
  • the carbon dioxide flows through the pure CO2 channel into the container and first displaces the air and later in the flushing process the air / CO2 gas mixture from the container into the opened relaxation channel and further into the environment.
  • the disadvantage here is that, in addition to the pretensioning line, the pure CO2 channel and corresponding valves for opening and closing the pure CO2 channel must also be provided, which makes the construction of such devices more complex and consequently increases the production and maintenance costs.
  • devices and methods for hot filling are known, in which the filling product is subjected to a heat treatment before filling into the container in order to kill germs present in the filling product and to achieve a predetermined or required microbiological shelf life.
  • the filling element and the container are also sterilized during the filling process by the hot filled filling product.
  • the filling product supplied to the filling element through the filling product channel displaces gases located in the container during filling, mostly air, which are discharged into the environment via a relaxation channel.
  • devices for hot filling have a further media channel in the form of a hot - return channel on.
  • the hot return duct is connected to the filling element and, when the filling valve is closed, enables the hot filling product to circulate in the filling element or in the device.
  • Devices are also known which are suitable for filling a filling product into a container by means of a carbonized filling method and a hot filling method.
  • This type of device is particularly suitable when mainly carbonated drinks are to be filled and a few drinks are also to be filled hot.
  • devices are known which, in addition to the filling product channel, on the one hand have a prestressing channel and a relaxation channel and additionally a hot return channel.
  • a further pure CO2 channel must also be provided for filling oxygen-sensitive carbonized products. Due to the multitude of media channels to be provided in addition to the filling product channel and their switching functions and valves, the devices for the combined filling of carbonated drinks and hot drinks have a complex structure and are correspondingly large, expensive and maintenance-intensive.
  • an object of the present invention to provide an improved device for filling a filling product into a container to be filled in a beverage filling system, preferably for filling a carbonated beverage or for hot filling a beverage, and a corresponding method.
  • the object is achieved by a device for filling a filling product into a container to be filled in a beverage filling system, preferably for filling a carbonated beverage or for hot filling a beverage, with the features of claim 1.
  • a device for filling a filling product into a container to be filled in a beverage filling system preferably for filling a carbonated beverage or for hot filling a beverage
  • a device for filling a filling product into a container to be filled in a beverage filling system preferably for filling a carbonated beverage or for hot filling a beverage
  • a filling product reservoir and a filling member in fluid communication with the filling product channel for introducing the filling product into the container to be filled, the filling member via media channels for providing media flows for the functions of purging the container with a purge gas before filling with the filling product and / or pretensioning the container with a clamping gas to a pretensioning pressure before filling with the filling product during filling one carbonized filling product and / or the backflow of gas displaced during the filling of the container with the filling product and / or the relaxation of a gas overpressure built up in the container after filling with the filling product and / or the circulation of a hot filling product through the filling member to temper the filling member the hot filling communicates during the filling process.
  • a media channel is assigned
  • the one media channel is set up for rinsing the container before filling with the filling product and for pretensioning the container to a pretensioning pressure before filling with the filling product. This means that there is no need for an additional pure CO2 channel.
  • the purging of the container is preferably carried out, as is the pretensioning of the container with gas from the filling product reservoir.
  • the amount of gas withdrawn from the filling product reservoir for purging is preferably continuously added to the filling product reservoir.
  • the device is set up in a first operating state for filling a carbonized filling product and in a second operating state for hot filling a filling product, preferably one of the functions carried out via one media channel being assigned to the first operating state and the other being assigned to the same one Media channel processed functions is assigned to the second operating state.
  • the one media channel in the first operating state is set up to perform the functions of rinsing the container before filling with the filling product and pretensioning the container to a pretensioning pressure before filling with the Execute filling product and is set up in the second operating state to allow displaced gas to flow back from the container during the filling of the filling product.
  • the media channel with the filling product reservoir preferably a gas region of the filling product reservoir, is preferably in fluid communication.
  • a media channel is set up in the first operating state to relax a gas excess pressure built up in the container after filling with the filling product and in the second operating state is set up to circulate a hot filling product through the filling element to temper the filling element during hot filling, an additional return channel is dispensed with, and yet the necessary circulation of the hot filling product is made possible.
  • a particularly simple construction of the device can be achieved if, according to a further preferred embodiment, exactly two media channels are provided.
  • the manufacturing costs and the maintenance expenditure of the device are reduced accordingly.
  • a first media channel of exactly two media channels in the first operating state is set up to carry out the functions of rinsing the container before filling with the filling product and pretensioning the container to a pre-tensioning pressure before filling with the filling product, and set up in the second operating state to to allow gas displaced from the container to flow back during the filling of the filling product, and / or a second media channel of the exactly two media channels is set up in the first operating state to relax a gas excess pressure built up in the container after filling with the filling product and in the second operating state to circulate a hot one Filling product set up by the filling element for tempering the filling element during hot filling.
  • the filling product reservoir is designed as an adjacent filling product reservoir. This results in correspondingly large channel lengths between the filling element and the filling product reservoir, such that the media channel acts as a buffer when the gas displaced from the container is returned. In other words, the volume in the one media channel, through which the backflow of gas displaced during the filling of the container with the filling product takes place, is so great that the backflowing gas does not reach the filling product reservoir. Contamination of the filling product reservoir by contaminated gas and / or air in the container is therefore excluded.
  • a media distributor for distributing the media provided by the filling product reservoir is preferably arranged between the filling product reservoir and the filling element.
  • the media distributor divides the media channels into a reservoir distributor section and a distributor filler section. If the device has a plurality of filling elements, the reservoir distributor section can be formed in a common channel for all filling elements.
  • the filling members are then each connected to the media distributor via separate distributor-filling member sections of the media channels and are connected to the adjacent filling product reservoir by the media distributor by means of the common reservoir-distributor sections of the media channels.
  • a return switching valve for providing a filling product flow from the filling element into the media channel, which is occupied with the circulation of the hot filling product, is provided on the filling element.
  • a switching valve and / or a check valve for preventing a gas flow into the filling product reservoir and / or a vent valve for discharging gas can be provided on the media channel, which is occupied with the backflow of gas displaced during the filling of the container with the filling product or gas mixture from the media channel can be provided in the environment, wherein the vent valve is preferably controllable via a switching position of the switching valve and / or the check valve.
  • the one media channel for rinsing and pretensioning the container in the first operating state can be designed according to a further preferred embodiment to displace from the container into the media channel during the filling of the filling product into a container To use gas or gas mixture for purging and / or prestressing at least one further container to be filled.
  • the filling element comprises a filling valve, the return switching valve in the second operating state being set up so that when the filling valve is closed, the filling product flowing from the filling product channel into the filling element flows into the media channel, which is occupied with the circulation of the hot filling product to enable.
  • the filling element to be tempered and the required filling temperature of the hot filling product to be maintained.
  • the return switching valve ensures that no filling product flows into the media channel during the filling of the container, which would otherwise reduce the filling performance of the device.
  • the media channel which is used for rinsing and / or prestressing the container, can have a prestress valve for connecting the filling member to the media channel and / or the media channel, which, in the first operating state, is occupied with the expansion of the gas overpressure built up in the container, has an expansion valve for discharging gas or gas mixture from the filling element into the media channel.
  • the media channel which is occupied in the first operating draft with the release of the excess gas pressure built up in the container and in the second operating state with the circulation of the hot filling product, is a further switching valve for the selective provision of fluid communication with the filling product reservoir and / or the filling product channel or with the environment.
  • the device has a plurality of filling elements.
  • the plurality of filling elements are preferably arranged on a transport device of the device, preferably a rotary transport device, the filling elements preferably being connected to the media distributor by their own media channels and common media channels being present between the media distributor and the filling product reservoir.
  • gas or gas mixture which is displaced from the container and is returned to the media channel is provided for prestressing at least one further container.
  • the gas volume flow required for operating the device in the first operating state can be reduced by the amount of the recirculated gas. Since more gas is required for purging the container than flows back out of the container during filling, it is particularly important when the filling product reservoir ensures that the gas flow, viewed from the filling product reservoir, always flows in the direction of the filling element. Contamination of the filling product reservoir is therefore not possible.
  • a method for filling a filling product into a container to be filled in a beverage filling system preferably for filling a carbonated beverage or for hot filling a beverage
  • the filling product from a filling product reservoir via a filling product channel to a filling element for introducing the filling product into the filling container is supplied, the filling member via media channels for providing media flows for the functions of purging a container to be filled with a purge gas before filling with the filling product and / or pretensioning the container with a clamping gas to a pretensioning pressure before filling with the Filling product when filling a carbonized filling product and / or the backflow of gas displaced during the filling of the container with the filling product and / or the release of a gas excess pressure built up in the container after filling with the filling product and / or the circulation s of a hot filling product is communicated by the filling element for tempering the filling element during hot filling during the filling
  • the one media channel is used to rinse the container before filling it with the filling product and to pretension the container to a pretension pressure before filling with the filling product.
  • a carbonized filling product is filled into the container in a first operating state and a hot filling product is filled into the container in a second operating state, preferably one of the functions processed via one media channel being assigned to the first operating state and the other one being assigned to the first operating state functions handled in the same media channel is assigned to the second operating state.
  • the one media channel is used in the first operating state to carry out the functions of rinsing the container before filling with the filling product and pretensioning the container to a pre-stressing pressure before filling with the filling product and used in the second operating state while of the filled product from the container to allow gas that has been displaced to flow back.
  • a media channel is used in the first operating state for relieving a gas excess pressure built up in the container after filling with the filling product, and in the second operating state for circulating a hot filling product through the filling element to temper the filling element during hot filling.
  • exactly two media channels are used to provide media flows for the functions.
  • gas or gas mixture which is displaced from the prestressed container and is returned to the media channel is used for prestressing at least one further container.
  • the gas or gas mixture which is displaced during the filling and is returned to the media channel is released into the environment in the second operating state.
  • FIG. 1 a side view of a device 1 for filling a filling product 17 into a container 16 to be filled according to a first embodiment is shown schematically.
  • a plurality of filling elements 2 are provided for introducing the filling product 17 into a respective container 16 to be filled located under the respective filling element 2.
  • the plurality of filling elements 2 are arranged on a transport device 21 which can be rotated about an axis of rotation 20, for example on the circumference of a filler carousel.
  • the device 1 further comprises a filling product reservoir 4 which is stationary next to the transport device 21, the filling members 2 being in fluid communication with the filling product reservoir 4 via a common filling product channel 3.
  • the filling elements 2 are in fluid communication with exactly two further media channels 5, 6.
  • a first media channel 5 is in fluid communication with a gas region 12 or head space of the filling product reservoir 4.
  • a tensioning gas which is usually provided in the form of carbon dioxide and is present at a predetermined prestressing pressure.
  • a second media channel 6 provides ventilation of the interior of the container to the environment or to the outside.
  • a media distributor 7 is arranged between the filling product reservoir 4 and the filling elements 2, which distributes the media provided by the filling product reservoir 4, and consequently the filling product 17 and the clamping gas, to the individual filling elements 2.
  • the media distributor 7 divides the filling product channel 3 and the first media channel 5 into a reservoir distributor section 18 and a distributor filling member section 19, the reservoir distributor section 18 for all filling members 2 in a common filling product channel 3 and a common one first media channel 5 is formed.
  • the filling elements 2 are each connected to the media distributor 7 via separate sections of the filling product channel 3 and sections of the first media channel 5.
  • a plurality of filling elements 2 can also be connected to the media distributor 7 via common sections.
  • the device 1 is further described by way of example with reference to one of the plurality of filling elements 2 of the same design.
  • the filling element 2 has a container holder 22 in which a container 16 to be filled is held.
  • the container 16 can be brought into sealing contact with the filling element 2 via the container holder 22.
  • a filling valve 9 is provided in the filling element 2.
  • a preload valve 11 is also provided, and to connect the filling element 2 to the second media channel 6, a relief valve 10 is provided.
  • a purging of the container 16 with purge gas in order to remove air and in particular the oxygen contained in the air, which is initially in the container 16 to be filled, from the container 16 before filling.
  • the expansion valve 10 and the biasing valve 11 are each brought into an open position so that the carbon dioxide originating from the filling product reservoir 4 can flow into the container 16 from the first media channel 5 via the filling element 2.
  • the carbon dioxide that has flowed into the container 16 first displaces the air and later in the flushing process the air / CO2 gas mixture from the container 16 into the open second media channel 6 and further into the environment via the ventilation.
  • the expansion valve 10 is closed again, so that a prestressing pressure corresponding to the prestressing pressure in the filling product reservoir 4 is established in the container 16 due to the still flowing carbon dioxide.
  • the preload pressure in Container 16 reduces or prevents outgassing of carbon dioxide from the filling product 17 when the container 16 is subsequently filled with the carbonized filling product 17.
  • the gas from the filling product reservoir 4 is used both as a purge gas and as a tensioning gas.
  • the first media channel 5 is therefore set up both for rinsing the container 16 before filling with the filling product 17 and for pre-stressing the container 16 to a pre-stressing pressure before filling with the filling product 17.
  • the filling valve 9 is opened, so that the filling product 17 flows into the prestressed container 16.
  • the gas present in the container 16 after the prestressing is displaced by the inflowing filling product 17 from the container 16 via the opened prestress valve 11 into the first media channel 5 and possibly into the media distributor 7.
  • the first media channel 5 is therefore also set up to allow a backflow of gas displaced during the filling of the container 16 with the filling product 17.
  • the media channel 5 is thus used for providing the purge gas, for providing the tensioning gas and for receiving the backflow of the gas displaced from the container 16 during filling.
  • the filling valve 9 and the preload valve 11 are closed and the excess gas pressure in the container is discharged via the now opened expansion valve 10 into the second media channel 6 until the excess gas pressure built up in the container 16, after filling with the filling product 17, relaxes in a controlled manner to ambient pressure is in order to then be able to separate the container 16 from the filling element.
  • the pressurized gas in the container 16 is thereby discharged into the environment or outside via the second media channel 6 and the vent.
  • FIG 2 a side view of a device 1 for filling a filling product 17 into a container 16 to be filled is shown schematically according to a further embodiment.
  • the device 1 essentially corresponds to the device Figure 1 , wherein a return switching valve 8 is additionally provided on the filling element 2 for providing a filling product flow from the filling element 2 into the second media channel 6.
  • the device 1 is thus set up in a first operating state for filling a carbonized filling product 17 and in a second operating state for hot filling a filling product 17.
  • the method for filling a carbonized filling product 17 corresponding to the first operating state corresponds to the device 1 Figure 2 that previously made with regard to the device Figure 1 has been described.
  • the return switching valve 8 is continuously held in a closed position.
  • the filling of a hot filling product 17, for example a juice, into the container 16 according to the second operating state is described below.
  • the filling product 17 is subjected to a heat treatment before being filled into the container 16 in order to kill germs present in the filling product 17 and to achieve a predetermined or required microbiological shelf life.
  • Due to the hot-filled filling product 17, the filling element 2 and the container 16 are also sterilized during the filling process.
  • the filling element 2 must be kept at a corresponding temperature so that the filling product 17 in the filling element 2 does not cool down before flowing into the container 16. Hot filling takes place without rinsing or pre-stressing.
  • the return switching valve 8 is brought into an open position, whereby the filling element 2 is connected to the second media channel 5 in the area of the filling valve 9.
  • the filling product 17 can circulate through the filling element 2 and via the second media channel 5 back into the filling product reservoir 4 and can be heated again.
  • the expansion valve 10 is closed, so that no filling product 17 can get into the container 16 or into the environment.
  • the second media channel 6 also has a further switching valve 15, by means of which it is possible to switch between fluid communication with the filling product reservoir 4 or with the surroundings.
  • the second media channel 6 therefore either provides a connection to the filling product reservoir 4 or a vent to the surroundings, as indicated here by reference numeral 23.
  • the second media channel 6 is consequently set up in the first operating state for relieving the excess gas pressure built up in the container 16 after filling with the filling product 17 and in the second operating state for circulating the hot filling product 17 through the filling member 2 for tempering the filling member 2 during hot filling.
  • the container 16 is first brought into contact with the filling element 2. After the return switching valve 8 is closed, the filling valve 9 is opened and the hot filling product 17 flows into the container 16. Since, in contrast to the filling of carbonated beverages according to the first operating state, the second media channel 6 in the second operating state with the circulation of the hot filling product 17 is occupied by the filling element 2, the gas displaced from the container 16 during the filling of the container 16 cannot flow back into the second media channel 6 via the expansion valve 10 as in the first operating state. In the second operating state, the displaced gas flows back via the first media channel 5. For this purpose, the preload valve 11 is opened during the filling.
  • the first media channel 5 is consequently set up in the first operating state to perform the functions of rinsing the container 16 before filling with the filling product 17, prestressing the container 16 to a prestressing pressure before filling with the filling product 17 and the backflow of the displaced from the container Execute gas and set up in the second operating state to allow displaced gas to flow back from the container 16 during the filling of the filling product 17.
  • the first media channel 5 furthermore has a vent valve 14 for discharging gas or gas mixture from the first 5 media channel, thus venting into the environment, as by means of the Reference numeral 23 indicated.

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