US3515180A - Method and apparatus for filling containers with beverages using a packed line principle - Google Patents

Method and apparatus for filling containers with beverages using a packed line principle Download PDF

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US3515180A
US3515180A US3515180DA US3515180A US 3515180 A US3515180 A US 3515180A US 3515180D A US3515180D A US 3515180DA US 3515180 A US3515180 A US 3515180A
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Kenneth F Friendship
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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
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    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T137/00—Fluid handling
    • Y10T137/0318—Processes
    • Y10T137/0385—Carbonated beverage handling processes
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T137/00—Fluid handling
    • Y10T137/2931—Diverse fluid containing pressure systems
    • Y10T137/3115—Gas pressure storage over or displacement of liquid
    • Y10T137/3121—With return of liquid to supply

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  • the filling apparatus has a distributor head with a plurality of outlet members connected to individual filling heads and means supply a flow of beverage under pres sure to the distributor head.
  • a free gas disposal chamher is provided positioned above the distributor head and connected to the beverage supply means, and the distributor head preferably has the outlet members extending downwardly at an acute angle with relation to a vertical axis of the supply means.
  • A- return tube is positioned within the supply means and has an open inlet end adjacent the top of the free gas disposal chamber.
  • This invention relates to beverage filling apparatus, particularly to apparatus for filling a large number of containers rapidly and substantially automatically with a uniform content of a beverage, which usually contains carbon dioxide or is of a carbonated nature.
  • the general object of the present invention is to avoid any instability of, or fluctuations in pressure in, the processed beverage in container filling apparatus wherein such pressure fluctuations may be caused by pump action, liquid hammer actions from rapidly opening or closing ice valves in the apparatus, and/ or by pressure variation due to change in rate of how of the beverage, as well as for other pressure variations that may arise in the system.
  • Another object of the invention is to avoid any accumulation of gas pockets in carbonated liquids as they are being processed rapidly for container filling action.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide beverage container filling apparatus, particularly adapted for use with carbonated beverages, wherein the apparatus provides for continuously circulating a portion of the product to be fed into bottles from its source to and through the filling machine right up to the point of distribution to the individual filling systems and to return an appreciable controlled amount of the beverage continuously back to its source for recirculation in the system.
  • FIG. 1 represents a beverage dispensing and/or filling machine that can be used with any typical or conventional carbonated beverage processing apparatus.
  • a beverage is provided to an inlet line 10 from suitable means prepared for container filling action.
  • Some beverage is to be returned for reprocessing by a return line 12.
  • the return line or tube 12 preferably has a control valve or means 13 provided therein whereby the rate of flow of beverage through the line 12. can be varied within desired limits.
  • a beverage distributor and filling machine 15 is provided with beverage from the inlet line 11. Any suitable rotary joints or couplings 14 connect the lines 11 and 12 to operative parts of the machine 15.
  • the beverage supply means includes a vertically positioned, upwardly extending tube 16 which is received within the bore or hollow center of a suitable support 17 which positions and journals the filling machine 15 for container filling action. Only a portion of this distributor and filling apparatus 15 is shown as the remainder thereof is shown and described in detail in my previously identified co-pending patent application.
  • the filling apparatus includes a plurality of individual filling heads H that normally are secured to radially extending arms or circumferentially spaced parts of a support means 21 carried by the upper end of the support 17. Any desired means (not shown) engage the support 17 and position it for controlled rotary movement.
  • the individual filling section or heads of the filling apparatus are adapted to be associated with individual containers for filling them with beverage during a controlled arcuate movement of the upper portion of the filling apparatus or machine 15.
  • This also includes a distributor head or means indicated as a whole by the numeral 22 and which is made from an upper plate 18 and a lower plate 19.
  • the plate 19 has a plurality of individual outlet means, members, or bores 23 of which only one is shown, but which are provided at circumferentially spaced portions of the distributor head for connection to the individual filling heads provided in the filling apparatus of the invention, as by tubes or lines 24.
  • the distributor plates 18 and 19 are so designed and constructed that the upper plate 18 has a downwardly inclined inner surface 35 which is at an acute angle to the horizontal and it has an upwardly extending neck or tube 26.
  • lower plate 19 is in suitable sealed engagement adjacent flow of beverage between these plates, as described hereinafter in more detail.
  • the supply means section or tube 16 extends upwardly of the machine to discharge the beverage supplied under pressure by the line to a relatively small free gas disposal chamber 25 that is positioned adjacent but slightly above the distributor head 22.
  • the individual outlet members or bores 23 preferably extend at a slight acute angle downwardly with relation to a horizontal plane normal to the tube 16.
  • a portion of the beverage supplied to the chamber 25 is continuously withdrawn therefrom for recirculation in the cooling or other processing apparatus with which the machine is used.
  • This recirculation, from the top of the beverage flow path, of a controlled amount of the beverage being processed, such as up to about 10 percent of the beverage, is an important feature of the present invention and it is obtained by use of a return or exhaust tube 28 that is received within the bore of the tube 16 and normally is on the central axis thereof.
  • Such return tube 28 preferably extends to a point adjacent the top of the chamber 25 and has an inlet end provided thereat.
  • the distributor head 22 is made from the plates 18 and 19 that are suitably secured together in the assembled apparatus.
  • the lower plate 19 has a distributing recess or groove 29 formed therein at the radially inner ends of the outlets or bores 23.
  • Such recess or groove 29 connects to the distributor neck 26 through the flow restrictor, or regulator formed between the parallel surfaces 35 and 27.
  • Any vertical section through the restrictor means area in the distributor head or means 22 equals, or substantially equals, the total cross-sectional area of the outlets 23 for a smooth flow of beverage through the distributor to the individual filling heads in the machine.
  • any entrapped air or gas bubbles flow upwardly in this small chamber.
  • the beverage received in the chamber 25 then flows downwardly therefrom through the relatively large diameter neck 26 formed in association with the distributor head or means 22.
  • this downward fiow path continues as the beverage moves into and through the regulator or fiow restrictor means formed between the surfaces 35 and 27 to the distributor channel or groove 29.
  • the beverage then continues to flow in a downward direction through the individual outlets 23 and the conventional fittings and other members attached thereto to 4 distribute the beverage to the individual filling heads H.
  • the free gas receiving chamber 25 collects any gas bubbles or free air therein and such gases will be withdrawn from the chamber 25 through the outlet tube 28 with beverage flow therethrough.
  • the distributor outlets 23 are inclined downwardly at, for example, about a 10 angle and conventional fittings connect the tubes thereto.
  • An apparatus for filling containers with carbonated beverages including a distributor chamber with a lurality of outlet means individually connected thereto for individual filling heads,
  • a free gas disposal chamber positioned above and in flow communication with the distributor chamber
  • the supply means supplying a flow of beverage under pressure to said gas disposal chamber, the supply means being on a vertical axis and having an upward flow of beverage therein to such free gas disposal chamber,
  • said first chamber being positioned above the distributor head to receive said flow of beverage
  • second means for supplying a flow of beverage vertically downwardly under pressure from said first chamber to said distributor means and allowing for the upward flow of free gas from said distributor means to said first chamber
  • said distributor means forming a second chamber therein having an upper surface extending downwardly and outwardly to provide gas bubble flow back up to said first chamber.
  • a control means is present in said return tube to regulate flow of the beverage therethrough.
  • an apparatus for filling containers with beverages including a distributor means with a plurality of circumferentially spaced outlet means adapted to be individually connected to individual filling heads, and beverage supply means on a vertical axis and having an upward flow of beverage therein, the improvement comprising a first chamber positioned above the distributor means and connected to the supply means,
  • said distributor means comprisin upper and lower members secured together at peripheral portions thereof and having inner walls opposed and defining a second chamber, said upper member having an upwardly extending neck connecting to the bottom of said first chamber for downward flow of the beverage from said first chamber to said distributor means and for upward flow of any free gas contained in said beverage from said distributor means to said first chamber,
  • said upper member having an inner wall surface downwardly inclined at an acute angle
  • said outlet means extending in a radical direction in relation to said neck and being formed in said lower member.
  • a beverage container filling method for carbonated beverage which has been processed and is supplied under controlled temperature and pressure conditions, the improvement comprising the steps of flowing all of the beverage vertically upwardly in a flow path to a storage area,
  • a method as in claim 8 including flowing the first beverage portion withdrawn vertically downwardly in relation to said volume of said beverage at said first storage area, and providing a downwardly inclined beverage discharge flow path in relation to a horizontal plane in said second area.

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US3830265A (en) * 1972-08-14 1974-08-20 American Can Co Method and apparatus for filling a container
US3991918A (en) * 1974-11-04 1976-11-16 Speedfam Corporation Abrasive slurry regulator assembly
EP0492768A1 (en) * 1990-12-20 1992-07-01 LaWARRE PRECISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Improved assembly for supplying the valves of a container-filling apparatus with liquid
WO1996031290A1 (en) * 1995-04-06 1996-10-10 W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn. Rotary union
WO2004052770A1 (ja) 2002-12-12 2004-06-24 Suntory Limited 液体充填方法及び装置
WO2009137332A3 (en) * 2008-05-07 2010-04-01 Mott's Llp Method and apparatus for manufacturing protein beverages
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US1628853A (en) * 1926-03-06 1927-05-17 Frank B Lomax Liquid dispenser
US2097107A (en) * 1934-08-14 1937-10-26 Crown Cork & Seal Co Filling machine
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DE339070C (de) * 1919-12-09 1921-07-14 Carl Winterwerb Rotierende Flaschenfuellvorrichtung mit Zusatzpumpe
US1628853A (en) * 1926-03-06 1927-05-17 Frank B Lomax Liquid dispenser
US2097107A (en) * 1934-08-14 1937-10-26 Crown Cork & Seal Co Filling machine
US2364400A (en) * 1940-06-21 1944-12-05 Crown Cork & Seal Co Apparatus for filling
DE825953C (de) * 1950-04-27 1951-12-27 Dipl Br Ing Josef Krieglmeyer Rotierender Flaschenfueller

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US3830265A (en) * 1972-08-14 1974-08-20 American Can Co Method and apparatus for filling a container
US3991918A (en) * 1974-11-04 1976-11-16 Speedfam Corporation Abrasive slurry regulator assembly
EP0492768A1 (en) * 1990-12-20 1992-07-01 LaWARRE PRECISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Improved assembly for supplying the valves of a container-filling apparatus with liquid
WO1996031290A1 (en) * 1995-04-06 1996-10-10 W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn. Rotary union
US5947337A (en) * 1995-04-06 1999-09-07 W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn. Rotary union
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WO2009137332A3 (en) * 2008-05-07 2010-04-01 Mott's Llp Method and apparatus for manufacturing protein beverages
WO2012007080A1 (de) * 2010-07-15 2012-01-19 Khs Gmbh Behandlungsmaschine für behälter
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