Patent ID: 6820660
Filing Date: 2004-11-23
Classification: B65G,B67C

Abstract:
A device for sterile filling of containers, which comprises(i) a hygienic chamber having at least an upper zone and a lower zone; (ii) a conveyor system housed in said hygienic chamber comprising a plurality of container carriers for holding a multiplicity of containers and means for transporting said container carriers and containers through a conveyance circuit having a plurality of horizontally spaced processing levels, (iii) means for introducing sterilizing agent into said upper zone of said hygienic chamber, wherein said multiplicity of containers are at least sterilized, and (iv) means for maintaining said container carriers in close proximity to one another to form a predominantly closed field when said container carriers are in said upper zone of said chamber for maintaining the highest concentration of said sterilizing agent in said upper zone, said conveyor system and hygienic chamber adapted for a reduction in the concentration of sterilizing agent in said hygienic chamber as said agent descends through said plurality of horizontally spaced processing levels of said conveyance circuit.