Patent ID: 6209590
Filing Date: 2001-04-03
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
Method for the filling of cup-shaped packaging containers with a viscous filling substance from a filling nozzle located above a conveyed series of cups, comprising the steps of:successively, upon arrival at the filling nozzle, quickly raising the cups up to a position around the filling nozzle, and thereafter, lowering the cups in a slower movement which corresponds to building up of the viscous filling substance in the cups until an upper edge of the cups is lowered to below a lower end of the filling nozzle;successively, horizontally displacing the cups from under the nozzle while using an upper edge of the cups to cut of a string of the viscous filling substance from the nozzle which can continue without stopping for filling of the next horizontally conveyed cup;wherein vertical movement of the cups is performed by a motor in a manner such that the cups are completely filled with the viscous filling substance regardless of the physical properties of the substance; andwherein the filled cups are weighed and the weight used for controlling process parameters related thereto as filling of the cups continues.