Patent ID: 6263925
Filing Date: 2001-07-24
Classification: B67C

Abstract:
In a traveling device for automatically filling cans with a beverage wherein a valve is raised and lowered for the purpose of introduction of pressurized gas into each successive container, and wherein said raising and lowering is accomplished by rotation of a shaft having an end with operates to raise a valve member, and an opposite end having a lever arm extending therefrom which is depressed for the purpose for rotating said shaft, the improvement which comprisesan actuator mechanism supported on a stationary surface on said apparatus and having an extendible and retractable piston member for depressing said lever, said piston member being extended and retracted by means of a pneumatic cylinder,said piston rod member supporting a lever arm engaging block having a surface for engaging said lever, said block being convexly arcuately contoured and having a width approximately equal to the length of said lever arm, said block being adapted to engage and depress said lever arm as said apparatus travels relative to said actuator mechanism when said piston member is extended.