Patent ID: 6817386
Filing Date: 2004-11-16
Classification: B67C

Abstract:
A filling valve comprising a valve housing internally formed with a liquid passage for filling which communicates with a liquid supply piping for filling and having a filling nozzle at a lower end, a liquid valve for opening or closing the liquid passage, liquid valve elevating means for elevating the liquid valve, seal means mounted on the valve housing for sealing the mouth of a vessel supplied, seal elevating means for elevating the seal means and vessel relative to each other, content detecting means for detecting the quantity of liquid which is filled into the vessel, and an exhaust passage formed in the valve housing for exhausting a gas from within the vessel during a filling operation;wherein the exhaust passage has an opening disposed toward the vessel which is disposed outside of an opening of the filling nozzle and the opening of the filling nozzle is maintained above the elevation of the liquid level which is filled into the vessel during the filling operation.