Patent ID: 7165582
Filing Date: 2007-01-23
Classification: B65B,B67C

Abstract:
1. A beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material, said beverage bottling plant comprising: a bottle cleaning station being configured and disposed to clean bottles with a cleaning fluid; said bottle cleaning station comprising a rotatable structure; a conveyer arrangement being configured and disposed to move bottles into said rotatable bottle cleaning station; a storage apparatus being configured and disposed to store a liquid beverage filling material; a beverage filling machine being configured and disposed to fill empty bottles with liquid beverage filling material; a conduit arrangement being configured and disposed to supply liquid beverage filling material from said storage apparatus to said beverage filling machine; said beverage filling machine comprising a rotatable structure; said rotatable beverage filling machine also comprising a plurality of beverage filling stations, each beverage filling station comprising a beverage filling device for filling bottles with liquid beverage filling material; said filling devices comprising apparatus being configured to introduce a predetermined volume of liquid beverage filling material into interiors of bottles to a substantially predetermined level of liquid beverage filling material and to terminate the filling of beverage bottles upon liquid beverage filling material reaching said substantially predetermined level in bottles; a conveyer arrangement being configured and disposed to move empty bottles from said rotatable bottle cleaning station into said rotatable beverage filling machine; a closing station being configured and disposed to secure bottle caps to bottles to be closed; said bottle closing station comprising a rotatable structure; a conveyer arrangement being configured and disposed to move filled bottles from said rotatable beverage filling machine into said rotatable closing station; said rotatable cleaning station comprising: said rotatable beverage filling machine comprising: said conveyer arrangement for moving bottles from said rotatable bottle cleaning station into said rotatable beverage filling machine comprising: said rotatable bottle closing station comprising: said conveyer arrangement for moving filled bottles from said rotatable beverage filling machine into said rotatable bottle closing station comprising: said beverage bottling plant further comprising: