Patent ID: 6185910
Filing Date: 2001-02-13
Classification: B67C

Abstract:
A method for high-purity bottling of beverages into bottles, including bottles made of plastic material or glass, comprising the steps of:a) advancing the bottles (7) to first travel into a dirt side (8) of an immersion bath sterilizer (2), said bath sterilizer comprising the dirt side and an ultraclean-room side, said ultraclean-room side (9) having an atmosphere containing less than one hundred germs per cubic meter of air,b) advancing the bottles to run on a path (13) through at least one immersion bath (14, 16),c) advancing the bottles to pass at least one wall (10) separating the dirt side from the ultraclean-room side,d) transferring the bottles at an outlet of the ultraclean-room side of the immersion bath sterilizer (2) to an inlet of a rotary filling machine (2) wherein said bottles are filled while arranged in an arcuate path, said rotary filling machine (3) and a closing machine (4) being arranged in a room (1) in which clean-room conditions, wherein the atmosphere contains less than 10,000 germs per cubic meter of air, prevail, ande) creating ultraclean-room conditions of less than one hundred germs per cubic meter of air along a bottle conveying belt from the outlet of the immersion bath sterilizer (2) to the filling machine, the closing machine (4) and to an outlet of said closing machine for transferring said bottles in said ultraclean-room conditions.