Patent ID: 7647950
Filing Date: 2010-01-19
Classification: B67C

Abstract:
1. A beverage bottle filling machine for filling beverage bottles with a carbonated liquid beverage material in a beverage bottling plant, said beverage bottle filling machine comprising: a rotor; a rotatable vertical machine column; said rotor being connected to said vertical machine column to permit rotation of said rotor about said vertical machine column; at least one liquid reservoir being configured to hold a supply of carbonated liquid beverage material; a first star wheel structure being configured and disposed to move beverage bottles into said beverage bottle filling machine; a second star wheel structure being configured and disposed to move beverage bottles out of said beverage bottle filling machine; a plurality of beverage bottle filling elements for filling beverage bottles with carbonated liquid beverage material being disposed on the periphery of said rotor; each of said plurality of beverage bottle filling elements being configured and disposed to dispense carbonated liquid beverage material under counterpressure into beverage bottles to be filled in a sealed filling process; and each of said plurality of beverage bottle filling elements comprising: