Patent ID: 6382265
Filing Date: 2002-05-07
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
A method for filling a double-wall receptacle with a solid, fluid or pasty bulk mass, said double-wall receptacle including an inner chamber surrounded by an inner wall and an outer chamber surrounding said inner chamber defined on an inner side by said inner wall and on an outer side by an outer wall of said receptacle, said double-wall receptacle being open at one axial end for filling, the method comprising:deforming said inner wall and/or said outer wall at least in a portion of said open axial end of said receptacle at at least one point transversely to said axial direction so that a distance between said inner wall and said outer wall at at least one location of a circumferential portion of said outer chamber is larger than in an original non-deformed circumferential portion; inserting at least one filler nozzle into said outer chamber at said location of said enlarged distance between said inner wall and said outer wall, an outer diameter of said filler nozzle being larger than said distance between said inner wall and said outer wall in said original non-deformed circumferential portion.