Patent ID: 8757216

Claim:
A device for bottling liquids into containers comprising: at least one filling member for filling the liquids into the containers; a covering device covering the filling member at least temporarily in order to prevent the egress of liquid from the filling member: wherein this covering device is both pivotable about a pre-set pivot axis (X) and displaceable about a pre-set displacement direction (S); only one driving device for producing the movements of the covering device; wherein the filling member comprises a product channel for dispensing the liquids into the containers, and a cleaning channel adjacent to the product channel, which opens into the filling area; and wherein the driving device is selected from a group consisting of a single electric motor, a single magnetic drive, a single pneumatic drive and a single hydraulic drive, which serves to produce both the pivoting movement and the displacement movement of the covering device, and the driving device is designed in such a way that the pivoting movement and the displacement movement take place in a manner at least partially staggered time-wise with respect to each other and, wherein the driving device further comprises: a piston member displaceable in the direction of the pivot axis (X); a rod connected to the piston member and a sleeve for jointly displacing the sleeve and the piston along the pivot axis (X).