Patent ID: 8701719

Claim:
A method for filling containers with liquid, said method comprising: providing said liquid from a reservoir; providing a filling position group comprising filling positions, at least two of which filling positions being configured to fill a container with said liquid at different, uncompensated filling rates; measuring, with a common flow meter, a total volume of liquid flowing to said at least two filling positions during a filling phase; opening and closing liquid control valves to dispense liquid into containers; and performing at least one of (a) and (b): (a) operating said liquid control valves of said at least two filling positions at different times using a time correction based on a measurement signal provided by said flow meter, and (b) adjusting at least one throttle configured to influence the uncompensated filling rate of at least one of said at least two filling positions based on a measurement signal provided by said flow meter, and thereby compensating for said different, uncompensated filling rates, such that each of said containers contains a desired volume of said liquid at the end of said filling phase.