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Container filling plant, such as a beverage bottling plant, for filling containers with a liquid beverage and for closing filled containers. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): “A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.” The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims.” Therefore, any statements made relating to the abstract are not intended to limit the claims in any manner and should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any manner.

A dual indexing system for rotary orienters for positioning articles so that a feature of each article is facing in the same predetermined direction. The invention comprises a turret having at least one station that is connected to the turret column and rotates therewith as the column rotates about its axis. The station comprises a spindle with a driven turntable attached to support the bottom of an article and a shaft with a driven platen attached to hold the top of the article, the spindle and the shaft being rotatable about their longitudinal axes, which are coincident. A lower indexing assembly and an upper indexing assembly initiate simultaneous rotation of their respective turntable and platen. Each indexing assembly comprises a slip clutch, an indexing wheel that has at least two detents formed therein, an arm that is engageable with the detents and an actuator that is engageable with the arm. When the arms engage their respective indexing wheel, the spindle and the shaft are prevented from rotating. When a sensor indicates an article is improperly oriented, the actuators engage their respective arms so that the arms are disengaged from the detents allowing simultaneous rotation of the turntable and platen. Rotation continues until the arms are released by the actuators and engage another one of the detents.

A container processing machine (M) with at least one carousel (1, 1′) which defines a multiple-row processing section (2, 2′), processing devices (24, 25) which move concurrently in multiple rows with the carousel, container holding element groups which are attached to sections of a concurrently moving conveyor device (3), holding elements (H), at least within the processing section (2, 2′), that are positioned next to each other transversely to the conveyance direction, and feed and removal systems (Z, A) for the loading and the unloading of the holding elements (H). The feed and removal systems (Z, A) are designed with a single row, while the holding elements (H) of the groups are resettable between a single-row position, in which they are oriented at least approximately parallel to the conveyance direction, and, in the area of the loading and unloading zones (L, E), a position resetting device (U) for the holding elements. In a procedure for loading and loading a container processing machine (M), the holding element groups are loaded from only one single row (D) and unloaded again into a single row (D), and the holding element groups, for the loading and unloading with respect to the conveyor device (3), are temporarily reset between single-row and multiple-row positions.

The invention discloses a freshly-squeezed orange juice bottling production line of a vending machine. The freshly-squeezed orange juice bottling production line comprises a production line structure frame, a bottle grabbing manipulator, a manipulator connecting plate, a transverse conveying mechanism, a filling device, a cover applying mechanism, a cover arranging mechanism, a cover fastening mechanism and a rotary delivery mechanism. The freshly-squeezed orange juice bottling production line has the advantages that one set of operation flows of cover applying, cover fastening and delivery of a bottle filled with freshly-squeezed orange juice in the vending machine is completed, so that the coordinated operation of automatic production, processing and controlling is realized, and the safety and quality of a product are ensured.

A conveyor is disclosed suitable for conveying objects such as containers to a processing station. The conveyor includes a plurality of connected links, and at least one gripping member extending from each of the links. Each gripping member is movable relative to its respective link for gripping a container by the neck of the container. A guide structure is disposed on the link for mating a component of the processing station to the neck of the container for processing the container. The processing station may be a filler such as a rotary filler, a capper, or a rinser. Related individual links, conveying systems, and filler components are also disclosed.

The invention discloses an anti-corrosion and anti-explosion full-automatic multihead filling packaging line. The anti-corrosion and anti-explosion full-automatic multihead filling packaging line comprises a filling machine capable of conducting filling on bottles, a control system which is provided with a touch screen and adopts a PLC, a stopper sealing machine capable of installing a stopper in each bottle, a stopper installing detection photoelectric sensor, a stopper installing bottle blocking baffle, a stopper installing pneumatic mechanism, an outer cover installing machine capable of installing an outer cover on each bottle, an outer cover installing detection photoelectric sensor, an outer cover installing bottle blocking baffle, an outer cover installing pneumatic mechanism, a cover screwing machine capable of screwing the outer covers, a labeling machine, a labeling detection photoelectric sensor, an automatic inkjet printing machine and an inkjet printing detection photoelectric sensor. A transport mechanism runs through the whole anti-corrosion and anti-explosion full-automatic multihead filling packaging line and is responsible for transport of the bottles.

A method and an apparatus for producing plastic bottles, including a blow molding machine, a labeler, at least one further treatment machine, and transfer starwheels provided and arranged for the machine-to-machine transportation of the bottles in such a way that the bottles are transported without buffers between the at least three machines.

An apparatus for sterile filling of beverage containers has a first module and a second module. The first module rinses and sterilizes empty containers and delivers the sterilized containers to the second module. The second module fills and caps the containers with beverage product at ambient temperature in an active sterilization zone utilizing an e-beam sterilization unit.

A preform (1) is sprayed with a water vapor (W) and heated while being made to travel continuously, thus performing preliminary sterilization; this preform which has been preliminarily sterilized is blow-molded within a forming die (4), which likewise continuously travels, and a bottle is formed; the bottle is extracted from this continuously traveling forming die, and while heat remains the bottle is sprayed with a condensed mist (M) or gas (G) of hydrogen peroxide and is air-rinsed; and this bottle is filled with a beverage and sealed with a cap while likewise being made to travel continuously. The bottle sterilization process in an inline system can be simplified.

The invention discloses a full-automatic filling production line. The full-automatic filling production line comprises a bottle conveying belt mechanism, a following type filling machine and a following type cap screwing machine, wherein the following type filling machine and the following type cap screwing machine are sequentially arranged on the bottle conveying belt mechanism in the conveying direction; the following type filling machine comprises a bottle fixed-distance dispersing mechanism, a following filling mechanism and a first positioning sensor; and the following type cap screwing machine comprises a bottle cap conveying belt mechanism, a cap sorting mechanism, a capping mechanism, a positioning guiding decelerating mechanism and a following cap screwing mechanism. According to the full-automatic filling production line, two filling devices of the following type filling mechanism of the following type filling machine can move in the manner of following bottles in the filling process, a cap screwing device of the cap screwing mechanism of the following type cap screwing machine can move in the manner of following the bottles in the cap screwing process, the bottles do not need to stop in the filling and cap screwing processes, the production efficiency is high, the occupied space is small, and the equipment cost is greatly reduced.

A filling device for filling containers with foods and closing the containers includes an endless conveyor system for conveying container holders; a container infeed mechanism for supplying containers to the container holders; workstations for carrying out operations on containers conveyed therealong, including a filling station and a closing station; a container discharge mechanism for removing containers from the container holders; at least one processing line provided along the conveyor track for containers to be processed; a housing that at least partially encloses the processing line; and gas supply means for feeding conditioned gases into the housing. The housing extends at least along the filling station and the closing station. Inside the housing, the gas supply means supply gas flow substantially close to filling apertures along outsides of containers. The gas supply means includes a plurality of adjacent gas outflow apertures opening into the housing.

A beverage filling method comprising: blow-molding a bottle from a heated preform; while the heat with which the preform is applied remains, sterilizing the inside of the bottle by supplying the bottle with hot water having a temperature in the range of 70 DEG C to 80 DEG C, and bringing the hot water into contact with the entire interior surface of the bottle (per square centimeter); and then filling the bottle with a beverage and thereafter to seal it. With this method the interior of the bottle can be properly and quickly sterilized with residual heat and the heat of the hot water, and a beverage package of good quality can be manufactured.

An upstream side wheel Ha including grippers B which do not perform opening and closing operations for themselves, and a downstream side wheel Hb including grippers A each having an opening and closing mechanism are included, and in a delivery position in which both the wheels are adjacent to each other, a plastic bottle 1 is delivered from the gripper B to the gripper A. Here, if the upstream side wheel or the downstream side wheel abnormally stops, control means controls retreating means C provided at the downstream side wheel to switch the grippers A to a retreat state from a use state to make an opening degree of a first and second grip members 23 and 24 of each of the grippers A larger than an opening degree of both the grip members in the use state. Thereby, interference of the plastic bottles gripped by the upstream side grippers and the first and second grip members can be prevented. Even if one of the wheels abnormally stops, the other wheel can be continuously operated without increasing the equipment in size.

A plastic container comprises an upper portion including a finish defining an opening into the container, a lower portion including a base defining a standing surface, a sidewall extending between the upper portion and the lower portion, the sidewall defining a longitudinal axis, and at least one substantially transversely-oriented pressure panel located in the lower portion. The pressure panel is movable between an outwardly-inclined position and an inwardly-inclined position to compensate for a change of pressure inside the container. The standing surface defines a standing plane, and the entire pressure panel is located between the standing plane and the upper portion of the container when the pressure panel is in the outwardly-inclined position.

The invention discloses an automatic filling and capping mechanism of a beverage dispenser. The automatic filling and capping mechanism comprises a box, a cup dropping mechanism, a cap dropping mechanism, a material filling and cap pressing mechanism and a cup rotating mechanism, wherein the material filling and cap pressing mechanism is arranged above the box, the cup dropping mechanism and the cap dropping mechanism are respectively positioned at two ends of the material filling and cap pressing mechanism and symmetrically arranged at a middle place, the cup dropping mechanism is upwardly arranged, the cap dropping mechanism is downwardly arranged, and the cup rotating mechanism is located at the bottom of the part of the box below the material filling and cap pressing mechanism. Through rotation of a driving motor, cup dropping, material filling, cap dropping and cap pressing are respectively carried out at four positions; the automatic filling and capping mechanism has the advantages of full automatic operation, accurate positioning, no leakage and capacity of allowing consumers to conveniently and rapidly purchase loose-packed beverage on the automatic beverage dispenser; and the cup dropping and cap dropping structures are driven by gear rings, so stability is improved, a failure rate is low and the service life of the automatic filling and capping mechanism is long.

An apparatus for sterile filling of beverage containers has a first module and a second module. The first module rinses and sterilizes empty containers and delivers the sterilized containers to the second module. The second module fills and caps the containers with beverage product at ambient temperature in an active sterilization zone utilizing an e-beam sterilization unit.