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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8096331 | Machine for filling containers A machine for filling containers, comprising dispensing heads, in which each dispensing head comprises at least two ports, which are connected to respective ducts for feeding different liquids, and is provided with elements for controlling the flow of the ducts whic... | 01/17/2012 |
| 7418984 | Method and wheel for transferring top shells of capsules on a machine for filling capsules with at least one pharmaceutical product On a continuous machine for filling capsules with at least one pharmaceutical product, the top shell of a capsule is transferred by advancing the top shell inside a relative seat, which is normally connected to a suction device to retain the top shell as of a loadin... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7409971 | Machine for dispensing fluid substance into containers In a machine (1) for filling containers with fluid products, different fluid substances are directed by means of a rotary valve assembly (19) into a tank (7) furnished with separate compartments (12, 13, 14, 15), isolated one from another... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7383674 | System for packaging tablets in a blister strip with interchangeable distribution units An installation for packaging tablets in a blister strip moving beneath a bulk feed device for tablets, the installation includes a distribution system comprising a mounting stand (1) for motorized control elements which has an attachment surface (100)... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7350545 | Filling valve apparatus A filling valve apparatus having a body portion with an inner wall terminating at an aperture to define a sealing seat. The inner wall extends below the seat to define a trap for a fluid. A cage extends from the body portion with the cage having an inner wall mating... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350546 | Filling valve apparatus having a quick connect/release mechanism A filling valve apparatus having a flange for mounting to a beverage filling machine. A shank extends through the flange and is mounted to the beverage filling machine. A locking device is coupled to the shank with the locking device having an unlocked position loos... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7347231 | Beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage having a filling machine for filling bottles with a liquid beverage Beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage having a filling machine for filling bottles and other beverage containers with a liquid beverage. The filling machine having a gas tube being configured and disposed to permit evacuation of gas from... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7331156 | System for securely conveying articles and related components A system is disclosed for conveying articles for processing, the system including a conveyor configured to convey articles to the processing station. The conveyor includes a plurality of links, each link including at least one movable gripper for gripping an article... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7325578 | Container filling machine A machine for filling containers with liquid or particulate material, wherein a carousel conveyor, rotating continuously about an axis, supports a number of supporting and weighing heads, each of which is independent of the other supporting and weighing heads and su... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7299833 | Filling valve apparatus A filling valve apparatus having a body portion with an inner wall terminating at an aperture to define a sealing seat. The inner wall extends below the seat to define a trap for a fluid. A cage extends from the body portion with the cage having an inner wall mating... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7299832 | Rotary filling machine and related components, and related method A rotary filling machine is disclosed for filling containers, the machine including a rotating platform rotatable relative to a vertical rotating axis through a filling zone, and a conveyor configured to convey empty containers to be filled to the rotating platform ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7284577 | Container control apparatus and manufacture-related plant Damage or deformation of a container in a processing device downstream a convey path is prevented. A filling device includes a filling unit (1), star wheel (2), and timing screw (3). Containers (10) are supplied to the timing screw (3 | 10/23/2007 |
| 7255141 | Beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material, a container filling plant container filling machine, and a filter apparatus for filtering a liquid beverage A beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material, a container filling plant container filling machine, and a filter apparatus for filtering a liquid beverage. The filter apparatus has a plurality of filter chambers which are each... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7243483 | Beverage bottling plant for filling containers, such as bottles and cans, with a liquid beverage, a filling machine for filling containers with a liquid, and a method for filling containers with the filling machine A method for hot bottling of a liquid in bottles, kegs or similar containers using a filling machine that has a plurality of filling elements, each filling element has a liquid duct disposed at a dispensing opening and a valve for dispensing the hot liquid to the co... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7237580 | Container guide for a container filling apparatus A container filling apparatus includes a fill turret configured to carry a plurality of containers along a first portion of a path as the containers are filled with liquid. A container guide is mounted in fixed relation to the fill turret, the container guide defini... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7210507 | Capsule filling machine The capsule filling machine is provided with special volumetric dosing stations each having two or more adjacent dosing units (9, 9′, 22), fixed at equal distances from each other on the periphery of the carousel and located outside and at a distance from t... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7185791 | Apparatus for metering and dispensing powdered product, and method for replacing a filler wheel for such an apparatus The present invention relates to an apparatus for metering and dispensing powdered product into containers, including a storage chamber for receiving the product, an incrementally rotating filler wheel that has at least one metering opening, the filler wheel in a fi... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7182224 | Device for portioning flowable food products The invention relates to a device for portioning flowable food products, consisting of: a first group of cylinders (1) comprising pistons (3) which communicate with a chamber (5) having an inlet (5a) and an outlet (5b... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7165582 | Beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material, a beverage container filling machine, and a beverage container closing machine There is now provided a beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material, a beverage container filling machine, and a beverage container closing machine, wherein only the top portions of containers being processed are disposed in a... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7162852 | Device for filling stand-alone flat-bottom bags A device for filling stand-alone flat-bottom bags with opposing side edges and a bottom, in particular filling them with liquid including a filling carousel which can rotate about a vertical axis and which has a plurality of holders for one bag each provided on its ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7152756 | Dispensing systems and methods A dispensing system dispensing items includes a dispensing station and a first conveyor for transporting containers to the dispensing station. The dispensing station includes a dispenser for dispensing items to the containers, a mechanism for spacing the containers ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7140403 | Machine for metering a product into capsules A machine for metering a product into capsules has a number of conveying wheels for conveying the capsules; a metering station for metering the product; an empty-capsule weighing station; and a full-capsule weighing station. The empty-capsule weighing station has a ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7127870 | Replacement lock lever for an automatic beverage filling machine Replacement lock levers and related methods are disclosed which accommodate adjustment to acceptable tolerances of the force applied to cans being filled by the platform lift cylinder assemblies of the automatic beverage filling machine, due to an eccentricity of th... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7121062 | Beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material, having a container handling machine with interchangeable receptacles for the container mouth A container handling machine for containers, such as bottles, with a carousel that rotates around a vertical axis, with handling stations located at appropriate intervals for the handling of the containers, whereby the handling stations are located in a space that i... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7114535 | Circular motion filling machine and method Continuous circular motion filling machine is provided for filling containers. The machine includes a rotating platform having an in-feed section disposed to receive empty containers and an out-feed section disposed to transfer filled containers from the rotating pl... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7108025 | Beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material, and a container filling lifting device for pressing containers to container filling machines A beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material, and a container filling lifting device for lifting containers in container filling machines. The lifting device is designed to lift a container, such as a bottle, to a first level... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7028726 | Rotary-drive dispenser A liquid dispenser that uses rotary motion to create a relative movement between one or more dispensing elements and one or more receivers is disclosed. The dispensing elements are fluidically coupled to one or more reservoirs, which contain ingredients that are to ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6993884 | Dispensing systems and methods A dispensing system dispensing items includes a dispensing station and a first conveyor for transporting containers to the dispensing station. The dispensing station includes a dispenser for dispensing items to the containers, a mechanism for spacing the containers ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6941980 | Apparatus and method for filling a receptacle with powder An apparatus for filling a receptacle comprises a reservoir adapted to contain a supply of powder pharmaceutical formulation, a holder adapted to hold a receptacle in a position where it may receive powder from the reservoir, an extension extending above the recepta... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6892771 | Filling machine Improvements to isobaric aseptic filling machines are related to processing fluids that are not contained in a rotating tank but in a fixed tank. Such improvements also include a number of coil tubes generating high flow resistance during the filling phase of the pr... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6857453 | Rotary weight filler A plurality of vessel receptacles and load cells are mounted along the outer periphery of a revolving body at an equal circumferential spacing. A filling device is disposed above each of the vessel receptacles. In a first operational mode for filling the receptacles... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6830084 | Machine for treating containers comprising a hermetically closed space A rotary processing machine for beverage containers (1), including a carousel (7, 8) that revolves about a vertical axis (5) and is fitted with peripherally spaced processing sites (12) receiving the containers. The processing sites are c... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6810926 | Machine for treating containers comprising a sandwich structured table and method for making such a table A machine for treating containers, in particular for a bottling line, including at least a table (10) whereon are mounted functional elements (12, 14) adapted in particular to transfer and/or to process the containers. The table is produced in the form... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6810928 | Tube filling machine A tube filling machine comprises a circulating conveying device for transporting a tube through the tube filling machine to pass through different processing stations. One of the processing stations is a filling unit in which the tube can be filled with a desired pr... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6810927 | Device for in-line supplying of additives to a base product, in particular for filling machines, and associated filling machine Device for supplying additives (A, B, C) and machine for filling containers (4) with a fluid product (6) supplied to delivery heads (5) by means of a header (7; 7; 107) and distribution ducts (7a; 7b) comprisin... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6786252 | Machine for filling bags or the like comprising a control device with cams A machine for filling bags with comestible liquids, includes a transfer station rotatable about a vertical central axle mounted on a plate secured to the machine frame, multiple filling stations each comprising an element for gripping and holding the base of a remov... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6776199 | Container filling machine A machine (1) for filling containers (2) with liquid or particulate material (6), wherein a carousel conveyor (12), rotating continuously about an axis (9), supports a number of supporting and weighing heads (25), each indep... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6772806 | Installation for filling receptacles with varying product compositions An installation for filling receptacles comprises a rotary platform supporting a first filling station comprising a first feed vessel having first filling nozzles connected thereto, and at least one second filling station comprising a second feed vessel having secon... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6761191 | Liquid filling system with improved fluid displacement, nozzle and container handling, cleaning, and calibration/set-up capabilities An improved method and apparatus for a liquid filling system is herein disclosed incorporating means for generating greater overall production rate efficiencies (i.e. number of filled containers per minute per filling station) for automatic systems utilizing diverte... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6755224 | Aseptic filling apparatus of the rotary type An aseptic filling apparatus of the rotary type comprises an aseptic chamber 12 provided for surrounding a path of transport of containers along with a turntable 41. An air discharge channel 71 is provided between the turntable 41 and the... | 06/29/2004 |
