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A method of cleaning bottle filling devices after bottle breakage in filling stations circulating in bottle filling machines, especially counterpressure filling machines. That filling station in which the bottle breakage has occurred is freed of glass fragments by spraying liquid thereagainst, while continuing with the machine rotation and still during the same circulation. At least during the first machine circulation subsequent to the bottle breakage and the liquid spraying, the filling device is rinsed with the liquid supplied to the bottle to be filled. After discharge from the machine circulation, the filled bottle is separated from the filled bottles of the remaining filling stations. The apparatus for carrying out this method includes: a registering and storage unit synchronously connected in steps with the circulation; a sensing device arranged at the filling station circulation path of the filling machine and having sensing elements which are responsive to bottle breakage and which enter a bottle-loss marking or indication into the registering and storage unit; an ejection device, in the region of the discharge element of the filling machine, which upon actuation ejects or separates-out one bottle at a time from the row of bottles leaving the filling machine; and a counting chain of relays is connected to the registering and storing unit for receiving information, and for emitting switching pulses in the feeding or advancing step spacing between the sensing device and the ejection device is connected to a control device which in turn actuates the ejection device.

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