Filling element and filling machine for filling bottles or similar containers

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8776839
APP PUB NO 20130037168A1
SERIAL NO

13643186

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A filling element for filling containers includes a housing having a liquid channel, a connection for feeding liquid into the channel, a discharge port for discharging liquid into a container provided in a sealed position on the filling element, a valve in the channel between the connection and the port, an actuator for opening and closing the channel, a gas path for pre-stressing the container's interior with gas and returning displaced gas, a switching valve in the gas path, the valve being switchable by the actuator between a first state for use while pre-stressing and a second switched state for use with displaced gas, wherein in the first state, the gas path has a first effective flow cross section, and in the second state, the gas path has a second effective flow cross section, the second effective flow cross section being different from the first effective flow cross section.

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KHS GMBHJUCHOSTRASSE 20 DORTMUND 44143

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Clusserath, Ludwig Bad Kreuznach, DE 63 773
Hartel, Manfred Bretzenheim, DE 8 164

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