Abstract: In a counterpressure filling machine for filling a liquid in bottles or the like, the filling member is provided without a feed pipe. The filling member includes a valve housing with a centering bell mounted on its lower end. A gas pipe laterally enclosed by a filling sleeve is positioned within and extends downwardly through the housing and the centering bell. The gas pipe is a fixed member and the filling sleeve is axially displaceable relative to it between an open position and a closed position. In the closed position the lower end of the filling sleeve bears against a sealing seat on a repelling shield located at the lower end of the gas pipe.

Abstract: In moving bottles to and from a cleaning machine, the bottles are transported over a stationary support surface by drivers formed on a plurality of juxtaposed rotating discs. Each disc has a pair of angularly spaced drivers and rotates about a common axle. During rotation of the disc, the axle moves transverse to its axial direction back and forth along a substantially straight path. For each complete back and forth movement of the axle, the disc rotates through one-half of a revolution so that one driver of each pair transports one or more bottles from a first station to a second station while the other driver of each pair returns from the second station to the first station.

Abstract: In a machine for the manufacture, filling and closure of plastic containers, undesired residue of the filling material is removed from a filling mandrel which extends into the container to be manufactured by provision of a constriction in the blow molding equipment within which the container is formed. The filling mandrel comprises an enlarged end upon which undesired residue tends to accumulate. The blow mold is formed with a constriction through which the mandrel is withdrawn and by forming a gap between the mandrel and the constriction, which gap is approximately equivalent to the thickness of the container, unwanted residue is automatically stripped from the mandrel as it is withdrawn.