Abstract: A device for cleaning a rotating vessel filling machine, especially bottle filling machines, of the one-chamber type with a feeding pipe for feeding a liquid or gaseous cleaning medium into filling containers and filling elements. Each of the filling elements includes a housing closure with an outlet that leads to an exhaust and that is closed and opened by a control valve. The filling elements are connected to annular passage means through vessel pressure relieving means. The annular passage means are connected through conduit means both to be brought into communication with a cleaning substance feeding conduit and also to be disconnected therefrom.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 29, 1974
Date of Patent:
November 16, 1976
Assignee:
Seitz-Werke GmbH
Inventors:
Gerhard Uth, Heinrich Zeimet, Alfred Rentel
Abstract: A spraying device for a bottle cleaning machine in which bottles are conveyed in inverted position. The spraying device reciprocates in the machine beneath the bottles and includes upwardly directed nozzles that follow respective bottles in succession for a predetermined distance. A cam drive is provided for the device with a guide return. The frame for the spraying device is supported and guided in the machine on antifriction elements. The antifriction elements may include balls rollingly supported by channels in the machine and rollingly engaged by the frame of the spraying device.