Abstract: The present invention relates to a device permitting the cleaning of at least one filling head (3) containing a movable nonreturn valve (13) adapted to be held in the open position by a control rod (19) carried by a grid carrier sleeve (15), a fixed collector member (4) being disposed around each filling head, each collector member having an opening disposed plumb with the filling head and adapted to receive a closure member (9) having an annular collar (30) adapted to bear against the bottom part of the movable sleeve (15) in order to effect the opening of the valve, while an annular member (26) provides a seal against the inside wall (27) of the collector member (4). The device has application in particular to a turntable for filling by weight.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment the jet divider device according to the invention comprises a series of frustoconical walls (2) having at the top a collar (3) projecting radially outwards, three radial arms (4) extending inwards and effecting the spacing of the members when a plurality of members of decreasing diameter are nested.The assembly is disposed in a grid-carrier sleeve of a filling head and produces a radial component of the flow. During the flowing of a pulpy product, the elements of the pulp which would tend to straddle the top edges of the different members are thus subjected to a radial force and entrained by the liquid to be packed.

Abstract: The method comprises the steps of sequentially taking containers filled in a multi-station filling machine, of weighing each of said taken containers, of comparing said weighing to a preset value for the filling devices of the filling machine and of establishing a correlation between each taken and weighed filled container and the corresponding filling station of the filling machine. In a filling machine comprising a rotation filling apparatus having n filling stations, the control device comprises at least a rotating transfer apparatus arranged in series with the rotating filling apparatus with interposition of at least an intermediary transfer wheel. The rotating transfer apparatus comprises n.sub.1 stations among which n.sub.1 -1 passive stations and a control weighing station provided with a balance, numbers n and n.sub.1 being incommensurable numbers.