Abstract: This relates to an apparatus for forcing fill-goods into a container immediately before the lid is applied to the container. There is provided a tamper head which engages the product to force the solids into the container. Associated with the tamper head is a separately axially moved spring-loaded hood having a tapered lower surface which serves first to align a container with the tamper head, then squeeze off any fill-goods which overlies the rim of the container, and then forms a seal with the container rim to prevent liquid fill-goods from overflowing the container as the projecting fill-goods is pressed into the container. The tamper head has a liquid cavity which opens through the lower part of the tamper head and which is controllably opened to the exterior of the tamper head to receive excess liquid during the pressing in of the fill-goods.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to apparatus for applying screw-on caps to containers. The caps are fed down a chute and are engaged by the mouths of containers. Each cap, after it is engaged with the mouth of a container, is pressure-urged down onto the container in a position parallel to the path of movement of the container and is rotated in a screw-off direction. It then moves to a position where it is engaged by another friction device and another hold-down device where it is rotated in a screw-on direction.