Abstract: The invention concerns a device for filling bottles, especially plastic bottles, with a liquid, wherein said device includes an air separation liquid station (12), a flash pasteurization station (14), a station (16) for saturating the liquid with a sterile inert gas with respect to the liquid, a bottle washing station (106) and stoppers with a liquid disinfectant with under hood drying in a treated atmosphere, a bottle filling station (108), preferably by means of gravity filling under a slight partial vacuum, a station (150) for degassing the inert gas, and a stoppering station (152).

Abstract: In a machine for processing bottles of different sizes, an arrangement for converting the machine to process bottles of one of the sizes, comprises a star wheel rotatable about an axis and having radially open pockets to which upright bottles having necks at a predetermined elevation are conveyed. The star wheel is axially adjusted along the axis to position the pockets at the predetermined elevation. The necks are held in the pockets by an endless belt having a segment that engages and presses the necks into the pockets.

Abstract: A device for the orienting of bottles or similar containers, in particular for treatment machines such as labeling or decoration machines, each treated bottle being provided with a mark intended to come into engagement with an associated element of the orientation device, is so adapted that the associated element exerts on the bottle, as long as it is not in engagement with its mark, a push which tilts it and brings at least one point of a generatrix of its side surface to rub by contact against at least one wall during the relative displacement of the bottle and the wall.

Abstract: A device is disclosed for transferring containers, such as bottles, comprising an endless conveying on which the containers freely rest to be transferred successively from a feed transporter by a first indexer. A second indexer is provided for transferring the containers from said conveyor to a first processing station, the two indexer being synchronized with the movement of active members of this processing station.

Abstract: Machine for automatically capping and labelling bottles or like containers comprising, in addition to the labelling and capping device, apparatus for orienting the caps synchronized with said labelling and capping device, and for holding the oriented caps and depositing them on the bottles maintained fixed with respect to the axes of the capping heads.