Abstract: The apparatus for homogeneous mixing of fluid components includes a feed tank (B1) for a liquid component having an overflow weir dividing the feed tank (B1) into a first chamber and a second chamber; another feed tank (B2) for another fluid component; a mixing pipe (MR) for mixing the fluid components; a pump (P3) having a regulated drive motor connected to the second chamber of the feed tank (B1) to feed the liquid component to the mixing pipe (MR); another pump (P1) connected to the other feed tank (B2) to feed the other fluid component to the mixing pipe (MR); a collecting tank (B3) having an overflow weir to maintain a uniform counter-pressure at the mixing pipe (MR) and being connected to the mixing pipe (MR) to receive the mixed product formed from the liquid component and the other fluid component; and additional pump (P2) for circulating the liquid component from the second chamber of the feed tank (B1) to the first chamber of the feed tank (B1) to maintain a level of the liquid component in the firs

Abstract: An apparatus for admitting metered quantities of a pressurized liquid into successive containers, such as cans or bottles, has a housing which stores a supply of pressurized liquid and carries one or more combined container sealing and centering units. Each such unit has a vertically reciprocable at least partially elastomeric tubular member movable between a lower end position and an upper end position. The external surface of the annular upper end portion of the tubular member sealingly engages a cylindrical internal surface which surrounds the outlet of the housing when the tubular member assumes its lower end position, and an end face of the annular lower end portion of the tubular member is then in sealing engagement with the open top of a container to be filled. The open lower end of a conduit for compressed gas is located at the upper end of the passage within the tubular member to ensure that the upper end portion of the tubular member can be expanded into sealing engagement with the internal surface.

Abstract: Bottles, cans or other types of containers are filled with accurately metered quantities of a liquid by employing a number of discrete filling units which orbit about a vertical axis and are provided with metering chambers receiving liquid from a main source of supply. The metering chambers are overfilled with liquid, and the excess is collected and returned to the main source. The filling units and certain other parts (such as an annular vessel of the main source) of the apparatus can be of modular design to facilitate storage and transport of modules which are assembled into a container filling apparatus at the filling plant. The method and apparatus can be utilized with advantage for the admission of metered quantities of carbonated and/or pulp-containing beverages into bottles or cans.

Abstract: The filling valve in a counterpressure filling apparatus for admission of liquids into bottles or other types of containers having open upper ends is provided with a sleeve which can descend toward an empty container below the valve and carries a deformable internal annular sealing element which is movable into sealing engagement with the external surface of the open end to center the container. The sealing element is thereupon acted upon by a gaseous fluid to bear against the external surface and to establish a reliable seal during subsequent or simultaneous admission of a pressurized gaseous fluid which precedes the admission of a metered quantity of liquid whereby the liquid expels the gaseous fluid along the same path which serves for admission of pressurized gaseous fluid into the container.

Abstract: Apparatus for admitting metered quantities of a liquid into discrete containers in the form of bottles, cans or the like has a rotary annular tank which carries at its underside a ring-shaped set of filling units each of which has a discrete metering vessel serving to receive a metered quantity of liquid from the interior of the tank for admission into a container which is placed into alignment with a centering and sealing sleeve movably mounted on each metering vessel. If the liquid is to be admitted into the containers at an elevated pressure, the supply of liquid in the tank is disposed beneath a plenum chamber and each filling unit is designed to admit compressed gas from the plenum chamber into the aligned container prior to admission of a metered quantity of liquid. The liquid which flows into a container expels the compressed gas which is returned into the plenum chamber or into a separate receptacle.

Abstract: Apparatus for filling large bottles with a beverage has a rotating vessel which contains a supply of pressurized beverage and admits the beverage into a series of metering chambers forming part of container filling modules at the underside of the vessel. The outlet opening of each metering chamber is controlled by a valve which can permit or prevent the flow of beverage into a casing having an inlet for reception of beverage from the metering chamber, an outlet which is radially and vertically offset relative to the inlet, and a helical swirling channel which extends from the inlet to the outlet and surrounds the central vertical axis of the outlet along an arc of approximately or exactly 360.degree.. The cross-sectional area of the channel decreases proportionally with the distance from the inlet, and the intermediate portion of the channel communicates with the outlet by way of a conical passage.

Abstract: In an installation for the continuous heat treatment of foodstuffs, it is suggested to subdivide the installation through the use of a series of separate containers for receiving an aqueous heat carrier, the sections formed by these separate containers being traversed successively by a conveyor for the material to be processed. These containers can be connected with each other in a variable manner with regard to the fluid conduction. The thus variable through-flow system makes it possible to take account in an optimum manner of the product-related nutrition-physiological and sensory requirements, while simultaneously the operating costs of the process can be minimized.

Abstract: The invention concerns a process and an apparatus for the continuous heat treatment of foodstuffs. Unlike in known cooking or boiling installations with a substantially homogeneous temperature control of the heat carrier in the form of water, a multizone installation comprising preheating, boiling and recooling zones is suggested, through which the foodstuffs to be treated are passed successively. The heat carrier is conducted through the recooling zone in a direction counter to the conveying direction and then, bypassing the boiling zone, is supplied to the preheating zone leading to a temperature rise in the latter due to the thermal energy passing to the heat carrier during the recooling process. The energy demand is covered by the heat supplied to the boiling zone, which also operates in the countercurrent principle with the aid of circulating means.

Abstract: An apparatus for conveying pasty substances, for example sausage stuffing, is designed as a radial displacer piston conveyor for a rotary angle-proportional delivery of substance portions. This is made possible by designing a control cam section controlling the substance discharge as a circular involute. It is proposed to reduce the large and theoretically infinitely high acceleration forces acting on each displacer piston at the instant of the start of its discharge action by designing the involute section of the control cam with a run-up section and a run-off section, each, whose courses are designed mirror-inverted to each other. The arrangement thereof is such that at the instant when one displacer piston runs onto said run-up section, the preceding piston enters the run-off section, so that, during the passage of those two cam sections, two displacer pistons, each, participate in the substance discharge. The acceleration values thereof add up to become zero.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for delivering pasty substances in portions of predetermined weight and/or volume. The problem is to provide an ergonomically optimized apparatus of the continuously functioning type, which is solved essentially in that the storage hopper and the conveyor are laterally associated with one another, the outlet port of the latter being higher than its inlet port and the hopper being mounted on a pivoting device, part of which forms a closure for a conveyor housing.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device for delivering portions of uniform weight and/or volume, e.g. of sausage stuffing. Starting from known conveyors of the vane pump, worm and axial piston type used for this purpose a radial piston conveyor modified according to the invention is suggested which delivers portion volumes proportional to the angle of rotation of the rotor by controlling the radial pistons via a controlling cam formed as an involute.

Abstract: The filling valve arrangement for carbonated beverages includes a head part and a lower part movable in two opposite vertical directions with respect to the head by means of a cylinder piston unit, the lower part enclosing a liquid controlling valve chamber with a valve member, the bottom of the lower part being provided with a liquid discharge passage supporting a sealing ring compressable by the cylinder piston unit against the rim of a container to be filled, and liquid inlet conduit arranged in lateral wall of the lower part to communicate with the liquid controlling valve chamber. An air return pipe is slidably supported by the filling valve the vertical position of which is controlled by a separate driving mechanism.

Abstract: An arrangement for filling containers with beverages has a housing with a wall bounding a closed air chamber, a filling pipe vertically displaceable in the housing so that the filling pipe can be lifted to thereby allow the exchange of containers, and a drive for vertically displacing the filling pipe and including a shaft which cooperates with an upper end portion of the filling pipe so as to vertically displace the latter, which drive is accommodated in the closed air chamber and its shaft extends through the wall of the air chamber. The filling pipe may be provided with inlet openings arranged below the air chamber in the region of a liquid inlet in the housing. A liquid valve may control the liquid inlet and be provided with a further drive operating independently of the drive of the filling pipe.

Abstract: The filling device for use in connection with a rotary filling machine, includes a housing enclosing an air-return chamber, a vertically reciprocating air-return pipe projecting with its upper part into the air-return chamber, a rack-and-pinion drive rotatably supported in the air-return chamber and having a rack secured to the upper part of the pipe and a pinion supported for rotation on a shaft passing through the housing and driven via a lever by a cam secured to the non-rotating part of the filling machine.

Abstract: A liquid level sensor for use with a container filling device, in particular jars, which includes a dispensing tube from which the liquid falls downward and outward in a paraboloid bell-shaped stream, and which has a return air pipe and a ball valve sensor to stop filling when liquid droplets coat said ball. The air pipe and sensor are both located in the space enclosed by the bell-shaped stream. A sealing device contacts the jar rim during filling.

Abstract: The device includes a housing having an inlet opening which supplies fluid essentially tangentially through a short passage to a chamber being approximately spiral-shaped. The chamber surrounds the axis of a discharge opening located in the bottom of the housing. The spiral chamber imparts an angular momentum to the fluid causing the fluid to flow evenly down the inside face of the outer wall of the container.