Abstract: A device for filling ice cream containers simultaneously with ice cream and a flavoring syrup to produce a reveled ice cream with the syrup being evenly and smoothly disbursed about the inner surface of the container to provide an attractive package which shows the flavoring syrup and to dispense the flavoring syrup also about the central or inner portion of the ice cream being delivered to the container. The filling device or head is utilized with ice cream filling equipment which provides ice cream and flavoring syrup pumping and transport means adjacent the inner surface of the container, and also provides for substantially smooth and equal delivery of the syrup to the interior portions of the ice cream.

Abstract: A container transport device for the filling of containers with semi-liquid material such as ice cream or the like with the primary aspects of this invention being related to the transportation of the containers from a supply conveyor to a filling station and thereafter to an area which may provide lid application and then to a delivery conveyor. The primary aspects of this invention are the positive control and movement of the containers through the various stations and the proper centering thereof with respect to the filling device.

Abstract: A positioning and placement device for the application of square covers to square containers which device basically includes a cover supply section for maintaining a supply of covers, a positioning and registration section to provide individual covers in proper relation to the square containers which are being moved thereunder and an application section which is arranged to remove the cover from the positioning and registration section and forceably engage the cover with a container as the same is being moved therepast in a manner to insure sealing therebetween on all edges thereof. The device particularly includes unique positioning and registration means for locating the covers with respect to the containers and unique placement means which not only forces the covers properly onto the containers but which also removes the covers from the registration and positioning section.