Beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a beverage, a container filling plant for filling bottles, cans, bags, or similar containers with a liquid, and a container filling machine for filling containers in a container filling plant

摘要

A filling machine for the filling of containers with a liquid product, with a plurality of filling elements provided on a rotor or a rotor segment that can be driven in rotation around a vertical machine axis. The surfaces of the filling machine that come into contact with the liquid product between a product storage and a dispensing opening are made of a material which is of a higher grade, such as stainless steel, than the elements of the rotor or rotor segment that support the product bowl and the filling elements.

主权项

1. A filling machine for the filling of containers with liquid pourable product, said filling machine comprising:
a rotor arrangement being configured to be driven in rotation around a vertical machine axis; a plurality of filling elements being disposed on said rotor arrangement; each of said plurality of filling elements comprising a liquid duct configured to control flow of a pourable product into a container; a pourable product bowl and a plurality of pourable product lines connecting said pourable product bowl to said filling elements; said rotor arrangement comprising support components that support said pourable product bowl and support said filling elements; said liquid ducts, said pourable product bowl, and said pourable product lines being made of a first material, and said support components being made of a second material; said first material is more resistant than said second material to corrosion caused by a pourable product and/or filling machine cleaning materials passed through said liquid ducts, said pourable product bowl, and said pourable product lines; said first material has a first coefficient of thermal expansion, and said second material has a second, different coefficient of thermal expansion; and at least one of said liquid ducts, said pourable product bowl, said pourable product lines, and said support components are configured to compensate for said different coefficients of thermal expansion.