FILLING APPARATUS WITH TRAVELING NOZZLE

摘要

An apparatus dispenses flowable material from a source and includes a dispensing nozzle (20) that reciprocates along an axis. A metering assembly (24) includes a metering cylinder (28), a metering element (100) reciprocally movable in the interior of the metering cylinder (28) and a switching valve (30) to switch the metering assembly (24) between a metering mode wherein material flows into the metering cylinder (28) and thereby displaces the metering element (100) and a discharge mode. A metering element drive (112) moves the metering element (100) into the metering cylinder (28) during the discharge mode to displace material thereby to dispense material through dispensing nozzle (20). A lift bracket (40) is mounted for common equidistant movement with the metering element (100), and the dispensing nozzle (20) is interconnected to the lift bracket (40) for equidistant movement in one direction.