IP Library Granted Patent US 8,100,152
Granted Patent B2
US 8,100,152 · App. 11/920,506 · Granted Jan 24, 2012

Rotating filler for viscous product

Assignee: Weightpack S.R.L.
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Patent No.
US 8,100,152
App. No.
11/920,506
Granted
Jan 24, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A machine for filling containers with liquid product, comprising a rotating carousel provided with a plurality of filling stations, means adapted to provide selective feeding by means of a hot fluid and by means of the product, and means adapted to collect and evacuate the hot fluid that exits from the faucets, all the walls of the machine designed to be in contact with the hot fluid and the liquid product having high thermal insulation characteristics.

Claims (4)

1. A machine for filling containers with a heated liquid product, comprising: a rotating carousel provided with a plurality of filling stations, each whereof comprises means for supporting a container below a dispensing faucet; a pump having an input duct and an output feed duct which is connected between said pump and said rotating carousel; a source of heated water and a source of said heated liquid product; means for selectively feeding said heated water and said heated liquid product to said input duct of said pump such that said pump feeds a selected one of said heated water and said heated liquid product through said output feed duct to said rotating carousel; and means adapted to collect and evacuate the heated water that exits from the faucets when said heated water has been selected to be fed by said pump to said rotating carousel, all the walls of the machine designed to be in contact with said heated water and said heated liquid product having high thermal insulation characteristics.

2. The machine according to claim 1 , wherein the means for evacuating the heated water that flows out of the faucets comprise a tray, which is provided with means for movement between a position which lies below said faucets and a position which is external with respect to said faucets.

3. The machine according to claim 1 , wherein the walls of the machine designed to make contact with the heated water and with the heated liquid product are made of metallic material and are covered with an insulating jacket.

4. The machine according to claim 1 , wherein the walls of the machine designed to make contact with the heated water and with the heated liquid product are made of insulating plastic material.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 16, 2007
From: DE ANTONI MIGLIORATI, NARCISO
To: WEIGHTPACK S.R.L.
Reel/Frame 020168/0046 →
Priority Claims (1)
IT MN2005A0031 · May 20, 2005 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20090133777A1 · May 28, 2009