Device for dosing a fill product into a container to be filled

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10443589-B2
Application number	US-201414483077-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 10, 2014
Priority date	Sep 11, 2013
Publication date	Oct 15, 2019
Grant date	Oct 15, 2019

Abstract

A device for dosing a fill product into a container is described. The device includes a dosing unit with a dosing cylinder, a dosing piston displaceably disposed in the dosing cylinder between an upper center and a lower center of the dosing cylinder, and an intake valve with a valve seat for sucking the fill product from a rotatable product reservoir. The valve seat is disposed above a level formed by a base of the dosing piston at the lower center.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A device for dosing a fill product into a container comprising:
a dosing unit with a dosing cylinder;
a dosing piston displaceably disposed in the dosing cylinder between an upper center and a lower center of the dosing cylinder;
an intake valve with a valve seat and a valve disk sitting on the valve seat configured to suck the fill product from a rotatable product reservoir, wherein the valve seat is disposed above a level formed by a base of the dosing piston at the lower center and the intake valve is configured to be opened by lifting the valve disk out of the valve seat into the rotatable product reservoir, wherein the rotatable product reservoir is configured to provide the fill product to the intake valve;
a product channel that connects the intake valve and the dosing cylinder, wherein a longitudinal axis of the product channel is inclined in relation to a longitudinal axis of the dosing piston; and
an outlet valve configured to eject the fill product from the dosing cylinder, wherein the outlet valve is in fluid connection with the dosing cylinder, the intake valve and the outlet valve are switchable using mechanical switching cams, and the mechanical switching cams are pneumatically controlled.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the valve seat is disposed substantially horizontally.

3. The device of claim 2 , wherein the valve seat is connected horizontally to the rotatable product reservoir.

4. The device of claim 1 , wherein the intake valve and the dosing cylinder are in fluid communication with each other via the product channel.

5. The device of claim 4 , wherein the product channel extends with an upward inclination to the intake valve.

6. The device of claim 1 , further comprising a bellows to seal moveable parts of the intake valve against the fill product.

7. The device of claim 1 , wherein the dosing unit is disposed on an underside of the rotatable product reservoir.

8. The device of claim 1 , wherein the valve seat is mounted on a base plate of the rotatable product reservoir.

9. The device of claim 1 , wherein the dosing unit has a modular construction and is configured to be connected to the rotatable product reservoir as a ready-to-function unit.

10. The device of claim 1 , wherein the mechanical switching cams are switchable using switching means that are fixed or activatable, the switching means disposed on a stationary part of the device, as the switching cams make passing contact.

11. The device of claim 1 , wherein the rotatable product reservoir comprises a base plate, and the dosing unit is fixedly attached to the base plate such that the intake valve is substantially flush with an inner side of the base plate.

12. The device of claim 11 , wherein the valve seat of the intake valve is substantially flush with the inner side of the base plate.

13. The device of claim 1 , wherein a direction of operation of the intake valve is along an axis that is parallel to a stroke axis of the dosing piston and parallel to an axis of rotation of the rotatable product reservoir.

14. A device for dosing a fill product into a container comprising: a dosing unit with a dosing cylinder; a dosing piston displaceably disposed in the dosing cylinder between an upper center and a lower center of the dosing cylinder; an intake valve with a valve seat and a valve disk sitting on the valve seat configured to suck the fill product from a rotatable product reservoir configured to provide the fill product to the intake valve, wherein the valve seat is disposed above a level formed by a base of the dosing piston at the lower center, the intake valve is configured to be opened by lifting the valve disk out of the valve seat into the rotatable product reservoir, and the valve seat is disposed horizontally on a side of the rotatable product reservoir; a product channel that connects the intake valve and the dosing cylinder, wherein a longitudinal axis of the product channel is inclined in relation to a longitudinal axis of the dosing piston; and an outlet valve configured to eject the fill product from the dosing cylinder, wherein the outlet valve is in fluid connection with the dosing cylinder, the intake valve and the outlet valve are switchable using mechanical switching cams, and the mechanical switching cams are pneumatically controlled.

Assignees

• Krones Ag

Inventors

• Goldbrunner Christian
• Engelsberger Florian
• Faltermeier Manfred
• Koller Stefan
• Schuhbeck Thomas

Classifications

• B67C3/206

  using arrangements of cylinders and pistons (B67C3/208 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B65B3/12

  mechanically, e.g. by pistons or pumps · CPC title

• G01F11/029

  provided with electric controlling means (G01F11/022 and G01F11/024 take precedence) · CPC title

• F04B15/02

  the fluids being viscous or non-homogeneous · CPC title

• G01F11/024

  the pistons reciprocating in rotatable cylinders (dough-dividing machines with division boxes in a revolving body with radially-working pistons A21C5/04) · CPC title