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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

  • US 8,936,052 B2
  • Filed: 04/23/2009
  • Issued: 01/20/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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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.

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