Filling adapter (aeration line)

• US 10,343,892 B2
• Filed: 03/18/2015
• Issued: 07/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dürr Somac GmbH (Durr AG)
• Original Assignee: Dürr Somac GmbH (Durr AG)
• Inventors: Achatz, Thomas, Selbmann, Eric, Wieland, Frank
• Primary Examiner(s): Arnett, Nicolas A
• Application Number:
  US15/129,770
• Publication Number:
  US 20170129765A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,574 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/02 for transferring liquids other than fuel or lubricants
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/0294 Combined with valves
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/04 for transferring fuels, lubricants or mixed fuels and lubricants
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/42 Filling nozzles
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/428 for delivering at least two different liquids into separate containers

Abstract

A filling adapter for a container to be filled with media, in particular for the filling of containers on assembly lines for the production of motor vehicles where the filling adapter is equipped with a hose pack, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic lines. The filling adapter has a barrel and a ball piece and is operatively connected to two media lines in a hose pack, wherein the media are redistributed in the adapter head, in which a filling valve and a vacuum valve are arranged, which are each connected to the barrel, and wherein an aeration line branches off from a vacuum line in the hose pack by means of a check valve and is connected to the ball piece.

Claims

1. A filling adapter for the initial filling of containers with operating substances on assembly lines for the production of motor vehicles, wherein the filling adapter is equipped with a hose pack including electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic lines, wherein the filling adapter comprises a barrel and a ball piece and is operatively connected to two media lines in the hose pack, wherein the operating substances are redistributed in an adapter head, in which a filling valve and a vacuum valve are arranged, which are each connected to the barrel, and wherein an aeration line branches off from a vacuum line in the hose pack by moans of a check valve and is connected to the ball piece.

2. The filling adapter according to claim 1, wherein the vacuum valve is opened and the check valve remains closed during evacuation, such that the vacuum is pulled over the barrel.

3. The filling adapter according to claim 1, wherein the aeration pressure is applied to the vacuum line in the hose pack during aeration, wherein the vacuum valve remains closed and the check valve opens, such that the aeration pressure flows via the ball piece into the container.