Fluent material handling – with receiver or receiver coacting mea – Processes – Battery grid pasting
Patent
1999-01-15
2000-08-08
Douglas, Steven O.
Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting mea
Processes
Battery grid pasting
141 2, 141 91, B65B 104
Patent
active
060986727
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus are provided for recovering a product from a filling line being used to fill containers with the product. The filling line comprises at least a filler, a pump, a check valve, compressed air/gas, a water source, and a holding tank containing the product, all interconnected by a product line. In the method, the filling line is rinsed, and the rinse water is then evacuated from the filling line using compressed air/gas. Next, using a pump, the product is transferred from the holding tank through the filler line to the filler, and then into containers. The transfer continues until the pump is no longer primed with the product. The remaining product is then pushed with the compressed air/gas through the filler line into the filler and then into containers, thereby recovering substantially all the product remaining in the filler line. The product recovery method minimizes the amount of waste product that must be discarded from a bottling line.
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deVore Peter
Douglas Steven O.
Kiholm Industries LLC
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