Volumetric beverage receptacle filling apparatus and method

Details Volumetric beverage receptacle filling apparatus and method Volumetric beverage receptacle filling apparatus and method

1994-02-28

1995-06-27

Recla, Henry J.

Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting mea

With conveying means to supply successive receivers

With lateral motion of registering head and receiver

141 1, 141 94, 141198, 73290R, 222 64, B65B 304

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054271614

ABSTRACT:
Rotating beverage receptacle-filling equipment for filling receptacles has receptacle sites spaced along its periphery and metering containers which can be filled from a beverage tank. Beverage is discharged from the metering containers into the beverage receptacles. A control system recognizes upper and lower liquid levels in the metering containers to control the discharge volume. The metering containers are transparent and at least one stationary video camera observes the metering containers of several adjacent receptacle sites. An image analyzer continuously monitors the metering containers in the field of view of the camera while detecting the levels in different angular positions at the receptacle sites and generates control signals for valves at the receptacle sites. A camera observes the refill limit level to control a refill valve and a camera observes the discharge limit level to control a discharge valve.

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