METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUS CONTAINERS FILLING (VARIANTS) Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: packing equipment, particularly for filling containers with aqueous solutions.

SUBSTANCE: method involves arranging a number of containers in upside-down manner in tray having risen peripheral edge; placing the tray in vacuum chamber; decreasing pressure in vacuum chamber to obtain desired vacuum level less than atmospheric one; feeding liquid product to tray through vessel into channel formed in vacuum chamber wall; progressively increasing pressure in vacuum chamber with rate providing liquid suction into containers; washing out undesirable liquid residues; removing tray from vacuum chamber and overturning thereof; sealing containers with closures, seals, caps or connection members. Method according to the second embodiment additionally involves placing overturned containers on support; arranging support directly above tray with liquid; lowering support up to immersing container necks in liquid. In this embodiment liquid level is maintained as described above, remaining operations are carried out in the same way as in preferred embodiment.

EFFECT: possibility to fill containers of various types with different liquids.

8 cl, 26 dwg