US 12,269,726 B2
Machine block and method for filling bottles with liquid products
Bruno Landler, Neutraubling (DE)
Assigned to KRONES AG, Neutraubling (DE)
Appl. No. 18/252,521
Filed by KRONES AG, Neutraubling (DE)
PCT Filed Oct. 21, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/079195
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 10, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/106141, PCT Pub. Date May 27, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 130 324.6 (DE), filed on Nov. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0416067 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. B67C 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC B67C 7/002 (2013.01) [B67C 7/0013 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A machine block for filling bottles with liquid products, comprising at least a first filler of a circulating design having a first infeed starwheel and a first outfeed starwheel and a second filler of a circulating design having a second infeed starwheel and a second outfeed starwheel, and further comprising a transport path for the bottles which runs linearly along the first and second infeed and outfeed starwheels, wherein the first and second infeed starwheels are designed, viewed in a transport direction, to alternatingly take the bottles from the transport path, and wherein the first and second outfeed starwheels are designed to return the bottles filled on the associated first or second filler to the transport path into transport gaps produced while being taken by the associated first or second infeed starwheel.