US 11,993,501 B2
Filling method
Yukinobu Nishino, Kanazawa (JP); Taro Kitayama, Kanazawa (JP); Shinya Kamori, Kanazawa (JP); Mizuho Kiba, Kanazawa (JP); and Yuichi Yonemura, Kanazawa (JP)
Assigned to SHIBUYA CORPORATION, Kanazawa (JP)
Filed by SHIBUYA CORPORATION, Kanazawa (JP)
Filed on Jan. 5, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/150,759.
Application 18/150,759 is a division of application No. 17/178,189, filed on Feb. 17, 2021, abandoned.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-025650 (JP), filed on Feb. 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0147368 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. B67C 3/28 (2006.01)
CPC B67C 3/283 (2013.01) [B67C 3/281 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
7. A filling method comprising:
storing non-fizzy liquid in a liquid tank;
pressurizing an inside of the liquid tank;
pressing a seal member of a filling head against a mouth of a vessel to seal the mouth of the vessel by the seal member;
closing a gas valve provided in a gas passageway connecting a headspace of the liquid tank to the vessel via the filling head;
opening a snifting valve provided in a snifting passage which connects the vessel to an outside via the filling head; and
opening a liquid valve to supply the non-fizzy liquid to the vessel while a compressor pressurizes the inside of the liquid tank, while the gas valve is closed, while the snifting valve is opened, and while the mouth of the vessel is sealed by the seal member, the liquid valve being provided in a liquid passageway which connects the inside of the liquid tank to the vessel via the filling head.