Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and method for filling a container
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Application No.: US16379315Application Date: 2019-04-09
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Publication No.: US10662050B2Publication Date: 2020-05-26
- Inventor: Brent M Anderson , Mitch Leuthard
- Applicant: General Mills, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MN Minneapolis
- Assignee: General Mills, Inc.
- Current Assignee: General Mills, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MN Minneapolis
- Agency: Diederiks & Whitelaw, PLC
- Agent Annette M. Frawley, Esq.
- Main IPC: B67C3/26
- IPC: B67C3/26 ; B05B1/14 ; B67D3/00 ; B65B39/00

Abstract:
A filling apparatus includes a container, a conveyor system for transporting the container and a fill nozzle for filling the container. The fill nozzle includes a product inlet for receiving an edible liquid and a chamber fluidly connected to the product inlet. The fill nozzle also includes an elastomeric seal located within the chamber and a piston located at least partially within the chamber. The piston has a capillary tube selectively fluidly connected to the chamber. The capillary tube includes a capillary tube inlet and a capillary tube outlet. In a static state, the elastomeric seal seals the capillary tube inlet to prevent the edible liquid from flowing into the capillary tube inlet. In a filling state, the elastomeric seal does not seal the capillary tube inlet, allowing the edible liquid to flow into the capillary tube inlet, out of the capillary tube outlet and into the container.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190308205A1 Apparatus and Method for Filling a Container Public/Granted day:2019-10-10
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