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An automatic, continuous barrel-filling method comprises the steps of supplying empty barrels, locating the bungholes of the barrels, inserting nozzles into the barrels through the holes, bunging the holes, and carrying the filled barrels out of the filler body, the empty barrels being sequentially

An automatic, continuous barrel-filling method comprises the steps of supplying empty barrels, locating the bungholes of the barrels, inserting nozzles into the barrels through the holes, bunging the holes, and carrying the filled barrels out of the filler body, the empty barrels being sequentially and uninterruptedly passed through the foregoing steps thereby to be automatically filled with liquid and conveyed out.

대표청구항 ▼

An automatic, continuous barrel-filling method comprising the steps of supplying empty barrels, having bungholes, to dollies for movement of the empty barrels radially towards the periphery of an intermittently rotated turntable; while each empty barrel is supported on a dolly during such radial mov

An automatic, continuous barrel-filling method comprising the steps of supplying empty barrels, having bungholes, to dollies for movement of the empty barrels radially towards the periphery of an intermittently rotated turntable; while each empty barrel is supported on a dolly during such radial movement, centering the bunghole axially relative to the dolly; moving the dolly radially to transfer the empty barrel, with its thus axially-centered bunghole, to a carrier on the periphery of the turntable; retracting the dolly from the turntable; engaging a filling nozzle with the barrel in circumferential alignment with the bunghole; rotating the barrel on the carrier at a relatively high speed to detect when the bunghole faces vertically downward; responsive to such detection, halting the high speed rotation with the bunghole less than 180°past its downwardly facing position; rotating the barrel on the carrier at a relatively low speed until the filling nozzle engages into the bunghole when the bunghole faces vertically upward; responsive thereto, immediately halting the low speed rotation of the barrel; then initiating filling of the barrel through the filling nozzle inserted into the barrel through the bunghole; interrupting the filling of the barrel when the liquid level reaches a predetermined height in the barrel; retracting the filling nozzle from the filled barrel; bunging the bunghole of the filled barrel; and then removing the filled barrel from the carrier.