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Beverage fill valves, adapter nozzles for placement at the discharge end of beverage fill valves, novel counterpressure, and snift discharge valves including plungers, actuators or buttons, and unique counterpressure snift flow paths in novel combination with fill valves and/or fill valves with adap

Beverage fill valves, adapter nozzles for placement at the discharge end of beverage fill valves, novel counterpressure, and snift discharge valves including plungers, actuators or buttons, and unique counterpressure snift flow paths in novel combination with fill valves and/or fill valves with adapter nozzles, and related methods are disclosed, whereby automatic filling of a can having a smaller diametral opening at the top thereof is accommodated.

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[ What is claimed and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is:] [1.] An apparatus by which air removed from at least one container comprising a can or bottle by automated beverage filling machinery is discharged along a path which excludes a beverage reservoir of the filling machinery comprising:

[ What is claimed and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is:] [1.] An apparatus by which air removed from at least one container comprising a can or bottle by automated beverage filling machinery is discharged along a path which excludes a beverage reservoir of the filling machinery comprising:a revolving filler comprising at least one fill valve comprising a front pre-snift valve and a front button for opening the pre-snift valve, the pre-snift valve comprising:a valve housing;the button reciprocally disposed within the housing;a bias member coupled to the button to bias the valve in a closed position;a pre-fill snift cam mechanism juxtaposed the filler and comprising a reciprocable cam positionable in a path traversed by the button to actuate the same thereby causing said air within the fill valve to vent therefrom along a pat away from and exclusive of the beverage bowl.