초록 ▼

In connection with the production and the portioning-out of ice cream to packaging cups, changes can arise in the character and specific gravity of the ice cream. This occurs particularly during the start-up phase, whereby it is customary that a large number of the cups with incorrect filling have t

In connection with the production and the portioning-out of ice cream to packaging cups, changes can arise in the character and specific gravity of the ice cream. This occurs particularly during the start-up phase, whereby it is customary that a large number of the cups with incorrect filling have to be discarded. To ensured that all the cups are totally filled, use is made of a controllable step- or servomotor for the raising and lowering of the cups in relation to a continuously-operating filling nozzle, and the cups are then conveyed through a weighing station for a control weighing of the total filling. The weighing signals are fed back to the processing plant for the regulation of the specific gravity and character of the ice cream. In most cases, the "incorrect" cups will still be marketable, in that they will at least be correctly filled with a product which, despite all other things, will be acceptable.

대표청구항 ▼

[What is claimed is:] [1.]successively, upon arrival at the filling nozzle, quickly raising the cups up to a position around the filling nozzle, and thereafter, lowering the cups in a slower movement which corresponds to building up of the viscous filling substance in the cups until an upper edge of

[What is claimed is:] [1.]successively, upon arrival at the filling nozzle, quickly raising the cups up to a position around the filling nozzle, and thereafter, lowering the cups in a slower movement which corresponds to building up of the viscous filling substance in the cups until an upper edge of the cups is lowered to below a lower end of the filling nozzle;successively, horizontally displacing the cups from under the nozzle while using an upper edge of the cups to cut of a string of the viscous filling substance from the nozzle which can continue without stopping for filling of the next horizontally conveyed cup;wherein vertical movement of the cups is performed by a motor in a manner such that the cups are completely filled with the viscous filling substance regardless of the physical properties of the substance; andwherein the filled cups are weighed and the weight used for controlling process parameters related thereto as filling of the cups continues.