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Foaming apparatus for displacing the remaining air volume in a container, particularly bottles (2), filled with filling material using foaming, with the apparatus comprising a nozzle arrangement which comprises at least one injection nozzle (12) disposed above a transport conveyor (4) and which appa

Foaming apparatus for displacing the remaining air volume in a container, particularly bottles (2), filled with filling material using foaming, with the apparatus comprising a nozzle arrangement which comprises at least one injection nozzle (12) disposed above a transport conveyor (4) and which apparatus is provided for the displacement of the remaining air volume and is configured to impact the bottle with a jet of a gaseous or liquid foaming medium. It is thereby provided that the foaming medium is guided through a protection gas space (40) into the bottle opening, with the protection gas space being configured in part in the ambient air.

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1. A plant for filling beverage containers with a liquid beverage filling material, said plant comprising:a machine to fill the beverage containers, through openings in the open beverage containers, with the liquid beverage filling material to a predetermined level of the liquid beverage filling mat

1. A plant for filling beverage containers with a liquid beverage filling material, said plant comprising:a machine to fill the beverage containers, through openings in the open beverage containers, with the liquid beverage filling material to a predetermined level of the liquid beverage filling material in the beverage containers-to thus produce open filled beverage containers; apparatus configured and disposed to move beverage containers to said machine to fill beverage containers; apparatus configured and disposed to move open filled beverage containers from said machine to fill beverage containers; apparatus to provide a protective gas about the openings of open filled beverage containers filled by said machine to fill beverage containers; said apparatus to move open filled beverage containers from said machine to fill beverage containers also being configured and disposed to move open filled beverage containers to said apparatus to provide a protective gas about the openings of open filled beverage containers from said machine to fill beverage containers; said apparatus to provide a protective gas comprising: a conduit configured and disposed to convey the protective gas about the openings of open filled beverage containers; and apparatus configured and disposed to produce a gaseous cloud, open to the surrounding air, of protective gas about the openings of open filled beverage containers and to minimize oxygen in the open filled beverage containers; said apparatus to produce a gaseous cloud of protective gas being connected to said conduit to convey the protective gas about the openings of open filled beverage containers; said plant further comprising: injection apparatus configured and disposed: to inject a flow of a predetermined quantity of a fluid medium, within said gaseous cloud of protective gas open to the surrounding air, into the liquid beverage filling material in the open filled beverage containers to produce sufficient foam above the liquid beverage filling material: to maximize displacement of remaining air in the open filled beverage containers by the produced foam, and to minimize overflow of fluid from the open filled beverage containers; apparatus to terminate the flow of fluid medium into the open filled beverage containers; and apparatus to seal open filled beverage containers filled with liquid beverage filling material; said apparatus to move open filled beverage containers also being configured and disposed to move open filled beverage containers from said apparatus to provide a protective gas to said apparatus to seal open filled beverages containers.