A filling valve system configured to discharge a predetermined volume of liquid product to individual packages is provided. The system comprises at least one filling valve; a controller configured to open the at least one filling valve thus allowing liquid product to be discharged and configured to close the at least one filling valve; and a flow meter configured to measure the amount of liquid product being discharged through the at least one filling valve. The system further comprises a pressure sensor configured to determine a pressure upstream of the at least one filling valve, wherein the controller is further configured to calculate an estimated discharge volume during a closing sequence of the at least one filling valve based on the determined pressure, and to initiate the closing sequence based on the estimated discharge volume.

A device and method for filling a container with a filling product, for example in a beverage bottling installation, wherein the device has: at least one filling valve which is configured to introduce the filling product into the container; at least one flowmeter which is connected to the filling valve via a product conduit and which is configured to ascertain a filling product quantity passing the flowmeter in the product conduit; and a controller which communicates with the filling valve and with the flowmeter and which is configured to control the filling valve during the filling process; characterized in that the controller communicates bidirectionally with the flowmeter and is configured to perform a parameterization of the flowmeter in a manner dependent on one or more filling process variables.

A method for valve-controlled filling of a defined amount of fill of a medium into a container, wherein during a filling procedure, based on a measurement signal, preferably a pulse signal, representing a flow amount, a flow rate of the medium is ascertained, and wherein based on a change of the flow rate during the filling procedure a point in time for closing a valve, which serves for filling, is corrected during the filling procedure.

An apparatus for filling containers with a filling material includes a transport element that rotates in a transport direction, filling positions formed on the transport element, and a common carrier common to all positions and moving with the transport element. Each filling position has a filling element, a weighing cell secured to the carrier, a container carrier, and a functional element assigned to the filling position on the common carrier. The common carrier is adjustable to move by an adjustment unit either in or opposite to the transport direction. The adjustment unit corresponds to a distance between functional elements of filler positions that are adjacent to each other in the transport direction.

A method (200) for controlling the dosing of a fluid product to containers (105) using an apparatus (100) including a plurality of filling valves (104), the method (200) comprising performing a cycle having the following steps for each filling valve (104): ending an opening command to the filling valve (104); detecting values of volume of the fluid product dispensed by the filling valve (104) and values of flowrate, occurring at a predefined sampling interval; calculating a compensated volume (CV) as the difference between a target volume (TV) to be dispensed to the container (105) and a volumetric filling error (E) detected at the immediately previous filling step; determining a compensated closing time (CCT) as the time at which sending a closing command to the filling valve (104); sending the closing command to the filling valve (104) at the compensated closing time (CCT); after having closed the filling valve (104), receiving a detected value of volumetric filling error (E2, E3, E4, E5).

The invention relates to a system for introducing an additive into a container (4) partially filled with a main liquid material. It comprises an automated conveyor for transporting the container (4) along a straight horizontal trajectory (T) at a substantially constant container speed (Vc). It further comprises a static microdoser (6) having a nozzle (9) from which at least one jet (8) of an additive issues upon passage of an opening (7) of the container (4). The system is configured to introduce a given mass of additive into the container. The nozzle of the microdoser (6) is inclined relative to a vertical direction that is perpendicular to the trajectory (T). The inclination of the nozzle, the number, the shape and the speed (Vj) of the at least one jet, the mass of additive, and the container speed (Vc) are configured such that the specific kinetic energy of the impact of the at least one jet on the free surface of the main liquid material is less than 3000 mJ/m.sup.2.

A method for operating a filling system for filling a target volume of a first medium is described and shown. The filling system has at least one filling point measuring device, at least one control measuring device and at least one computing unit. The filling point measuring device controls the filling of the target volume, wherein the control measuring device is arranged in the filling system such that it captures the target volume of the medium to be filled which is controlled by the filling point measuring device, and wherein the filling point measuring device and the control measuring device are connected to the computing unit.