Hugh L White

US Patent:

43877486, Jun 14, 1983

Filed:

Oct 29, 1981

Appl. No.:

6/316218

Inventors:

Hugh L. White - Warrenton MO

International Classification:

B65B 304

US Classification:

141 57

Abstract:

In a high production can filling machine nozzle head, an annular nose, adapted to extend within a can to be filled, has a leading surface with an exterior chamfer convergent in a direction toward a can to be filled, a multiplicity of liquid passages extending through the nose and opening through the chamfered area of the leading surface, the passages communicating with the interior of a filler bowl, and provision is made for snifting of the can. The nozzle head is designed to accommodate cans of various standard opening sizes, without modification of the head.

US Patent:

43137679, Feb 2, 1982

Filed:

Sep 2, 1980

Appl. No.:

6/183589

Inventors:

Lester E. Bemis - Schaumburg IL
Charles M. Kincaid - Elgin IL
Hugh L. White - Warrenton MO

Assignee:

American Can Company - Greenwich CT

International Classification:

B08B 502
B08B 908

US Classification:

134 1

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for cleaning particulate matter from container bodies. Container bodies are conveyed, open end down, along a corridor formed by two parallel pressurized fluid curtains. The container bodies pass over a series of nozzles which subject the interior of the containers to blasts of ionized gas. The ionized gas neutralizes any electrostatic charges and expells the particulate matter from the container. The curtaining sweeps the expelled particles into a spray mist region where they are entrained and subsequently condensed into a waste stream for disposal. The apparatus features a tunnel which substantially separates the fluid curtaining from the spray mist region. An outer housing enclosing the spray mist region is fabricated of transparent plastic to permit visual monitoring.