US Patent Issued to PLF INTERNATIONAL on July 28 for "Vacuum filling system" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,030, issued on July 28, was assigned to PLF INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (Ardleigh, Great Britain).

"Vacuum filling system" was invented by Robert E. Thomas (Sudbury, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filling apparatus 20 includes a filler table structure 22 disposed within a protective and supporting main housing 24. The filler table structure 22 receives and supports containers 26 to be filled with product from filler heads 28 positioned above the filler table structure. The containers 26 to be filled arrive at the filler table structure 22 on infeed conveyances 30 and then are precisely positioned at a filling position beneath ...