Filling apparatus with splash minimizing, liquid transfer funnels

Claim 1

IN A LIQUID APPARATUS, A FRAME STRUCTURE, A PAIR OF SPROCKETS MOUNTED FOR ROTATION ON SAID FRAME STRUCTURE ABOUT VERTICAL AXES, A CHAIN ENGAGED WITH SAID SPROCKETS, A SERIES OF TRANSFER RECEPTACLES CARRIED BY SAID CHAIN AS AN ENDLESS SERIES AND BEING DISPOSED IN SUBSTANTIALLY ABUTTING RELATION ALONG ONE PORTION OF THE PATH OF SAID CHAIN INCLUDING A STRAIGHT STRETCH THEREOF, A CONTAINER CONVEYOR EXTENDING UNDERNEATH SAID STRAIGHT STRETCH FOR CARRYING CONTAINERS THEREALONG, A DRAINAGE TROUGH ON SAID FRAME STRUCTURE DISPOSED UNDERNEATH SAID RECEPTACLES BEGINNING AT ONE END OF SAID STRAIGHT STRETCH AND EXTENDING TO THE OTHER END THEREOF SO AS TO LIE UNDER SAID RECEPTACLES EXCEPT WHEN THEY ARE REGISTERED WITH THE CONTAINERS ALONG SAID STRAIGHT STRETCH, A TIMING WORM DISPOSED ALONG SAID CONVEYOR FOR ENGAGING CONTAINERS AND CARRYING THEM IN SPACED TIMED RELATION IN REGISTRY WITH SAID TRANSFER RECEPTACLES WHILE TRAVELING ALONG SAID STRAIGHT STRETCH, SAID RECEPTACLES BEING OPEN TOP AND BOTTOM AND BEING UNOBSTRUCTED AT THE TOP AND BOTTOM DURING THEIR TRAVEL, EACH OF SAID TRANSFER RECEPTACLES HAVING A CONICALLY SHAPED BOTTOM PROVIDED WITH A RESTRICTED OPENING AS COMPARED WITH THE TOP OF THE RECEPTACLE, LIQUID DISPENSING MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID FRAME IN FIXED POSITION RELATIVE TO THE MOVEMENT OF SAID TRANSFER RECEPTACLES AND SPACED THEREABOVE SO AS TO BE IN REGISTRY SUCCESSIVELY WITH SAID RECEPTACLES AS THEY MOVE THEREPAST, AND MEANS FOR OPERATING SAID DISPENSING MEANS TO PLACE A MEASURED AMOUNT OF LIQUID INTO EACH OF SAID RECEPTACLES AS THEY MOVE THEREPAST FOR TRANSFER SIMULTANEOUSLY TO THE CONTAINER AND FOR TRANSFER SUBSEQUENTLY OF ANY PORTION OF THE LIQUID REMAINING IN THE TRANSFER RECEPTACLE.