A method of filling containers using a rotating filling machine
, the method comprising: conveying empty containers to the rotating filling machine using a conveyor; attaching a portion of the conveyor to the rotating filling machineincluding releasably attaching cooperating elements on the conveyor and on a rotating platform on the rotatable filling machine; filling the empty containers on the attached portion of the conveyor; and detaching the portion of the conveyor from therotating filling machine after the containers are filled wherein the rotary filling machine further includes a filling turrent disposed generally above the rotating platform and rotatable relative to a vertical rotating axis of the rotating platform at aspeed corresponding generally to that of the rotating platform, the filling turret including a plurality of filling heads movable from a rest position to a filling position as said turret rotates through a filling zone, each of the filling heads having aplurality of filling elements, the filling elements movable into engagement with the containers as the filling heads move to the filling position for filling the containers.