522 patents
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Utility
Apparatus and method for sterilizing plastic preforms
30 May 23
Apparatus for treating plastic preforms, having a heating device for heating the plastic preforms, having forming devices for forming the plastic preforms into plastic containers, and having a sterilization device for sterilizing the plastic preforms, wherein the sterilization device has at least one first sterilization unit which has a rotatable transport carrier and a plurality of holding devices arranged on this transport carrier for holding the plastic preforms, as well as a plurality of first application devices for acting upon the plastic preforms, and the sterilization device has a second sterilization unit.
Waldemar Suppes, Florian Geltinger
Filed: 6 Dec 21
Utility
Control Cam for a Clamping Device, and Clamping Device for Holding a Container
25 May 23
A clamping device including a control cam and a control cam for controlling the position of clamping arms which are pivotable relative to one another, each with a holding portion in a clamping device, including a shaft portion for pivotable mounting of the control cam about a control cam pivot axis in a hub portion of a carrier plate of the clamping device, and at least one coupling element for coupling the control cam to a clamping arm of the clamping device, wherein the control cam is pivotable about the control cam pivot axis between a predefined open position and a predefined closed position, and the at least one coupling element is configured in the form of a slotted groove for receiving a control bolt arranged on a clamping arm, or in the form of a control bolt for penetration into a slotted groove arranged on a control arm.
Stefan SPANDL, Bruno LANDLER
Filed: 23 Nov 22
Utility
Clamping Device for Holding a Container
25 May 23
A clamping device for holding a container in a container treatment device, for example for holding a beverage container at a neck portion, comprising two clamping arms with a holding portion for holding the container to be held, and a control cam which is pivotable about a control cam pivot axis, wherein the clamping arms and the control cam are coupled via a coupling mechanism so that a pivoting of the control cam about its control cam pivot axis causes a pivoting of the clamping arms relative to one another, and the coupling mechanism comprises at least one pair of a slotted groove and a control bolt guided in the slotted groove for transmitting movements of the control cam to the clamping arms.
Stefan SPANDL, Bruno Landler
Filed: 23 Nov 22
Utility
Apparatus for filling a container with a filling product
23 May 23
An apparatus for filling containers with a filling product, for example in a beverage bottling plant, includes a plurality of filling members, which respectively have a filling product line for feeding the filling products into an appropriate container; and at least one distribution line, to which the filling product lines of the plurality of filling members are linked.
Stefan Poeschl
Filed: 18 Dec 20
Utility
Clamp Apparatus and Transport Apparatus
18 May 23
The invention relates inter alia to a clamp apparatus for retaining a container for a container treatment installation.
Marco LEIDEL
Filed: 11 Nov 22
Utility
Transport of Objects Having Different Formats
18 May 23
A device for transporting objects, preferably containers, along a transport path.
Michael NEUBAUER
Filed: 11 Nov 22
Utility
Method and apparatus for heating plastic preforms
16 May 23
Provided is a method for heating plastic preforms, wherein the plastic parison are transported along a predetermined transport path and are heated during this transport, wherein at least one first heating section with at least one first heating element as well as at least one second heating section with at least one second heating element is arranged along the transport path, by a first temperature measuring device an actual temperature of the plastic preforms is measured in or before a start region of the transport path, and as a function of this actual temperature of the plastic preforms the at least one first heating element is controlled in such a way that the plastic preforms reach a predetermined target temperature after heating by this at least one first heating element.
Dieter Finger, Thomas Kitzinger
Filed: 24 Aug 18
Utility
Plastic container with tension band geometry at base region
16 May 23
A one piece plastic container for beverages, has a base region, a main body extending in the longitudinal direction of the plastic container to the base region and a mouth region with a container mouth, with the mouth region adjoining the main body in the longitudinal direction at least indirectly, wherein the base region has at least three standing feet, wherein at least one groove having a groove base extending in the circumferential direction over a circumferential angle is arranged between two, in particular adjacent feet.
Gerald Huettner, Thomas Ringl, Bastian Tissmer, Joerg Wortmann
Filed: 24 Jul 20
Utility
Method and a device for inspecting a process of forming plastic preforms into plastic containers and in particular plastic bottles
16 May 23
Andreas Stopfer, Stefan Piana, Stefan Schober
Filed: 7 Sep 18
Utility
Container Handling System
11 May 23
A container handling system includes first and second rotary machines each comprising transport elements for transporting containers along first and second conveying paths, where the second conveying path is downstream of the first conveying path, a memory device, and a control device configured to determine during transport of a container that first and second transport elements transport containers in the first and second rotary machines and to store identifiers assigned to the first and second transport elements in the memory device, to ascertain whether an error is occurring during transport of the container through the container handling system, and to retrieve a stored identifier from the memory device if it is ascertained that the error has occurred.
Sebastian LANGWIESER, Robert SZWARC, Daniel VOGLER, Thomas GERSTENBERG
Filed: 9 Nov 22
Utility
Method for Monitoring a Container Treatment Installation
11 May 23
The invention relates to a method for monitoring a container treatment installation which has a filling apparatus for filling containers and a closure apparatus for closing containers.
Anton HUBER
Filed: 8 Nov 22
Utility
Apparatus and method for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers with two preform stores
9 May 23
Provided is a device for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers, having a feed device for feeding the plastic preforms to the device, at least one first preform store, a multiplicity of plastic preforms being arranged unsorted in the preform store, and having an alignment device for bringing the plastic preforms into a predetermined position before feeding them to the device.
Ulrich Lappe, Jochen Hirdina, Robert Aust
Filed: 14 Dec 21
Utility
Distribution machine for distributing flowable media
9 May 23
Machine (1) for distributing flowable media to containers with a housing (2), with a transport device (12) for transporting the containers (10) which is arranged at least partially inside the housing (2), wherein this transport device has a rotatable carrier (14) with a distributor device (4) which is arranged inside this housing (2) an accommodates at least one inlet (42) for the flowable medium and a plurality of outlets (44) to which the flowable medium can be distributed, and with a supply conduit (6) which is suitable and intended for supplying the flowable medium to the inlet (42).
Juergen Soellner, Waldemar Suppes, Florian Geltinger, Thomas Hoellriegl, Andreas Brunner
Filed: 22 Nov 17
Utility
Method and device for buffering containers
9 May 23
A method and a device for buffering containers grouped in a single row in a filling system are described.
Alexander Demel, Christian Holzer, Franz Lautenschlager, Christian Richter, Konrad Senn, Peter Muehlstein, Torsten Kilgenstein, Helmut Schuesslburner
Filed: 22 Jun 21
Utility
Apparatus and method for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers with adjustable throttle
4 May 23
Apparatus for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers, having a forming device which has a plurality of forming stations each having a stretching bar for stretching the plastic pre-form and an application device act upon the plastic container with a flowable medium.
Benedikt HENGL, Andreas BRUNNER, Dieter FINGER, Markus KULZER, Dominik MEIER, Thomas KITZINGER, Konrad SENN, Daniel VOGLER, Thomas HOELLRIEGL, Klaus VOTH, Christian BETZ
Filed: 12 Sep 22
Utility
Method and apparatus for forming plastic preforms for plastic containers with curve evaluation
4 May 23
Method for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers, wherein a plastic preform is introduced into a blow mould and is expanded into a plastic container by being applied by a flowable medium, wherein the plastic preform is applied by at least two different pressure levels and wherein furthermore preferably a rod-like body is introduced into the plastic preform, in order to expand the plastic preform in its longitudinal direction, wherein a pressure curve and/or a movement curve of the rod-like body being determined by a measuring device during the expansion process, wherein least one of the curves is evaluated by means of a processor device and at least one point or region of this curve which is characteristic of the course is determined.
Andreas STEINER, Thomas GERSTENBERG, Philipp OLENBERG, Simon FISCHER, Sebastian KIRCHMAYER
Filed: 20 Sep 22
Utility
Apparatus and method for transporting containers
2 May 23
Provided is an apparatus for transporting objects and in particular containers and/or liquid containers with a first conveyor device which is arranged at least temporarily below the objects to be conveyed and which conveys the objects, wherein the conveyor device includes a point device, and a feed section which conveys the objects to the point device, and wherein the objects are selectively conveyable along at least a first discharge section and a second discharge section by the point device, wherein the feed section extends substantially rectilinearly and wherein the first discharge section follows the feed section in a rectilinear manner and the second discharge section deviates from the rectilinear course of the feed section, and wherein the apparatus includes a selection tool for selectively conveying the objects onto the first discharge section or the second discharge section.
Miriam Hartwig, Tobias Puerzer, Thomas Lehner
Filed: 23 Apr 19
Utility
Method and apparatus for blow moulding containers with movable bottom part
27 Apr 23
A method for forming plastic preforms into plastic bottles has a first and a second operating mode, wherein the respective operating modes being selectively chosen by an operator as required.
Christian BETZ, Benedikt HENGL, Daniel VOGLER, Dominik MEIER, Peter KNAPP
Filed: 11 Oct 22
Utility
Apparatus and method for heating plastic preforms with blow-out device
25 Apr 23
Apparatus for heating plastic preforms with a transport device which transports the plastic preforms during their heating along a predetermined transport path, with a first feed transport device which directly transfers the plastic preforms to the transport device in a transfer region, wherein this first feed transport device having a carrier which can be rotated with respect to an axis of rotation and has a plurality of holding devices which hold the plastic preforms, wherein each of these holding devices is in each case assigned an application device, wherein these application devices being arranged on a carrier which can be rotated about an axis of rotation.
Florian Geltinger, Norbert Kindl
Filed: 27 Aug 21
Utility
Plastic Container for Holding Beverages with Improved Stability
20 Apr 23
Plastic container with a base section, with a main body adjoining the base section in a longitudinal direction of the container forming an inner volume of the plastic container wherein the base section forms a plurality of standing foot areas, wherein a tension band extending in a radial direction is disposed between two adjacent standing foot areas, and the base section has a first curved structure with an injection point such that that the injection point projects in the longitudinal direction of the plastic container towards a mouth of the plastic container and a second curved structure adjoins the first curved structure outwardly in the radial direction, wherein this second curved structure is curved in the direction of the mouth of the plastic container, wherein a radius of curvature of the first curved structure is smaller, at least in sections, than a radius of curvature of the second curved structure.
Bastian TISSMER, Martin HINTERMEIER, Peter KNAPP
Filed: 6 Sep 22