Patents Assigned to Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)
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Publication number: 20200124183Abstract: A valve for free-flowing media, such as a glue valve, with a valve housing, and with a closure member, such as a valve tappet, which is movable in the valve housing by means of an electromagnet and which bears with a closure piece on a valve seat in the closed position of the valve and which sits at least partially in a continuous interior of a one-piece coil carrier on which the windings of a coil of the electromagnet are wound, and having two terminal receivers for a dosing unit and a valve lift adjustment unit with an elongate abutment part which is arranged at least in part in the interior of the coil carrier and which limits a movement of the closure member in the direction of the valve lift adjustment unit, with the valve lift adjustment unit being is secured on the coil carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Applicant: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Jan-Christian Walter, Marc-Daniel Stegen
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Patent number: 10550944Abstract: A valve for free-flowing media, in particular a glue valve, with a valve housing, and with a closure member, in particular a valve tappet, which is movable in the valve housing by means of an electromagnet and which bears with a closure piece on a valve seat in the closed position of the valve and which sits at least partially in an in particular continuous interior of a preferably one-piece coil carrier on which the windings of a coil of the electromagnet are wound, and with a valve lift adjustment unit with an elongate abutment part which is arranged at least in part in the interior of the coil carrier and which limits a movement of the closure member in the direction of the valve lift adjustment unit, with the valve lift adjustment unit being is secured on the coil carrier.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Jan-Christian Walter, Marc-Daniel Stegen
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Patent number: 10507946Abstract: A method for operating a production and packaging installation for hygiene products, wherein the hygiene products are produced by a production machine, and the hygiene products produced are packaged by at least two packaging machines which are assigned to the production machine and are intended for packaging the hygiene products in particular so that they are ready for dispatch. At least two packaging machines assigned to a grouping conveyor form a machine group, wherein the performance of the packaging machines of the machine group are adapted automatically in accordance with the performance of the production machine and/or the individual performances available for the packaging machines of the machine group, and/or wherein the number of hygiene products with which the holders of the grouping conveyor are filled is selected automatically for each holder in dependence on which of the packaging machines the hygiene product of the respective holder is intended.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2013Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Andreas Jelken, Marco Schloermann
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Patent number: 10450095Abstract: The invention relates to a method for handling (flat) articles (10), in particular hygiene products such as diapers, napkins or the like, wherein the articles (10) are supplied on a first feed conveyor (11) and are removed as a compressed group (12) of articles (10) on a removal conveyor (14). The invention is characterized in that the feed conveyor (11) and the removal conveyor (14) are continuously driven and a group (13) of articles (10) is transferred from the continuously driven feed conveyor (11) to a continuously driven compressing device (16) in which the group (13) of articles (10) is compressed, and in that the compressed group (13) of articles (10) is transferred from the compressing device (16) to the continuously driven removal conveyor (14).Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2012Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Bjorn Brandhorst, Andreas Prahm, Frank Sachs
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Publication number: 20190300274Abstract: A pack for cigarettes or rod-form articles, having a box part, which is delimited at least by a front wall, a rear wall, side walls and a base wall, the box part containing a collar, at least comprising a collar front wall, which butts against the front wall of the box part, and collar side walls, which are adjacent to side walls of the box part, and at least one base flap arranged in extension of the collar front wall and, forming an underside support for at least one cigarette group, or group of rod-form articles, is directed transversely to the collar front wall, and therefore the collar serves to compensate for at least one different dimension of the cigarette group, or group of rod-like articles.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2017Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Kristina Viestenz, Corvyn Sommer
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Patent number: 10414580Abstract: A cigarette pack having a foil block as an inner pack and a hinge-lid box as an outer pack is configured with an opening aid for the foil block, in which a closure tab for exposing a retrieval opening of the foil block is connected with a lid inner flap as part of the lid front wall. The lid inner flap is movable or pivotable, respectively. A relative movement of the lid inner flap takes place so as to be tuned to the opening procedure of the closure tab when the lid is opened.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Henry Buse, Christoph Schneider, Viktor Hein, Jan Schnakenberg
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Publication number: 20190225410Abstract: A pack for cigarettes having an outer pack and an inner pack with a blank that surrounds a cigarette group, the inner pack having a removal opening for accessing the pack contents, and the inner pack having a closure flap fastened to it by a releasable adhesive bond and being removable for access to the removal opening or pack contents. For forming the removal opening, the blank has an opening that is closable by the closure means, the closure means having a coverage region that, with the closure means in the closed position, circumferentially surrounds the opening and is adhesively connectable to a region of the blank that surrounds the opening, and a separate blank is adhesively fastened on the closure means on the side facing the inner pack, the separate blank, with the closure means in the closed position, covering the opening and overlapping the opening on all sides.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2017Publication date: July 25, 2019Applicant: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventor: Thomas HÄFKER
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Publication number: 20190218021Abstract: A cigarette pack in the form of a sealing pack consisting of an inner pack and an outer pack in the form of a hinge-lid box. An opening aid of the inner pack is provided with a removal opening which is formed as an open recess as a result of punching during the production of a blank for the inner pack, in particular in the region of a continuous material web. Said removal opening, which is free right from the start, is closed by a closure tab which is able to be opened and closed multiple times on account of a corresponding glue connection. The closure tab is preferably connected permanently to the inside of a lid front wall of the outer pack by means of an actuating tab.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2019Publication date: July 18, 2019Applicant: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventor: Henry Buse
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Patent number: 10351280Abstract: A and device method for handling containers, in particular cardboard boxes, for groups of objects, in particular packages, in which the objects are inserted one after another into the container and are deposited there in an ordered formation, and in which the containers are held ready in each case by a handling device, in particular a cardboard box robot, for the insertion of the objects, and in each case several containers are held ready at the same time by the handling device so that they can be filled with objects.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Andreas Prahm, Dennis Schmidt
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Patent number: 10343837Abstract: A method for producing packs for cigarettes, in which at least one group of cigarettes is wrapped in an inner wrapper and is introduced into a pocket of a folding turret and therein is packed in a blank for the pack, and a corresponding apparatus and to a pack for cigarettes. At least one dimension of the at least one cigarette group does not correspond to the respective dimension of the interior space of the pack, the at least one deviating dimension is equalized by at least one filler piece, and the at least one filler piece is wrapped in the inner wrapper conjointly with at least one cigarette group.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2015Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Sven Ruthemeier, Sebastian Stiller, Corvyn Sommer
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Publication number: 20190185252Abstract: The invention relates to a cigarette pack, having an inner pack (12) for pack contents, in particular for a group of cigarettes (11), and having an outer pack (13), preferably in the form of a hinge/lid pack, wherein the inner pack (12) which preferably directly encases the pack contents has lateral walls made of (thin) cardboard (50), which are formed by overlapping lateral tabs (51, 52, 53) of a blank (33) for the inner pack (12). The invention is characterized in that end corner tabs (55), which are arranged on both sides of a lid wall (37) of the inner pack (12), have a respective substantially V-shaped design, and in that each of the end corner tabs (55) is arranged between inner lateral tabs (51) and outer lateral tabs (52, 53) of the lateral walls (50) of the inner pack (12).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2017Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Thomas Häfker, Christoph Schneider, Henry Buse
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Publication number: 20190023441Abstract: A method and device for handling a bag chain, wherein the bag chain is folded into layers to form a stack, and wherein the layers each include one or multiple bags of the bag chain. The bag chain is folded by at least one folding member which engages between the bags of the bag chain to fold the bag chain.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Falko Böger, Josef Schulte
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Publication number: 20180346235Abstract: A cigarette pack having a foil block as an inner pack and a hinge-lid box as an outer pack is configured with an opening aid for the foil block, in which a closure tab for exposing a retrieval opening of the foil block is connected with a lid inner flap as part of the lid front wall. The lid inner flap is movable or pivotable, respectively. A relative movement of the lid inner flap takes place so as to be tuned to the opening procedure of the closure tab when the lid is opened.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Henry Buse, Christoph Schneider, Viktor Hein, Jan Schnakenberg
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Publication number: 20180334316Abstract: A cigarette pack in the form of a sealing pack consisting of an inner pack in the form of a foil block and an outer pack in the form of a hinge-lid box. An opening aid of the foil block is provided with a removal opening which is formed as an open recess as a result of punching during the production of a blank for the foil block, in particular in the region of a continuous foil web. Said removal opening, which is free right from the start, is closed by a closure tab which is able to be opened and closed multiple times on account of a corresponding glue connection. The closure tab is preferably connected permanently to the inside of a lid front wall of the outer pack by means of an actuating tab.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2016Publication date: November 22, 2018Applicant: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventor: Henry Buse
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Patent number: 10124920Abstract: A method for filling packs with products, in particular for filling boxes with multipacks of cigarette packs in which several products are put together to form a product group. The completeness of the product group is detected by a first control device. Several product groups are put together by a handling device to form a group of product groups and are inserted into the pack, wherein the presence of the group in the pack and/or the completeness of the group of product groups is detected by a second control device. The feeding of groups to the pack is repeated where necessary until a provided number of groups have been filled into the pack, which corresponds to a required quantity of groups or product groups in the pack, and the presence of the groups in the pack is detected or documented by a control device, in particular the second control device.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2013Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Wolfgang Kern, Falko Böger
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Patent number: 10035167Abstract: A valve arrangement for applying fluid media, in particular glue, to surfaces, comprising a plurality of individual modules detachably connected to form a row, wherein in the row and between the adjacent individual modules is respectively formed a dividing plane, in which the respectively adjacent individual modules bear one against another, and at least one dividing plane is assigned a heating member for warming the valve arrangement, preferably a plurality of or all dividing planes are respectively assigned a heating member, which is seated in appropriate, mutually opposing receptacles, arranged to both sides of the dividing plane, of the two adjacent individual modules, and cooperates in such a way with those walls of the individual modules which delimit the receptacles that relative movements of the two individual modules in at least one spatial direction are limited or prevented.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2015Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Jan-Christian Walter, Marc-Daniel Stegen, Nils Neuhaus
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Publication number: 20180162573Abstract: A method of feeding products into containers, in particular of feeding bags into cartons, wherein at least two different types of products are fed into a container, wherein the products are transported via respective feeding devices, in particular conveyors, in the direction of a device for feeding the products into a container, wherein each type of the products is transported separately by means of a dedicated feeding device, and wherein the conveying speed of the feeding devices is controlled such that, following the feeding devices, the products are present in a sequence which corresponds to the arrangement of the products within the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2016Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicant: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Björn Brandhorst, Wolfgang Pradel, Marco Schloermann
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Patent number: 9988164Abstract: A device and a method for manufacturing an item of packaging for a group (27) of smokable articles (11), in particular cigarettes, having a wrapping, preferably an inner wrapping, of, in particular, a thin packaging material, such as paper, tinfoil or the like, in which a material web (31) of the packaging material is severed into individual blanks (10) and in which the article groups (27) to be wrapped are in each case wrapped with the individual blanks (10). Flavoring and/or aromatic portions (42) for the smokable articles are applied to the packaging-material web (31), which flavoring and/or aromatic portions (42), after application, are at least in regions reduced in their height by a processing means, preferably in that they are spread flat and/or pressed flat by the processing means (47).Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2012Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Stefan Harms, Marc-Daniel Stegen, Jan Riepenhusen
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Patent number: 9950859Abstract: A sealing block for a cigarette group (12) is provided on the inside with an internal collar (42). The latter is composed of an internal front wall (45), an internal base wall (48), and internal side flaps (46). The internal base wall (48) is configured in a reinforcing manner by folding flaps disposed on top of one another, specifically by the base tab and the base flap.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Irmin Steinkamp, Andreas Lübeck, Thomas Losereit
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Patent number: D863953Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2016Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Jan Schnakenberg, Viktor Hein