Patents by Inventor Alexander Brüker

Alexander Brüker has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method for packaging groups of articles combined to form packaging units
    Patent number: 10227148
    Abstract: A method of combining groups of articles to form packaging units includes wrapping a packaging unit along a running direction thereof on a transporting path with a sheet material, concurrently with the wrapping, forming a sheet-material overlap and folding flaps that each project beyond the packaging unit along transverse peripheries thereof, positioning the folding flaps against the packaging unit as the packaging unit passes through a folding unit, and fixing the folding flaps to each other, thereby forming a sheet-material wrapper that is closed on all sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Brüker, Bernd Cox, Josef Duepper, Michael Joerissen, Thomas Lelie
  • Beverage can filling plant for filling, closing, and packing beverage cans and a method of operation thereof
    Patent number: 7600357
    Abstract: A method of operating a beverage can packaging station in which the filled closed cans in a group of cans are individually spaced apart from one another at a distance sufficient to permit the lowering of a divider into the spaces between the individual cans substantially only by gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: KHS Maschinen- und Anlagenbau AG
    Inventors: Michael Jörissen, Alexander Brüker, Thomas Nitsch, Josef Düpper
  • Method of manufacturing and stacking packaging units with increased stability
    Patent number: 7574843
    Abstract: A beverage bottling plant for filling beverage bottles with a liquid beverage material with a packing apparatus for packing filled bottles and a method of operation thereof. Further, a method of manufacturing and stacking packaging units with increased stability is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: KHS Maschinen- und Anlagenbau AG
    Inventors: Christoph Koster, Josef Düpper, Alexander Brüker, Reinhard Wilzeck, Michael Jörissen