Patents by Inventor Andreas Runkel
Andreas Runkel 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).
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Publication number: 20230271796Abstract: The invention relates to a method of handling food products, in which at least one respective product is placed onto a carrier that has a base and a tab pivotable relative to the base about a kink line, the carrier together with the product disposed thereon is fed to a pick-up region that is disposed in a working region of a transfer device, and the carrier together with the product disposed thereon is picked up by the transfer device, is then fed by means of the transfer device to an insertion region of a packaging machine, and is inserted there with a downward movement of the transfer device into a package component, wherein the carrier is moved past a folding contour, which is arranged in the insertion region, during the downward movement and in so doing, on the one hand, the tab is pivoted relative to the base by cooperation with the folding contour and, on the other hand, the carrier is secured against lifting by a holding device of the transfer device that is effective at or in the region of the kink liType: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Christoph Kuhmichel, Marco Nichau, Franziska Rupp, Andreas Runkel, Matthias Rink, Michael Knauf
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Publication number: 20220134590Abstract: The invention relates to a slicing apparatus for slicing food products, in particular to a high-performance slicer, comprising a product feed that feeds products to be sliced on one or more tracks in a feed direction to a cutting region in which the products are cut into slices during a cutting operation of the slicing apparatus by means of a cutting blade, in particular a revolving and/or rotating cutting blade, that performs cutting movements; a portioning region in which portions are formed from the slices and each comprise one slice or a plurality of slices disposed at least partly above one another; and a control device that controls the cutting operation and that has operating information that relates to the cutting operation, wherein a treatment agent device for providing a liquid treatment agent is integrated into the slicing apparatus and is configured to provide the treatment agent during the cutting operation such that the treatment agent is applied to a respective cut surface of a product and/or tType: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2021Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: AXEL REICHARD, Thorsten Arnold, Theo Horst, Andreas Runkel
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Patent number: 11207792Abstract: The present invention relates to a gripper for gripping a product, in particular a food product, having a suction device which has a contact surface which can be brought into contact with a section, in particular with an end section, of the product, wherein the suction device comprises at least one first suction section which is bounded in the radial direction by a sealing device and which is in communication with a pumping device generating a vacuum; and at least one sealing section which is arranged outside the first suction section viewed in the radial direction of the contact region and at least sectionally, in particular completely, surrounds it in the radial direction. The present invention relates to a cutting apparatus having a corresponding gripper and to a method for cutting a product.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Inventors: Christian Baumeister, Fabian Jung-Saßmannshausen, Philip Kahl, Michael Knauf, Christoph Kuhmichel, Andreas Runkel, Thorsten Schneider
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Patent number: 10752392Abstract: An apparatus for delivering product carriers, in particular L boards, to a conveying line for food products comprises a store for the product carriers and a conveying device for conveying the product carriers, in particular isolated product carriers, along a conveying direction to the conveying line, wherein each product carrier has at least one base section and at least one cover section connected to the base section; and wherein the apparatus comprises a pre-treatment device for the product carriers that is configured to pre-treat the cover section of a product carrier with respect to its base section.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: Weber Maschinenbau GmbH BreidenbachInventors: Christoph Kuhmichel, Thomas Nispel, Ingo Rother, Steffen Zecher, Julia Walsch, Andreas Runkel
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Patent number: 10695932Abstract: There is disclosed a food slicing device for slicing food products which has a pre-cooling device for cooling the food product before the slicing and a cutting device with a cutting blade. A temperature registration device for measuring the temperature of the food product and a control unit are provided, wherein the control unit is designed to calculate, based on the temperature measured by the temperature registration device, an instruction for the operation of the pre-cooling device, wherein the pre-cooling device is controllable depending on this instruction. The disclosure furthermore relates to a method for slicing a food product in which the food product is pre-cooled in a pre-cooling device, the temperature of the food product is measured after the pre-cooling and before or after the slicing of the food product, and the operation of the pre-cooling device is adjusted depending on the measured temperature level of the food product.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Weber Maschinenbau GmbH BreidenbachInventors: Alexander Burk, Michael Knauf, Jochen Gerlach, Philip Kahl, Christian Nietsch, Andreas Runkel, Thorsten Schneider
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Patent number: 10384886Abstract: A transfer device, in particular as a robot gripper, for picking up at least one product disposed on a base section of a product carrier and the product carrier from a conveying and/or processing device for the product and/or for the product carrier and for delivering the product together with the product carrier to a device, in particular a packaging machine, arranged downstream, is characterized in that the transfer device has a pivoting device for pivoting a cover section connected to the base section about a kink line extending between the cover section and the base section.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Weber Maschinenbau GmbH BreidenbachInventors: Markus Gerhardt, Christoph Kuhmichel, Thomas Nispel, Ingo Rother, Andreas Runkel, Julia Walsch, Steffen Zecher
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Publication number: 20180222074Abstract: The present invention relates to a gripper for gripping a product, in particular a food product, having a suction device which has a contact surface which can be brought into contact with a section, in particular with an end section, of the product, wherein the suction device comprises at least one first suction section which is bounded in the radial direction by a sealing device and which is in communication with a pumping device generating a vacuum; and at least one sealing section which is arranged outside the first suction section viewed in the radial direction of the contact region and at least sectionally, in particular completely, surrounds it in the radial direction. The present invention relates to a cutting apparatus having a corresponding gripper and to a method for cutting a product.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2018Publication date: August 9, 2018Inventors: Christian Baumeister, Fabian Jung-Saßmannshausen, Philip Kahl, Michael Knauf, Christoph Kuhmichel, Andreas Runkel, Thorsten Schneider
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Publication number: 20180169777Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting blade, in particular to a scythe-like blade or to a spiral blade, for an apparatus for slicing food products, in particular for a high-speed slicer, the cutting blade rotating about an axis of rotation during a cutting operation, having a radially outer peripheral edge which acts as a blade edge and which has a curved extent about the axis of rotation; and having a plurality of cutting teeth which are arranged distributed following one another along the peripheral edge, wherein each cutting tooth has a blade edge which comprises a cutting surface and a cutting edge radially outwardly bounding the cutting surface; wherein each cutting surface extends inclined with respect to a spanned plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation and/or with respect to a cutting plane; and wherein the inclination of the cutting surfaces varies along the peripheral edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2017Publication date: June 21, 2018Applicant: Weber Maschinenbau GmbH BreidenbachInventors: Philip Kahl, Michael Knauf, Andreas Runkel, Thorsten Schneider
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Publication number: 20170320606Abstract: An apparatus for delivering product carriers, in particular L boards, to a conveying line for food products comprises a store for the product carriers and a conveying device for conveying the product carriers, in particular isolated product carriers, along a conveying direction to the conveying line, wherein each product carrier has at least one base section and at least one cover section connected to the base section; and wherein the apparatus comprises a pre-treatment device for the product carriers that is configured to pre-treat the cover section of a product carrier with respect to its base section.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2017Publication date: November 9, 2017Inventors: Christoph Kuhmichel, Thomas Nispel, Ingo Rother, Steffen Zecher, Julia Walsch, Andreas Runkel
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Publication number: 20170320678Abstract: A transfer device, in particular as a robot gripper, for picking up at least one product disposed on a base section of a product carrier and the product carrier from a conveying and/or processing device for the product and/or for the product carrier and for delivering the product together with the product carrier to a device, in particular a packaging machine, arranged downstream, is characterized in that the transfer device has a pivoting device for pivoting a cover section connected to the base section about a kink line extending between the cover section and the base section.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2017Publication date: November 9, 2017Inventors: Markus Gerhardt, Christoph Kuhmichel, Thomas Nispel, Ingo Rother, Andreas Runkel, Julia Walsch, Steffen Zecher
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Publication number: 20160271822Abstract: There is disclosed a food slicing device for slicing food products which has a pre-cooling device for cooling the food product before the slicing and a cutting device with a cutting blade. A temperature registration device for measuring the temperature of the food product and a control unit are provided, wherein the control unit is designed to calculate, based on the temperature measured by the temperature registration device, an instruction for the operation of the pre-cooling device, wherein the pre-cooling device is controllable depending on this instruction. The disclosure furthermore relates to a method for slicing a food product in which the food product is pre-cooled in a pre-cooling device, the temperature of the food product is measured after the pre-cooling and before or after the slicing of the food product, and the operation of the pre-cooling device is adjusted depending on the measured temperature level of the food product.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: Weber Maschinenbau GmbHInventors: Alexander Burk, Michael Knauf, Jochen Gerlach, Philip Kahl, Christian Nietsch, Andreas Runkel, Thorsten Schneider
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Publication number: 20150190939Abstract: An apparatus, in particular a high-performance slicer, for slicing food products such as in particular sausage, cheese, ham and/or the like, comprises a product feed which feeds a product to be sliced to a cutting plane in which a cutting blade moves adjacent to a cutting edge, in particular in a rotating and/or a planetary revolving motion. The cutting apparatus comprises means to rotate the product fed to the cutting plane about an axis, in particular about a longitudinal axis of the product, at least over a predefinable angular range during the slicing operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2014Publication date: July 9, 2015Inventors: Jochen Gerlach, Philip Karl, Michael Knauf, Andreas Runkel, Thorsten Schneider
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Patent number: 6080296Abstract: A method of applying several coats to an electrically conducting substrate by applying a primer coat using electrophoresis, stoving the primer coat, applying directly to the stoved primer coat a colored and/or special effect coating layer made of an aqueous coating material containing color and/or special effect pigments and including as a binder: A) 50 to 85% by weight of one of more hybrid binder vehicles based on polyesters and on (meth)acrylic copolymers with a hydroxyl number of 100 to 350 mg KOH/g and an acid number of 20 to 60 mg KOH/g; B) 0 to 20% by weight of one or more of binder vehicles which are different from A); and C) 15 to 50% by weight of one or more free or blocked polyisocyanates and/or one or more triazine-based components which crosslink with the hydroxyl groups of component A) with the formation of ether and/or ester groups, at least 50% by weight of the (meth)acrylic copolymers of component A) being produced in the presence of at least 20% by weight of the polyester or polyesters of coType: GrantFiled: July 27, 1999Date of Patent: June 27, 2000Assignee: Herberts GmbHInventors: Frank Lieverz, Volker Ducoffre, Andreas Runkel, Herbert Kalke, Wolfgang Goldner, Walter Schubert