Patents by Inventor Berthold Lingenhoff
Berthold Lingenhoff 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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Patent number: 8167005Abstract: A machine for filling cups with foodstuff has metering stations having metering modules provided with filling nozzles, respectively, for introducing product flows into horizontally supplied cups. A programmable control unit cooperates with the metering modules in such a way that in a filling process, by means of controlled tilting and/or lifting actions of the filling nozzles, variable filling structures are generated from the product flows in the cups.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2007Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Finnah Packtec GmbHInventor: Berthold Lingenhoff
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Patent number: 7299947Abstract: A metering device for flowable products, in particular, dairy products, is provided with a metering cylinder, a valve cylinder connected to the reservoir, a metering piston that is movable between an upper intake end position and a lower dispensing end position, and also has a mouthpiece closing the bottom of the metering chamber and having a coaxial cylindrical dispensing opening, and a central valve piston. The valve cylinder and the valve piston form a rotary control unit which, in a first rotary position, connects the metering chamber with a supply channel in the valve cylinder and, in a second rotary position, connects the metering chamber to an outlet channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2003Date of Patent: November 27, 2007Assignee: Finnah Engineering u. Packaging GmbHInventor: Berthold Lingenhoff
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Publication number: 20070235104Abstract: A machine for filling cups with foodstuff has metering stations having metering modules provided with filling nozzles, respectively, for introducing product flows into horizontally supplied cups. A programmable control unit cooperates with the metering modules in such a way that in a filling process, by means of controlled tilting and/or lifting actions of the filling nozzles, variable filling structures are generated from the product flows in the cups.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2007Publication date: October 11, 2007Applicant: FINNAH ENGINEERING UND PACKAGING GMBHInventor: Berthold Lingenhoff
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Publication number: 20050224522Abstract: A metering device for flowable products, in particular, dairy products, is provided with a metering cylinder, a valve cylinder connected to the reservoir, a metering piston that is movable between an upper intake end position and a lower dispensing end position, and also has a mouthpiece closing at the bottom of the metering chamber and having a coaxial cylindrical dispensing opening, and a central valve piston. The valve cylinder and the valve piston form a rotary control unit which, in a first rotary position, connects the metering chamber with a supply channel in the valve cylinder and, in a second rotary position, connects the metering chamber to an outlet channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2003Publication date: October 13, 2005Applicant: Finnah Engineering u. Packaging GmbHInventor: Berthold Lingenhoff
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Publication number: 20050173469Abstract: A metering device for flowable products, in particular, dairy products, has a metering cylinder, a valve cylinder coaxially arranged therein, a ring-shaped metering piston, a mouthpiece closing off the metering cylinder at the bottom side and having a coaxial cylindrical dispensing opening, and a central valve piston. The valve cylinder constitutes the central valve piston wherein the metering cylinder is arranged coaxially in an outer supply cylinder that is connected with its upper side to the product reservoir. The metering cylinder is axially movable from a lower closing position, in which it closes off the metering chamber by engaging with its end face the mouthpiece, into an upper opening position. The metering chamber communicates with the surrounding annular supply chamber in the supply cylinder via a supply opening between the end face of the metering cylinder and the mouthpiece.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2003Publication date: August 11, 2005Applicant: Finnah Engineering u. Packinging GmbhInventor: Berthold Lingenhoff
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Patent number: 4917158Abstract: A dispensing device for fluid products, such as dairy products, has a coaxially positioned valve cylinder inside a dispensing cylinder, both connected at their upper end to the product source. The dispensing piston is in the form of a ring piston which slides on the valve cylinder. The two pistons are fully immersed in product, and air entrainment is prevented.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 1988Date of Patent: April 17, 1990Assignee: Hamba Maschinenfabrik Hans A. Muller GmbH and Co. KGInventor: Berthold Lingenhoff
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Patent number: 4864798Abstract: The cup filling unit includes a guided circulating feed means which carries cup receptacles positioned in rows transverse to the feed direction. The cup receptacles also follow feed paths parallel to the feed direction. An elevator is provided for feeding cup and/or cover stacks in an added cup and/or cover feed device. The carrier of the elevator engages under a cup and/or cover stack and raises it from below axially into a lower opening of a shaft of an intermediate magazine. Each lower opening is associated with an engagable or disengagable supporting base for gripping under or delivering an overlapping cup and/or cover stack. The intermediate magazine is movable and displaceable from its filling position into a discharging position. In the discharging position the lower opening of the intermediate magazine substantially coincides with the upper opening of a cup and/or cover delivery magazine positioned above the cup and/or cover delivery station.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 1988Date of Patent: September 12, 1989Assignee: Hamba-Maschinenfabrik Hans A. Muller GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Burkhard Gies, Berthold Lingenhoff
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Patent number: 4796406Abstract: The cup filling unit includes a guided circulating feed means which carries cup receptacles positioned in rows transverse to the feed direction. The cup receptacles also follow feed paths parallel to the feed direction. An elevator is provided for feeding cup and/or cover stacks in an added cup and/or cover feed device. The carrier of the elevator engages under a cup and/or cover stack and raises it from below axially into a lower opening of a shaft of an intermediate magazine. Each lower opening is associated with an engagable or disengagable supporting base for gripping under or delivering an overlapping cup and/or cover stack. The intermediate magazine is movable and displaceable from its filling position into a discharging position. In the discharging position the lower opening of the intermediate magazine substantially coincides with the upper opening of a cup and/or cover delivery magazine positioned above the cup and/or cover delivery station.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1987Date of Patent: January 10, 1989Assignee: Hamba-Maschinenfabrik Hans A. Muller GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Burkhard Gies, Berthold Lingenhoff
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Patent number: 4784557Abstract: A cup and/or cover strand can be fed with the cup and/or cover feed device according to our invention, especially a cup and/or cover feed device of a cup filling unit for nutrient and palatable items such as dairy products. The cup and/or cover edges of the cup and/or cover strand are gripped and held by circumferential screw threads on substantially vertical axially parallel rotating spindle heads of a separating device and are divided into magazine suitable cup and/or cover partial stacks. The cup and/or cover partial stacks are deposited and supported on a horizontal conveyor spaced from and below the separating device. At least one vertical conveyor with downwardly moving recesses is provided on each side of the horizontal conveyor connected with the separating device and bridging the space between the separating device and the horizontal conveyor. The recesses hold the cover and/or cup edges and are provided in an axial region appropriate for the partial stack.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1987Date of Patent: November 15, 1988Assignee: Hamba-Maschinenfabrik Hans A. Muller GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Burkhard Gies, Berthold Lingenhoff
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Patent number: D592826Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2006Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignee: Finnah Engineering und Packaging GmbHInventor: Berthold Lingenhoff