Patents by Inventor Dietmar Schmetzer
Dietmar Schmetzer 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: 11794954Abstract: The invention relates to a packaging unit (1) for a plurality of individual products (20) combined into a group (2), comprising a plastic bag which accommodates the group (2) of individual products (20) and at least one stiffening element (3, 4, 5) arranged in the plastic bag or around the plastic bag, wherein the at least one stiffening element (3, 4, 5) covers and/or accommodates at least one of the plurality of individual products at least in some sections and wherein the at least one stiffening element (3, 4, 5) is produced from a material having a higher stiffness than the plastic bag.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2017Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: OPTIMA nonwovens GmbHInventors: Dietmar Schmetzer, Georg Pfeifer, Klaus Griessmayr
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Publication number: 20200189799Abstract: The invention relates to a packaging unit (1) for a plurality of individual products (20) combined into a group (2), comprising a plastic bag which accommodates the group (2) of individual products (20) and at least one stiffening element (3, 4, 5) arranged in the plastic bag or around the plastic bag, wherein the at least one stiffening element (3, 4, 5) covers and/or accommodates at least one of the plurality of individual products at least in some sections and wherein the at least one stiffening element (3, 4, 5) is produced from a material having a higher stiffness than the plastic bag.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2017Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: OPTIMA nonwovens GmbHInventors: Dietmar Schmetzer, Georg Pfeifer, Klaus Griessmayr
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Patent number: 7475771Abstract: A device for stacking flat, deformable, items contains a transfer device that accommodates individual items conveyed to it in receptacles and conveys them to a serializing device. At that transfer device, a row of compartments, into which the items are inserted, is conveyed transversely to the direction along which items' arrive. During insertion, items receive a velocity component in the compartments' direction of motion, while being brought to a standstill along their original direction of motion by one or the other of their flat sides coming into contact with a compartment wall, or an item that had been previously inserted into the compartment, in order that the compressive forces, and thus the deforming forces, exerted on the items will be slight.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2004Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: Optima Filling and Packaging Machines GmbHInventor: Dietmar Schmetzer
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Publication number: 20070108218Abstract: A device for stacking flat, deformable, items contains a transfer device that accommodates individual items conveyed to it in receptacles and conveys them to a serializing device. At that transfer device, a row of compartments, into which the items are inserted, is conveyed transversely to the direction along which items' arrive. During insertion, items receive a velocity component in the compartments' direction of motion, while being brought to a standstill along their original direction of motion by one or the other of their flat sides coming into contact with a compartment wall, or an item that had been previously inserted into the compartment, in order that the compressive forces, and thus the deforming forces, exerted on the items will be slight.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2004Publication date: May 17, 2007Inventor: Dietmar Schmetzer
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Publication number: 20070065270Abstract: A stacker for stacking products that are singly, consecutively conveyed to it contains numerous compartments, into each of which a single product is inserted, that are moved around a closed circuit. A stack of products is then ejected from several adjacent compartments. The compartment that is currently being loaded is opened such that the pair of walls forming the compartment are spread apart, in particular, are pivoted apart, which will alter the compartment that was loaded immediately prior to it such that the product contained therein will be straightened and compacted.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2004Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Dietmar Schmetzer, Heribert Orth, Klaus Griessmayr
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Patent number: 6755008Abstract: An apparatus and a method for packaging articles in bags is proposed, where a packaging magazine is used for receiving and guiding an article to be packaged. An article to be packaged is slid by a slider into the packaging magazine. The packaging magazine then moves together therewith into an opened bag, which is removed from a bag stack. With the bag, which surrounds the packaging magazine, the latter is then slid into the transfer magazine from where further conveying takes place.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2002Date of Patent: June 29, 2004Assignee: Optima Filling and Packaging Machines GmbHInventors: Dietmar Schmetzer, Klaus Griessmayr
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Publication number: 20020124533Abstract: An apparatus and a method for packaging articles in bags is proposed, where a packaging magazine is used for receiving and guiding an article to be packaged. An article to be packaged is slid by a slider into the packaging magazine. The packaging magazine then moves together therewith into an opened bag, which is removed from a bag stack. With the bag, which surrounds the packaging magazine, the latter is then slid into the transfer magazine from where further conveying takes place.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2002Publication date: September 12, 2002Inventors: Dietmar Schmetzer, Klaus Griessmayr
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Patent number: 6176366Abstract: An apparatus for the supply of bags formed into stacks to a point where in each case the top bag of the stack is to be opened, contains two parallel conveyors, e.g. in the form of revolving chains, which are synchronously driven. The stacks are held together by two holding members. The holding members are so inserted with a widened foot in the holders of the conveyor that they can be slid out of the holders again through a stop member. These holders have a small mutual spacing, so that the stacks of bags can be juxtaposed on the apparatus with a small reciprocal spacing.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 1999Date of Patent: January 23, 2001Assignee: Optima-Maschinenfabrik Dr. Buhler GmbH & Co.Inventors: Erich Meyer, Klaus Griessmayr, Dietmar Schmetzer
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Patent number: 5950404Abstract: An apparatus for packing articles contains successively in a conveying direction a feed station, where the articles to be packed are fed into the installation, a station for opening the pack and a station for sealing the filled pack. The two stations, optionally also a compressing station, are successively located on rails, to which they can be fixed in random positions. Consequently it is possible to modify the mutual spacings of the stations and the absolute positions of the stations. This makes it possible to adapt the apparatus to different pack sizes, different articles to be packed and further differing circumstances, whilst still allowing short conveying paths.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1997Date of Patent: September 14, 1999Assignee: OPTIMA-Maschinenfabrik Dr. Buhler GmbH & Co.Inventors: Erich Meyer, Andreas Rothbauer, Dietmar Schmetzer