Patents by Inventor Friedhelm Funda

Friedhelm Funda 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).

  • Publication number: 20020005101
    Abstract: This invention relates to a system for the continuous separation of strings of material, subdivided into individual string subsections or pockets by transverse perforations, especially in the context of the production of tea filter bags, incorporating a continuously rotating wheel (1) and, beside the wheel (1), grippers (3) which are tiltable relative to the wheel (1) and serve to grasp the longitudinal sides of a string subsection to be separated from the string at a predefined point near the perforation, said string subsection permitting separation by means of the relative movement between the grippers (3) and the wheel (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2001
    Publication date: January 17, 2002
    Inventors: Wilhelm Lohrey, Stefan Lambertz, Wolfgang Groth, Friedhelm Funda, Wolfgang Reichel, Michael Klein
  • Patent number: 6000201
    Abstract: A transferring device for transferring filled tea bags from a single track tea packaging machine to a two-track processing machine has a pivoting device with a pivot arm and a tea bag receptacle for receiving a vertically positioned tea bag. The pivoting device has a pivot drive for alternatingly pivoting the receptacle to the left and to the right about 90.degree. into a first and a second end position. A first swiveling device is provided for swiveling a tea bag, contained in the receptacle in the first end position, into a horizontal position. A second swiveling device is provided for swiveling a tea bag, contained in the receptacle in the second end position, into a horizontal position. A first tea bag pusher for moving the tea bag from the first swiveling device onto a first track of a two-track transport device for transporting the tea bag to a processing machine is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: TEEPAK Spezialmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Helmut Nippes, Friedhelm Funda
  • Patent number: 5797244
    Abstract: A method for transferring filled tea bags from a single track tea packaging machine to a two-track processing machine includes the steps of feeding tea bags in single file to a transfer station and positioning each tea bag individually therein. The tea bags are deposited alternatingly to the left and to the right onto a left and a right track of the two-track transporting table by pivoting the tea bags in sequential movements about a first axis and about a second axis, wherein the first and second axes extend transverse to one another. The tea bags are then transported on the left and right tracks in double file to the processing machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1998
    Assignee: Teepack Spezialmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Helmut Nippes, Friedhelm Funda