Patents by Inventor Juergen Soellner

Juergen Soellner 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: 20210122099
    Abstract: Apparatus for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers includes a transport device for transporting the plastic preforms, wherein the transport device has a movable carrier on which a plurality of forming stations are arranged, wherein the forming stations each form a cavity having forming moulds configured to receive plastic preforms which are formable into plastic containers within this cavity when acted upon by a flowable medium and expanded. The forming stations further includes an applicator which acts upon the plastic preforms with the flowable medium, and at least one connecting line configured to guide the flowable medium to the applicator. The apparatus also has a sterilization device, whereby at least a section of this connecting line can be at least temporarily pressurized with a sterilization medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Juergen Soellner, Florian Geltinger, Kevin Werkmann
  • Publication number: 20210101325
    Abstract: Apparatus (1) for forming plastic preforms (10) into plastic containers (20). In a closed state of a blow mould (14), a contact area is formed between side parts (14a, 14b), in which the two side parts (14a, 14b) rest against each other, the side parts (14a, 14b) form a mould separation seam (5) in the contact area. In accordance with the invention, at least one section of at least one side part (14a, 14b) has a coating and/or an additional element (60) in a region of the mould separation seam (5), so that a heat transfer between the plastic preform (10) and the inner wall (52, 54) in the contact area can be delayed at least in places at these at least one section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Markus Kulzer, Juergen Soellner, Thomas Spitzer
  • Patent number: 10914477
    Abstract: A device for providing clean air in a beverage filling plant is described. The device includes an inflow channel with at least one filter for pretreating the air sucked in via a supply-air feed. The inflow channel is adjoined by a first outflow channel with at least one filter for treating the air pretreated in the inflow channel for feeding into a filling cleanroom of the beverage filling plant. The inflow channel is adjoined by a second outflow channel for treating the air pretreated in the inflow channel for feeding into a blowing cleanroom for the blow-molding of plastic containers. A dehumidifying device for dehumidifying the pretreated air is arranged in the second outflow channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Franz Braun, Holger Mueller, Juergen Soellner, Max Brikmann
  • Publication number: 20210031121
    Abstract: A device for evaporating a fluid medium in a filling product filling plant includes an inclined evaporator surface, a medium supply line for applying the fluid medium that is to be evaporated to the evaporator surface, and grooves in the evaporator surface for conducting the fluid medium. The grooves along the evaporator surface have a non-linear design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Michael PETER, Juergen SOELLNER
  • Publication number: 20200346910
    Abstract: A device for treating containers, for example, for filling and closing containers in filling plants is described. The device includes an isolator chamber in which the treatment of the containers takes place, and an outlet disposed beneath the isolator chamber for discharging fluids, wherein the outlet has a housing for receiving ejected containers and a suction device for extracting gases from the isolator chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Juergen SOELLNER, Franz BRAUN, Holger MUELLER, Bruno LANDLER
  • Publication number: 20200317377
    Abstract: A device for capping a container with a container cap, for example in a beverage filling plant, includes an isolator for providing a defined atmosphere in the interior thereof; a capper for capping a container with a container cap, which capper is arranged in the isolator; and a cap production device for producing container caps from a hot melt, for example a plastics melt. The cap production device is arranged outside the isolator, and is interconnected with the isolator or is connected to the isolator via a cap transport tunnel in order to feed produced container caps to the capper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventor: Juergen SOELLNER
  • Patent number: 10759643
    Abstract: A device for treating containers, for example, for filling and closing containers in filling plants is described. The device includes an isolator chamber in which the treatment of the containers takes place, and an outlet disposed beneath the isolator chamber for discharging fluids, wherein the outlet has a housing for receiving ejected containers and a suction device for extracting gases from the isolator chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Juergen Soellner, Franz Braun, Holger Mueller, Bruno Landler
  • Publication number: 20200215739
    Abstract: Apparatus for producing containers, and in particular beverage containers, having a heating device configured to heat plastic parisons, having at least one first transport device, which transports the plastic parisons along a predetermined transport path, a sterilization device configured to sterilize the plastic parisons, and a forming device arranged downstream of the sterilization device, as seen in a transporting direction of the plastic parisons, and configured to form the plastic parisons into plastic containers by the application of a free-flowing medium, wherein said forming device has a transport chamber within which the plastic parisons are transported. The apparatus has an application device configured to apply a free-flowing sterilization medium, at least temporarily, to the transport chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Holger MUELLER, Florian GELTINGER, Juergen SOELLNER
  • Publication number: 20200198215
    Abstract: An apparatus for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers, with a movable carrier on which at least one forming station is arranged for forming the plastic preforms, wherein the forming station is transported along a predefined transport path, and wherein the apparatus has a clean room inside which the plastic preforms are formed, wherein this clean room is isolated from a non-sterile environment by at least one wall, with a sterilisation device for sterilising the plastic preforms and/or plastic containers, which device acts upon the plastic preforms and/or plastic containers to be sterilised with a flowable sterilisation medium for their sterilisation. According to the invention, the apparatus comprises an ejection device for ejecting containers from the clean room, and this ejection device has a lock chamber from which the ejected containers can be removed, wherein this lock chamber can be acted upon with an atmosphere containing a sterilisation medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Holger Mueller, Juergen Soellner
  • Publication number: 20200180204
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device for handling plastic parisons with a storage device which serves for storing a plurality of plastic parisons and with at least one transport device which transports the plastic parisons along a predetermined transport path from the storage device to a processing device. At least one portion of the storage device and/or of the transport path is enclosed by a housing device and an application device is provided which applies a flowable and in particular gaseous medium to an interior of this housing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Florian NEBL, Dieter WUENSCHE, Juergen SOELLNER
  • Publication number: 20200122991
    Abstract: A rotary cleaning nozzle for cleaning surfaces of a beverage bottling installation using a fluid, comprising a nozzle assembly which has a feed duct for the fluid, and a nozzle head which is mounted rotatably on the nozzle assembly and has at least one nozzle outlet opening from which, during operation, fluid flowing through the feed duct and the nozzle head emerges in the form of a cleaning jet. The rotary cleaning nozzle furthermore comprises an electrical generator for the induction of electrical energy by way of rotation of the nozzle head, and a control unit for indicating a rotation of the nozzle head in dependence on the induced electrical energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Juergen SOELLNER, Matthias STUBENHOFER, Holger MUELLER
  • Publication number: 20200114031
    Abstract: A device for treating system components and/or packaging means in a filling product filling system, comprising a vaporization device for providing a treatment gas flow containing vaporized hydrogen peroxide, further comprising a treatment nozzle for applying the treatment gas flow to the system components to be treated and/or the packaging means to be treated, wherein a sensor is provided for measuring the hydrogen peroxide concentration in the treatment gas flow exiting the treatment nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Gertrud SOELLNER-WEIN, Juergen SOELLNER, Holger MUELLER
  • Publication number: 20200062566
    Abstract: The invention relates to a filling device for filling a container to be filled with a filling product in a filling product filling plant, comprising at least one filling valve for dosing the filling product into the container that is to be filled, as well as a sterilization device for sterilizing at least a portion of the at least one filling valve, wherein a contactless temperature sensor is provided for contactlessly measuring the temperature of the filling valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Sebastian BAUMGARTNER, Juergen SOELLNER, Thomas WEBER, Thomas KNITL, Bernd SCHAFACZEK
  • Publication number: 20200017344
    Abstract: A device for filling a container with a sterilized filling product, preferably for filling a beverage container with a sterilized beverage in a beverage bottling installation, comprising a sterilization device for sterilizing the filling product, a sterile tank for buffered receiving of the filling product sterilized in the sterilization device, and a filling device which has a filling valve for the filling of the container to be filled, wherein the filling valve is a proportional valve for controlling and/or regulating the filling-product flow of the filling product into the container to be filled, and the proportional valve is connected in a buffer-free manner to the sterile tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Holger MUELLER, Juergen SOELLNER, Sebastian BAUMGARTNER, Josef DOBLINGER
  • Publication number: 20190367342
    Abstract: A device for treating container closures, including sterilizing container closures for closing containers in a beverage filling plant. The device may include a treatment chamber for treating container closures, and a transport device for transporting container closures through the treatment chamber. The transport device may include a linear drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Juergen SOELLNER, Holger MUELLER
  • Publication number: 20190330039
    Abstract: Machine (1) for distributing flowable media to containers with a housing (2), with a transport device (12) for transporting the containers (10) which is arranged at least partially inside the housing (2), wherein this transport device has a rotatable carrier (14) with a distributor device (4) which is arranged inside this housing (2) an accommodates at least one inlet (42) for the flowable medium and a plurality of outlets (44) to which the flowable medium can be distributed, and with a supply conduit (6) which is suitable and intended for supplying the flowable medium to the inlet (42). According to the invention the distributor device (4) is non-rotatably connected to the carrier (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Juergen Soellner, Waldemar Suppes, Florian Geltinger, Thomas Hoellriegl, Andreas Brunner
  • Publication number: 20190314874
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for cleaning a process plant, in particular a process plant in the food and beverage industry, comprising: adding a gaseous medium to a liquid cleaning agent so as to form a cleaning flow, which flows through the process plant parts to be cleaned as a bubble flow or as a plug flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Christian BODENSTEINER, Veronika KNÖCHEL, Juergen SOELLNER, Eva BEIERLE
  • Publication number: 20180250869
    Abstract: Apparatus for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers with a transport device which transports the plastic preforms along a predefined transport path, wherein the transport device has a movable station carrier on which a plurality of forming stations are arranged, wherein these forming stations each have blow-moulding devices, each forming cavities within which the plastic preforms can be formed into plastic containers, and the blow-moulding devices are arranged on respective blow-mould carriers, wherein the apparatus has a clean room inside which the plastic preforms can be formed into the plastic containers, isolated from a non-sterile environment by at least one wall. The apparatus has a change device which is suitable and intended for at least removing the blow-moulding devices from their blow-mould carriers and/or arranging blow-moulding devices on the blow-mould carriers, wherein this change device is integrated in a module which can be separated from the clean room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Andreas HACK, Waldemar SUPPES, Berndt SCHEPP, Juergen SOELLNER, Florian GELTINGER
  • Publication number: 20180222735
    Abstract: A device for treating containers, for example, for filling and closing containers in filling plants is described. The device includes an isolator chamber in which the treatment of the containers takes place, and an outlet disposed beneath the isolator chamber for discharging fluids, wherein the outlet has a housing for receiving ejected containers and a suction device for extracting gases from the isolator chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Juergen SOELLNER, Franz BRAUN, Holger MUELLER, Bruno LANDLER
  • Publication number: 20180178258
    Abstract: A device for cleaning a plant part that is to be cleaned in a beverage filling plant, including a medium inflow for supplying a cleaning medium to the plant part that is to be cleaned, and having a medium return flow for removing the used cleaning medium from the plant part that is to be cleaned is described. A heating unit is provided for heating the cleaning medium in the medium inflow, and a recuperator is provided for transferring heat energy from the cleaning medium that is removed via the medium return flow to the cleaning medium that is to be supplied to the heating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Juergen SOELLNER, Holger MUELLER