Patents by Inventor LAURA ECKERT

LAURA ECKERT 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).

  • Patent number: 8919535
    Abstract: A system for loading and/or unloading trays includes a first conveyor configured to convey the trays in a direction of transport. A lowering device is configured to lower the trays from the first conveyor onto a strip conveyor. A lift-out device is configured to lift the trays from the strip conveyor onto a second conveyor. The strip conveyor includes strips disposed perpendicularly to an upper surface of the strip conveyor and the trays include slots configured to receive the strips such that the strips perpendicularly emerge into corresponding slots while a respective one of the trays is being lowered onto the strip conveyor by the lowering device and perpendicularly emerge from the corresponding slots while the respective one of the trays is being lifted from the strip conveyor by the lift-out device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Peter Tiebel, Laura Eckert, Helmut Schuesslburner
  • Publication number: 20130075230
    Abstract: A system for loading and/or unloading trays includes a first conveyor configured to convey the trays in a direction of transport. A lowering device is configured to lower the trays from the first conveyor onto a strip conveyor. A lift-out device is configured to lift the trays from the strip conveyor onto a second conveyor. The strip conveyor includes strips disposed perpendicularly to an upper surface of the strip conveyor and the trays include slots configured to receive the strips such that the strips perpendicularly emerge into corresponding slots while a respective one of the trays is being lowered onto the strip conveyor by the lowering device and perpendicularly emerge from the corresponding slots while the respective one of the trays is being lifted from the strip conveyor by the lift-out device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Peter Tiebel, Laura Eckert, Helmut Schuesslburner
  • Publication number: 20110198196
    Abstract: A device for conveying and/or accumulating articles, particularly packs, along a conveying section, and having at least two conveying elements, the conveying elements being configured as endless conveyors, particularly as belt conveyors, and a drive, the at least two conveying elements being drivable by the drive particularly independently of each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: KRONES AG
    Inventor: LAURA ECKERT