Patents by Inventor Manfred Schepper

Manfred Schepper 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).

  • Method of and apparatus for cleaning and filling containers
    Patent number: 5000661
    Abstract: Containers such as beer kegs are cleaned and filled by movement along a linear treatment line, in step-wise fashion, and delivery to movable filling stations which are alternately brought into alignment with the treatment line. The filling procedure is accomplished continuously while the containers are moving, the filling station motion having a directional component which is angularly related to the axis of the treatment line, away from and back to the position of alignment with the treatment line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: Leifeld & Lemke Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Manfred Bloch, Manfred Gutapel, Manfred Schepper, Wolfgang Stein
  • Barrel cleaning apparatus
    Patent number: 4457324
    Abstract: The cleaning of barrel type containers, particularly beer kegs which have a fitting including a riser pipe which extends into the keg, is accomplished by incrementally increasing the level of a cleaning liquid which has been introduced into the barrel and, between each step of injection of cleaning fluid, causing turbulent motion of the liquid in the barrel by means of the injection of preselected volumes of a gaseous medium at a point below the surface level of the liquid cleaning fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1984
    Assignee: Leifeld & Lemke Machinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Manfred Schepper
  • Barrel cleaning method
    Patent number: 4427455
    Abstract: The cleaning of barrel type containers, particularly beer kegs which have a fitting including a riser pipe which extends into the keg, is accomplished by incrementally increasing the level of a cleaning liquid which has been introduced into the barrel and, between each step of injection of cleaning fluid, causing turbulent motion of the liquid in the barrel by means of the injection of preselected volumes of a gaseous medium at a point below the surface level of the liquid cleaning fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1984
    Assignee: Leifeld & Lemke Machinenfabrik & Co. GmbH
    Inventor: Manfred Schepper