Patents by Inventor Oliver Martini

Oliver Martini 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: 11072106
    Abstract: An apparatus for shaping plastic preforms into plastic containers is disclosed. Said apparatus comprises a conveying device on which a plurality of blowing stations are arranged. Each of said blowing stations encompasses a blow mold, within which a plastic preform can be shaped into a plastic container. The apparatus further comprises a clean chamber, within which the plastic preforms can be conveyed. According to the invention, the zone of the conveying device in which the blowing stations are arranged is located in the clean chamber, and at least one additional zone of the conveying device is located outside the clean chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Oliver Martini, Michael Dahmen, Patrick Engelhard
  • Patent number: 10486357
    Abstract: An apparatus for shaping plastic preforms into plastic containers is disclosed. Said apparatus comprises a conveying device on which a plurality of blowing stations are arranged. Each of said blowing stations encompasses a blow mold, within which a plastic preform can be shaped into a plastic container. The apparatus further comprises a clean chamber, within which the plastic preforms can be conveyed. According to the invention, the zone of the conveying device in which the blowing stations are arranged is located in the clean chamber, and at least one additional zone of the conveying device is located outside the clean chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Oliver Martini, Michael Dahmen, Patrick Engelhard
  • Publication number: 20190070769
    Abstract: An apparatus for shaping plastic preforms into plastic containers is disclosed. Said apparatus comprises a conveying device on which a plurality of blowing stations are arranged. Each of said blowing stations encompasses a blow mold, within which a plastic preform can be shaped into a plastic container. The apparatus further comprises a clean chamber, within which the plastic preforms can be conveyed. According to the invention, the zone of the conveying device in which the blowing stations are arranged is located in the clean chamber, and at least one additional zone of the conveying device is located outside the clean chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Oliver Martini, Michael Dahmen, Patrick Engelhard
  • Publication number: 20170036388
    Abstract: An apparatus for shaping plastic preforms into plastic containers is disclosed. Said apparatus comprises a conveying device on which a plurality of blowing stations are arranged. Each of said blowing stations encompasses a blow mold, within which a plastic preform can be shaped into a plastic container. The apparatus further comprises a clean chamber, within which the plastic preforms can be conveyed. According to the invention, the zone of the conveying device in which the blowing stations are arranged is located in the clean chamber, and at least one additional zone of the conveying device is located outside the clean chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Oliver Martini, Michael Dahmen, Patrick Engelhard
  • Patent number: 9505162
    Abstract: An apparatus (1) for shaping plastic preforms (10) into plastic containers (2) is disclosed. Said apparatus (1) comprises a conveying device (2) on which a plurality of blowing stations (8) are arranged. Each of said blowing stations (8) encompasses a blow mold, within which a plastic preform (10) can be shaped into a plastic container (20). The apparatus (1) further comprises a clean chamber (6), within which the plastic preforms (10) can be conveyed. According to the invention, the zone of the conveying device (2) in which the blowing stations are arranged is located in the clean chamber (6), and at least one additional zone of the conveying device (2) is located outside the clean chamber (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Krones, AG
    Inventors: Oliver Martini, Michael Dahmen, Patrick Engelhard
  • Patent number: 9345801
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for cleaning gas in blow moulding machines for shaping plastics material pre-forms to form plastics material containers. The apparatus includes at least one gas-processing device, which is capable of filtering the gas in a sterile manner and/or of reducing a quantity of an oxidative disinfecting/sterilizing agent contained in the gas flowing through and/or flowing past, is arranged in at least one gas line which is a gas supply line or a gas removal line of a blowing station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Oliver Martini, Juergen Soellner, Ulrich Lappe, Michael Dahmen, Eduard Handschuh, Michael Neubauer
  • Patent number: 9327442
    Abstract: A device for producing plastic containers may include a heating element for heating plastic parisons, a transport system for transporting the plastic parisons along a pre-defined transport path, and a shaping element arranged along the transport path, downstream of the heating device. The shaping element shapes the plastic parisons to form plastic containers. The device has a sterilization element that applies a free-flowing medium to a wall of the plastic parisons in order to sterilize said wall, the sterilization device being arranged along the transport path of the containers such that the sterilization takes place after the heating process applied to the containers in the heating device and before the end of the shaping process in the shaping element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: KRONES, AG
    Inventors: Patrick Engelhard, Michael Dahmen, Oliver Martini
  • Patent number: 9149970
    Abstract: An apparatus for shaping plastics material pre-forms to form plastics material containers may include a conveying device which conveys the containers along a pre-set conveying path, a stressing device which acts upon the containers with a flowable medium in order to expand them, a reservoir for storing the flowable medium, and a supply device which delivers the flowable medium from the reservoir to the container. A valve device controls the supply of the flowable medium into the containers, in order to expand the containers. The apparatus includes a first feed line in order to supply a flowable sterilization medium to the supply line between the reservoir and the container to be treated or in a removal line for the flowable medium, which removes the flowable medium from the containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Oliver Martini, Juergen Soellner, Michael Dahmen, Josef Hausladen, Ulrich Lappe, Klaus Voth
  • Publication number: 20150217499
    Abstract: An apparatus (1) for shaping plastic preforms (10) into plastic containers (2) is disclosed. Said apparatus (1) comprises a conveying device (2) on which a plurality of blowing stations (8) are arranged. Each of said blowing stations (8) encompasses a blow mold, within which a plastic preform (10) can be shaped into a plastic container (20). The apparatus (1) further comprises a clean chamber (6), within which the plastic preforms (10) can be conveyed. According to the invention, the zone of the conveying device (2) in which the blowing stations are arranged is located in the clean chamber (6), and at least one additional zone of the conveying device (2) is located outside the clean chamber (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Oliver Martini, Michael Dahmen, Patrick Engelhard
  • Patent number: 8985990
    Abstract: An apparatus for shaping plastic preforms into plastic containers may include a conveying device on which a plurality of blowing stations are arranged. Each of the blowing stations encompasses a blow mold, within which a plastic preform can be shaped into a plastic container. The apparatus further includes a clean chamber, within which the plastic preforms can be conveyed. The zone of the conveying device in which the blowing stations are arranged is located in the clean chamber, and at least one additional zone of the conveying device is located outside the clean chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Oliver Martini, Michael Dahmen, Patrick Engelhard
  • Patent number: 8828290
    Abstract: A method of treating devices of a plant for producing plastics material containers may include the steps of selection of at least one treatment device, acting upon the treatment device with a sterilization temperature in order to sterilize the treatment device, supplying at least one plastics material pre-form to the treatment device, shaping the plastics material pre-form to form a plastics material container, and removal of the at least one plastics material container from the treatment device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Klaus Voth, Oliver Martini, Ulrich Lappe, Juergen Soellner, Frank Winzinger, Josef Hausladen
  • Patent number: 8708680
    Abstract: An apparatus for shaping plastic preforms into plastic containers includes a transport device on which a plurality of blow molding stations are arranged. Each of these blow molding stations comprises a blow mold inside which a plastic preform can be shaped into a plastic container. The apparatus includes a clean chamber inside which the plastic preforms can be transported. The region of the transport device in which the blow molding stations are arranged is arranged in the clean chamber and at least one further region of the transport device is arranged outside the clean chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Florian Geltinger, Josef Knott, Juergen Soellner, Eduard Handschuh, Frank Winzinger, Josef Hausladen, Ulrich Lappe, Klaus Voth, Oliver Martini
  • Patent number: 8684716
    Abstract: An apparatus for shaping plastics material pre-forms into containers has a plurality of blow molding stations arranged on a movable carrier The blow molding stations have two part blow molds with a cavity inside in which the plastics material pre-forms are expanded. The blow molding stations have stressing devices which act upon the plastics material pre-forms to expand them with a flowable medium. At least one first bearing device is provided for movable mounting of the blow mold carriers with respect to each other and at least one second bearing device is provided for movable mounting of the first locking element with respect to the second locking element. At least one of these bearing devices is a slide bearing without lubricant or a bearing which is injection molded at least in part from a plastics material between bearing parts movable relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Klaus Voth, Oliver Martini, Florian Geltinger, Ulrich Lappe, Michael Neubauer, Juergen Soellner, Frank Winzinger, Josef Hausladen
  • Patent number: 8632325
    Abstract: An apparatus for shaping plastics material pre-forms to form plastics material containers includes a conveying device on which a plurality of blowing stations are arranged. Each of these blowing stations has a blow mold inside which a plastics material pre-form is capable of being shaped to form a plastics material container. The apparatus has a clean room inside which the plastics material pre-forms can be conveyed. The region of the conveying device on which the blowing stations are arranged is situated in the clean room, and at least one further region of the conveying device is arranged outside the clean room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Klaus Voth, Oliver Martini, Ulrich Lappe, Juergen Soellner, Frank Winzinger, Josef Hausladen
  • Publication number: 20120321741
    Abstract: An apparatus for shaping plastics material pre-forms into containers has a plurality of blow moulding stations arranged on a movable carrier blow moulding stations have two part blow moulds with a cavity inside in which the plastics material pre-forms are expanded. The blow moulding stations have stressing devices which act upon the plastics material pre-forms to expand them with a flowable medium. At least one first bearing device is provided for movable mounting of the blow mould carriers with respect to each other and at least one second bearing device is provided for movable mounting of the first locking element with respect to the second locking element. At least one of these bearing devices is a slide bearing without lubricant or a bearing which is injection moulded at least in part from a plastics material between bearing parts movable relative to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventors: Klaus Voth, Oliver Martini, Florian Geltinger, Ulrich Lappe, Michael Neubauer, Juergen Soellner, Frank Winzinger, Josef Hausladen
  • Publication number: 20120144778
    Abstract: A method and a device for the aseptic filling of a liquid food product that contains at least one solid particle, including disinfection with a disinfection unit of at least a part of the external surface of at least one first container which contains the solid particle, and disinfection of at least a second container, opening of the disinfected first container with an opening unit and removal of the solid particle, and filling via a filling unit of a disinfected second container with the solid particle and a liquid food.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Roland Feilner, Stephan Mayr, Oliver Martini, Matthias Weinzierl
  • Publication number: 20120070522
    Abstract: An apparatus for shaping plastics material pre-forms to form plastics material containers includes a conveying device on which a plurality of blowing stations are arranged. Each of these blowing stations has a blow mould inside which a plastics material pre-form is capable of being shaped to form a plastics material container. The apparatus has a clean room inside which the plastics material pre-forms can be conveyed. The region of the conveying device on which the blowing stations are arranged is situated in the clean room, and at least one further region of the conveying device is arranged outside the clean room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Klaus Voth, Oliver Martini, Ulrich Lappe, Juergen Soellner, Frank Winzinger, Josef Hausladen
  • Publication number: 20110309557
    Abstract: An apparatus for shaping plastics material pre-forms to form plastics material containers may include a conveying device which conveys the containers along a pre-set conveying path, a stressing device which acts upon the containers with a flowable medium in order to expand them, a reservoir for storing the flowable medium, and a supply device which delivers the flowable medium from the reservoir to the container. A valve device controls the supply of the flowable medium into the containers, in order to expand the containers. The apparatus includes a first feed line in order to supply a flowable sterilization medium to the supply line between the reservoir and the container to be treated or in a removal line for the flowable medium, which removes the flowable medium from the containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Oliver Martini, Juergen Soellner, Michael Dahmen, Josef Hausladen, Ulrich Lappe, Klaus Voth
  • Publication number: 20110311675
    Abstract: A method of treating devices of a plant for producing plastics material containers may include the steps of selection of at least one treatment device, acting upon the treatment device with a sterilization temperature in order to sterilize the treatment device, supplying at least one plastics material pre-form to the treatment device, shaping the plastics material pre-form to form a plastics material container, and removal of the at least one plastics material container from the treatment device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Klaus Voth, Oliver Martini, Ulrich Lappe, Juergen Soellner, Frank Winzinger, Josef Hausladen
  • Publication number: 20110287126
    Abstract: An apparatus (1) for shaping plastic preforms (10) into plastic containers (20), comprising a transport device (2) on which a plurality of blow moulding stations (8) are arranged, wherein each of these blow moulding stations (8) comprises a blow mould inside which a plastic preform (10) can be shaped into a plastic container (20), wherein the apparatus (1) comprises a clean chamber (6) inside which the plastic preforms (10) can be transported. According to the invention, that region of the transport device (2) in which the blow moulding stations (8) are arranged is arranged in the clean chamber (6) and at least one further region of the transport device (2) is arranged outside the clean chamber (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Inventors: Florian Geltinger, Josef Knott, Juergen Soellner, Eduard Handschuh, Frank Winzinger, Josef Hausladen, Ulrich Lappe, Klaus Voth, Oliver Martini