Patents by Inventor Rudolf Floerke

Rudolf Floerke 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: 11780627
    Abstract: Described and depicted is a method for filling packages that are open on one side, in particular cardboard composite packages, with free-flowing products, in particular foodstuffs, in a filling machine. In order to allow the heating, sterilisation and/or drying to be carried out at high throughputs more reliably and with less complexity in terms of the equipment and/or method, it is provided that preheating air and/or drying air and/or sterilising agent is introduced into the packages that are open on one side and that a volume of preheating air and/or drying air and/or sterilising agent, said volume corresponding to at least three times the volume of the package that is open on one side, is introduced into at least one, preferably at least substantially each, package that is open on one side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SIG Technology AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Flörke, Hans-Willi Mainz
  • Publication number: 20210139179
    Abstract: Described and depicted is a method for filling packages that are open on one side, in particular cardboard composite packages, with free-flowing products, in particular foodstuffs, in a filling machine. In order to allow the heating, sterilisation and/or drying to be carried out at high throughputs more reliably and with less complexity in terms of the equipment and/or method, it is provided that preheating air and/or drying air and/or sterilising agent is introduced into the packages that are open on one side and that a volume of preheating air and/or drying air and/or sterilising agent, said volume corresponding to at least three times the volume of the package that is open on one side, is introduced into at least one, preferably at least substantially each, package that is open on one side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Rudolf Flörke, Hans-Willi Mainz
  • Publication number: 20190016493
    Abstract: Shown and described are a method and a device for sterilisation during the filling of foodstuffs into packaging containers with a preheating zone, a sterilisation zone, a drying zone, a filling zone and a sealing zone, which form a sterile space and are arranged immediately adjacent to one another and are sealed at the top by a cover which accommodates the necessary supply elements and supply lines. In order to reliably prevent the penetration of microbes into the packaging units, open at the top, passing through the treatment zones, and into the sterile space formed by the treatment zones, essentially horizontal air guide elements having a plurality of openings are provided in the sterile space underneath the cover and that these are supplied with sterile air from above through the cover, so that underneath the air guide elements a laminar flow directed evenly downwards is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventor: Rudolf Flörke
  • Patent number: 9862514
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for processing cut edges of a blank member, so called “package sleeve”, made from packaging material, in particular paper/plastics composite material, the cut edges of which are open from above and/or below, by applying a processing medium. In order to develop a simple and cost-effective method, in which the risk of contamination of the packaging and the aseptic region of a filling installation when the package sleeves are filled and closed is reduced, the processing medium contains at least one sterilizing medium and the sterilizing medium remains after being applied to the cut edges and is introduced into the packaging material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: SIG Technology AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Floerke, Hanno Geissler, Hans-Willi Mainz
  • Publication number: 20160251100
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for processing cut edges of a blank member, so called “package sleeve”, made from packaging material, in particular paper/plastics composite material, the cut edges of which are open from above and/or below, by applying a processing medium. In order to develop a simple and cost-effective method, in which the risk of contamination of the packagins and the aseptic region of a filling installation when the package sleeves are filled and closed is reduced, the processing medium contains at least one sterilising medium and the sterilising medium remains after being applied to the cut edges and is introducted into the packaging material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Rudolf Floerke, Hanno Geissler, Hans-Willi Mainz
  • Patent number: 9315284
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for processing cut edges of a blank member, so galled “package sleeve”, made from packaging material, in particular paper/plastics composite material, the cut edges of which are open from above and/or below, by applying a processing medium. In order to develop a simple and cost-effective method, in which the risk of contamination of the packagings and the aseptic region of a filling installation when the package sleeves are filled and closed is reduced, the processing medium contains at least one sterilizing medium and the sterilizing medium remains after being applied to the cut edges and is introduced into the packaging material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: SIG Technology AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Floerke, Hanno Geissler, Hans-Willi Mainz
  • Publication number: 20140291320
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for processing cut edges of a blank member, so galled “package sleeve”, made from packaging material, in particular paper/plastics composite material, the cut edges of which are open from above and/or below, by applying a processing medium. In order to develop a simple and cost-effective method, in which the risk of contamination of the packagings and the aseptic region of a filling installation when the package sleeves are filled and closed is reduced, the processing medium contains at least one sterilising medium and the sterilising medium remains after being applied to the cut edges and is introduced into the packaging material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: SIG TECHNOLOGY AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Floerke, Hanno Geissler, Hans-Willi Mainz