Patents by Inventor Willibald Bittner

Willibald Bittner 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: 8464772
    Abstract: A dispensing apparatus for labeling machines for applying labels, which are supplied via a carrier belt carrying a plurality of labels, to bottles and in particular to bottle necks, has a dispensing arm and a dispensing head which is arranged on the dispensing arm and has a dispensing edge for deflecting the carrier belt in order thereby to detach a respective label, wherein the dispensing edge and/or the dispensing head is pivotable in order to adjust a movement direction of the labels being detached from the carrier belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventor: Willibald Bittner
  • Patent number: 8215365
    Abstract: Appliance for applying labels to receptacles, which comprises a transport device that transport the receptacles to be labeled along a predefined transport path, and comprises a first pressing-on unit that presses the labels onto an outer wall of the receptacles, the first pressing-on unit having a brush device having a multiplicity of bristles that extend in the direction of the receptacles. According to the invention, the first pressing-on unit, at least in a partial region of the first pressing-on unit, is shorter, in the longitudinal direction of the receptacles, than the label to be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Willibald Bittner, Martin Plank
  • Publication number: 20100038034
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dispensing apparatus for labelling machines (1) for applying labels, which are supplied via a carrier belt carrying a plurality of labels, to bottles and in particular to bottle necks, comprising a dispensing arm (10) and a dispensing head (12) which is arranged on the dispensing arm (10) and has a dispensing edge (14) for deflecting the carrier belt in order thereby to detach a respective label, wherein the dispensing edge (14) and/or the dispensing head (12) is pivotable in order to adjust the movement direction of the labels being detached from the carrier belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventor: Willibald Bittner
  • Publication number: 20090217628
    Abstract: Appliance (1) for applying labels (5) to receptacles (10), which comprises a transport device (2) that transports the receptacles (10) to be labelled along a predefined transport path (T), and comprises a first pressing-on unit (6) that presses the labels (5) onto an outer wall of the receptacles (10), the first pressing-on unit (6) having a brush device (8) having a multiplicity of bristles (9) that extend in the direction of the receptacles (10). According to the invention, the first pressing-on unit (6), at least in a partial region (6a) of the first pressing-on unit (6), is shorter, in the longitudinal direction (L) of the receptacles (10), than the label (5) to be applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Inventors: Willibald Bittner, Martin Plank