Patents Assigned to Focke & Co.
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Publication number: 20220315274Abstract: A packet for cigarette industry products, having a tray for receiving at least one group of products, and a device and a method for producing the same. The packet is characterized in that the tray is specified for receiving at least two groups of products, and in that at least one separator for delimiting two receptacle spaces for in each case at least one group of products is disposed in an interior of the tray, and in that the separator is formed from a wall of the tray.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventor: Dirk Förstmann
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Patent number: 11447320Abstract: A cigarette pack in the form of a sealing pack consisting of an inner pack and an outer pack in the form of a hinge-lid box. An opening aid of the inner pack is provided with a removal opening which is formed as an open recess as a result of punching during the production of a blank for the inner pack, in particular in the region of a continuous material web. Said removal opening, which is free right from the start, is closed by a closure tab which is able to be opened and closed multiple times on account of a corresponding glue connection. The closure tab is preferably connected permanently to the inside of a lid front wall of the outer pack by means of an actuating tab.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventor: Henry Buse
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Publication number: 20220153509Abstract: A packet for cigarette industry products, having a casing which at least partially surrounds a group of cigarette industry products as the packet content, wherein the casing is formed from a packaging material, and wherein folding tabs of the packaging material are connected to one another by seams, in which the casing is formed from a paper-based packaging material, and a corresponding method.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Jan Schnakenberg, Johann Köster
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Publication number: 20220144536Abstract: A packet for cigarette industry products, having a casing which, preferably on all sides, surrounds a group of cigarette industry products as the packet content, wherein the casing is formed from a packaging material, and wherein folding tabs of the packaging material are connected to one another by seams. Preferably all seams are formed by crimping folding tabs of the packaging material that bear on one another in the overlap region of those folding tabs that bear on one another. The invention also relates to corresponding devices and methods for producing such packets.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Jan Schnakenberg, Gerd Städing
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Patent number: 11279542Abstract: A cigarette pack with an outer pack in the embodiment as a hinge lid box and with an inner pack as a sealed block is provided with an opening tab for the inner pack and with a closure label for actuating the opening tab. The closure label is fixed on the inner side of a lid front wall by means of an actuating tab and is movable with the lid into the opening position. Pressure members cause the closure label to be pressed with regions of glue onto the inner side of the lid front wall.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Henry Buse, Hans Schönberger, Michael Schlenker
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Publication number: 20210394942Abstract: A method and a device for filling containers with products, in which the products are successively conveyed horizontally to a filling installation in which the products, while being combined to form individual product groups, are grouped, and an offered-up container, which is conveyed horizontally to the filling installation, is filled in a single track with one or a plurality of product groups, wherein the filled containers subsequently are in particular horizontally transported away. The method includes conveying the products in multiple tracks to the filling installation, grouping the products to form product groups, feeding the product groups in multiple tracks to a common revolving vertical conveyor of the filling installation, conveying the product groups to an ejection position from which the product groups are conveyed onward in a single track to an offered-up container, and filling the offered-up container with at least one of the product groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2019Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Dennis Schmidt, Andreas Prahm, Andreas Neufeld, Frank Sachs
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Patent number: 11060620Abstract: A valve for free-flowing media, such as a glue valve, with a valve housing, and with a closure member, such as a valve tappet, which is movable in the valve housing by means of an electromagnet and which bears with a closure piece on a valve seat in the closed position of the valve and which sits at least partially in a continuous interior of a one-piece coil carrier on which the windings of a coil of the electromagnet are wound, and having two terminal receivers for a dosing unit and a valve lift adjustment unit with an elongate abutment part which is arranged at least in part in the interior of the coil carrier and which limits a movement of the closure member in the direction of the valve lift adjustment unit, with the valve lift adjustment unit being is secured on the coil carrier.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Jan-Christian Walter, Marc-Daniel Stegen
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Publication number: 20210171227Abstract: A packaging machine for producing packs with a group of cigarettes as pack content, having individual manufacturing units which are arranged adjacent to one another on a manufacturing line and which are (non-destructively) separable from one another in each case in the region of or along (imaginary) parting planes between them and are removable from the manufacturing line as required, wherein the packaging machine can be converted from a first configuration, in which a first pack type can be manufactured, into a second configuration, in which a second pack type which differs from the first pack type can be manufactured, by removing at least one separable manufacturing unit from the manufacturing line, by replacing at least one separable manufacturing unit with another separable manufacturing unit and/or by adding at least one further separable manufacturing unit to the manufacturing line.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2018Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Michael Schlenker, Henry Buse
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Publication number: 20210163163Abstract: A packaging machine for producing packs containing a group of cigarettes, having in a manufacturing flow direction: a forming unit for forming cigarette groups; a first folding unit at which an inner blank composed of a material suitable for forming a dimensionally stable inner pack is folded in certain regions around a cigarette group to form an inner pack with the cigarette group as pack content; adjoining said first folding unit, a sealing inner pack unit in which a sealing inner pack is manufactured from the inner pack, the sealing inner pack is folded into a final state, or one sealing inner pack comprising the inner pack is manufactured; and adjoining said sealing inner pack unit, a second folding unit at which an outer blank composed of a material suitable for forming a dimensionally stable outer pack is folded around the sealing inner pack to form an outer pack.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2018Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Holger Broek, Burkard Roesler
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Patent number: 10919657Abstract: A method of feeding products into containers, in particular of feeding bags into cartons, wherein at least two different types of products are fed into a container, wherein the products are transported via respective feeding devices, in particular conveyors, in the direction of a device for feeding the products into a container, wherein each type of the products is transported separately by means of a dedicated feeding device, and wherein the conveying speed of the feeding devices is controlled such that, following the feeding devices, the products are present in a sequence which corresponds to the arrangement of the products within the container.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2016Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Björn Brandhorst, Wolfgang Pradel, Marco Schloermann
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Patent number: 10919067Abstract: A glue valve arrangement having a controllable, in particular electromagnetically operated metering member for the delivery of glue, having a main body with glue duct leading to the metering member, having a tubular glue line, with which glue originating from a separate glue source can be fed to the glue duct, having a rotary feedthrough, detachably fastened to the main body, for the articulated connection of the tubular glue line to the main body, and having a filter for the filtering of the glue. The invention is characterized in that the filter is assigned to the rotary feedthrough.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2015Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Jan-Christian Walter, Nils Neuhaus
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Patent number: 10899535Abstract: A pack for cigarettes having an outer pack and an inner pack with a blank that surrounds a cigarette group, the inner pack having a removal opening for accessing the pack contents, and the inner pack having a closure flap fastened to it by a releasable adhesive bond and being removable for access to the removal opening or pack contents. For forming the removal opening, the blank has an opening that is closable by the closure means, the closure means having a coverage region that, with the closure means in the closed position, circumferentially surrounds the opening and is adhesively connectable to a region of the blank that surrounds the opening, and a separate blank is adhesively fastened on the closure means on the side facing the inner pack, the separate blank, with the closure means in the closed position, covering the opening and overlapping the opening on all sides.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2017Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventor: Thomas Häfker
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Patent number: 10865037Abstract: A cigarette pack, having an inner pack for pack contents, in particular for a group of cigarettes, and having an outer pack, preferably in the form of a hinge/lid pack, wherein the inner pack which preferably directly encases the pack contents has lateral walls made of cardboard, which are formed by overlapping lateral tabs of a blank for the inner pack. The invention is characterized in that end corner tabs, which are arranged on both sides of a lid wall of the inner pack, have a respective substantially V-shaped design, and in that each of the end corner tabs is arranged between inner lateral tabs and outer lateral tabs of the lateral walls of the inner pack.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Thomas Häfker, Christoph Schneider, Henry Buse
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Patent number: 10766688Abstract: A cigarette pack in the form of a sealing pack consisting of an inner pack in the form of a foil block and an outer pack in the form of a hinge-lid box. An opening aid of the foil block is provided with a removal opening which is formed as an open recess as a result of punching during the production of a blank for the foil block, in particular in the region of a continuous foil web. Said removal opening, which is free right from the start, is closed by a closure tab which is able to be opened and closed multiple times on account of a corresponding glue connection. The closure tab is preferably connected permanently to the inside of a lid front wall of the outer pack by means of an actuating tab.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2016Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventor: Henry Buse
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Patent number: 10710760Abstract: An aroma-tight cigarette pack with an outer pack (12) configured in the form of a hinge-lid box, and also with an inner pack (11) configured in the form of a sealed block with an opening aid which can be used a number of times. The opening aid has a removal opening (51) which extends in a sub-region of an inner front wall (39) and of an adjacent inner end wall (41) and is covered over by a closure label (54) with an adhesively bonding connecting periphery (55). The inner pack (11) has closure seams (37) which are designed in the form of fin seams.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2016Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventor: Henry Buse
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Patent number: 10689186Abstract: A pack for a group of rod-shaped articles, having a box part, which is delimited at least by a front wall, a rear wall, side walls and a base wall, the box part containing a collar, at least comprising a collar front wall, which butts against the front wall of the box part, and collar side walls, which are adjacent to side walls of the box part, and at least one base flap arranged in extension of the collar front wall and, forming an underside support for at least one group of rod-shaped articles, the collar serving to compensate for at least one different dimension of the group of rod-shaped articles.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Kristina Viestenz, Corvyn Sommer
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Publication number: 20200180853Abstract: A cigarette pack with an outer pack in the embodiment as a hinge lid box and with an inner pack as a sealed block is provided with an opening tab for the inner pack and with a closure label for actuating the opening tab. The closure label is fixed on the inner side of a lid front wall by means of an actuating tab and is movable with the lid into the opening position. Pressure members cause the closure label to be pressed with regions of glue onto the inner side of the lid front wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2020Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Buse Henry, Hans Schönberger, Michael Schlenker
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Patent number: 10670164Abstract: A modular valve for free-flowing media, with a main module with a valve housing and an electromagnet, a dosing module with a closure member which is movable by means of the electromagnet and which closes a dispensing opening of the dosing module, and a valve lift adjustment module for adjusting the valve lift, which valve lift adjustment module comprises an elongate abutment part which is arranged at least in part in a valve interior of the main module and is modifiable in its axial position in the valve interior, which abutment part limits the movement of the closure member in the direction of the valve lift adjustment module, the dosing module and the valve lift adjustment module being connected releasably to the main module in such a way that the dosing module and the valve lift adjustment module can each be replaced by another module of the same module type.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Jan-Christian Walter, Stephan Vollmer
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Patent number: 10633169Abstract: A cigarette pack with an outer pack (10) in the embodiment as a hinge lid box and with an inner pack (11) as a sealed block is provided with an opening tab (21) for the inner pack (11) and with a closure label (23) for actuating the opening tab (21). The closure label (23) is fixed on the inner side of a lid front wall (34) by means of an actuating tab (28) and is movable with the lid (30) into the opening position. Pressure members (45, 46) cause the closure label (23) to be pressed with regions of glue onto the inner side of the lid front wall (34).Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2015Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Henry Buse, Hans Schönberger, Michael Schlenker
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Publication number: 20200124183Abstract: A valve for free-flowing media, such as a glue valve, with a valve housing, and with a closure member, such as a valve tappet, which is movable in the valve housing by means of an electromagnet and which bears with a closure piece on a valve seat in the closed position of the valve and which sits at least partially in a continuous interior of a one-piece coil carrier on which the windings of a coil of the electromagnet are wound, and having two terminal receivers for a dosing unit and a valve lift adjustment unit with an elongate abutment part which is arranged at least in part in the interior of the coil carrier and which limits a movement of the closure member in the direction of the valve lift adjustment unit, with the valve lift adjustment unit being is secured on the coil carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Applicant: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Jan-Christian Walter, Marc-Daniel Stegen