Patents Assigned to KHS GmbH
  • Method for controlling a labeling machine, labeling unit and container handling system
    Patent number: 10138015
    Abstract: A process for using a first labeling system that is a constituent of a block-form first container-handling includes, before switching between said labeling and non-labeling modes of a labeling unit thereof, providing a control signal to a control unit that controls the labeling machine, the control signal being indicative of a gap in container flow. the control signal occurs before the gap in container flow reaches a container inlet of the first labeling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Lutz Deckert, Klaus Krämer
  • Machine and method for filling containers and cleaning method
    Patent number: 10138105
    Abstract: A filling machine includes a rotor, a rotor bearing that rotatably mounts the rotor on the machine-frame for rotation about a machine axis, and filling elements disposed on the rotor. Each filling element, together with a container carrier, defines a filling point. The machine includes a filling-material boiler arranged on the rotor and configured to rotate with the rotor, as well as a boiler-cover connected to the machine-frame and configured to not rotate with the rotor, and a seal. The seal seals a transition between the boiler cover and the filling-material boiler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Niehr, Jürgen Vorwerk, Andreas Lörcks
  • System and method for filling containers
    Patent number: 10131526
    Abstract: An apparatus for filling containers with a liquid filling material includes a container treatment unit, a weighing unit, container carriers, weighing cells, a conveying element, filling positions, container receptacles, and a container-conveying section. As the conveying element, on which the filling positions are formed, rotates, it introduces filling material into the containers. The conveying element includes the container-conveying section, which moves the containers in a container-conveying direction. The weighing unit, which is made in the conveying element, weighs containers on the container-conveying section. Each container receptacle forms a weighing position with an associated container carrier and weighing cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventor: Ludwig Clusserath
  • Method and filling system for filling containers
    Patent number: 10131527
    Abstract: A method for filling containers simultaneously with the filling-material sealing the containers against filling heads at the filling positions, and using a filling-material volumetric-flow-rate controller common to all of the filling positions to control flow of filling-material as a function of a target filling-curve by executing a filling phase with intervals that have different flow rates and controlling transition times between these intervals to ensure that each container finishes the filling phase with the correct amount of filling-material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventor: Hilmar Fickert
  • Container processing machine and method for delivering containers to and/or removing them from a container processing machine
    Patent number: 10106388
    Abstract: A container-processing machine includes a conveyor that rotates about a vertical machine axis, processing stations disposed around the conveyor, a star that delivers unprocessed containers to the conveyor and removes processed containers from the conveyor, and recesses disposed around a periphery of the star for engaging containers. Container transfer occurs by raising a container from a transfer position into a processing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventor: Ludwig Clüsserath
  • Cutting apparatus and splicing apparatus
    Patent number: 10093502
    Abstract: A label cutter comprises a movable cutting blade, a pre-tensioning device, and a trigger. The pre-tensioning device pre-tensions the cutting blade into an arrested position. Upon its release, the cutting blade moves from the arrested position to a cutting position for cutting a label strip. In the arrested position, the cutting blade is retracted behind a component of the cutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: KHS GMBH
    Inventor: Lutz Deckert
  • Method for purging containers
    Patent number: 10088107
    Abstract: A method for purging a container with a purgative gas before filling the container with liquid filling-material includes sealing the container against a treatment head, connecting the container to a vacuum source, thereby at least partially evacuating the container, and with the container still connected to the vacuum source, introducing purgative gas into the container such that pressure in the container is between 0.05 bar and 0.4 bar and any pressure change within the container during the introduction of purgative gas remains below 0.2 bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventor: Ludwig Clüsserath
  • Method and arrangement for treating bags to be filled with a product prior to filling the bags with a product
    Patent number: 10077127
    Abstract: The present application disclosed a method for sterilizing flexible containers using a flexible container sterilizing arrangement. Such containers may comprise bags, pouches, or similar containers. The method comprises moving container material, using a conveying arrangement of the flexible container sterilizing arrangement, through an entry port into a housing of the flexible container sterilizing arrangement. The entry port is formed by a container-material sterilizing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Matheyka
  • Format part and format part fastener
    Patent number: 10060456
    Abstract: A format-part fastener for attaching an interchangeable format part to a machine frame includes a first connecting element having a mounting stud that extends along the stud's axis and that has an angled face that defines an acute angle relative to the stud's axis. A second connecting element has a locating sleeve for receiving the mounting stud. The locating sleeve has walls forming a slot. When used to attach a format part, a spring cotter's undulating section surrounds part of the locating sleeve's circumference while the slot supports the spring cotter's shank against the mounting stud's angled face. This converts some of the spring cotter's radial force into an axially directed force along the stud's axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter-Rudolf Krulitsch, Michael Jox
  • Method for controlling a filling system, and the filling system
    Patent number: 10059578
    Abstract: A method for filling containers with a fill of liquid material and solids using a container-filling machine having a tank, a filling element, a processing unit, a bypass pipe and pump, and an overflow pipe. The tank holds the fill. The filling element controls delivery of fill from the tank into the container. The processing unit provides the fill to the tank. The by-pass pipe connects to the filling element. The pump returns a residual quantity from the tank to the processing unit. The residual quantity is a quantity of one of the fill and a by-pass volume flow from the filling element. The overflow pipe returns an unneeded quantity of fill to the processing unit. The method includes, using a by-pass pump embodied as a displacement pump, actively drawing the residual quantity from the filling element or tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventor: Olaf Muszinski
  • Railing support
    Patent number: 10059526
    Abstract: A guide unit for a container-handling system includes a basic body portion having a format part, a railing support, and a railing crosspiece that are all integrated into a unitary piece. A container guide railing is arranged on the railing support. The railing crosspiece connects the basic body portion to the railing support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Peil
  • Method for sterilizing packaging
    Patent number: 10053251
    Abstract: Disinfecting a surface of packaging includes breaking up one of an outer covering and a membrane of germs on the surface, and applying carbon dioxide to the surface. Breaking up the outer covering or membrane is carried out by one or more of applying bactericidal energy, illuminating with UV radiation, illuminating with ultrasonic radiation, applying a bactericidal treatment medium, and applying a chlorine compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventor: Ludwig Clüsserath
  • Paneling for circulating machines with peripheral interchangeable modules
    Patent number: 10047907
    Abstract: A container processing installation includes a carousel with processing modules disposed around a periphery thereof, each pair of adjacent processing modules being separated a screened gap. The screen that screens this gap is a multi-part panel arrangement having a first panel mounted to a processing module such that it can swivel and a second panel having a connector mounted thereon. This connector interacts with a counter-connector that is either on an adjacent second processing module or on the container-processing installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Hanno Gollek, Klaus Krämer
  • Device for dividing off packaging units
    Patent number: 10046923
    Abstract: An apparatus for separating packaging units to form product groups moving along a transport plane includes dividing elements that circulate on a linear transporter. Each dividing element has an engaging element that protrudes above the transport plane temporarily and then sinks back below the transport plane. A control cam controls the when and where the engaging element protrudes and sinks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Wagner
  • TREATMENT SEGMENT WITH A COUPLING SECTION AND DEVICE FOR PRINTING CONTAINERS
    Publication number: 20180222213
    Abstract: A treatment segment for printing on containers includes a coupling section for securing the treatment segment on a revolving and drivable transport element such that the treatment segment can be exchanged. The treatment segment has either a retention-and-centering unit for securing a container on the treatment segment or a receiver for retaining and releasing a retention-and-centering unit. The coupling section is a component of a support structure that runs, at least in sections, in an interior of the treatment segment enclosed by a housing. The housing is retained, at least indirectly, on the support structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Martin SCHACH, Markus REINIGER
  • Receptacle treatment machine comprising a shielding system
    Patent number: 10040677
    Abstract: A receptacle treatment-machine features a shield arranged along a region of the receptacle-treatment machine. The shield's cladding segments define a protection wall that catches receptacle shards hurled machine. These cladding segments are arranged following one another. Each segment hangs freely from an upper end thereof to form a pendulum or connects at an end thereof to the receptacle treatment machine by a working connection with an elastically deformable element. Lower ends of the cladding segments are beneath a level of treatment positions of the receptacle-treatment machine, beneath a level on which the receptacles rest on bases thereof as they move during treatment thereof, and beneath a level on which the receptacles are supported on lower regions thereof as they move during treatment thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Ludwig Clüsserath, Thomas Berger
  • Method and container treatment machine for equipping containers with equipment characteristics
    Patent number: 10035619
    Abstract: A container treatment machine has treatment positions provided on a circumferential transport element rotating about a vertical machine axis. Each has a container carrier, a centering element, an aggregate, a control valve, and an actuation element. The treatment position clamps empty containers with a clamping force between the carrier and the cone. The actuation element generates the container clamping force. The control valve controls flow through the channel. Containers lying in a sealed position against the centering cone are loaded with pressure medium that travels through the channel to generate a container-stabilizing internal pressure. The control valve, which is in the centering element, causes container pre-tensioning by being opened by a container clamping force that acts between the centering cone and the container to pretension the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventor: Lutz Deckert
  • Device and method for the controlled orientation and/or controlled rotation of containers
    Patent number: 10035620
    Abstract: A container-orienting device includes container-holder groups, each having rotatable container-holders separated from each other by at least one rotatable container-holder from another container-holder group such that no two rotatable container-holders from a particular container-holder group are next to each other. The device also has a plurality of drives, each of which rotates only container holders from a corresponding container-holder group. The container holders are organized into container-holder sequences, each of which comprises equal numbers of container holders from different container-holder groups arranged in a particular order. These sequences following one another along the conveying direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Norman Pau, Thomas Nitsch, Thomas Lelie, Josef Düpper
  • Filling element, filling system and method for filling containers
    Patent number: 10029901
    Abstract: A filling element includes a flushing tube that carries flushing gas used to drive air out of a container's interior before filling it with liquid filling-material. The flushing tube moves between a starting position and a flushing position. In the flushing position, the flushing tube chokes a connection between a gas chamber and a gas channel that leads into a container. In the starting position, this connection is wide open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventor: Ludwig Clüsserath
  • Filling machine
    Patent number: 10029902
    Abstract: A filling machine includes a rotor and a rotor mounting. The rotor mounting is formed by a rotary feed that also mounts the rotor to the machine frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Fahldieck