Patents Assigned to Multivac
  • Chamber machine with gas nozzle monitoring
    Patent number: 10189589
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a chamber machine for packaging products in at least one bag, where said chamber machine includes at least one gas nozzle. The chamber machine can also include a monitoring device configured for detecting the presence of a bag neck of the bag over the gas nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Multivac Sepp Haggenmueller SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Konrad Möβnang, Benjamin Öfele, Thomas Pfalzer, Klaus Rothermel
  • Package pick-up device having pivoting retaining elements
    Patent number: 10183771
    Abstract: A pick-up device for picking up packages that may include a frame to which a first and a second retaining element are mounted. Each retaining element may comprise a retaining side that is adapted to hold a package or a package section. The first and the second retaining elements may be adapted to be arranged in a starting position, such that the first and the second retaining sides are oriented one next to the other in an aligned manner. Both the first and the second retaining elements are pivotable about a common pivot axis, so that in at least one pivoted position, both the first and the second retaining elements are arranged pivoted by a first and a second angle respectively, wherein the retaining element are pivoted relative to the starting position. In one embodiment, both the first and the second angles are greater than zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMÜLLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventor: Bernd Wintergerst
  • Packaging machine and method with loose object carrier
    Patent number: 10144539
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a packaging machine comprising a sealing station, a conveying unit and at least one loose object carrier, which is configured for accommodating a plurality of packaging objects and adapted to be fed to and removed from the sealing station by means of the conveying unit, wherein the loose object carrier comprises an upper part for accommodating the packaging objects, and wherein, for sealing the packaging objects, the object carrier is movable within the sealing station from a preliminary position, to which it can be advanced by means of the conveying unit, to a sealing position, at which it has been moved into contact with a tool upper part of the sealing station, said sealing position being displaced in parallel relative to the preliminary position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Michael Lang, Lars Ickert, Alireza Taghipour
  • Packaging machine with a protective device and method
    Patent number: 10118784
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a packaging machine and a method, wherein one embodiment of a protective device comprises a protective hood and the protective hood is lifted around a shaft comprising two rolls, and is shifted by means of guides in the protective hood on the rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Albert Gabler, Wolfgang Negele, Stefan Bieringer
  • Thermoforming packaging machine with a top film forming station
    Patent number: 10118719
    Abstract: A thermoforming packaging machine with a top film forming station, wherein the forming tool upper part and the foaming tool lower part of the top film forming station are disposed above a transportation plane of a lower film. One of the forming tool upper part or the forming tool lower part are operably connected to a lifting mechanism by a traverse system. The lifting mechanism is disposed below the transportation plane of the lower film. The traverse system transfers a lifting force from the lifting device to one of the forming tool upper part or lower part through the transportation plane of the lower film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventor: Elmar Ehrmann
  • Chamber conveyor belt machine
    Patent number: 10106382
    Abstract: A chamber conveyor belt machine having a machine frame, a chamber cover with two or more columns and a lifting device for lifting the chamber cover. The lifting device may include a safety system that includes a latching rail that cooperates with a latching hook disposed on at least one of the two columns. The safety system may include one or more sensors for determining whether the lifting device is working correctly or is in a failure condition. The safety system may prevent the chamber conveyor belt machine from operating if a failure condition is sensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMÜLLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Maximilian Brunner, Rainer Häring, Konrad Mössnang
  • Labeler with sealing label press-on device
    Patent number: 10077129
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a labeler for applying labels to packages. The labeler can include a transport unit for transporting the packages, a label dispenser for applying a sealing label to a web-shaped rim of each of the packages, and a press-on device having a circularly movable pusher plate. The present invention also relates to a method of operating such a labeler, where the press-on device is provided for folding the sealing label around the web-shaped rim laterally to each package and for pressing the label onto the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: MULTIVAC MARKING & INSPECTION GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Alexander Riegel, Georg Austermeier
  • PACKAGING MACHINE HAVING MOISTURE SENSOR
    Publication number: 20180222619
    Abstract: A packaging machine, comprising a control unit, at least one measurement device and a plurality of work units for different processes. One of the work units is designed as a sealing station which comprises at least one moisture sensor designed as the measurement device which is functionally connected to the control unit and is designed to detect moisture within the sealing station as a time-dependent measured variable during a program sequence of the sealing station. The program sequence may comprise an evacuation process, wherein the control unit is designed to calculate a rate of change in the moisture during the evacuation process of the sealing station. The control unit may abort the evacuation process performed on the sealing station, based on the rate of change, before reaching a target vacuum pressure within the sealing station, immediately or after a specified delay time elapses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: Multivac Sepp Haggenmuller SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Elmar Ehrmann, Claus Botzenhardt, Thomas Holderied, Florian Felch, Tobias Enderle
  • Labeling of folded products
    Patent number: 10023344
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a labeler comprising a label dispenser used for applying an adhesive label to a folded product and a press-on device following the label dispenser in the conveying direction of a conveyor system. The press-on device comprises two press-on units, wherein one of the press-on units is reversibly drivable by means of a motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Multivac Marketing & Inspection GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Georg Austermeier, Uwe Mathews
  • Denester with adjustable inclined magazine
    Patent number: 9889997
    Abstract: The invention relates to denester for use with a tray sealer. The denester includes a magazine for accommodating at least one stack of trays. The magazine includes a first vertical guide and a second guide, the second guide capable of being inclined at an inclination relative to the first guide. The inclination of the second guide is adjustable to accommodate destacking of the trays in the stack of trays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Stefan Bieringer, Alireza Taghipour
  • Method and device for packaging of goods in bags
    Patent number: 9856042
    Abstract: A method and a device for packaging of products (28) in bags (26) comprises the steps of “forming a chamber (4) around the bag (26) by closing a lid (5)” and “evacuating the chamber (4)” or is formed such, respectively, in order to carry out these steps. It is the object of the device and the method, respectively, to enable an increase of the cycle performance of a packaging machine. Therefore, simultaneously with sealing the bag (26) by a sealing bar (11), the chamber (4) is vented and the bag (26) is clamped by at least a first clamping bar (10, 12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventor: Konrad Moessnang
  • Tray-sealing machine with monitoring device and method
    Patent number: 9828123
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tray-sealing machine with a control unit and a matrix monitoring device for detecting a misalignment of a tray in a sealing tool bottom part and/or the presence of foreign matter between the sealing tool bottom part and a sealing tool upper part, and for distinguishing this from product projecting from the tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventor: Alireza Taghipour
  • Deep-drawing packaging machine with sealing station
    Patent number: 9828129
    Abstract: A deep-drawing packaging machine that includes a sealing station and a method for changing the sealing frame together with the sealing plate at the sealing station. The sealing station includes a sealing plate and a sealing frame. The sealing plate may be releasably coupled to an upper sealing tool part, and the sealing frame may be slidably removable at a lower sealing tool part. The sealing frame may be slidable on rails. The sealing frame may include one or more centering aids for aligning the sealing plate with respect to said sealing frame during removal thereof. The centering aids may be displaceable underneath a film web by the upper sealing tool part during the clamping of the film web between the sealing frame and the upper sealing tool part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventor: Christian Geble
  • Packaging assembly
    Patent number: 9796537
    Abstract: A packaging assembly and a method of operating such a packaging assembly, the packaging assembly comprises at least one of a thermoform packaging machine, a separation robot, a conveyor and a checkweigher. The separation robot is operable to adjust a distance between packages of a group of packages formed by the packaging machine. The conveyor and the separation robot may be operated together to provide a flow of packages that is supplied to the checkweigher, wherein the flow of packages may include substantially constant distances between the individual packages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Michael Lang
  • Vacuum chamber machine with spring fracture detection
    Patent number: 9784782
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vacuum chamber packaging machine with spring fracture detection. A first electrical line can be provided connecting springs to a controller, where interruption of the line due to a fractured spring may be detected by the controller via an applied voltage, so that no safety deficiency arises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jonas Friedl, Konrad Möβnang
  • Separation system and method for a packaging facility
    Patent number: 9708089
    Abstract: The invention relates to a packaging facility and a method for operating a packaging facility, comprising a multi-lane packaging machine, a multi-lane separation system, a first transfer device, a second transfer device and a group packaging unit, wherein the first transfer device is adapted to transfer a plurality of packages of each lane consecutively from the packaging machine onto a first conveyor belt of the separation system, wherein the distance of two consecutive packages is changed in order to individually inspect the packages in an inspection module and the separation system comprises at least two conveyor belts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventor: Michael Lang
  • Deep-drawing packaging machine with electromotive lifting gear
    Patent number: 9694414
    Abstract: The invention relates to a deep-drawing packaging machine with a lifting gear for a forming station, sealing station or cutting station, wherein the lifting gear provides guides and lifting spindles which are arranged outside a collision region of a movable tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Elmar Ehrmann, Klaus Weiss
  • Method and folding device for handling L-boards
    Patent number: 9663254
    Abstract: A folding device and a method for folding over limbs of L-boards at the folding device located upstream of the sealing station in the production direction of a deep-drawing packaging machine. The folding device may include at least one folding member for folding over the limb in a production direction and a hold down device for holding down the folded over limbs. In one embodiment, the hold down device can be activated by a pneumatic cylinder. In another embodiment, the folding device may be moved by a servo motor or pneumatic cylinder. The method includes moving the thermo-formed troughs of a packaging film, placing the product and the L-boards in the trough, folding the limbs of the L-boards, and holding down the limbs once folded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Michael Sdahl, Elmar Ehrmann, Gunnar Kurz
  • Packaging machine with sealing device
    Patent number: 9650164
    Abstract: The invention relates to a packaging machine including a sealing device, said sealing device comprising at least a first and an individually controllable second sealing tool for producing a first and a second seal uniting a lower web with a top web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Dieter Holzem, Christian Geble
  • Welding apparatus for thermoplastic material
    Patent number: D815674
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Konrad Möβnang, Jonas Friedl