Patents Assigned to Multivac
  • Sealing station for a packaging machine
    Patent number: 9169033
    Abstract: A sealing station for a packaging machine comprises a sealing tool for sealing packages, an underpressure source for evacuating packages in the sealing station, and an overpressure source for providing compressed air so as to press the sealing tool against a package. A single drive is provided for the underpressure source and the overpressure source, the underpressure source and/or the overpressure source being a pump that is configured as a rotary vane pump or as a helical pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMULLER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Elmar Ehrmann, Herbert Kirmse
  • Thermoforming packaging machine for producing upright standing packages with undercut
    Patent number: 9126363
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a thermoforming packaging machine (1) for producing upright standing packagings (21) with an undercut (26) formed into the packaging. The machine comprises a forming station (2) with a lower forming tool (30) and/or a sealing station (3) with a lower sealing tool (40). The disclosure is characterized by the lower forming tool (30) and/or the lower sealing tool (40) comprising a movable forming wall section (32) or a movable sealing seam support section (41a), respectively, in the area of the undercut (26). The disclosure is also related to a corresponding method for producing packagings (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Kenneth Harding, J. Scott Nixon, Christian Uebele
  • Race track conveyor and packaging facility
    Patent number: 9096377
    Abstract: A race track conveyor having at least two conveyor belts. Each conveyor belt includes a separate drive allowing each conveyor belt to independently transport a group of products from a first end to a second end of the race track conveyor. Each conveyor belt may include two belts, each belt being driven by the respective drive of the conveyor belt. The present race track conveyor may include three conveyor belts. The present race track conveyor may be configured to process different formats when loading and unloading product onto the race track conveyor allowing the race track conveyor to move product machines that have different work cycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Peter Bergler
  • Feeding device
    Patent number: 9073702
    Abstract: The invention relates to a feeding device for transporting products, wherein the products are provided to the feeding device in groups. The feeding device comprises at least one first and one second conveyor belts which are arranged one behind the other in the direction of transport, wherein a first group of products can be transferred from the first conveyor belt to the second conveyor belt. According to the invention, the conveyor belts can be accelerated such that a gap between the groups can be reduced to improve the production flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMULLER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Norbert Wörz
  • Labeler and method for labeling
    Patent number: 9073657
    Abstract: The invention relates to a labeler and a method for applying labels onto an article strip, wherein a transfer device is moved continuously when said labels are pressed on and a lifting device of said transfer device comprises a height-adjustable actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: MULTIVAC MARKING & INSPECTION GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Georg Austermeier, Tanja Jansen
  • Packaging machine and method of forming a vacuum package
    Patent number: 9073654
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a packaging machine and to a method of forming a vacuum package. A first evacuable chamber is used for accommodating therein a product-accommodating section of a package, whereas a second evacuable chamber is used for accommodating therein an opening section of the package. Pressure gauges measure the pressure in both chambers, and a supply air valve serves to supply air into the first chamber. The disclosure is characterized in that the supply air valve is a control valve and is adapted to be controlled in dependence upon the difference between the pressures which prevail in the first and second chambers and which are measured by means of the two pressure gauges. The disclosure also relates to the fact that a gap is provided in a partition between the two chambers and that an adjuster is provided for varying and adjusting the cross-sectional area of said gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Klaus Rothermel, Christian Schoemig, Herbert Kirmse
  • Sealing station and method for cutting a cover film
    Patent number: 9073656
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for cutting a cover film as well as to a sealing station of a tray sealing machine, whereby a blade is arranged on a sealing frame or on a tool lower part and the sealing frame executes a relative movement with respect to the sealing tool lower part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Andreas Mader
  • Container for accommodating products during a high-pressure treatment
    Patent number: 9055755
    Abstract: The invention relates to a container for the accommodation of products during a high pressure treatment of the products, whereby the container comprises an outer wall and a cavity situated within the outer wall for the accommodation of the products. With the container according to the invention at least one section of the outer wall is formed by a large number of mutually coupled chain links, which are arranged in the form of at least one multi-dimensional chain link matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Tobias Richter
  • Conveying unit for thermoform packaging machine
    Patent number: 9051125
    Abstract: The invention relates to a conveying unit for guiding and conveying a material web in a thermoform packaging machine, comprising, on either longitudinal side of a machine frame, a conveyor chain, a chain wheel and a guide device. A chain link of the conveyor chain and a clamp guide can be implemented together and in one piece as a shaped part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Gunnar Kurz
  • Lifting device for chamber conveyor belt machine
    Patent number: 9032695
    Abstract: A lifting device for the movement of a chamber upper part of a chamber conveyor belt machine, the lifting device having first and second lifting mechanisms. The first lifting mechanism may be driven by a motorized drive, and the second lifting mechanism may be driven by an adjusting cylinder. The lifting device may further include a connection element for coupling the two lifting mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMULLER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Häring, Klaus Rothermel
  • Sealing tool
    Patent number: 9003746
    Abstract: A sealing tool for a packaging machine comprises a sealing tool outer part, a sealing tool inner part that is movable in the sealing tool outer part, and a seal provided between the sealing tool outer part and the sealing tool inner part. The has a planar and annular design and is fixed in a first holding region at the sealing tool outer part as well as in a second holding region at the sealing tool inner part. The second holding region is disposed at or in the proximity of an outer edge of the sealing tool inner part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Multivac Sepp Haggenmuller GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dieter Holzem, Hubert Zeller
  • Winder for film trim winding
    Patent number: 8998122
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a winder for winding film trims for packaging machines. The winder comprises a drive, a winding mandrel and at least two winding rolls. The disclosure is characterized by an adjustment device for adjusting a torque threshold above which slip occurs between the respective winding rolls and the winding mandrel and/or between the individual winding rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Multivac Sepp Haggenmueller GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Klaus Weiss, Elmar Ehrmann, Guenther Braeckl
  • Packaging machine with dynamic chain tension
    Patent number: 8985423
    Abstract: The invention relates to a packaging machine, in particular a thermoformer, traysealer, comprising at least two transport chains for transporting a web of material, such as a film or the like. The packaging machine is characterized in that sensor means are provided for detecting the chain length and/or the chain pitch and/or the chain tension of the transport chains, means being provided for stretching and/or relaxing at least one individual transport chain, and control means being provided for adapting different lengths or chain pitches of two transport chains by stretching and/or relaxing at least one transport chain in a controlled manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Multivac SEPP Haggenmuller GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Elmar Ehrmann, Ivo Ruzic
  • Packaging plant
    Patent number: 8979619
    Abstract: The invention relates to a packaging plant for packing sausages or other objects, comprising a manufacturing device, a buffer device, a feeding device, an insertion device, and a packaging machine, the buffer device comprising a length-variable transport section, and a method for operating a packaging plant according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Multivac Sepp Haggenmueller GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Michael Lang
  • Packaging machine with oscillating sealing tool
    Patent number: 8955291
    Abstract: The invention relates to a packaging machine with a sealing device, whereby a sealing-tool upper part or sealing-tool lower part can be excited to a vibration (S) approximately parallel to a sealing plane (E).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Multivac Sepp Haggenmuller GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Tobias Richter, Elmar Ehrmann, Guido Spix
  • Machine and method for packaging and high-pressure treatment of products
    Patent number: 8919080
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a packaging machine for packaging products, in particular food, wherein the packaging machine comprises at least one packaging station for producing packagings that accommodate products, and at least one high-pressure treatment station for high-pressure treatment of the products contained in the packagings. The disclosure is characterized in that a central control system for the packaging station and the high-pressure treatment station are provided. The disclosure moreover also relates to a method for operating such a packaging machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Multivac Sepp Haggenmueller GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Tobias Richter
  • TRAY SEALER WITH A TRAY FEEDER AND A METHOD FOR A PACKAGING FACILITY
    Publication number: 20140374217
    Abstract: A tray sealer that may be incorporated into a packaging facility, the tray sealer may include a tray feeder for collecting a plurality of trays that are conveyed on a continuously moving chain feeder. An embodiment of the tray feeder may comprise at least two train chains. Each train chain may be independently moveable and each train chain may be operable grouping the plurality of the trays into groups and transferring the groups to a sealing station. The group of trays may have number of trays that corresponds to the operation of the sealing station. The tray sealer may include the transfer of a group of trays by a gripper system to a sealing station of the tray sealer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: Multivac Sepp Haggenmuller GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Buchenberg
  • Packaging machine and method for packaging of products in bags
    Patent number: 8915049
    Abstract: A packaging machine and a method for packaging of products in bags, respectively, comprises a lid (5) forming a chamber (4) together with a chamber bottom (6). The object of the invention is to provide an improved device and method for evacuating the chamber (4) of a packaging machine. For this purpose a suction device (100) is provided in the chamber bottom (6), the suction device being designed such that gas can be sucked and the chamber (4) can be closed gas tight, wherein at least a closing element (8, 8?) is provided which can be moved from a first raised position into a second lowered position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Multivac Sepp Haggenmueller GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Rainer Haering
  • RACE TRACK CONVEYOR AND PACKAGING FACILITY
    Publication number: 20140360845
    Abstract: A race track conveyor having at least two conveyor belts. Each conveyor belt includes a separate drive allowing each conveyor belt to independently transport a group of products from a first end to a second end of the race track conveyor. Each conveyor belt may include two belts, each belt being driven by the respective drive of the conveyor belt. The present race track conveyor may include three conveyor belts. The present race track conveyor may be configured to process different formats when loading and unloading product onto the race track conveyor allowing the race track conveyor to move product machines that have different work cycles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: Multivac Sepp Haggenmüller GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Peter Bergler
  • Method for picker line and packaging plant
    Patent number: 8905222
    Abstract: The invention relates to a packaging plant and a method of operating a picker line for feeding products into packaging troughs of a packaging machine, comprising a first feed belt and a second feed belt, the speed of the second feed belt being reduced relative to the speed of the first feed belt so as to buffer the products which have not been gripped by the first picker and allow the last picker to grip all the products and to feed them in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Multivac Sepp Haggenmueller GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Norbert Wörz