Patents Assigned to Multivac
  • Publication number: 20230241855
    Abstract: A destacking system for cardboard blanks comprises a deposition unit for cardboard blanks with first and second deposition positions, a first destacker comprising a first stacking magazine for accommodating a first stack of cardboard blanks, a first retaining system for retaining the cardboard blanks at a first stacking position, and a first conveying unit with a first gripper to grip a first cardboard blank of the first destacker at the first stacking position and convey the first cardboard blank to the first deposition position, a second destacker comprising a second stacking magazine for accommodating a second stack of cardboard blanks, a second retaining system for retaining the cardboard blanks at a second stacking position, and a second conveying unit with a second gripper configured to grip a second cardboard blank of the second destacker at the second stacking position and convey the second cardboard blank to the second deposition position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Dominik PATZ, Robert MAIER, Bernd HOEPNER, Philipp ADERMANN
  • Publication number: 20230241856
    Abstract: A system for destacking carton blanks comprises a stacking magazine for receiving a stack of carton blanks, the stacking magazine having a retaining system. The system for destacking carton blanks further comprises a first die comprising a first cavity for shaping the carton blanks, and a transport device with at least one first gripping unit for gripping and displacing carton blanks. The transport device is configured to grip a carton blank from the stack, transport the carton blank into the first cavity and form the carton blank by exerting a force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Dominik PATZ, Philipp ADERMANN
  • Publication number: 20230242339
    Abstract: A method for transporting structural elements of packagings includes transferring a group of structural elements to a holding device, wherein each structural element of the group of structural elements is received by an associated holding element of the holding device after the transfer, and adjusting the holding elements relative to each other such that the structural elements of the group of structural elements received by the holding elements are disposed before the adjusting in a first format in which the structural elements of the group of structural elements are arranged in a plan view in a first spacing grid relative to each other, and are disposed after the adjusting in a second format in which the structural elements of the group of structural elements are arranged in the plan view in a second spacing grid relative to each other, the second spacing grid being different from the first spacing grid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Robert MAIER, Dominik PATZ, Philipp ADERMANN, Bernd HOEPNER
  • Patent number: 11713152
    Abstract: The work station for a packaging machine comprises an upper tool, a lower tool, and a lifting mechanism. The lower tool is guided for a closing motion directed along a vertical direction towards the upper tool. The lifting mechanism comprises a toggle lever mechanism which connects the lower tool to a support structure. The lifting mechanism comprises a first actuator assembly and a second actuator assembly. The first actuator assembly is configured to apply a first force for raising the lower tool. The second actuator assembly is configured to apply a second force for raising the lower tool. The first actuator assembly acts upon the lower tool while bypassing the toggle lever mechanism. The second actuator assembly acts upon the toggle lever mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Markus Waegele, Florian Lutz
  • Patent number: 11712810
    Abstract: A gripper that comprises a first receiving plate for receiving a first product portion and a second receiving plate for receiving a second product portion, wherein the receiving plates are movable relative to one another. The gripper further including a first movable stop which is movable relative to the first receiving plate, and a second movable stop which is movable relative to the second receiving plate. The gripper is distinguished by the fact that the first stop and second stop are movable relative to one another so as to move the product portions towards one another when the gripper is closed such that the product portions then may be positioned to overlap one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMÜLLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventor: Stefan Gruber
  • Patent number: 11685071
    Abstract: In order to be able to implement a plurality of gripper functions acting independently of one another in a slicing machine without requiring a separate drive unit for each gripper function, a switching unit displaceable along an axial shifting distance is provided. Upon displacement of the switching unit along a first partial distance of a plurality of partial distances of the shifting distance, a caliber contact element is actuated in such a way that a caliber is pushed away from a caliber gripper, and upon shifting of the switching unit along a second partial distance, gripper claws of the caliber gripper are actuated in such a way that they are moved into an engagement position, in which they engage with the caliber, or into a release position, in which they release the caliber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventor: Winfried Hoerberg
  • Publication number: 20230195092
    Abstract: A production line for manufacturing packaged products includes a plurality of workstations for performing different operations. Each of the workstations is configured to predictively determine time data during operation that define, as an interaction time, a time of an operator interaction with the respective workstation required in the future. The production line includes a central processing unit. The workstations are configured to transmit the time data to the central processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventor: Wolfgang BUCHENBERG
  • Publication number: 20230192336
    Abstract: A sealing station for sealing packaging units comprises a lower tool with at least one receptacle for a packaging unit and an upper tool. The lower tool and the upper tool are arranged to be movable relative to one another. The sealing station further comprises an edge extractor with at least one extraction opening for subjecting an interior of the packaging unit to a vacuum and/or a gas, and the lower tool comprises a lifting element for lifting a film cover of the packaging unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Bastian GRONDINGER, Christoph ZETTLER, Markus WEILAND
  • Publication number: 20230192422
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device for automatically lifting a packing material comprising a lifting element movable between a lower removal position and an upper transfer position, a vacuum source configured to create a negative pressure, a drive element, and a suction element, which has at least one opening of a vacuum line and is mechanically connected to the lifting element and is fluidically connected to the vacuum source by means of the vacuum line. The lifting element is configured to place the suction element on an uppermost packing material of a stack of packing materials by its weight force in the lower removal position, wherein the opening of the vacuum line can be closed in an airtight manner, and wherein the lifting element is configured to move together with the sucked packing material into the upper transfer position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Rainer HAERING, Maximilian BRUNNER
  • Patent number: 11679903
    Abstract: A method of forming a package includes forming, at a forming station of a packaging machine, a package base in a film so that the package base has a pocket. The method further includes attaching, at a first cover application station of the packaging machine, a first cover layer on the package base so that the first cover layer partially covers the pocket, and so that access to the pocket is provided to position a product in the pocket after the first cover layer has been attached to the package base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Cem H. Yildirim, Christian J. Uebele
  • Patent number: 11667420
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tray sealer comprising a gripper device with two gripper arms, a supply device for unsealed trays, a removal device for sealed trays and a sealing device. Each gripper arm can comprise a coupling device that is configured to hold a first tray gripper for supplying trays into the sealing device and a second tray gripper for removing trays from the sealing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMÜLLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Mader, Wolfgang Negele, Christoph Wagner
  • Patent number: 11667413
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a deep-drawing packaging machine comprising, in a direction of production, a forming station for producing trays in a film web, a loading stretch for filling the trays with a product, a sealing device for sealing the trays with a top film, as well as a cutting device for separating finished packagings. The sealing device comprises a first sealing tool for a first sealing cycle and a second sealing tool for a second sealing cycle. The first sealing tool comprises at least one first pair of impulse sealing bars oriented in a first orientation relative to the direction of production for producing first sealing seam sections, and the second sealing tool comprises at least one second pair of impulse sealing bars oriented in a second orientation relative to the direction of production for producing second sealing seam sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Michael Raedler, Bastian Grondinger, Florian Felch
  • Publication number: 20230120336
    Abstract: A sealing machine is provided for sealing a sealing material by heating a fin of the sealing material wrapped around a product. The sealing machine comprises, in a transport direction of the sealing material, a pair of tracking rollers for tensioning the sealing material and a pair of heating rollers for sealing the sealing material by applying heat to the fin when the fin is moved between the pair of heating rollers. Furthermore, the pair of tracking rollers and the pair of heating rollers are configured to be driven independently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Carles COLOMER, Gerard MALTAS, Carles VERDUGO
  • Patent number: 11629025
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a residual film winder for a packaging machine, wherein the residual film winder comprises a reception mandrel, a reception sleeve, and at least one film spreader. The reception sleeve is configured to be arranged onto the reception mandrel. The film spreader has a first end and a second end, wherein the first end extends out of the reception sleeve, and the first end has an outer contour extending along its long axis. The outer contour of the film spreader has at least two sections, a first section and a second section, wherein the first and second sections are not parallel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: David Jimenez Aparicio, Michael Wolters
  • Publication number: 20230115644
    Abstract: A suction nozzle, which is configured to aspirate a residual film of a film processed by a packaging machine. The suction nozzle comprises a tube assembly comprising a first tube and a second tube, wherein the first tube and the second tube are arranged coaxially with respect to one another and form a suction channel. An annular gap is provided between the first tube and the second tube, through which a gas, preferably air, can be blown into the suction channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Hubert SCHAUB, Markus WAEGELE, Florian LUTZ, Nadine REICHART
  • Patent number: 11603271
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a diversion device for a transport device for transporting products. The diversion device comprises a first element mounted to be rotatable about a first axis of rotation and a second element mounted to be rotatable about a second axis of rotation, where the axes of rotation form an angle with one another and the first and the second elements overlap in a region so that the first and the second elements enclose a diversion region. A product supplied to the diversion region can be diverted in the diversion region by rotating the first and the second elements and can exit the diversion device after having passed the diversion region due to mass inertia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventor: Christian Fauter
  • Publication number: 20230038155
    Abstract: A packaging machine may include a foil transport device and a controlling system for controlling an operation of at least one drive unit of the foil transport device. The controlling system is designed to activate the drive unit during a production run of the packaging machine on the basis of a speed- and/or temperature-dependent friction moment characteristic curve detected by means of a rotationally driven measurement run carried out by the drive unit. The disclosure furthermore relates to a method for controlling a drive unit of a foil transport device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Patrick JUNG, Albert GABLER
  • Publication number: 20230021787
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a packaging system comprising a deep-drawing packaging machine configured to produce packages in a production direction, and a feeding system for the deep-drawing packaging machine, wherein the feeding system comprises at least one transport belt device configured to transport cardboard blanks in a transport direction extending transversely to the production direction of the deep-drawing packaging machine into a transfer area formed within a machine frame of the deep-drawing packaging machine, and wherein the feeding system comprises a lifting device arranged in the transfer area for collecting and lifting the cardboard blanks transported into the transfer area by means of the transport belt device, wherein the lifting device has a plurality of independently controllable lifting units positioned one behind the other in the transport direction. Furthermore, the disclosure relates to a corresponding method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Dominik PATZ, Robert MAIER
  • Publication number: 20230001601
    Abstract: In order to reliably avoid collisions between components of a slicing machine, in particular between a blade and another component, a control run is carried out before the start of a slicing operation, during which the respective component that has a risk of collision or the respective counter-component is brought into a position closest to the other component and tested to see whether a collision occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Dominik MARX, Timo GREEB, Christian DERSCH, Albert HARTMANN
  • Patent number: 11542052
    Abstract: A thermoforming packaging machine includes a forming station for thermoforming troughs in a film web, a filling path for filling products into the troughs, a sealing station for sealing the troughs, a chain guide for guiding a transport chain for the film web, a transverse cutting device for cutting the film web in a direction transverse to the transport direction, a longitudinal cutting device for cutting the film web in the transport direction, and a control device for controlling processes running on the thermoforming packaging machine. The transverse cutting device comprises a film punch, an adjustment drive which can be controlled by the control device for closing and opening the film punch, and a detection unit which is connected to the control device and which has at least one sensor which is configured to detect, per processing cycle, a force progression occurring at the film punch during opening and closing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Holderied, Marcus Pfister, Maximilian Hetz