Patents Assigned to Windmoeller & Hoelscher KG
  • Patent number: 10399811
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a Suction nozzle (110) for a suction device (100) for conveyance of cut waste strips (210) of a film web (200) comprising a nozzle duct (10) with a nozzle inlet (12) for suctioning the waste strips (210) and with a nozzle outlet (14) for introducing the waste strips (210) into the suction duct (130), wherein the nozzle duct (10) comprises an inlet portion (12a) adjacent to the nozzle inlet (12) and an outlet portion (14a) adjacent to the nozzle outlet (14) and between the outlet portion (14a) and the inlet portion (12a) an at least one rotation portion (16a) is assembled, whose flow cross section (20) is at least partially twisted over the run of the rotation portion (16a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Windmöller & Hölscher KG
    Inventors: Fabian Sundermann, Frank Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 10391664
    Abstract: A device for production of bags that preferably consist mostly of paper includes a perforation device for cross perforation of a material web, a tube formation device for formation of a tube from the material web, a first separation device to separate individual tube sections, a device to form a bottom on one of the ends of the tube section, and a second separation device with which individual material sections can be torn off from the tube sections or bags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: WINDMOELLER & HOELSCHER KG
    Inventor: Joerg Christian Thies
  • Publication number: 20190232543
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for monitoring a film quality in the production of a plastic film, comprising the following steps: —determining a first temperature (10) of a film material (1) of the plastic film during a transport of the film material (1), in which the film material (1) is cooled along a conveying direction (2) of the film material (1). The invention further relates to a film machine (50) comprising a device for monitoring a film quality in the production of a plastic film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: Windmöller & Hölscher KG
    Inventors: Torsten Schmitz, Daniel Faustmann, Bernd-Alexander Groepper
  • Patent number: 10301044
    Abstract: A packaging system for packaging a product into a plurality of bags or sacks includes at least one of a bagging unit, a pallet loading device, and a pallet securing device. The system also includes a device for storing and rendering available information regarding events that occurred in the system during the packaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: WINDMOELLER & HOELSCHER KG
    Inventors: Thomas Hawighorst, Martin Hohenbrink, Daniel Narberhaus
  • Patent number: 10301045
    Abstract: A packaging unit for packaging a product includes at least one of a bagging unit, a pallet loading device, and a pallet securing device. Also included is a device to provide information regarding the packaging unit, the packaging, and/or the product, allowing the information to be displayed with at least one terminal outside the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: WINDMOELLER & HOELSCHER KG
    Inventors: Thomas Hawighorst, Martin Hohenbrink, Daniel Narberhaus
  • Patent number: 10301133
    Abstract: The invention describes contact rolls for pressing at least one web of material, preferably a web of plastic film, against at least one rotating winding device, the contact roll comprising a surface layer. At least two segments are provided which are spaced axially apart and which extend around, in which segments the quality of the surface layer differs from the quality of the other areas of the surface layer, at least some portions of said segments being in contact with the edges of the at least one web of material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Windmöller & Hölscher KG
    Inventors: David Finnemore, Alexander Wulfert, Frank Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 10207886
    Abstract: Winder for an endless lane of a plastic web (2), with a revolving unit (6, 6?, 55, 90), which is constructed so as to be rotatable about its axis (16) and has at least two winding shafts (10 to 12, 10? to 12?) running parallel to its axis, onto which winding cores (17) can be loaded, then wound with the web (2) to a roll (18), finally unloaded therefrom again as finished rolls (18), wherein on both sides of the revolving unit (6, 6?, 50, 90) support arrangements are arranged, in which the winding shafts (10 to 12, 10? to 12?) are supported at their corresponding ends therein, and wherein the support for one end of the winding shafts (10 to 12, 10? to 12?) is constructed so as to be detachable, such that the respective winding shaft (10 to 12, 10? to 12?), with released support, can be loaded and unloaded from this end, characterized in that the detachably constructed support arrangements each have a gripper arrangement (36 to 38) with a two-armed scissor unit (39 to 41), the scissor arms (42, 43) of which sur
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignees: Swiss Winding Inventing AG, Windmöller & Hölscher KG
    Inventors: Richard David Pryle, Carlos Martinez, Rolf Kammann, Frank Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 10207448
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the changing of material from a starting material to a subsequent material with an extrusion device (10) for the production of extrusion products (100) comprising the following steps: recognition of a change of material requirement, performance of at least one preparation step for the change of material, performance of the change of material after termination of at least one of the preparation steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Windmöller & Hölscher KG
    Inventors: Martin Backmann, Markus Bussmann, Ansgar Avermeyer, Tobias Kulgemeyer
  • Publication number: 20190016550
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for changing a reel and for connecting a new material web to the end of an old material web, with a first reel (101) from which the first material web thereof which is wound thereon can be unwound, a transport device (103), particularly a transport roller, by means of which the first material web can be guided in a guiding region at a transport speed, a second reel (121) with which the new material web can be prepared, a drive device for rotatably driving the second reel, a separating device (142) for cutting through the first material web, by means of which the material web can be cut through in the guiding region or upstream of the guiding region in order to produce a trailing end, and a control and/or regulating device for the mutual adjustment of the trailing end and the beginning (125) of the second material web, such that the trailing end and the beginning of the web are at a distance of more than 0 mm from each other and particularly do not overlap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: Windmöller & Hölscher KG
    Inventors: Holger Frische, Gerd Kasselmann, Tim Kirchhoff, Peter Strunk
  • Patent number: 10166757
    Abstract: An inking system of a printing press includes an impression cylinder for guiding a printing substrate, and at least one ink-transfer roller. The ink-transfer roller includes a cylinder mandrel, on which at least one cylinder sleeve is concentrically displaceable, and bearing blocks, in which ends of the ink-transfer roller are mounted and which are independently displaceable in the radial direction of the impression cylinder. The ink-transfer roller can be set against the impression cylinder or any other ink-transfer roller, with a bearing block being detachable from one end of the ink-transfer roller and displaceable relative to the ink-transfer roller so that the cylinder sleeve can be removed via this one end. A stop device, with which the cylinder sleeve can be brought into contact, has components that are movable in the axial direction of the print roller. The movable stop device components can be decelerated via a force-providing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: WINDMOELLER & HOELSCHER KG
    Inventors: Uwe Rogge, Robert Blom, Frank Gunschera
  • Patent number: 10144167
    Abstract: The invention relates to a monitoring method for monitoring the energy requirement of an extrusion installation (10), comprising the following steps: Setting of a balancing limit (20), in whose balancing space (22) the extrusion installation (10) is assembled, Monitoring of at least one energy flow (30) into the balancing space (22), Monitoring of a feed flow (40) of granules in the extrusion installation (10), Determining the relation between the at least one energy flow (30) and the feed flow (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Windmöller & Hölscher KG
    Inventors: Martin Backmann, Gerhard Middelberg, Markus Bussmann, Jens Minnerup
  • Patent number: 10131469
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bag (10) comprising a front wall (11) and a back wall (12) arranged parallel to the front wall (11), a bottom (13) that can be folded into the plane of the walls (11, 12), such that a filling chamber (14) results that is open on one side, and a pair of carrying handles (31) that is attached on the front wall (11) and the back wall (12). According to the invention, the pair of carrying handles (31) comprises a folding line (15) in the filling space (14), such that the pair of carrying handles (31) can be brought into a usage position (1) and in a rest position (2), wherein in the rest position (2) the pair of carrying handles (31) is entirely folded back inside the filling chamber (14) and in the usage position (1) the pair of carrying handles (31) protrudes at least in certain areas from the filling space (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Windmöller & Hölscher KG
    Inventor: Jörg Christian Thies
  • Patent number: 10118736
    Abstract: A sack is formed by first transverse sealing seams from a foil tube, and is provided with at least a first vent channel, which runs largely parallel to the axis of the film tube, and whose inner film layer has first vent openings for venting of the sack interior into the first vent channel. A second vent channel is provided, which is connected to the first vent channel by second vent openings, and which, in turn, has third vent openings, which vent the at least one second vent channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: WINDMOELLER & HOELSCHER KG
    Inventors: Rüdiger Grosse-Heitmeyer, Thomas Knoke, Martin Koelker, Ludger Schulten, Hans-Ludwig Voss, Jan Thorsten Weber, Thomas Hawighorst, Holger Frische
  • Patent number: 10081084
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for aligning at least two cylinders in a parallel manner relative to each other. In a first step, one cylinder is rotated and moved in a parallel manner towards the other cylinder in order to align a first end of the cylinder, and in a second step, the second end of the cylinder is rotated and moved towards the other cylinder in order to align the second end of the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Windmöller & Hölscher KG
    Inventors: Udo Kobusch, Rainer Ehrenberg, Uwe Höwelmeyer, Frank Westhof, Martin Krümpelmann, Frank Gunschera
  • Patent number: 10058831
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mixing device for mixing a fluid in a container, in particular of a fluid system, comprising a fluid supply and at least one outlet arm with an outlet opening, the fluid supply being connected to the at least one outlet arm in a fluid-communicating fashion. According to the invention, the outlet opening, for an outlet of the fluid, is oriented towards an outlet direction in order to set the fluid in the container rotating at least in sections thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Windmöller & Hölscher KG
    Inventors: Lutz Telljohann, Andreas Ihme, Frank Hasselmann, David Trinkner, Frank Twiehaus, Holger Hoffmann, Lars Pockehr, Udo Lepper
  • Patent number: 10046896
    Abstract: The invention relates to a film product (10) for packing products, particularly liquids (200), pasty and/or pourable materials, in sealed film packages (100), comprising at least two film layers (20a, 20b), wherein the outwardly facing film layer (20a) is thermally stable, and the inwardly facing film layer (20b) is sealable, and both film layers (20a, 20b) are produced in a water-cooled coextrusion blow molding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Windmöller & Hölscher KG
    Inventors: Ingo Putsch, Gerhard Schoone, Raymond Van Hoorn
  • Patent number: 10046878
    Abstract: A method for the production and filling of packaging includes unwinding flattened tubular film material from a roll along a primary axis of symmetry thereof, providing the tubular film material via a welding and separating process with a first lateral welding seam perpendicular relative to the axis, and separating the tubular film material along a separation line to provide a hose section. The hose section open at one side is filled, and the still open other side of the hose section is provided with a second lateral welding seam. Two subsequent separation lines are inserted in the hose section at a distance that is less than the distance between the two edges of the hose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: WINDMOELLER & HOELSCHER KG
    Inventors: Thomas Knoke, Ruediger Grosse-Heitmeyer, Thomas Hawighorst
  • Patent number: 10029875
    Abstract: A winding device for winding a web-shaped material, preferably a plastic film, has a reel for receiving the web-shaped material, a contact roller for feeding and pressing the web-shaped material against the reel, a device for rotationally driving a still empty reel, and a device for feeding the still empty reel to the contact roller. The device for rotationally driving the still empty reel and the device for feeding the still empty reel to the contact roller can act simultaneously on the still empty reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: WINDMOELLER & HOELSCHER KG
    Inventors: Gerd Ratz, Christian Heumann
  • Patent number: 10011451
    Abstract: A reversing device for a film web, which has a take-off device, has at least one turning device and at least one deflecting roller. The film web can be guided by the take-off device via the at least one turning device and the at least one deflecting roller to a winding device. The axes of the take-off device, the at least one turning device, and the at least one deflecting roller are adjustable in angle relative to one another. The at least one deflecting roller is formed as an expander roller having an expanding capacity which increases towards the end faces of the deflecting roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: WINDMOELLER & HOELSCHER KG
    Inventors: Markus Bussmann, Tim Kirchhoff, Frank Hoffmann
  • Patent number: D833487
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: WINDMOELLER & HOELSCHER KG
    Inventor: Thorsten Leopold