Patents by Inventor Alexander MUFF

Alexander MUFF has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12589543
    Abstract: A method for producing at least one molded, filled and sealed container product (10) includes at least the method steps of: extruding a hose (32) by an extrusion device (12) using supporting gas in vertical extrusion direction in a preforming position; sealing the hose (32) at its lower end and cutting it at its upper open end; cutting the parison (22) to length; transporting the cut parison by a gripper device (20) in linear transport direction transverse to the extrusion direction from the preforming position into an opened molding tool (18); transferring the parison (22) into the opened molding tool (18) by the gripper device (20) in a main forming position; sealing the molding tool (18) for further forming of the parison (22) by a pressure gradient; filling and sealing the parison (22); and returning the gripper device (20) to the preforming position for a repeated sequence of the above method steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignee: KOCHER-PLASTIK MASCHINENBAU GMBH
    Inventors: Roland Sauter, Alexander Muff, Michael Schultes, Frank Mark, Tobias Dorsch, Lasse Fries, Thomas Höglinger, Helmut Jacob, Patryk Prezyna, Harald Reichart, Roland Speiser
  • Publication number: 20260084364
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an apparatus for producing container products from plastics materials. The apparatus comprises a moulding device to which a moulding tube made of plasticised material can be supplied by extrusion, and which moulding device has moulding surfaces which are movable and reproduce a specifiable container geometry, on which the moulding tube can be placed for a shaping, filling and/or sealing process. A guiding and holding device is provided, which can be controlled such that, in at least one functional position outside the moulding region of the moulding device, guiding and holding parts act on the plastics material that surrounds the finished container products, wherein the plastics material establishes a material connection between a finished container product that has already left the moulding device and an at least partly finished container product that is still in the moulding device, can be separated by a separating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 26, 2026
    Applicant: kocher-plastik Maschinenbau GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Schultes, Frank Mark, Tobias Dorsch, Thomas Höglinger, Helmut Jacob, Patryk Prezyna, Harald Reichart, Roland Speiser, Roland Sauter, Alexander Muff
  • Publication number: 20250353633
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for the follow-up treatment, in particular cooling, of container products, which are produced by means of a blow-moulding, filling and closing process, and which can be fed to a follow-up treatment zone, which has an influencing effect, in particular a cooling effect, on the respective container product. The container products enter the follow-up treatment zone singly separate from one another or together in individual groups separate from one another comprising multiple container products. The follow up treatment zone is provided with at least one control means, acting on the container products and determining the time for which they stay in the follow-up treatment zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 20, 2025
    Applicant: kocher-plastik Maschinenbau GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Muff, Michel Karasch, Maurizio Chiulli, Thomas Lüscher
  • Publication number: 20230145486
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing at least one molded, filled and sealed container product (10) comprising at least the method steps listed below: extruding a hose (32) by means of an extrusion device (12) using supporting gas in vertical extrusion direction in a preforming position; sealing the hose (32) at its lower end and cutting it at its upper open end; transporting of the parison (22) thus cut to length by means of a gripper device (20) in linear transport direction transverse to the extrusion direction from the preforming position into an opened molding tool (18); transferring the parison (22) into the opened molding tool (18) by means of the gripper device (20) in a main forming position; sealing the molding tool (18) for further forming of the parison (22) by a pressure gradient; filling and sealing the parison (22); and returning the gripper device (20) to the preforming position for a repeated sequence of the above method steps
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Roland SAUTER, Alexander MUFF, Michael SCHULTES, Frank MARK, Tobias DORSCH, Lasse FRIES, Thomas HÖGLINGER, Helmut JACOB, Patryk PREZYNA, Harald REICHART, Roland SPEISER
  • Patent number: 10940633
    Abstract: A method produces a filled and closed container by the blow-moulding, filling and closing method. An initially open container part (52) is held in a mould (46) and has been vacuum-moulded and/or blow-moulded by a blow pin and is filled successively with media (74, 76) of different types, in particular viscosity, by metering units (12, 14) via its free, upwardly directed container-part opening (54). The filled-in media (74, 76) are separated from one another in the container part (52), and subsequently, by closing of the top mould halves (56, 58) of the mould (46). A container top part (60) is moulded, and the container part (52) is closed, forming the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: KOCHER-PLASTIK MASCHINENBAU GMBH
    Inventors: Otto Schubert, Bruno Egli, Martin Luescher, Alexander Muff
  • Patent number: 10238813
    Abstract: A dispensing device includes a container with a receiving space containing a dispensable medium extractable via a dispensing element. A control body (19) with a connecting body (11) is longitudinally displaceable in a housing part (9), from an inactive base position to an active extraction position by a rotational movement. A media-carrying connection is created between the receiving space and the dispensing element. A control part of the control body (19) can be attached to a control path (54) of the connecting body (11). When the control body (19) moves rotationally relative to the housing part (9), each control part follows the rotational movement in an axially unchanged manner and brings the connecting body from the base position to an extraction position via each associable control path (54) of the connecting body (11). The control path comprises a slope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: KOCHER-PLASTIK MASCHINENBAU GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Spallek, Johannes Geser, Alexander Hammer, Alexander Beier, Alexander Muff
  • Publication number: 20180147772
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a filled and closed container, in particular by way of the blow-moulding, filling and closing method, in which an initially open container part (52) that is held in a mould (46) and has been vacuum-moulded and/or blow-moulded by means of a blow pin is filled successively with media (74, 76) of different types, in particular viscosity, by means of metering units (12, 14) via its free, upwardly directed container-part opening (54), such that the filled-in media (74, 76) are separated from one another in the container part (52), and subsequently, by closing of the top mould halves (56, 58) of the mould (46), a container top part (60) is moulded and the container part (52) is closed, forming the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Otto SCHUBERT, Bruno EGLI, Martin LUESCHER, Alexander MUFF
  • Publication number: 20170128676
    Abstract: 1. Dispensing device. 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: Kocher-Plastik Maschinenbau GmbH
    Inventors: Michael SPALLEK, Johannes GESER, Alexander HAMMER, Alexander BEIER, Alexander MUFF