Patents by Inventor ANDREW JOHN BISHOP

ANDREW JOHN BISHOP 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).

  • PACKAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20240399677
    Abstract: Packaging apparatus comprises two counter-rotatable sealing dies for pressing together two tissue webs to produce pockets for containing a substance for preparing beverages and to seal around said pockets, and two heating drums for heating the sealing dies and each being positioned inside a respective sealing die, wherein a first heating zone of each heating drum comprises a first plurality of circumferentially distributed infrared heating elements, and a second heating zone of each heating drum comprises a second plurality of circumferentially distributed infrared heating elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: TATA CONSUMER PRODUCTS GB LIMITED
    Inventors: ANDREW JOHN BISHOP, NEAL JAMES MCCABE, GARY ROBINSON, JOHN FRANCIS MCGOWAN, JASON SHAWN LEE EXLEY
  • Packaging apparatus and method
    Patent number: 12090710
    Abstract: Packaging apparatus comprises two counter-rotatable sealing dies for pressing together two tissue webs to produce pockets for containing a substance for preparing beverages and to seal around the pockets, and two heating drums for heating the sealing dies and each being positioned inside a respective sealing die, wherein a first heating zone of each heating drum comprises a first plurality of circumferentially distributed infrared heating elements, and a second heating zone of each heating drum comprises a second plurality of circumferentially distributed infrared heating elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: TATA CONSUMER PRODUCTS GB LIMITED
    Inventors: Andrew John Bishop, Neal James McCabe, Gary Robinson, John Francis McGowan, Jason Shawn Lee Exley
  • PACKAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20230241846
    Abstract: Packaging apparatus comprises two counter-rotatable sealing dies for pressing together two tissue webs to produce pockets for containing a substance for preparing beverages and to seal around said pockets, and two heating drums for heating the sealing dies and each being positioned inside a respective sealing die, wherein a first heating zone of each heating drum comprises a first plurality of circumferentially distributed infrared heating elements, and a second heating zone of each heating drum comprises a second plurality of circumferentially distributed infrared heating elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: TATA CONSUMER PRODUCTS GB LIMITED
    Inventors: ANDREW JOHN BISHOP, NEAL JAMES MCCABE, GARY ROBINSON, JOHN FRANCIS MCGOWAN, JASON SHAWN LEE EXLEY