Patents by Inventor Axel Leifheit

Axel Leifheit 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).

  • Method and apparatus for conveying a cigarette stream in a controlled manner
    Patent number: 8322511
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for conveying a cigarette stream in a controlled manner into an initially empty conveying section of a machine for producing and/or packaging cigarettes, the conveying section being delimited laterally by walls and the cigarette stream being supported during conveying by a movable supporting element which is moved together with the cigarette stream along the conveying section. The walls which delimit the conveying section laterally can be moved at least partially in order to change the cross section of the conveying section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)
    Inventor: Axel Leifheit
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONVEYING A CIGARETTE STREAM IN A CONTROLLED MANNER
    Publication number: 20090025737
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for conveying a cigarette stream in a controlled manner into an initially empty conveying section of a machine for producing and/or packaging cigarettes, the conveying section being delimited laterally by walls and the cigarette stream being supported during conveying by a movable supporting element which is moved together with the cigarette stream along the conveying section. The walls which delimit the conveying section laterally can be moved at least partially in order to change the cross section of the conveying section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Inventor: AXEL LEIFHEIT
  • Method and device for transferring, in particular, flavoring agents to cigarettes
    Patent number: 7367170
    Abstract: (Liquid) flavoring agents and other substances are transferred to cigarettes immediately prior to or during the packaging operation of the cigarettes (12). An advantageous solution is that of the substances being transferred directly to free ends of the cigarettes (12) once cigarette groups (11) have been formed and during transportation of these groups. As an alternative, the substances can be transferred to the inside of an inner wrapper of the cigarette group in particular to a folding tab of a base wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)
    Inventors: Thomas Häfker, Axel Leifheit, Ralph Sgodzai
  • Method and device for transferring, in particular, flavouring agents to cigarettes
    Publication number: 20070102014
    Abstract: (Liquid) flavoring agents and other substances are transferred to cigarettes immediately prior to or during the packaging operation of the cigarettes (12). An advantageous solution is that of the substances being transferred directly to free ends of the cigarettes (12) once cigarette groups (11) have been formed and during transportation of these groups. As an alternative, the substances can be transferred to the inside of an inner wrapper of the cigarette group in particular to a folding tab of a base wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2004
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Inventors: Thomas Hafker, Axel Leifheit, Ralph Sgodzai