Patents by Inventor Bernhard Focke

Bernhard Focke 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).

  • Divisible package for a plurality of cigarette packs
    Patent number: 5181607
    Abstract: Cigarette cartons are packages with a relatively large number (for example, ten) of cigarette packs (30). Because of a special design of this cigarette carton or of a common blank (33), it becomes possible to divide the cigarette carton to form part packs (half-cartons 34, 35), each of these part packs as well as the complete cigarette carton forming a saleable unit which is convenient to handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1993
    Assignee: Focke & Company
    Inventors: Heinz Focke, Bernhard Focke
  • Package for a plurality of cigarette packs or the like (cigarette carton)
    Patent number: 5058363
    Abstract: Cigarette cartons are packaged with a relatively large number (for example, ten) of cigarette packs (30). Because of a special design of this cigarette carton or of a common blank (33), it becomes possible to divide the cigarette carton to form part packs (half-cartons 34, 35) each of these part packs as well as the complete cigarette carton forming a saleable unit which is convenient to handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1991
    Assignee: Focke & Co.
    Inventors: Heinz Focke, Bernhard Focke
  • Package for a plurality of cigarette packs or the like
    Patent number: 4932534
    Abstract: Cigarette cartons are packages with a relatively large number (for example, ten) of cigarette packs (30). Because of a special design of this cigarette carton or of a common blank (33), it becomes possible to divide the cigarette carton to form part packs (half-cartons 34, 35), each of these part packs as well as the complete cigarette carton forming a saleable unit which is convenient to handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Assignee: Focke & Co.
    Inventors: Heinz Focke, Bernhard Focke
  • Device for receiving reels
    Patent number: 4615494
    Abstract: For the rotatable mounting of reels (15), especially in conjunction with packaging machines, there is a reel-receiving device, in which the reel (15) supported on a hub (11) is pressed against the reel (15) or against its (cardboard) core (16) by clamping claws (20) designed and actuated in a special way. The clamping claws (20) are preferably designed so that they partially press into the material of the core (16) and secure the latter positively against rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1986
    Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmH & Co.)
    Inventors: Heinz Focke, Bernhard Focke
  • Wedge shaped chute walls with bent ends for cigarette magazines
    Patent number: 4382575
    Abstract: A cigarette magazine chute wall is formed by two metal sheets 11, 12 glued together in an arc-shaped zone 10b and filled with a moldable spacer material 14 in a wedge-shaped zone 10a. Grooved pins 15, 16 and threaded bushes 17, 18 are embedded in the filler to implement the anchoring of the sheets and their subsequent assembly in a magazine. A mold assembly is built up by clamping together a plurality of curved mold plates 20, and disposing a pair of magnetically fixed sheets 11, 12 between adjacent plates, whereafter the filler 14 is introduced under pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1983
    Assignee: Focke & Co.
    Inventors: Heinz Focke, Bernhard Focke
  • Wedge shaped chute walls with bent ends for cigarette magazines
    Patent number: 4279955
    Abstract: A cigarette magazine chute wall is formed by two metal sheets 11, 12 glued together in an arc-shaped zone 10b and filled with a moldable spacer material 14 in a wedge-shaped zone 10a. Grooved pins 15, 16 and threaded bushes 17, 18 are embedded in the filler to implement the anchoring of the sheets and their subsequent assembly in a magazine. A mold assembly is built up by clamping together a plurality of curved mold plates 20, and disposing a pair of magnetically fixed sheets 11, 12 between adjacent plates, whereafter the filler 14 is introduced under pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1981
    Assignee: Focke & Co.
    Inventors: Heinz Focke, Bernhard Focke