Patents by Inventor Eddi MEONI

Eddi MEONI 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: 11198162
    Abstract: An assembly for feeding/picking up containers for washing machines includes an external feeding station provided with a delivery area, an internal washing station, and an external output stations. The assembly further includes at least one support which can move by the action of respective actuators between at least one first configuration of alignment with a respective external station and at least one second configuration of alignment with the internal washing station. The support is provided with a plurality of grip clamps, each clamp is constituted by a pair of mutually opposite jaws, the internal faces of which are substantially concave and contoured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE S.P.A IN SIGLA IMA S.P.A.
    Inventor: Eddi Meoni
  • Patent number: 11124324
    Abstract: A process of sterilization of a packaging system, constituted by an apparatus for sterilizing containers and by a filling machine, which includes arranging a door so as to close the interface opening defined between the apparatus for sterilizing containers and the filling machine, at least two expandable gaskets, each closed onto itself, being interposed between the door and the opening and coupled to a perimetric region of a component chosen from either the door or the delimiting edge of the opening. In subjecting the apparatus to sterilization, keeping inactive, therefore with minimum space occupation and separated from the door, the gasket that lies closest to the apparatus and keeping expanded, therefore with maximum space occupation and in hermetic abutment against the door, the gasket that lies furthest from the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE S.P.A IN SIGLA IMA S.P.A.
    Inventor: Eddi Meoni
  • Patent number: 11078709
    Abstract: A closure apparatus for openings for access to industrial machines includes a door which can move, by virtue of the action of a respective actuator which includes a motorized shaft which supports at least two mutually opposite pulleys for winding flexible elements connected to respective substantially upper and external portions of the door. The actuator includes substantially at an intermediate section of the shaft, at least one third idle pulley for winding at least one third flexible element connected to a substantially upper and central portion of the door. The third pulley is provided with at least one position sensor for detecting an unrolling of the third flexible element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE S.P.A. IN SIGLA IMA S.P.A.
    Inventor: Eddi Meoni
  • Patent number: 10953116
    Abstract: An assembly for smoothing and throttling a gaseous stream, which can be installed downstream of a region of discontinuity between areas of controlled outflow of the gas, includes an aerodynamic guide that is substantially teardrop-shaped. The assembly further includes at least one baffle that faces and is proximate to at least one respective surface of the aerodynamic guide. The baffle has the face directed toward the surface of the guide substantially similar in shape to that of the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE S.P.A IN SIGLA IMA S.P.A.
    Inventor: Eddi Meoni
  • Patent number: 10925982
    Abstract: An assembly for sterilizing and depyrogenating containers includes a feeding station, a heating station, and a cooling station. The stations are passed through by a conveyor of containers. The cooling station includes a main unit coupled without discontinuities to the heating station and at least one interchangeable air treatment module. The main unit includes at least one inlet aperture connected without interruptions to an air diffuser arranged above at least a portion of the conveyor, and at least one outlet port. Each module has at least one supply hose with shape and dimensions complementary to those of the at least one inlet aperture in order to be detachably coupled thereto, and at least one suction channel with shape and dimensions complementary to those of the at least one outlet port in order to be detachably coupled thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE S.P.A IN SIGLA IMA S.P.A.
    Inventor: Eddi Meoni
  • Patent number: 10829306
    Abstract: A transport group for container sterilization apparatuses a includes a conveyor belt, which defines an operational plane and advances along an advancement direction, and a number of support elements, mutually separated, and integral and movable with the conveyor belt. Each support element has longitudinal development transverse to the advancement direction and lying along a direction parallel to the operational plane. Each support element defines a number of shaped seats arranged along the longitudinal development. Each shaped seat is adapted to temporarily house a respective container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE S.P.A IN SIGLA IMA S.P.A.
    Inventor: Eddi Meoni
  • Publication number: 20200290811
    Abstract: A transport group for container sterilization apparatuses a includes a conveyor belt, which defines an operational plane and advances along an advancement direction, and a number of support elements, mutually separated, and integral and movable with the conveyor belt. Each support element has longitudinal development transverse to the advancement direction and lying along a direction parallel to the operational plane. Each support element defines a number of shaped seats arranged along the longitudinal development. Each shaped seat is adapted to temporarily house a respective container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventor: Eddi MEONI
  • Publication number: 20190111167
    Abstract: An assembly for smoothing and throttling a gaseous stream, which can be installed downstream of a region of discontinuity between areas of controlled outflow of the gas, includes an aerodynamic guide that is substantially teardrop-shaped. The assembly further includes at least one baffle that faces and is proximate to at least one respective surface of the aerodynamic guide. The baffle has the face directed toward the surface of the guide substantially similar in shape to that of the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventor: Eddi MEONI
  • Publication number: 20190093414
    Abstract: A closure apparatus for openings for access to industrial machines includes a door which can move, by virtue of the action of a respective actuator which includes a motorized shaft which supports at least two mutually opposite pulleys for winding flexible elements connected to respective substantially upper and external portions of the door. The actuator includes substantially at an intermediate section of the shaft, at least one third idle pulley for winding at least one third flexible element connected to a substantially upper and central portion of the door. The third pulley is provided with at least one position sensor for detecting an unrolling of the third flexible element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Eddi MEONI
  • Publication number: 20190084017
    Abstract: An assembly for feeding/picking up containers for washing machines includes an external feeding station provided with a delivery area, an internal washing station, and an external output station. The assembly further includes at least one support which can move by the action of respective actuators between at least one first configuration of alignment with a respective external station and at least one second configuration of alignment with the internal washing station. The support is provided with a plurality of grip clamps, each clamp is constituted by a pair of mutually opposite jaws, the internal faces of which are substantially concave and contoured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventor: Eddi MEONI
  • Publication number: 20190084711
    Abstract: A process of sterilization of a packaging system, constituted by an apparatus for sterilizing containers and by a filling machine, which includes arranging a door so as to close the interface opening defined between the apparatus for sterilizing containers and the filling machine, at least two expandable gaskets, each closed onto itself, being interposed between the door and the opening and coupled to a perimetric region of a component chosen from either the door or the delimiting edge of the opening. In subjecting the apparatus to sterilization, keeping inactive, therefore with minimum space occupation and separated from the door, the gasket that lies closest to the apparatus and keeping expanded, therefore with maximum space occupation and in hermetic abutment against the door, the gasket that lies furthest from the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventor: Eddi MEONI
  • Publication number: 20190060493
    Abstract: An assembly for sterilizing and depyrogenating containers includes a feeding station, a heating station, and a cooling station. The stations are passed through by a conveyor of containers. The cooling station includes a main unit coupled without discontinuities to the heating station and at least one interchangeable air treatment module. The main unit includes at least one inlet aperture connected without interruptions to an air diffuser arranged above at least a portion of the conveyor, and at least one outlet port. Each module has at least one supply hose with shape and dimensions complementary to those of the at least one inlet aperture in order to be detachably coupled thereto, and at least one suction channel with shape and dimensions complementary to those of the at least one outlet port in order to be detachably coupled thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventor: Eddi MEONI