Patents by Inventor Erik ALBERT

Erik ALBERT 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).

  • Publication number: 20260225340
    Abstract: Techniques for producing a three-dimensional packaging product from a web-shaped raw material, may use an apparatus having a preforming station which deforms the raw material web into a three-dimensional intermediate product having at least one crumple cavity extending in the web direction, a separating station which adjoins the preforming station in the conveying direction of the raw material and separates a packaging product of a desired length from the raw material web, and an output device adjoining the separating station in the conveying direction of the raw material and having a pair of mutually opposite continuous conveyors for discharging the separated packaging product. A continuous conveyor may be mounted movably relative to another continuous conveyor in order to allow access between the continuous conveyors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 6, 2026
    Applicant: Sprick GmbH Bielefelder Papier- und Wellpappenwerke & Co.
    Inventors: Bastian Schalk, Erik Albert, Vitali Krebs, Marco Schwarberg
  • Patent number: 12691656
    Abstract: An apparatus for mechanically producing a three-dimensional packaging product from a web-shaped starting material (e.g., paper starting material); may include a forming station with a convergence channel for transversely compressing (e.g., turning-in or rolling-in) the starting material, and a conveying device for drawing off the starting material from a supply of starting material which is arrangeable upstream of the forming station in the conveying direction. The forming station a may have mounting plate, on a guide side thereof, which is facing the convergence channel. The starting material entering the forming station is guided. The mounting plate may have at least one drive means of the conveying device rotatably mounted thereon, and a motor driving the at least one drive means may be further attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: Sprick GmbH Bielefelder Papier- und Wellpappenwerke & Co.
    Inventors: Bastian Schalk, Erik Albert, Vitali Krebs
  • Patent number: 12320026
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing coated substrate bodies, wherein a plurality of substrate bodies comprising surfaces to be coated are provided with a colored coating surface, the method comprising following steps: providing the substrate bodies to be coated in the interior of a vacuum coating chamber, depositing a coating on a surface of the substrate bodies to be coated, the deposition of the coating involving the deposition of a metallic layer comprising at least two different metals, forming a colored oxide layer exhibiting a colored surface by anodic oxidation of the metallic layer, wherein: the anodic oxidation takes place in an alkaline electrolyte bath with the coated substrate bodies connected as anodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon
    Inventors: Sven Matthias Twardy, Jens Eggemann, Erik Albert, Christian Becker, Denis Kurapov
  • Publication number: 20250042119
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing a web material may include a stamping for a pair of embossing gears for forming a web material. The web material may include a paper web, and the material may be formed into a cushioning product. The stamping gear may have a plurality of embossing teeth, valleys arranged between adjacent embossing teeth, and punching nose arranged in the region of the valleys. The stamping gear may have embossing teeth which are continuous in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: Sprick GmbH Bielefelder Papier- und Wellpappenwerke & Co.
    Inventors: Bastian Schalk, Erik Albert
  • Publication number: 20240416610
    Abstract: An apparatus for mechanically producing a three-dimensional packaging product from a web-shaped starting material (e.g., paper starting material) may include a forming station with a convergence channel for transversely compressing (e.g., turning-in or rolling-in) the starting material, and a conveying device for drawing off the starting material from a supply of starting material which is arrangeable upstream of the forming station in the conveying direction. The forming station may have mounting plate, on a guide side thereof, which is facing the convergence channel. The starting material entering the forming station is guided. The mounting plate may have at least one drive means of the conveying device rotatably mounted thereon, and a motor driving the at least one drive means may be further attached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Sprick GmbH Bielefelder Papier- und Wellpappenwerke & Co.
    Inventors: Bastian Schalk, Erik Albert, Vitali Krebs
  • Publication number: 20200277707
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing coated substrate bodies, wherein a plurality of substrate bodies comprising surfaces to be coated are provided with a colored coating surface, the method comprising following steps: providing the substrate bodies to be coated in the interior of a vacuum coating chamber, depositing a coating on a surface of the substrate bodies to be coated, the deposition of the coating involving the deposition of a metallic layer comprising at least two different metals, forming a colored oxide layer exhibiting a colored surface by anodic oxidation of the metallic layer, wherein: the anodic oxidation takes place in an alkaline electrolyte bath with the coated substrate bodies connected as anodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Sven Matthias TWARDY, Jens EGGEMANN, Erik ALBERT, Christian BECKER, Denis KURAPOV