Patents by Inventor Gerd Knobloch

Gerd Knobloch 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: 5447007
    Abstract: A machine for filling and closing packs for liquids, wherein an opening is arranged in an upper surface which can be connected to a pouring device. The device has a first feed conveyor (3) with a base for open, empty packs (8). It has a conveyor (12) for intermittently moving the packs (8) from a base position (I) into individual intermediate positions (II-X, XI), an end position (IX), and has a filler station, a stoppering station and a carry off conveyor (25). A transverse sliding conveyor is arranged in the path of movement behind the feed conveyor (3), and transverse conveyors and entrainment devices are arranged between the feed conveyor (3) and the carry off conveyor (25) for the purpose of intermittently moving transportation boxes (14), and, in addition, the filler and stoppering stations are arranged in the region of the transverse conveyors at a level above the transportation boxes (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1995
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: Wilhelm Reil, Ulrich Deutschbein, Udo Liebram, Gerd Knobloch
  • Patent number: 5394603
    Abstract: A method is provided for heating and transferring a substantially flat workpiece made of a deep drawable plastic material including the steps of enclosing at least a substantial portion of the workpiece between first and second opposing carrier plates such that a gas-tight seal may be formed by one of the carrier plates about the substantial portion of the workpiece and supplying hot gases through a gas distribution conduit associated with the first carrier plate while withdrawing hot gases through a gas distribution conduit associated with the second carrier plate such that the workpiece is heated and transferred to the second carrier plate. The workpiece is then transferred to a third carrier plate or a deep-drawing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1995
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: Wilhelm Reil, Ulrich Deutschbein, Gerd Knobloch, Udo Liebram
  • Patent number: 5287983
    Abstract: A pourer device of synthetic plastic material for attachment to a hole in a package for flowable contents includes a bottom part and a closure part that are connected to one another by a hinge. At least one of the bottom part and the closure part is movable between an open position and a closed position. A pourer orifice is formed in the bottom part and a synthetic plastic film is provided between the closure part and the bottom part, over the orifice. A method for producing such a pourer device is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1994
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: Wilhelm Reil, Gerd Knobloch, Gottfried Pusch
  • Patent number: 5227177
    Abstract: A device for heating plastic plates using contact heat and hot gases which are supplied to the plastic plate to be heated by carrier plates is provided. Therein, two carrier plates are movable relative to each other vertically with respect to their common contact surface. Gas distribution conduits also open in the contact surface. In order that the plastic plates which are to be heated can be removed properly from the carrier plates, so that damage to the heating device is avoided, each contact surface of both carrier plates is surrounded by a frame-like, closed outer edge without mouth openings for the gas distributions conduits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1993
    Assignee: Tetra Alfa Holdings S.A.
    Inventors: Wilhelm Reil, Ulrich Deutschbein, Gerd Knobloch, Udo Liebram
  • Patent number: 5201163
    Abstract: A method of producing a package for fluids made of a synthetic plastic material, in which a strip of the material is shaped to form two rows of tub-shaped containers which are filled, sealed, pairs of them being folded together to form a single container, and welded closed into a single container.In a particular preferred embodiment, two plastic webs are first brought together continuously and sealed along outer edges, to form a tube, with the tube then being filled from above, with thereafter transverse seals provided between pairs of adjoining tub-shaped containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1993
    Assignee: Tetra Pak Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: Wilhelm Reil, Ulrich Deutschbein, Gerd Knobloch, Udo Liebram
  • Patent number: 5199618
    Abstract: Described is a pouring device of plastic material for fitting to the hole of a flowing medium pack, wherein the pouring device (10) has a portion (20) which is openable by means of a tearing line (25). So that packs of widely different configurations and consisting of a wide range of different materials can be produced in such a way as to be sealed and easily openable, the pouring device (10) has at least a bottom portion (20) and a closure portion (21) which are pivotally movably connected together by way of a hinge (22), wherein the tearing line (25) is disposed in the bottom portion (20).The process for the production of such a pouring device is characterised in that a series of blanks which are arranged in succession in a flat condition and which are in line-wise contact with each other are formed from an endless web of plastic material which can be subjected to deep drawing, and rolled up to form a coil, and the blanks are separated off prior to fitting to the hole in the pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1993
    Assignee: Tetra Alfa Holdings S.A.
    Inventors: Wilhelm Reil, Ulrich Deutschbein, Gerd Knobloch, Udo Liebram
  • Patent number: 5191988
    Abstract: A pack for flowable contents, the pack having side walls which together from a tube, two end walls, one of which is an essentially flat bottom wall and the other of which is an essentially flat top wall and having a closable hole wherein the pack consists of plastic material, characterized in that a seam standing out from the side walls of the pack encompasses the pack, and lies in a plane which is disposed so that it is parallel to the longitudinal central axis of the tube, that the seam is arranged so that it extends in a depression in the region of the bottom and top wall, and that a part of the depression in the top wall surrounds the pouring device.The pack may further include a closable pouring device for the hole, which pouring device is disposed within an outer coutour of an end wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1993
    Assignee: Tetra Pak Holdings S.A.
    Inventors: Wilhelm Reil, Ulrich Deutschbein, Gerd Knobloch, Udo Liebram
  • Patent number: 5158786
    Abstract: An apparatus for deep drawing a bowl from a blank of deep-drawable plastic material is provided comprising deep drawing tools, and cooperating jaws including an outside heating jaw and a forward feed heating jaw. The deep drawing tools and cooperating jaws are movable relative to each other to advance a blank of deep-drawable material for preheating, forming, and deep drawing a bowl open at one end therefrom. The outside heating jaw includes at least one outside suction plate to retain the blank, and intermittently moves in a first direction into and out of cooperating relationship with the forward feed heating jaw. The deep drawing tool also intermittently moves parallel to the first direction into and out of cooperating relationship with the forward feed heating jaw. The forward feed heating jaw includes a plurality of main suction plates secured to a heatable carrier to retain and heat the blank as it advances thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1992
    Assignee: Tetra Pak Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: Wilhelm Reil, Ulrich Deutschbein, Gerd Knobloch, Udo Liebram
  • Patent number: 5158209
    Abstract: Described is a package for flowable media and having tube-like side walls (1, 1'), bottom and top walls (6, 6') and a closable pourer (7); all parts of the pacakage consists of synthetic plastics material. For more competitively priced production, ease of stacking and a reliable sealing-tight and yet easily opened closure, according to the invention two tub-shaped parts (I, II), each forming an entire side wall (3'), two oppositely disposed and adjacent half side wall parts (1'), a half bottom part and a half upper wall part (6') with a half pourer device (7 to 9), are in each case sealed and connected to each other individually by a synthetic plastics film which rests on and projects outwardly beyond the rim (13) in the form of a web (15), and in that the cylindrical edge (8) of the pourer device (7) extends beyond the web (15) of the synthetic plastics film (14) onto both tub-shaped parts (I, II) and in that the thickness of the synthetic plastics film is 0.01 to 0.5 times and preferably substantially 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1992
    Assignee: Tetra Pak Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: Wilhelm Reil, Ulrich Deutschbein, Gerd Knobloch, Udo Liebram
  • Patent number: 5142843
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a package (1) which is filled with a flowable medium and which comprises a tube (3), a bottom and a top wall (2) of shapeable synthetic plastics material in which the package (1) formed by shaping and the action of heat is filled, sealed and carried away is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1992
    Assignee: Tetra Pak Holdings S.A.
    Inventors: Wilhelm Reil, Ulrich Deutschbein, Gerd Knobloch, Udo Liebram
  • Patent number: 5114068
    Abstract: An apparatus for the separable attachment of a lid (1') to a bottom part is described, both parts being connected to each other by a first welded seam (3), a first tear line (5) being provided which extends parallel with the first welded seam (3).In order no longer to have to tear the lid upwards or even bend it and in order to be able to provide such a tearing-open device for a package, it is according to the invention proposed that at a distance (a) from the first tear line (5) and at least along a first portion (5) thereof, a second tear line (4) be so disposed to extend in the lid (1') that a tear-off strip (6) can be formed between the two tear lines (4, 5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1992
    Assignee: Tetra Pak Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: Wilhelm Reil, Ulrich Deutschbein, Gerd Knobloch, Udo Liebram
  • Patent number: 5103988
    Abstract: Described is a liquid pack comprising a tube (1) with a bottom and a top (7) disposed at the ends thereof, wherein the top (7) comprises thermoplastic material, is injection-moulded on the tube (1) and has a pouring means (8). The bottom is quadrangular and in the form of a folded closure formed from the folded-over tube (1) of the pack. A handle (11) which is connected to the top (7) is disposed in such a way that the handle (11, 17) together with the top (7) is arranged within the parallelepipedic outside contour of the pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1992
    Assignee: Tetra Pak Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: Wihelm Reil, Ulrich Deutschbein, Gerd Knobloch, Udo Liebram, Bengt Eckerwall