Patents by Inventor Gunther Bochtler

Gunther Bochtler 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).

  • Filling blister-pack strips
    Patent number: 5799468
    Abstract: A blister-pack package is made by forming a strip with a plurality of fields of upwardly open pockets and filling the pockets with respective objects while leaving at least one pocket empty and then scanning the fields and determining an address of the empty pocket in the respective field. A refilling head is then loaded at a stationary location with at least one of the objects. The loaded refilling head is then positioned above the empty pocket in accordance with the determined address, and the object is dropped from the loaded and positioned head into the empty pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: Uhlmann Pac-Systeme GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Werner Eck, Detlev Gertitschke, Richard Mertens, Gunther Bochtler, Reinhold Kopf, Andreas Weiss, Rudolf Arb