Patents by Inventor Jürgen Vorwerk
Jürgen Vorwerk 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).
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Patent number: 10138105Abstract: A filling machine includes a rotor, a rotor bearing that rotatably mounts the rotor on the machine-frame for rotation about a machine axis, and filling elements disposed on the rotor. Each filling element, together with a container carrier, defines a filling point. The machine includes a filling-material boiler arranged on the rotor and configured to rotate with the rotor, as well as a boiler-cover connected to the machine-frame and configured to not rotate with the rotor, and a seal. The seal seals a transition between the boiler cover and the filling-material boiler.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2014Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: KHS GmbHInventors: Thomas Niehr, Jürgen Vorwerk, Andreas Lörcks
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Patent number: 9790073Abstract: A filling machine comprises a rotor driven by a drive around a machine axis surrounded by a pitch circle on the rotor, filling elements provided at even pitch intervals around the pitch circle, a closure-element supporting-ring surrounding and concentric with the machine axis, closure elements, a filling-material discharge opening, and a locking device. Each closure element closes a corresponding filling element on an underside thereof during cleaning or disinfection of said filling machine. Relative movement between the ring and the rotor, which is generated by the drive, moves the closure elements between a non-engaged state, in which the closure elements are between filling elements on the pitch circle, and an engaged state, in which the closure elements are on an underside of a corresponding filling element. The locking device causes this state transition by blocking co-rotation of the ring and the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2013Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: KHS GmbHInventors: Matthias Klotz, Thomas Niehr, Jürgen Vorwerk
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Patent number: 9505598Abstract: A sterilizing machine for sterilizing bottle seals includes a rotor with vertically-oriented seal holders disposed on its periphery. Each seal holder accommodates a seal stack. As the rotor rotates, the seal holder carries the stack from a seal input, past first and second stations, to a seal output. The first station has a sterilizing-agent sprayer with successive outlets spaced apart from each other in the longitudinal direction by one seal diameter. The sprayer is directed toward a seal holder for applying sterilizing agent onto individual seals held therein. The second station is an activating and/or drying station downstream of the first station in the rotation direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2013Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: KHS GmbHInventors: Thomas Niehr, Jürgen Vorwerk, Igor Singur
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Patent number: 9481498Abstract: An apparatus for permitting inspection of container processing includes a one-piece elastic peripheral lip seal that seals a transition between a window and a mounting frame. In its un-deformed state, the lip-seal, which has first and second strip-shaped lip-sections, has an at least partially sickle-shaped cross-section in its un-deformed state. Both lip sections extend outward toward respective first and second edges, the second edge being a sealing edge. A thickness of the second lip-section decreases towards the sealing edge. The lip sections curve around an axis oriented along a longitudinal direction of the lip seal. The first lip-section defines a concave curve along a first surface of the lip seal, and the second lip-section defines a convex curve along the first surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: KHS GmbHInventors: Jürgen Vorwerk, Thomas Niehr, Marcel Scheufen
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Patent number: 9365403Abstract: A method for open jet filling of containers with liquid content using a machine having a rotor that rotates around a machine axis. The rotor carries filling stations, each having a filling element, each having an opening and a container carrier. The carrier holds a container such that its opening is at a selected distance from the dispensing opening. Contents dispensed in a controlled manner by the filling element flow in an open filling jet directed toward the container opening. The method includes compensating for deflection of the filling jet due to centrifugal force acting on it when the rotor rotates by causing controlled relative movement between the filling element and the container. As a result of this movement, the open jet cleanly enters the container through the container opening.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2012Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: KHS GmbHInventor: Jürgen Vorwerk
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Publication number: 20160137472Abstract: A filling machine includes a rotor, a rotor bearing that rotatably mounts the rotor on the machine-frame for rotation about a machine axis, and filling elements disposed on the rotor. Each filling element, together with a container carrier, defines a filling point. The machine includes a filling-material boiler arranged on the rotor and configured to rotate with the rotor, as well as a boiler-cover connected to the machine-frame and configured to not rotate with the rotor, and a seal. The seal seals a transition between the boiler cover and the filling-material boiler.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2014Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventors: Thomas Niehr, Jürgen Vorwerk, Andreas Lörcks
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Publication number: 20150360835Abstract: An apparatus for permitting inspection of container processing includes a one-piece elastic peripheral lip seal that seals a transition between a window and a mounting frame. In its un-deformed state, the lip-seal, which has first and second strip-shaped lip-sections, has an at least partially sickle-shaped cross-section in its un-deformed state. Both lip sections extend outward toward respective first and second edges, the second edge being a sealing edge. A thickness of the second lip-section decreases towards the sealing edge. The lip sections curve around an axis oriented along a longitudinal direction of the lip seal. The first lip-section defines a concave curve along a first surface of the lip seal, and the second lip-section defines a convex curve along the first surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2014Publication date: December 17, 2015Inventors: Jürgen Vorwerk, Thomas Niehr, Marcel Scheufen
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Publication number: 20150298954Abstract: A filling machine comprises a rotor driven by a drive around a machine axis surrounded by a pitch circle on the rotor, filling elements provided at even pitch intervals around the pitch circle, a closure-element supporting-ring surrounding and concentric with the machine axis, closure elements, a filling-material discharge opening, and a locking device. Each closure element closes a corresponding filling element on an underside thereof during cleaning or disinfection of said filling machine. Relative movement between the ring and the rotor, which is generated by the drive, moves the closure elements between a non-engaged state, in which the closure elements are between filling elements on the pitch circle, and an engaged state, in which the closure elements are on an underside of a corresponding filling element. The locking device causes this state transition by blocking co-rotation of the ring and the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2013Publication date: October 22, 2015Inventors: Matthias Klotz, Thomas Niehr, Jürgen Vorwerk
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Publication number: 20150246801Abstract: A sterilizing machine for sterilizing bottle seals includes a rotor with vertically-oriented seal holders disposed on its periphery. Each seal holder accommodates a seal stack. As the rotor rotates, the seal holder carries the stack from a seal input, past first and second stations, to a seal output. The first station has a sterilizing-agent sprayer with successive outlets spaced apart from each other in the longitudinal direction by one seal diameter. The sprayer is directed toward a seal holder for applying sterilizing agent onto individual seals held therein. The second station is an activating and/or drying station downstream of the first station in the rotation direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2013Publication date: September 3, 2015Inventors: Thomas Niehr, Jürgen Vorwerk, Igor Singur
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Publication number: 20140014224Abstract: A method for open jet filling of containers with liquid content using a machine having a rotor that rotates around a machine axis. The rotor carries filling stations, each having va filling element, each having an opening and a container carrier. The carrier holds a container such that its opening is at a selected distance from the dispensing opening. Contents dispensed in a controlled manner by the filling element flow in an open filling jet directed toward the container opening. The method includes compensating for deflection of the filling jet due to centrifugal force acting on it when the rotor rotates by causing controlled relative movement between the filling element and the container. As a result of this movement, the open jet cleanly enters the container through the container opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2012Publication date: January 16, 2014Inventor: Jürgen Vorwerk