Patents by Inventor Johannes Hendricus Van Hoof

Johannes Hendricus Van Hoof 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: 20060151290
    Abstract: A device for supplying articles provided with a head and a stick, such as lollipops, to a further treatment station, such as a packaging machine, includes: a supply station for the articles in a disorderly flow, a discharge station for discharge of the articles in an orderly flow, a rotatable distribution disc connecting to the supply station and the discharge station, having a series of circumferential holes accommodating heads of the articles. The upper side of the distribution disc includes slits extending from the holes to the outer edge of the distribution disc accommodating the sticks. The slits include a bottom and edges extending up therefrom, situated rotationally upstream and downstream. The downstream edge runs at least almost in a vertical plane and at least almost to the distribution disc upper side. At least an upper portion of the upstream edge gives way to the downstream edge in upstream direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2003
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventors: Johannes Hendricus Van Hoof, Mattheus Verolme