Patents by Inventor Jurgen Focke
Jurgen Focke 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: 8608051Abstract: The hinge-lid pack comprising box part (11) and lid (12) features a polygon-like configuration in the region of its side walls (22, 23), namely having angular wall legs (28, 29) and a narrow, transverse side wall (22, 23). The cross-sectional shape of the hinge-lid pack thus conforms to the contour of a cigarette group as the pack's contents, with the cigarette group having at its edges adjacent to the side walls (22, 23) a marginal transverse row of 2 cigarettes and adjacent thereto a transverse row of 3 cigarettes.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2004Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: FOCKE & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Gisbert Engel, Doris Focke, Jürgen Focke
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Patent number: 8245922Abstract: The invention relates to a process for identifying and authenticating an object. The object includes an identifier which has a code region and a scattering region and is irradiated with electromagnetic radiation for identifying and/or authenticating the object, in such a manner that the electromagnetic radiation reflected by the code region is used for identifying the object and the electromagnetic radiation reflected by the scattering region is used for authenticating the object. In addition, the invention relates to a device for the parallel identification and authentication of an object.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Bayer Technology Services GmbHInventors: Markus Gerigk, Ludger Brüll, Martin Friedrich, Jürgen Focke, Simon Vougioukas, Josef Kenfenheuer, Klaus Würschinger, Wolfgang Joa
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Publication number: 20110049235Abstract: The invention relates to a process for identifying and authenticating an object. The object includes an identifier which has a code region and a scattering region and is irradiated with electromagnetic radiation for identifying and/or authenticating the object, in such a manner that the electromagnetic radiation reflected by the code region is used for identifying the object and the electromagnetic radiation reflected by the scattering region is used for authenticating the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2009Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: BAYER TECHNOLOGY SERVICES GMBHInventors: Markus Gerigk, Ludger Brüll, Martin Friedrich, Jürgen Focke, Simon Vougioukas, Josef Kenfenheuer, Klaus Wurschinger, Wolfgang Joa
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Patent number: 7684889Abstract: A production and packaging installation with a control arrangement (33) and production units having respectively adjustable mechanisms, such as, a (cigarette-) production machine (maker 10), a packaging machine (packer 11), possibly a film-wrapping machine (12), possibly a multipacker (13) and possibly a carton packer (cartoner 14), for the production and ready-to-dispatch packaging of, in the first instance, products—cigarettes and cigarette packs—of a first type and, thereafter, products of a second type each comprising starting materials, such as paper blanks, film and the like, and also specifies the control arrangement itself and a method of controlling the line, it being the case that at least a first set of parameters (61) associated with products of the first type and a second set of parameters (62) associated with products of the second type are stored in a selectable manner in a memory of the control arrangement (33) and, upon selection of a set of parameters (61, 62), a manipulated variable for adjType: GrantFiled: March 5, 2003Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co.)Inventors: Heinz Focke, Doris Focke, legal representative, Jürgen Focke, legal representative, Kurt Meyer, Thomas Tengen
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Patent number: 7669387Abstract: Transponders are used for identifying objects such as packaging, packaging material or machines and machine elements and are attached to the object to be identified. The transponders contain data which are provided by an electronic write unit and which can be recognized by a read unit. The transponders are provided in a concealed manner on the machines, machine parts, etc. or are embedded in the machine part, for example, inside a recess.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2002Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Heinz Focke, Jurgen Focke, legal representative, Doris Focke, legal representative, Tobias Jacobi, Gisbert Engel
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Patent number: 7588143Abstract: A cuboidal cigarette pack of the hinge-lid-box type (10) is enclosed by an outer wrapper made of film. The latter has a tear-open thread (24) which extends obliquely or diagonally in the region of a front wall (14) and rear wall (15) and merges into side walls (16, 17) via arcuate regions. This allows optimum opening and removal of the outer wrapper with the aid of the tear-open thread (24).Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2005Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Heinz Focke, Jurgen Focke, legal representative, Doris Focke, legal representative, Martin Stiller, Gisbert Engel, Karsten Krone
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Patent number: 7584758Abstract: A distributor or hopper is part of a cigarette production machine and serves for dressing the tobacco in the provision of a continuous tobacco strand. An integral part of a distributor is a metering system which prepares the tobacco for the production of the tobacco strand. To separate out undesirable constituents, such as foreign bodies, stalks or ribs, from the tobacco, at least one sifter (15) is provided. The latter precedes the metering system of the distributor in the working direction, in particular is arranged outside the distributor, so that sifted tobacco is introduced into the distributor.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2003Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Heinz Focke, Doris Focke, legal representative, Jürgen Focke, legal representative, Ralf Barkmann, Alfred Drenguis, Frauke Illigner, Reinhard Hoppe, Tobias Jacobi, Christina Ott, Remo Schulz, Michael Wegmann
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Patent number: 7475525Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing packs (23) from at least two partial packs (25, 26) to form one groups of packs (21, 22) each of especially cuboid (cigarette) packs (20), a one-piece blank (24) being folded along (embossed) fold lines (46, 47) around the groups of packs (21, 22) in such a way that mutually facing inner walls (27) of the partial packs (25, 26) are folded in between the groups of packs (21, 22) in a V shape. According to the invention, the substantially flat blank (24) is conveyed along a blank path (36) and, during the transport, is at least partially upset in such a way that the inner walls (27) are folded in a V shape along fold lines (46) arranged transversely with respect to the transport direction. The invention also relates to a corresponding device for carrying out the method.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2004Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Doris Focke, legal representative, Jürgen Focke, legal representative, Harald Freudenberg, Holger Broek, Heinz Focke
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Patent number: 7455176Abstract: A cigarette pack of the hinge-lid-box type is provided with predominantly or fully rounded side walls (19, 20) and lid side walls (24, 25). The side walls here are made up of a plurality of rounded regions with different radii, and also with a planar central side strip.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2003Date of Patent: November 25, 2008Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Doris Focke, legal representative, Jürgen Focke, legal representative, Viktor Hein, Reinhard Lohmann, Hans Schönberger, Heinz Focke
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Patent number: 7438183Abstract: The invention relates to a cigarette pack of the hinge-lid type comprising an opening (36) configured in the lower section of the front face, namely in a front wall (12) of the pack. A marking (38), applied to the inner wrapper for identifying the product, is visible through said opening.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2003Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Doris Focke, legal representative, Jürgen Focke, legal representative, Valeri Goncharenko, Henry Buse, Heinz Focke
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Patent number: 7344024Abstract: In the case of a (soft) pack for cigarettes, the blank (10) made of paper or similar material is provided, adjacent to an end wall (16), with a multi-layered folding strip (21) running all the way round. In order that inner layers can be connected to outer, covering layers via glue—spot of glue (20)—a round cutout (29) made by punching is provided, the spot of glue (20) being positioned in the region of said cutout. A special feature is constituted by the production of blanks (10) for such a pack.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2002Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Jürgen Focke, legal representative, Hans-Jürgen Bretthauer, Henry Buse, Heinz Focke
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Patent number: 7331451Abstract: A cuboidal cigarette pack with a large-surface-area pack side, namely rear side (13), is provided with a blank (23), which serves as a printing carrier, in the region of this rear side (13). The blank is positioned between an outer wrapper (19) of film and the pack (10). A top region of the blank (23) is connected to a detachable top part of the outer wrapper, namely a film cap (22), and is also removed when the pack (10) is opened for the first time.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2001Date of Patent: February 19, 2008Assignee: Focke & Co., (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Jurgen Focke, legal representative, Doris Focke, legal representative, Irmin Steinkamp, Heinz Focke
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Patent number: 7275438Abstract: In order to check a material web (12), in particular a film web, with regard to the correct arrangement of a tear-off strip (11) extending in the longitudinal direction of the material web (12), ultrasonic transmitters are used, specifically an ultrasonic transmitter (11) on the one hand and an ultrasonic receiver (19) on the other hand. The sensors are arranged on opposite sides of the material web (12) in such a way that, if appropriate, focused ultrasonic waves are aimed specifically at the region of the tear-off strip (11). If a tear-off strip (11) is missing, an appropriate signal is generated by the ultrasonic receiver (19).Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2003Date of Patent: October 2, 2007Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Doris Focke, legal representative, Jürgen Focke, legal representative, Michael Czarnotta, Heinz Focke, deceased
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Patent number: 7273145Abstract: A cigarette pack with a shell (10) and slide (11), the range of movement of the slide (11) within the shell (10) is limited, in particular by stops formed, on the one hand, on a stop tab (30) and, on the other hand, by a recess (34) in the shell (10). The stops help to define a closed position of the slide (11) and an open position.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2003Date of Patent: September 25, 2007Inventors: Doris Focke, legal representative, Jurgen Focke, legal representative, Hans-Jurgen Bretthauer, Karsten Mutschall, Heinz Focke, deceased
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Patent number: 7234696Abstract: For producing (cigarettes) packs (10) with a coupon positioned between the pack and outer wrapper made of film, the coupons are supplied to a packaging machine for the outer wrapper and are transported in the region of the packaging machine by a coupon conveyor (17). The coupons pass into the region of a feeder (20) and are applied by the latter to a free top side (13) of the packs.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2003Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Jurgen Focke, legal representative, Doris Focke, legal representative, Stephan Bachner, Jens Schmidt, Heinz Focke, deceased
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Patent number: 7222626Abstract: The invention specifies a production and/or packaging installation containing a performance-limiting means, and also specifies the method of operating the same, with the result that this installation can be sold to a purchaser with a certain performance capability guaranteed and only the guaranteed performance level can be retrieved, measures for reducing the performance level of the installation being taken or initiated in the event of manipulation for increasing the performance level or for bypassing the performance-limiting means.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2004Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Jürgen Focke, legal representative, Doris Focke, legal representative, Hartmut Olbrich, Cord Schröder, Heinz Focke, deceased
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Patent number: 7216755Abstract: For the production of cigarette groups (11) having a formation comprising a plurality of vertical rows of cigarettes (10) arranged one beside the other, after pushing a corresponding number of cigarettes (10) out of shafts (13) of a cigarette magazine (12), a transverse displacement of the cigarettes (10) is required in order to arrange same in a tightly packed or saddle configuration. At least marginal push rods (18) for pushing the cigarettes (10) out of the shafts (13) of the cigarette magazine (12) can be displaced transversely together with the cigarettes.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2003Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co., KG)Inventors: Heinz Focke, deceased, Doris Focke, legal representative, Jürgen Focke, legal representative, Hermann Blome, Heido Spöring, Jürgen Tempel
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Publication number: 20070071305Abstract: Transponders are used for identifying objects such as packaging, packaging material or machines and machine elements and are attached to the object to be identified. The transponders contain data which are provided by an electronic write unit and which can be recognized by a read unit. The transponders are provided in a concealed manner on the machines, machine parts, etc. or are embedded in the machine part, for example, inside a recess.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2006Publication date: March 29, 2007Inventors: Heinz Focke, Jurgen Focke, Doris Focke, Tobias Jacobi, Gisbert Engel
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Patent number: 7146777Abstract: For the production of (cigarette) packs of different configurations, for example standard pack (13), round-edged pack (14) or octagonal pack (15), subassemblies and elements of the packaging machine are exchanged and/or uncoupled from the drive. For this purpose, a pack-specific operating element is provided with a drive which has a coupling and/or uncouplable gear-mechanism parts. These, in turn, are assigned operable handling elements which allow adjustment for coupling or uncoupling or removing sub-elements.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2002Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co.)Inventors: Jurgen Focke, legal representative, Doris Focke, legal representative, Jürgen Tempel, Gisbert Engel, Heinz Focke, deceased
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Patent number: 7134257Abstract: For producing hard packs, namely hinge-lid boxes or shell and slide packs in particular, inner and outer pack units are prepared separately in each case, namely a shell (20), on the one hand, and a blank for a hinge-lid box, on the other hand. The inner pack unit, comprising a cigarette block (10) and a further pack part, namely a slide (13) or a collar, is prepared in the region of a mandrel turret (24). The pack units are then brought together, with continued rotary movement, by axial displacement relative to one another.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2002Date of Patent: November 14, 2006Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co.)Inventors: Jürgen Focke, legal representatives, Hans-Jürgen Bretthauer, Henry Buse, Heinz Focke, deceased