Patents by Inventor Marinus Antonius Leonarda van Heck

Marinus Antonius Leonarda van Heck 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: 20230227197
    Abstract: An apparatus for attaching a shrinkable label on a product placed on a conveyor, by irradiating light onto the shrinkable label, comprises two sets of light emitters which are arranged opposite each other on both sides of the conveyor along a defined length of the conveyor to form an irradiation volume through which the conveyor passes. The light emitters are configured to emit directed light bundles into the irradiation volume in different directions. In a plan view of the apparatus, the directions of the light bundles intersect with a longitudinal central axis of the conveyor. The intersection points of the directions of the light bundles emitted from the light emitters on a same side of the conveyor with the longitudinal central axis of the conveyor differ from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: Fuji Seal International, Inc.
    Inventors: Frederik Gerardus Heeman, Marinus Antonius Leonarda Van Heck, Christoph Hollenbeck, Patrick Kirchner, Stephan Jansen, Klaus Baltes
  • Patent number: 11498711
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a discharge apparatus for discharging an assembly of interconnected guiding elements, having a support having at least one support section configured to support the assembly of interconnected guiding elements and the flexible pouch containers carried therein; a gripping unit configured to grip a first guiding element of the guiding element assembly and displace the first guiding element together with one or more interconnected further guiding elements of the guiding element assembly in a transport direction substantially perpendicular to the lengthwise direction of the first guiding element; and a disconnection unit configured to disconnect at least the gripped and displaced first guiding element from a neighboring second guiding element, the disconnection unit having a movable wedge and a wedge drive unit configured to move the wedge between the first and second guiding elements, thereby disconnecting the first guiding element from the second guiding element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Fuji Seal International, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeroen Gerrit Anton Gebbink, Marinus Antonius Leonarda Van Heck, Stijn Antonius Petrus Verhoeven
  • Patent number: 11401071
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of attaching a shrinkable label on at least one product wherein the shrinkable label comprises a film comprising heat shrinkable material and photothermic material, the method comprising: transporting a plurality of products on a product conveyor through an irradiation volume defined by a plurality of UV light emitters arranged sideways of the product conveyor; arranging at least one reflector between consecutive products on the product conveyor while the at least one product is being transported; controlling the UV light emitters to emit UV-light towards the shrinkable label arranged around the at least one product in the irradiation volume and towards the at least one reflector arranged between consecutive products in order for the photothermic material of the shrinkable label to heat up causing the heat shrinkable material to shrink around the at least one product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Fuji Seal International, Inc.
    Inventor: Marinus Antonius Leonarda Van Heck
  • Patent number: 11345078
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a container sleeving device, system and method for arranging sleeves on a plurality of containers, wherein the sleeves are made of tubular foil material made to pass over the circumferential outer surface of a spreading element, the container sleeving device comprising:—a spreading element configured to spread open the tubular foil material passing from a proximal spreading element portion (31) towards a distal spreading element portion (34);—a cutting unit (25) for cutting the spread-open tubular foil material to form a sleeve;—a sleeve discharge unit (28) configured to accelerate the sleeve to move over the outer surface of the distal spreading element portion so as to discharge the sleeve towards a container; wherein the distal spreading element portion and/or the proximal spreading element portion has one or more pressure regulating openings configured to regulate the pressure close to the outer surface of the distal spreading element portion and/or of the proximal spread
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Fuji Seal International, Inc.
    Inventors: Marinus Antonius Leonarda Van Heck, Frederik Gerardus Heeman, Jeroen Gerrit Anton Gebbink
  • Publication number: 20220009714
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a discharge system for discharging a plurality of containers from a tubular storage assembly having a plurality of interconnected elongated guiding elements, wherein the interconnected elongated guiding elements are configured to be maintained in a tubular arrangement. The discharge system may have a tubular storage assembly support configured to support the tubular storage assembly, and a discharge device configured to receive the containers from the tubular storage assembly in the receiving portion and to move the removed containers from the receiving portion towards the discharge portion. The receiving portion of the discharge device includes a docking ring configured to engage the free ends of respective elongated guiding elements and to position the engaged elongated guiding elements into the predetermined target tubular arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Fuji Seal International, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeroen Gerrit Anton Gebbink, Marinus Antonius Leonarda Van Heck, Stijn Antonius Petrus Verhoeven
  • Publication number: 20210316922
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cassette for storing a tubular storage assembly, the tubular storage assembly having a plurality of elongated guiding elements onto which containers can be carried, wherein the elongated guiding elements are configured to be maintained in a tubular arrangement, the cassette includes a cassette housing configured to accommodate the tubular storage assembly, the elongated guiding elements of the tubular storage assembly extending in an axial direction of the cassette housing; and a carrier arranged to be movable inside the cassette housing and configured to carry the tubular storage assembly; wherein the cassette housing comprises at least one stop element for stopping movement of the carrier in the axial direction and wherein the carrier and cassette housing are configured to allow the carrier to be essentially freely movable in transverse directions; and wherein the carrier comprises at least one alignment element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: Fuji Seal International, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeroen Gerrit Anton Gebbink, Marinus Antonius Leonarda Van Heck, Stijn Antonius Petrus Verhoeven
  • Publication number: 20200346807
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a discharge apparatus for discharging an assembly of interconnected guiding elements, having a support having at least one support section configured to support the assembly of interconnected guiding elements and the flexible pouch containers carried therein; a gripping unit configured to grip a first guiding element of the guiding element assembly and displace the first guiding element together with one or more interconnected further guiding elements of the guiding element assembly in a transport direction substantially perpendicular to the lengthwise direction of the first guiding element; and a disconnection unit configured to disconnect at least the gripped and displaced first guiding element from a neighboring second guiding element, the disconnection unit having a movable wedge and a wedge drive unit configured to move the wedge between the first and second guiding elements, thereby disconnecting the first guiding element from the second guiding element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Jeroen Gerrit Anton Gebbink, Marinus Antonius Leonarda Van Heck, Stijn Antonius Petrus Verhoeven
  • Publication number: 20200270009
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of attaching a shrinkable label on at least one product wherein the shrinkable label comprises a film comprising heat shrinkable material and photothermic material, the method comprising: transporting a plurality of products on a product conveyor through an irradiation volume defined by a plurality of UV light emitters arranged sideways of the product conveyor; arranging at least one reflector between consecutive products on the product conveyor while the at least one product is being transported; controlling the UV light emitters to emit UV-light towards the shrinkable label arranged around the at least one product in the irradiation volume and towards the at least one reflector arranged between consecutive products in order for the photothermic material of the shrinkable label to heat up causing the heat shrinkable material to shrink around the at least one product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventor: Marinus Antonius Leonarda Van Heck
  • Patent number: 10315848
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a discharge apparatus for discharging a plurality of flexible spouted containers, the apparatus comprising: a container support comprising a support element with an elongated opening for carrying a row of spouts of a plurality of spouted containers from an inlet to an outlet, wherein the inlet of the support element is configured to receive successive batches of spouted containers in the elongated opening; a biasing unit configured to move at least a subset of the spouts received inside the elongated opening in the support element towards the outlet, wherein the biasing unit further is configured to continuously apply a biasing force to the subset of spouts to continuously discharge the containers from the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Fuji Seal International, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeroen Gerrit Anton Gebbink, Marinus Antonius Leonarda Van Heck
  • Publication number: 20190118461
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a container sleeving device, system and method for arranging sleeves on a plurality of containers, wherein the sleeves are made of tubular foil material made to pass over the circumferential outer surface of a spreading element, the container sleeving device comprising:—a spreading element configured to spread open the tubular foil material passing from a proximal spreading element portion (31) towards a distal spreading element portion (34);—a cutting unit (25) for cutting the spread-open tubular foil material to form a sleeve;—a sleeve discharge unit (28) configured to accelerate the sleeve to move over the outer surface of the distal spreading element portion so as to discharge the sleeve towards a container; wherein the distal spreading element portion and/or the proximal spreading element portion has one or more pressure regulating openings configured to regulate the pressure close to the outer surface of the distal spreading element portion and/or of the proximal spread
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Marinus Antonius Leonarda Van Heck, Frederik Gerardus Heeman, Jeroen Gerrit Anton Gebbink
  • Patent number: 9421711
    Abstract: Method and device for forming a continuous tubular foil (106, 308). Foil (106, 308) is supplied and buffered. Foil (106) is supplied as flattened tubular foil (106) from a supply. A next piece of foil (308) is supplied from a next supply. The ends of tubular foil (304, 309) are connected. This then allows supplying and buffering next tubular foil (308) supplied from the next supply. The device and method allow connecting the ends of tubular foils (304, 309) by opening the end (309) of the next flattened tubular foil (308) supplied from the next supply and moving the end of the flattened tubular foil (304) in an upstream direction (299) into the opened end of next tubular foil (309) from the next supply. Connection is made using a tape (250, 270) applied onto the foil ends (304, 309).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI SEAL INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: Marinus Antonius Leonarda Van Heck
  • Publication number: 20150047772
    Abstract: Method and device for forming a continuous tubular foil (106, 308). Foil (106, 308) is supplied and buffered. Foil (106) is supplied as flattened tubular foil (106) from a supply. A next piece of foil (308) is supplied from a next supply. The ends of tubular foil (304, 309) are connected. This then allows supplying and buffering next tubular foil (308) supplied from the next supply. The device and method allow connecting the ends of tubular foils (304, 309) by opening the end (309) of the next flattened tubular foil (308) supplied from the next supply and moving the end of the flattened tubular foil (304) in an upstream direction (299) into the opened end of next tubular foil (309) from the next supply. Connection is made using a tape (250, 270) applied onto the foil ends (304, 309).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventor: Marinus Antonius Leonarda Van Heck
  • Patent number: 8858413
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for forming sleeve-like foil envelopes from a flat strip of foil material (12), at least comprising supply means (10) for supplying the flat strip of foil material; cutting means (20) for cutting the strip of foil material through over the entire width thereof so as to obtain a foil envelope strip of a specific length having a first and a second free edge (120a, 120b); at least one enveloping unit, around which the foil envelope strip is to be wrapped; joining means disposed near said enveloping unit for joining said first and said second free edge together, so as to obtain a sleeve-like foil envelope; as well as discharge means for discharging the sleeve-like foil envelope thus formed from the enveloping unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Seal Europe B.V.
    Inventor: Marinus Antonius Leonarda Van Heck
  • Patent number: 7987755
    Abstract: A device for forming envelopes from a continuous flat strip of a sleeve-like foil material, comprising a supply member, a cutting member for making a cut over the full width of the material so as to provide individual envelopes, and a discharge member for discharging the envelopes. The cutting member comprises at least two cutting elements movable relative to the strip of material, each cutting element comprising at least one cutting blade extending parallel to the width of the strip, such that the individual cutting blades form several partial cuts contiguous to each other in the foil material over the width thereof in successive cutting operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Seal International Inc.
    Inventors: Marinus Antonius Leonarda Van Heck, Henricus Petrus Hubertus Van Der Zanden
  • Publication number: 20110124480
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for forming sleeve-like foil envelopes from a flat strip of foil material (12), at least comprising supply means (10) for supplying the flat strip of foil material; cutting means (20) for cutting the strip of foil material through over the entire width thereof so as to obtain a foil envelope strip of a specific length having a first and a second free edge (120a, 120b); at least one enveloping unit, around which the foil envelope strip is to be wrapped; joining means disposed near said enveloping unit for joining said first and said second free edge together, using heat, so as to obtain a sleeve-like foil envelope; as well as discharge means for discharging the sleeve-like foil envelope thus formed from the enveloping unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventor: Marinus Antonius Leonarda Van Heck
  • Publication number: 20070240549
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for forming sleeve-like foil envelopes from a continuous flat strip of a sleeve-like foil material, comprising a supply member for supplying the continuous flat strip of sleeve-like foil material, a cutting member for making a cut in the strip of sleeve-like foil material over the full width thereof so as to provide the individual sleeve-like foil envelopes, as well as a discharge member for discharging the individual sleeve-like foil envelopes from the device. The device is characterized in that the cutting member comprises at least two cutting elements that are movable relative to the flat strip of sleeve-like foil material, each cutting element comprising at least one cutting blade extending parallel to at least part of the width of the strip, in such a manner that the individual cutting blades of the cutting elements form several partial cuts contiguous to each other in the strip of sleeve-like foil material over the entire width thereof in successive cutting operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Inventors: Marinus Antonius Leonarda Van Heck, Henricus Petrus Hubertus Van Der Zanden
  • Patent number: 6733609
    Abstract: Method and device for connecting the end of a flattened tube of plastic foil to the beginning of a subsequent tube, said tubes being used in particular for applying sleeves onto bottles or like objects. The leading end of the beginning of a flattened tube is provided with an obliquely cut away corner at both longitudinal edges. The thus established two loose lips are separated from each other and the end of the spent tube is slid between the lips and fixed in relation to said lips. The materials of said tubes are melted together by a short-time, pressurized supply of heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Seal Europe B.V.
    Inventor: Marinus Antonius Leonarda van Heck
  • Publication number: 20020074078
    Abstract: Method and device for connecting the end of a flattened tube of plastic foil to the beginning of a subsequent tube, said tubes being used in particular for applying sleeves onto bottles or like objects. The leading end of the beginning of a flattened tube is provided with an obliquely cut away corner at both longitudinal edges. The thus established two loose lips are separated from each other and the end of the spent tube is slid between the lips and fixed in relation to said lips. The materials of said tubes are melted together by a short-time, pressurized supply of heat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Applicant: FUJI SEAL EUROPE B.V.
    Inventor: Marinus Antonius Leonarda Van Heck