Patents by Inventor Norbert Drapela

Norbert Drapela 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: 20150237874
    Abstract: A system for producing end product by cutting flat blocks, in particular flat and hollow wafer blocks. The system includes a main cutting station in which a contour cutting apparatus, which cuts the blocks through contour cuts transversely to a rectilinear transport path, is provided and which extends in longitudinal direction of the system. A main conveying device disposed along the transport path conveys the blocks through the contour cutting apparatus. At least one contour cutting module of the cutting apparatus is provided with at least one cutting tool that can be moved to and fro in the transverse direction of the system to produce a contour cut in the blocks passing the contour cutting apparatus in the longitudinal direction of the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Johannes Haas, Josef Haas, Stefan Jiraschek, Norbert Drapela, Erich Koletnik
  • Publication number: 20120275260
    Abstract: A mixing device has a frame, a cylindrical mixing container that is open toward the top, and a single-shaft agitator. A vertical agitator shaft extends into the mixing container from beneath. The agitator is an agitator without a stator and includes a rotor body arranged just above the container bottom in the mixing container. The rotor body is surrounded by a ring-shaped clearance between the rotor body and the container wall. Above the base plate fastened to the agitator shaft, the rotor body is provided with an inner clearance above the agitator shaft, mixing blades vertically arranged about the clearance, and flow channels arranged between the blades. The channels are delimited toward the top by a cover plate that is connected to the upper edges of the mixing blades. The cover plate is formed with a void arranged in the center and above the inner clearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: HAAS FOOD EQUIPMENT GMBH
    Inventors: Johannes Haas, Johann Haas, Josef Haas, Stefan Jiraschek, Norbert Drapela, Markus Breyer, Karl Tiefenbacher
  • Patent number: 7690102
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a crimping device for producing individual, pillow-shaped, preferably filled, hollow bodies from plastically deformable tubes separated transversely to their longitudinal direction and delimited at opposite ends by crimped edges. The crimping device has at least one elongate crimping unit assigned to the longitudinal direction of the tubes, on which a row of crimping tools is disposed one behind the other in the longitudinal direction. Each crimping tool has a stationary crimping jaw fixed in the frame and a movable crimping jaw lying opposite to the fixed jaw in the transverse direction and disposed on a carriage movable back and forth in the transverse direction in the frame. All of the movable crimping jaws may be fastened on the carriage to actuate all of the crimping tools simultaneously and thereby separate a tube into a number of hollow bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Franz Haas Waffel - und Keksanlagen-Industrie GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Haas, Josef Haas, Stefan Jiraschek, Norbert Drapela, Josef Hogl
  • Patent number: 7484923
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for the individual production of rigid containers that are open on one side, such as cones or cups, by inserting the containers into dimensionally stable individually produced sleeves which are matched to their external contour. The containers are transported through by a transport apparatus having a plurality of transport tracks lying beside one another under a discharge apparatus, which deposits the sleeves in the transport tracks. The discharge apparatus includes a support provided with discharge channels extending obliquely downward for the bar-shaped stacks of sleeves, a holding apparatus disposed downstream of the support, for the stacks of sleeves, and a transfer apparatus having a carriage which is provided with suction heads, can be moved back and forth above the transport tracks and draws the sleeves off the stacks of sleeves with its suction heads and deposits them on the transport tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Franz Haas Waffel - und Keksanlagen -Industrie GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Haas, Stefan Jiraschek, Josef Haas, Jr., Norbert Drapela, Gottfried Stilling
  • Publication number: 20080078076
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a crimping device for producing individual, pillow-shaped, preferably filled, hollow bodies from plastically deformable tubes separated transversely to their longitudinal direction and delimited at opposite ends by crimped edges. The crimping device has at least one elongate crimping unit assigned to the longitudinal direction of the tubes, on which a row of crimping tools is disposed one behind the other in the longitudinal direction. Each crimping tool has a stationary crimping jaw fixed in the frame and a movable crimping jaw lying opposite to the fixed jaw in the transverse direction and disposed on a carriage movable back and forth in the transverse direction in the frame. All of the movable crimping jaws may be fastened on the carriage to actuate all of the crimping tools simultaneously and thereby separate a tube into a number of hollow bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Inventors: Johann Haas, Josef Haas, Stefan Jiraschek, Norbert Drapela, Josef Hogl
  • Publication number: 20060102647
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for the individual production of rigid containers that are open on one side, such as cones or cups, by inserting the containers into dimensionally stable individually produced sleeves which are matched to their external contour. The containers are transported through by a transport apparatus having a plurality of transport tracks lying beside one another under a discharge apparatus, which deposits the sleeves in the transport tracks. The discharge apparatus includes a support provided with discharge channels extending obliquely downward for the bar-shaped stacks of sleeves, a holding apparatus disposed downstream of the support, for the stacks of sleeves, and a transfer apparatus having a carriage which is provided with suction heads, can be moved back and forth above the transport tracks and draws the sleeves off the stacks of sleeves with its suction heads and deposits them on the transport tracks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2005
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Inventors: Johann Haas, Stefan Jiraschek, Josef Haas, Norbert Drapela, Gottfried Stilling