Patents by Inventor Reinhard Hoppe
Reinhard Hoppe 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: 9375747Abstract: The valve, in particular glue valve, consists of a valve housing (10) and of a plug unit (11) fitted thereto. The two parts are assembled separately, with connecting clips (41, 42) being connected to the plug unit (11) and, when the plug unit (11) is fitted onto the valve housing (10), being connected to the latter, namely to the coil core (15), via clamping members.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2012Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Nils Neuhaus, Marc-Daniel Stegen, Reinhard Hoppe
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Patent number: 9080686Abstract: The invention relates to a valve particularly for transferring small portions of glue onto folding tabs of (cigarette) packs. A closing element (15) of the valve is actuated by different elements, that is to say, is moved between the open and closed positions, on the one hand by two permanent magnets (24, 25) arranged a short distance from each other and having aligned poles such that the closing element is permanently kept in the closed position by the permanent magnets (24, 25). On the other hand, an actuating element, which is configured as an electromagnet (23), acts to move the closing element (15) into the open position in a controlled way by overcoming the closing forces. The closing element (15) is designed in a particular way, that is to say, with channels extending along the outside in the longitudinal direction for the medium or the glue.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2008Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Reinhard Hoppe, Ralf Barkmann, Stefan Harms, Christian Schönherr
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Patent number: 8991784Abstract: A glue valve with electromagnetic actuation of a valve tappet (15) having a valve housing (10), which has a lateral aperture which is open in the upward direction, that is to say a side opening (36). A coil core (13) and a transversely directed carrying crosspiece (26), on which a plug (22) can be fitted, form a unit, that is to say a coil unit (21), which can be introduced into the valve housing (11) in one operation, via the side opening (36) which is open in the upward direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2010Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Eric Jürgens, Reinhard Hoppe
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Publication number: 20150053876Abstract: The valve, in particular glue valve, consists of a valve housing (10) and of a plug unit (11) fitted thereto. The two parts are assembled separately, with connecting clips (41, 42) being connected to the plug unit (11) and, when the plug unit (11) is fitted onto the valve housing (10), being connected to the latter, namely to the coil core (15), via clamping members.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2012Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicant: Focke & Co. (GbmH & Co. KG)Inventors: Nils Neuhaus, Marc-Daniel Stegen, Reinhard Hoppe
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Publication number: 20150000592Abstract: The invention relates to a device for applying preferably liquid flavorings (15), in particular menthol, to a medium (16), wherein flavoring (15) is supplyable from a (storage or processing) container (10) to an applicator unit (14) via at least one conduit (11, 13). The invention is characterized in that the applicator unit (14) has a controllable valve for the application of flavoring (15) to the medium (16).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2012Publication date: January 1, 2015Applicant: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Jan Schnakenberg, Stefan Harms, Reinhard Hoppe
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Publication number: 20120037823Abstract: A glue valve with electromagnetic actuation of a valve tappet (15) having a valve housing (10), which has a lateral aperture which is open in the upward direction, that is to say a side opening (36). A coil core (13) and a transversely directed carrying crosspiece (26), on which a plug (22) can be fitted, form a unit, that is to say a coil unit (21), which can be introduced into the valve housing (11) in one operation, via the side opening (36) which is open in the upward direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2010Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: FOCKE & CO. (GMBH & CO. KG)Inventors: Eric Jürgens, Reinhard Hoppe
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Patent number: 8074428Abstract: For the production and filling of (sheet-material) bags (10) with one tobacco portion (18) each, a plurality of bags (10) are preferably made available in the region of a filling station (20). The latter is located in the vicinity of a pressing station (19), which is supplied with the tobacco portions (18). In the region of the pressing station (19) or in a pressing chamber (35), each tobacco portion (18) is compressed in the vertical direction on a horizontal rest, namely on a platform (39), and in addition preferably compressed by a pressing crosspiece (42) in the horizontal direction. The tobacco portion (18) thus formed is introduced into the bag (10).Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2009Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Reinhard Hoppe, Peter Krause
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Patent number: 7954498Abstract: In order to treat cut tobacco so as to loosen and homogenize the same, a tobacco stream (12, 16) passes through a plurality of processing stations (18, 19, 20), in the region of which the tobacco is loosened, during transportation, with the aid of different processing arrangements. The tobacco stream or main stream here is divided up into a plurality of smaller sub-streams during treatment.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2005Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)Inventors: Christina Ott, Ralf Barkmann, Stefan Harms, Reinhard Hoppe, Thomas Jessen, Torben Baumgardt
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Publication number: 20100133453Abstract: The invention relates to a valve particularly for transferring small portions of glue onto folding tabs of (cigarette) packs. A closing element (15) of the valve is actuated by different elements, that is to say, is moved between the open and closed positions, on the one hand by two permanent magnets (24, 25) arranged a short distance from each other and having aligned poles such that the closing element is permanently kept in the closed position by the permanent magnets (24, 25). On the other hand, an actuating element, which is configured as an electromagnet (23), acts to move the closing element (15) into the open position in a controlled way by overcoming the closing forces. The closing element (15) is designed in a particular way, that is to say, with channels extending along the outside in the longitudinal direction for the medium or the glue.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2008Publication date: June 3, 2010Inventors: Reinhard Hoppe, Ralf Barkmann, Stefan Harms, Christian Schönherr
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Publication number: 20100058714Abstract: For the production and filling of (sheet-material) bags (10) with one tobacco portion (18) each, a plurality of bags (10) are preferably made available in the region of a filling station (20). The latter is located in the vicinity of a pressing station (19), which is supplied with the tobacco portions (18). In the region of the pressing station (19) or in a pressing chamber (35), each tobacco portion (18) is compressed in the vertical direction on a horizontal rest, namely on a platform (39), and in addition preferably compressed by a pressing crosspiece (42) in the horizontal direction. The tobacco portion (18) thus formed is introduced into the bag (10).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2009Publication date: March 11, 2010Inventors: Reinhard Hoppe, Peter Krause
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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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Publication number: 20080142029Abstract: In order to treat cut tobacco so as to loosen and homogenize the same, a tobacco stream (12, 16) passes through a plurality of processing stations (18, 19, 20), in the region of which the tobacco is loosened, during transportation, with the aid of different processing arrangements. The tobacco stream or main stream here is divided up into a plurality of smaller sub-streams during treatment.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2005Publication date: June 19, 2008Applicant: FOCKE & CO. (GMBH & CO. KG)Inventors: Christina Ott, Ralf Barkmann, Stefan Harms, Reinhard Hoppe, Thomas Jessen, Torben Baumgardt
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Publication number: 20060096606Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2003Publication date: May 11, 2006Inventors: Heinz Focke, Doris Focke, Jurgen Focke, Ralf Barkmann, Alfred Drenguis, Frauke Illigner, Reinhard Hoppe, Tobias Jacobi, Christina Ott, Remo Schulz, Michael Wegmann
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Patent number: 6782890Abstract: The distributor of a cigarette rod making machine employs a zig-zag sifter which receives a mixture of tobacco ribs and shreds from a reservoir by way of a duct or an elevator conveyor. The shreds leave the uppermost stage of the sifter and are conveyed, by a Coanda separator, into an upright gathering duct which discharges shreds for delivery onto the concave surface(s) of one or more guides serving to direct one or more streams of shreds against the underside(s) of one or more foraminous belt conveyors which advance the stream(s) past one or more trimming devices serving to remove the surplus and to thus convert each stream into a rod-like filler which is ready to be draped into a web of cigarette paper. The removed surplus is returned into the reservoir or directly into the zig-zag sifter.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2002Date of Patent: August 31, 2004Assignee: Hauni Maschinenbau AGInventors: Ralf Barkmann, Rolf Lindemann, Reinhard Hoppe, Bernhard Jürgens, Peter Schumacher, Manuel Hansch
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Patent number: 6634365Abstract: A shower of tobacco particles is fed into the upper end of a downwardly sloping and downwardly tapering funnel-shaped part of a conveyor wherein the particles gather into a flow of interlaced particles. Successive increments of the flow are acted upon by one or more jets of air issuing from at least one nozzle which loosens successive foremost increments of the flow prior to admission into a tobacco filler rod forming unit in a cigarette rod making machine.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2001Date of Patent: October 21, 2003Assignee: Hauni Maschinenbau AGInventors: Ralf Barkmann, Reinhard Hoppe, Thomas Juschus, Peter Schumacher, Rolf Lindemann
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Publication number: 20030034040Abstract: The distributor of a cigarette rod making machine employs a zig-zag sifter which receives a mixture of tobacco ribs and shreds from a reservoir by way of a duct or an elevator conveyor. The shreds leave the uppermost stage of the sifter and are conveyed, by a Coanda separator, into an upright gathering duct which discharges shreds for delivery onto the concave surface(s) of one or more guides serving to direct one or more streams of shreds against the underside(s) of one or more foraminous belt conveyors which advance the stream(s) past one or more trimming devices serving to remove the surplus and to thus convert each stream into a rod-like filler which is ready to be draped into a web of cigarette paper. The removed surplus is returned into the reservoir or directly into the zig-zag sifter.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2002Publication date: February 20, 2003Inventors: Ralf Barkmann, Rolf Lindemann, Reinhard Hoppe, Bernhard Jurgens, Peter Schumacher, Manuel Hansch
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Publication number: 20020017307Abstract: A shower of tobacco particles is fed into the upper end of a downwardly sloping and downwardly tapering funnel-shaped part of a conveyor wherein the particles gather into a flow of interlaced particles. Successive increments of the flow are acted upon by one or more jets of air issuing from at least one nozzle which loosens successive foremost increments of the flow prior to admission into a tobacco filler rod forming unit in a cigarette rod making machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2001Publication date: February 14, 2002Inventors: Ralf Barkmann, Reinhard Hoppe, Thomas Juschus, Peter Schumacher, Rolf Lindemann
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Patent number: D629664Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2008Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmH & Co)Inventor: Reinhard Hoppe
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Patent number: D636241Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2010Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co)Inventor: Reinhard Hoppe
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Patent number: D637052Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2010Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Focke & Co (GmbH & Co)Inventor: Reinhard Hoppe