Patents by Inventor Stefan Scheibel

Stefan Scheibel 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).

  • Patent number: 8381497
    Abstract: A method for producing a package using a traysealer is provided, wherein the package includes a container, at least two sealing films and a plurality of products, of which a first product is located in the container and a second product between two sealing films. The first product is moved into the container upstream of a sealing station, the second product is moved onto a first sealing film before the container, the sealing film and the products are supplied together with a second sealing film, which is located above the first sealing film, to the sealing station. The first sealing film moves above and spaced apart from the container and the first product until the sealing station is reached. In the sealing station the container, the first sealing film and the second sealing film are subsequently sealed to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Multivac Sepp Haggenmuller GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stefan Scheibel, Armin Beckel
  • Publication number: 20120102882
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a tray sealer comprising a tray conveyor, the conveyor being provided with tray reception means each configured for receiving a tray therein. The disclosure is characterized in that the tray sealer comprises, at a loading station, a loading robot for placing trays filled with a product into tray reception means and, at an unloading station, an unloading robot for removing trays which have been sealed by means of the tray sealer from the tray reception means. The disclosure also relates to a method of operating a tray sealer operable in intermittent operation cycles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Elmar Ehrmann, Bernd Jokele, Tieme Jan Slomp, Stefan Scheibel
  • Publication number: 20110083401
    Abstract: A method for producing a package using a traysealer is provided, wherein the package includes a container, at least two sealing films and a plurality of products, of which a first product is located in the container and a second product between two sealing films. The first product is moved into the container upstream of a sealing station, the second product is moved onto a first sealing film before the container, the sealing film and the products are supplied together with a second sealing film, which is located above the first sealing film, to the sealing station. The first sealing film moves above and spaced apart from the container and the first product until the sealing station is reached. In the sealing station the container, the first sealing film and the second sealing film are subsequently sealed to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMULLER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Stefan Scheibel, Armin Beckel