Patents by Inventor Stefan Van Heukelum

Stefan Van Heukelum 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).

  • Device and method for attaching carrying handles to packaging means or groups of packaging means
    Patent number: 11753199
    Abstract: An applicator for attaching a handle comprises three arms, each of which extends radially from the horizontal axis along an arm axis. Each of the arms comprises a cutter, a holder, and a displacer. The holder comprises a pneumatic interface for using negative pressure to hold or guide an endless band as well as the carrying handle that results therefrom. The displacer displaces the pneumatic interface along a direction defined by the arm axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Nitsch, Stefan Van Heukelum, Stefan Wagner
  • DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ATTACHING CARRYING HANDLES TO PACKAGING MEANS OR GROUPS OF PACKAGING MEANS
    Publication number: 20210362899
    Abstract: An applicator for attaching a handle comprises three arms, each of which extends radially from the horizontal axis along an arm axis. Each of the arms comprises a cutter, a holder, and a displacer. The holder comprises a pneumatic interface for using negative pressure to hold or guide an endless band as well as the carrying handle that results therefrom. The displacer displaces the pneumatic interface along a direction defined by the arm axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas Nitsch, Stefan Van Heukelum, Stefan Wagner
  • Apparatus for forming packaging units
    Patent number: 10577139
    Abstract: Rotating conveyor circuits that carry containers to be formed into packaging units to a binding-and-packing station that has parallel binding guides supported by carriers. Each binding guide has a deflection element facing the circuits. Coupling elements provide jointed connections between the binding guides and the circuits. An adjustment mechanism adjusts a channel width between the binding guides such that the binding guides remain parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Nitsch, Stefan Van Heukelum
  • Method and device for producing packages
    Patent number: 10427815
    Abstract: A method for producing a container package includes forming container streams in which the containers have had adhesive applied thereto, separating the containers into container groups, with a container from each stream being in the group, and pressing the containers together from the side by using a pair of clamps so that the adhesive binds the containers together to form the container package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Kamps, Thomas Nitsch, Stefan Van Heukelum
  • APPARATUS FOR FORMING PACKAGING UNITS
    Publication number: 20180237178
    Abstract: Rotating conveyor circuits that carry containers to be formed into packaging units to a binding-and-packing station that has parallel binding guides supported by carriers. Each binding guide has a deflection element facing the circuits. Coupling elements provide jointed connections between the binding guides and the circuits. An adjustment mechanism adjusts a channel width between the binding guides such that the binding guides remain parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas Nitsch, Stefan Van Heukelum
  • Conveying wheel and conveying system
    Patent number: 9688484
    Abstract: An apparatus for use in a conveying system having carriages guided on a guide of a first conveying segment, each of which has a wheel catcher that includes a conveying wheel having carriage catching areas, each of which is associated with one of several entrainers disposed along a periphery of the conveying wheel. Each entrainer has a carriage-catching surface that faces the rotation direction and that cooperates with a wheel catcher on a carriage. The entrainers are all independently controllable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Kamps, Thomas Nitsch, Stefan Van Heukelum
  • CONVEYING WHEEL AND CONVEYING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20160221767
    Abstract: An apparatus for use in a conveying system having carriages guided on a guide of a first conveying segment, each of which has a wheel catcher that includes a conveying wheel having carriage catching areas, each of which is associated with one of several entrainers disposed along a periphery of the conveying wheel. Each entrainer has a carriage-catching surface that faces the rotation direction and that cooperates with a wheel catcher on a carriage. The entrainers are all independently controllable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Sebastian Kamps, Thomas Nitsch, Stefan Van Heukelum
  • METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING PACKAGES
    Publication number: 20160207650
    Abstract: A method for producing a container package includes forming container streams in which the containers have had adhesive applied thereto, separating the containers into container groups, with a container from each stream being in the group, and pressing the containers together from the side by using a pair of clamps so that the adhesive binds the containers together to form the container package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Sebastian Kamps, Thomas Nitsch, Stefan Van Heukelum