Patents by Inventor Thomas Schnitger

Thomas Schnitger 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: 11787202
    Abstract: Container treatment system for treating containers, such as bottles, with at least one direct printing machine for applying a print image onto containers and at least one container treatment machine arranged upstream of the direct printing machine and a system control device, where the system control device is configured to control the operation of the container treatment machine in dependence of a change of the container throughput that can be obtained with the direct printing machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: DEKRON GMBH
    Inventors: Helmut Schuesslburner, Konrad Senn, Sven Kerpe, Frank Schulze, Thomas Gruber, Thomas Schnitger
  • Publication number: 20220063295
    Abstract: Container treatment system for treating containers, such as bottles, with at least one direct printing machine for applying a print image onto containers and at least one container treatment machine arranged upstream of the direct printing machine and a system control device, where the system control device is configured to control the operation of the container treatment machine in dependence of a change of the container throughput that can be obtained with the direct printing machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Helmut SCHUESSLBURNER, Konrad SENN, Sven KERPE, Frank SCHULZE, Thomas GRUBER, Thomas SCHNITGER
  • Patent number: 10611171
    Abstract: A device for ink supply during digital printing includes at least one print head having an inlet and an outlet. A feed tank for an ink medium is connected to the inlet of the at least one print head via a feed line. A return tank for the ink medium is connected to the outlet of the at least one print head via a return line. A gas volume is formed in the feed tank and/or in the return tank. The ink medium is conveyable through the at least one print head by a pressure of the gas volume in the feed tank and/or in the return tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: DEKRON GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Cholewik, Thomas Schnitger
  • Publication number: 20190105918
    Abstract: A device for ink supply during digital printing includes at least one print head having an inlet and an outlet. A feed tank for an ink medium is connected to the inlet of the at least one print head via a feed line. A return tank for the ink medium is connected to the outlet of the at least one print head via a return line. A gas volume is formed in the feed tank and/or in the return tank. The ink medium is convcyable through the at least one print head by a pressure of the gas voiume in the feed tank and/or in the return tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Frank Cholewik, Thomas Schnitger
  • Publication number: 20190092043
    Abstract: A method for digitally printing on three-dimensional objects comprising bottles, cans or other hollow bodies, by at least one printing head, includes breaking down a printing template into a multiplicity of printing dots. The printing dots are stored in a printing raster consisting of image columns and image rows. The printing raster is used for activating the at least one printing head during a printing process in which one of the objects to be printed moves relative to the at least one printing bead in order to apply a print image onto the object to be printed. The printing raster Is curved and the image rows and the image columns extend obliquely to one another. The printing template is read into the curved printing raster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Thomas Schnitger