Patents by Inventor Winfried Schmelzer

Winfried Schmelzer 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: 20140083054
    Abstract: A wicket bag dispenser for holding flexible bags is suitable for transferring flexible bags into the loading station of a bag filling machine. An apparatus includes an interacting wicket bag dispenser and a holder pin of a loading station. A method includes transferring flexible bags from a wicket bag dispenser to the loading station of a bag filling machine. The wicket bag dispenser comprises a stack of flexible bags, each bag having at least one aperture, and at least one wicket spool positioned through the apertures, wherein the wicket spool has an free end, the free end comprising a spool head, so that each flexible bag from the stack of flexible bags is conveyed along the spool in order to transfer to the loading station. The spool head is free to move in an axial direction relative to the wicket spool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Barthelemy Piat, Ulrich Pfeifer, Winfried Schmelzer, Edward Schink, Kais Hamza, Gerald Goerich
  • Patent number: 7157127
    Abstract: A label for adhesive attachment to a stack of articles combined by an exterior substrate. The label includes a label material having a pair of outer label regions, a central label region, a signal surface having indications and an adhesive surface, the adhesive surface being provided with an adhesive. The label also includes a protective release cover, wherein the release cover is releasably attached to the adhesive surface of the label. The release cover also includes at least two separating lines, wherein the separating lines divide the release cover into two outer regions separated by a center region such that the regions of the release cover can be removed from the label material independently from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Winfried Schmelzer
  • Publication number: 20040191456
    Abstract: A label for adhesive attachment to a stack of articles combined by an exterior substrate. The label includes a label material having a pair of outer label regions, a central label region, a signal surface having indications and an adhesive surface, the adhesive surface being provided with an adhesive. The label also includes a protective release cover, wherein the release cover is releasably attached to the adhesive surface of the label. The release cover also includes at least two separating lines, wherein the separating lines divide the release cover into two outer regions separated by a center region such that the regions of the release cover can be removed from the label material independently from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2004
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventor: Winfried Schmelzer