Ethicon, Gmbh

Harro Hofliger Verpackungsmaschinen Gmbh

Gruenenthal Gmbh

Harro Hofliger Verpackungsmasghinen Gmbh

Harro Hoefliger Verpackungsmaschihinen Gmbh

Manfred Reiser

Konstantin K Ivanov

Manfred Hild

Clifford A Dey

Robert J Cerwin

Erwin Bauder

Mehmet Reyhan

Donald Pompei

Delfin A Lorenzo Iglesias

John Rega

Tobias Zill

Bernard Wachter

Thomas J Zingale

Gunther Krieg

Martin Sobel

Robert A Daniele

David A Szabo

Joseph Stanley Siernos

Dieter Schateikis

William R Reinhardt

Robert Nunez

J Mark Findlay

Gerhard Barth

Eberhard Vaas

Haro Hofliger

Edgar Wieland

Roland Eissele

Jost Mucheyer

James Lotze

Lorens Slokovic

Alan Hughieson

Matthew E Krever

Bernhard Wachter

Jervis P Lynch

Rolf Grotehusmann

Raul Quinones

Bernhard Frey

David Roslon

A distributing device and a method for distributing objects from a supplying device. Said distributing device being configured to deliver the objects during a delivery clock pulse in groups of m objects, to a first receiving device and to a second receiving device, said receiving devices jointly receiving the group of m objects during a reception clock pulse, and the m objects of a group being variably divided, between different reception clock pulses, into a first number mof objects delivered to the first receiving device and a second number mof objects delivered to the second receiving device.

Object distribution device, packaging device and object distribution process

An apparatus for dispensing respectively predetermined quantities of pulverulent contents has a rotatably drivable metering roller containing at least one metering chamber and a material store which stores the pulverulent contents. The metering roller contains at least one lateral line, which is not line-connected to the metering chamber and of which the at least two line ends terminate on the surface of the metering roller. A gas line is guided into the housing and passes out of the housing again in a concave surface region. Gas is introduced into the material store via the lateral line, in dependence on the respective rotary position of the metering roller, through said gas line. Depending upon the rotary positions of the metering roller, the gas line, which fluidizes the contents present in the material store, is closed or opened by the metering roller.

Method of dispensing pulverulent contents and apparatus for implementing this method

A filter piston apparatus that dispenses predetermined volumes of pulverulent bulk material has a metering chamber which accommodates in each case a predetermined volume of bulk material, which is present at the end of a circular-cylindrical bore and which has its base formed by a filter of the piston. The metering chamber is attached to a positive-pressure or negative-pressure gas source through the filter, which is permeable to gas but impermeable to the bulk material. A piston wall has a transverse slot and an inner groove located radially opposite the transverse slot, such that the filter can be pushed into the slot from the outside and, when seated in the piston, can be secured on both sides in the axial direction of the piston along it periphery.

Filter piston apparatus for dispensing pulverulent bulk material

In a balance () for weighing blister packs () in the microgram weight range, its balance pan () is designed in such a way that field forces () caused by an electric field act practically exclusively on the balance pan (), said field being generated by an electrically charged blister pack () lying on the balance pan.

Scale for weighing blister packs that contain powder

A machine and method for loading surgical needles having attached sutures into a package. The machine has a rotating disk mounted to a frame. The disk has circumferential grooves for receiving a suture. The machine has a block slidably mounted to the machine for receiving a needle and transporting it to a motion device. The motion device moves the needle to a package on a packaging machine. Rotation of the package by the packaging machine causes the suture to move out of the grooves and into the package.

Automatic surgical needle and suture loading machine

A machine and process for packaging armed sutures into tray packages. The machine has a frame with a rotatable indexing disc member mounted to the top of the frame. A plurality of tool nests are rotatably mounted to the top of the indexing disc. Tray packages mounted in the toll nests are rotated to wind sutures into a suture channel in the packages. A stylus having a front nose member and a rear heel member guides suture into the suture channel. Channel winding pins in the winding tooling provide for an arranged wind of suture in a suture channel of the tray packages. The machine has an in-line printer and a punching machine for printing and punching paper covers from strips of stock material, which are then mounted to the tray packages.

Package winding machine

A machine and process for packaging armed sutures into tray packages. The machine has a frame with a rotatable indexing disc member mounted to the top of frame. A plurality of tool nests are rotatably mounted to the top of the indexing disc. Tray packages mounted in the tool nests are rotated to wind sutures into a suture channel in the packages. A stylus having a front nose member and a rear heel member guides suture into the suture channel.

Suture winding machine, suture tray package, and method of winding sutures

A process for applying a biobarrier member to a vent opening in a foil member used for medical device packaging. The process provides for cutting a biobarrier member from a roll of stock and sealing the biobarrier member about the vent opening in the foil member. The seal is tested for integrity and the biobarrier member is tested for porosity.

Process for microbial barrier vent to a foil package

The specification discloses an automated apparatus and method for packaging surgical needles having sutures attached thereto wherein a bundle of needles and sutures are placed at a semi-automated separation station and an operator feeds the needles, one at a time, into a rotating needle feed wheel. As the feed wheel advances, the suture is tensioned and directed along a pre-determined path to separate it from the remaining sutures in the bundle. The apparatus has a plurality of individually rotatable tool nests which are sequentially spaced on a rotating or indexing turntable. These tool nests sequentially receive plastic packages for receiving the needle and suture at a first station. At a second station, a needle is inserted into the package by robotic fingers which have retrieved the needle and attached suture from the rotating needle feed wheel. The rotating needle feed wheel and the rotating tool nests are synchronized to step together as each advances. At a third station, the package and needle are rotated to tension the suture and position the package and the suture for automatic winding of the suture into the package. At a fourth station, the rotatable tool nest is rapidly rotated to wind the suture into a circumferential channel in the package which surrounds the needle.

Automatic zipper package winding and packaging machine

Needle feed wheel and needle transfer mechanism

A method is proposed for detecting foreign bodies in fluids to investigate the fluids such as infusion liquids for foreign bodies which can lead to the plugging of infusion needles or other dangers for a patient. In the method light is directed onto the fluid and the light departing from this fluid is detected. The fluid is illuminated evenly with polarized light, and the light penetrating through the fluid is further dimmed by further polarization. The light intensity of individual measuring regions is measured through photo-electric sensing and the measured intensity is compared with an adjustable threshold so that when the threshold is exceeded at any given time during a measuring interval, corresponding signals are produced.

Method and apparatus for the determination of foreign bodies in fluids

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Hertmannsweiler, Germany

Manfred Reiser