US 12,473,112 B2
Filling machine package waste management
Magnus Meijer, Malmö (SE); Mattias Darmell, Malmö (SE); and Jimmy Liljenberg, Skurup (SE)
Assigned to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A., Pully (CH)
Appl. No. 18/563,844
Filed by Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A., Pully (CH)
PCT Filed Apr. 26, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/060987
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 22, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/248139, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 1, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 21175863 (EP), filed on May 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0228094 A1, Jul. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. B65B 57/04 (2006.01)
CPC B65B 57/04 (2013.01) 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for package waste management in a filling machine, the method comprising:
detecting a waste event during operation of the filling machine, the waste event being associated with a waste event detection point in the filling machine and a corresponding web segment position of a packaging material;
identifying one or more filled packages to be discarded based on a predetermined distance along a path to be traversed by the packaging material from the waste event detection point to a waste chute of the filling machine, wherein the predetermined distance is expressed in a standardized length measurement format;
determining that the web segment position has progressed a distance equaling the predetermined distance; and
in response to determining that the web segment position has progressed the distance equaling the predetermined distance, ejecting, through the waste chute, the one or more filled packages formed at or in close proximity to the web segment position;
wherein the predetermined distance is measured either manually in the filling machine or measured automatically using image data generated by a processor.