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US 12,715,031 B2Granted
Method for monitoring sealer
AssigneeFerrum Packaging AG
InventorsOliver Bühler, Gerhard Rohr
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Abstract
A method for monitoring seaming tools of a sealer includes providing the sealer with a seaming tool to attach a lid to a container and a controller to control and monitor the sealer, the seaming tool including an identification element by which the seaming tool is capable of being uniquely identified, identifying the seaming tool by the identification element, storing the identification of the seaming tool in the controller, and monitoring a number of containers sealed by the seaming tool by the identification stored in the controller.
Claims16
A method for monitoring seaming tools of a sealer, the method comprising:
- providing the sealer with a seaming tool to attach a lid to a container and a controller to control and monitor the sealer;
- the seaming tool comprising an identification element by which the seaming tool is capable of being uniquely identified;
- identifying the seaming tool by the identification element;
- storing the identification of the seaming tool in the controller;
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- monitoring a number of containers sealed by the seaming tool by the identification stored in the controller,
- the sealer comprising an identification device configured to be moved to the identification element and identify the seaming tool by the identification element.
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