Patents Assigned to Eduard Kusters
  • Patent number: 6230744
    Abstract: A valve arrangement for fluid media, with a plurality of valves (50), which are arranged in a common housing (20). Each valve has at least two feeds (57, 58) and an outlet channel (54), with all the outlet channels (54) emptying into a common outlet zone (11). An example of use is a patterning device for webs (10) of carpeting, where the common valve housing (20) is an application bar, and the outlet zone (11) is a narrow application slit, from which the patterning agent (dye bath) which forms the fluid medium is transferred directly to the web (10) from the application slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Karl-Heinz Ahrweiler
  • Patent number: 6195824
    Abstract: A process for dyeing a textile web, in which the textile web is continuously guided through a trough that contains the dye bath, and subsequently passes through a pair of squeezing rollers. The line force of the pair of squeezing rollers is adjusted as a function of the length of textile web (L) that has passed through, with the aim of achieving a uniform amount of dye applied over the length of the textile web, per surface unit of the textile web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Walter Schumacher
  • Patent number: 6158256
    Abstract: An apparatus for liquid treatment of a textile web having at least one driven winding roller, onto which the textile web can be wound, and a basin located below the winding roller and extending over its length, which can be filled with treatment liquid, in which at least one deflection roller for the textile web is arranged. A guide roller which extends parallel to the axis of the winding roller over the width of the textile web, and rests against the fabric roll which forms on the winding roller, from the bottom, is provided, and has openings on its otherwise cylindrical circumference, which are arranged so as to avoid zones without openings which run in the circumference direction, and are uniformly distributed over the circumference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Kurschatke, Stefan Krebs, Drahomir Dvorsky
  • Patent number: 6149563
    Abstract: A calender which includes a deflection-controlled roller with a rotating hollow cylinder and a non-rotating cross-head. Hydrostatic supporting elements on the cross-head can be radially displaced towards the inside circumference of the hollow cylinder, and have hydrostatic bearing pockets in their contact surfaces. The position of supporting elements are controlled using a cylinder space with a small cross-section. When there is a problem with the web, the cylinder spaces can all be hydraulically relieved, eliminating the contact pressure and therefore the exertion of force by the supporting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Karl-Heinz Kusters
  • Patent number: 6138308
    Abstract: A process and a system for dyeing a textile web according to the cold-pad batch process includes a device for defined application of a dye liquor to the textile web and a winding device for rolling the textile web provided with the dye liquor onto a fabric roll. On the winding device, a supply roll with a plastic film web is mounted, which can be wound around the finished fabric roll in a wrap, using the same winding device. The end of the wrap is sealed together with the plastic film web and the plastic film web is cut off. In this way, it is easier to wrap the fabric roll, as is necessary for several hours of dwell time on the fabric roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gunther Dusterwald, Rosemarie Schroder
  • Patent number: 6100508
    Abstract: A roller which can be heated, has a cylindrical roller body which turns about its axis and has a first hollow arrangement and a second hollow arrangement in the form of several channels closed on their ends which run parallel to the axis and which are separated from one another and are of uniform volume. In the first arrangement, an electric radiant heating device is arranged on the roller along its longitudinal direction at least over the working area of the roller. The longitudinal channels of the second hollow arrangement are partly filled with a liquid heated to vaporizing by the heating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Klaus Kubik
  • Patent number: 6079117
    Abstract: A device for removing moisture from a continuously advancing textile web by suction. A suction slit which reaches crosswise across the textile web is provided, which is delimited on one side by a slide surface, on the other side by a roll. On the side facing the roll, the slide crosspiece has a concave recess, into which the roll partly fits. At its edge, facing the roll, the slide crosspiece forms a tongue-like projection, which extends over the top of the roll, almost to the vertex of the roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2000
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Kurschatke
  • Patent number: 6071342
    Abstract: Design of a device for application of a fluid treatment to a moving web having the following structural components: a tank through which the web moving in an upwardly direction is passed for impregnation with a treatment liquid; drainage plate assembly having a double-wall structure defining a space therebetween for accommodating flow of a heat carrier; an applicator assembly for applying the treatment liquid onto the top of the drainage plate so that the treatment liquid flows downwardly along the top surface of the drainage plate and onto the web; and means for providing the heat carrier to the space within the drainage plate for adjusting the temperature of the drainage plate thereby affecting the temperature of the treatment liquid being applied to the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stefan Krebs, Johannes Nolden
  • Patent number: 6045492
    Abstract: A roller is provided for a pressure treatment of a web of paper, textile, plastic film, and is composed of a rotary hollow cylinder which can be distinctly deformed under the effect of line forces in the roll nip. The roller includes a non-rotary cross-head which penetrates the rotary hollow cylinder over its length. On the side of the roll nip, hydraulic supporting elements are provided which can be pressed against the inside circumference of the hollow cylinder in the manner of piston/cylinder units. These supporting elements have a length of not more than 20 cm in the longitudinal direction of the cross-head, and are closely arranged next to one another in the longitudinal direction of the cross-head. The supporting elements can be driven independently of one another at least in several groups. A sealing strip is also provided which continues in one piece over several supporting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co K.G.
    Inventors: Bernhard Brendel, Gunter Schrors, Klaus Kubik
  • Patent number: 6036728
    Abstract: A jig is used to dye a textile web made of polyester fibers (PES fibers) or a blend of PES fibers with other fibers. Dye liquor is kept at boiling temperature or just slightly below the boiling temperature. Provided in the housed-in steam space above the dye liquor are steam-spray tubes which act on the textile web. The steam-spray tubes direct saturated steam upon the textile web as it winds onto the respective reeling lap roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Drahomir Dvorsky
  • Patent number: 5967958
    Abstract: A heatable roller which can be heated from inside the roller body by a heating device. Provided radially outside the heating device are axially parallel bore holes uniformly distributed over the periphery of the roller body which are connected at the ends by annular chambers. The bore holes and the annular chambers form a closed system which is partially filled with water. This system operates to make the temperature uniform via condensation heating in the event of local temperature reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Werner Borkenhagen, Peter Hader, Klaus Kubik
  • Patent number: 5967957
    Abstract: A roller assembly includes a rotating hollow roller and a non-rotatable crosshead longitudinally traversing the hollow roller. The hollow roller is supported by supporting elements acting against the inner circumference of the hollow roller. Each supporting element has a hydrostatic bearing pocket, whose extension in the longitudinal direction of the roller is at least three times that in its circumferential direction. This prevents the hollow roller from deforming and prevents edge pressure from being exerted on the web surrounding the bearing pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Karl-Heinz Kusters
  • Patent number: 5968205
    Abstract: A textile web, for example, a carpet web, is provided with a patterning agent including a thickening agent and subsequently steamed in a steamer. The agent residues remaining on the textile web are at least partially removed by mechanical means, and cleaned and decolorized in a cleaning unit, leaving a virtually pure thickening agent which can be reused for preparing a new batch of patterning agent in the batching tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GMBH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Werner Hartmann, Alfred Keller, Bernd Pesch
  • Patent number: 5928424
    Abstract: The device for impregnating a web laterally guided in the width direction with a treatment liquid comprises a tank for the treatment liquid through which the web is taken on an impregnation section and a pair of squeeze rollers arranged above the tank between which the web can be taken from below immediately after leaving the tank. The tank takes the form of an upright flat channel, the flat sides of which are tightly opposed, through which the web can be taken upwards, which can be kept full up to an optional level and the lower end of which is limited by a resilient sealing arrangement bearing on the web from both sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stefan Krebs, Johannes Nolden
  • Patent number: 5919121
    Abstract: A roll having bending control has a rotating hollow roll and a non-rotatable crossbeam penetrating the hollow roll lengthwise. Arranged on the crossbeam in an axially parallel row, closely following one another, are supporting elements which can be actuated independently of one another by fluid pressurized medium. Supply lines are attached via angle units to a bar-type carrier which is fastened to the crossbeam by means of screws that can be manipulated from the outside. The screws have longitudinal bore holes through which the respective supply line is directly connected to the respective supporting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1999
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Kusters, Wolfgang Mark
  • Patent number: 5906320
    Abstract: A wide jet nozzle for applying a bath to a substrate such as a textile web. The nozzle has a housing made of bent sheet metal upon which a discharge port is formed by two bent nozzle lips which lie parallel to one another, extend in the longitudinal direction of the housing, and define a discharge jet plane. A single feed conduit is provided which discharges transversely to the jet plane into the housing. Further provision is made in a plane transverse to the longitudinal direction of housing and intersecting the axis of section, adjacent to housing, of feed conduit for at least three deflection surfaces, one after the other in the direction of flow, which are generally transverse to the local direction of flow and off of which the flow is able to be deflected in each case by 90.degree..
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Dieter Russkamp
  • Patent number: 5904642
    Abstract: A roller with controllable sag is provided with a revolving hollow roller and a non-rotating crosshead that crosses the hollow roller along its length and on which the hollow roller is supported by a series of supporting elements that are actuated by a pressure medium. Separate supply lines (13) lead to the supporting element and open out into a collection head (40) at the end (10') of the crosshead, to which the outer connection lines (53) are connected. The connection head (40) comprises a double-disc rotary slide valve (50) by which the lines (13, 53) can be interrupted and which in the closed state can be separated at a separation surface (47). The individual discs (51, 52) of the double disc rotary slide valve (50) keep both the supply lines (13) and connection lines (53) closed, thus facilitating replacement of the roller as and when required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG.
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Kusters, Wolfgang Mark
  • Patent number: 5878974
    Abstract: A device to wind and unwind a textile web onto and from a spool, when it comes into or out of a wet-processing group is disclosed. The device includes a guide and tension roll supported at the free ends of winding arms and resting on the spool. A moisture-extraction device in the form of a suction pipe is mounted immediately upstream of the guide and tension roll. The web may thus be wound onto the spool with a relatively low moisture content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinefabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Walter Schumacher, Wolfgang Kurschatke
  • Patent number: 5813959
    Abstract: The roller is provided for pressure treatment of a strip of paper, textile, plastic film, sheet metal or similar material. It includes a hollow roller made of a fiber-reinforced synthetic resin material, and a cross-beam which passes through the hollow roller lengthwise. The cross-beam is mounted at its ends, in external supports, so as not to rotate. Hydrostatic support elements are arranged on the cross-beam on the side on which pressure is exerted. The elements can be pressed against the inside circumference of the hollow roller by means of a hydraulic fluid. The support elements have a length not exceeding 20 cm in the longitudinal direction of the hollow roller, follow each other closely in the longitudinal direction of the cross-beam, and can all be controlled independently of one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Peter Hader, Klaus Kubik
  • Patent number: 5791165
    Abstract: The small finishing installation (100) for continuous strips of textile fabric includes a steam-filled housing (2) into which feed rolls (5) can be introduced at each end. Located in the housing are sets of fabric-handling equipment disposed symmetrically with respect to the vertical plane (40) running across the middle of the housing (2). Disposed in this vertical plane (40) is a squeezer unit (37) from which the strip of fabric can pass, against each feed roll (5), through a treatment bath (30) and then over an array (20) of guide rollers disposed above an open tank (26). The continuous strip of fabric (10) can be wound back and forth between the feed rolls (5), thus making it possible to carry out a variety of different treatments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1998
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gunter Von Harten, Wolfgang Kurschatke