Abstract: A textile treatment unit comprises a belt conveyor which operates continuously, with a conveyor section, on which textile material is transported in folds. The upper side of the belt, with the folds located on it, passes over a local height deviation in the conveyor section, in the form of an elevation formed by a roller arranged below it, causing the folds to be loosened.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 23, 1996
Date of Patent:
August 4, 1998
Assignee:
Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co KG
Abstract: Carpet material with at least a proportion of uncleaned used carpets is shredded to form a fiber-like wooly mass. The carpet material contains a thermoplastic binder with a low melting point, for example polypropylene, which can be derived from the used carpets or be added. Furthermore, a duroplastically hardening binder, for example phenolic resin, is added to the carpet material. The carpet material is compressed to form the molded part or panel with these two binders, at a temperature which lies above the plasticizing point of the thermoplastic binder, but below the plasticizing point of any other thermoplastic components of the carpet material.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 23, 1994
Date of Patent:
July 28, 1998
Assignee:
Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
Abstract: A roller has a rotary hollow cylinder through which extends a non-rotary crosshead. The hollow cylinder is supported on the crosshead by two opposite rows of hydrostatic supporting elements. When the roller is operated at particularly low linear pressures in the roll gap, a uniform linear force over the whole width of the paper web is exerted in the row of supporting elements opposite to the roll gap, causing an increase in the hydraulic pressures required in the row of supporting elements that faces the roll gap, until said pressures reach a range in which perfect operation of the supporting elements is ensured.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 2, 1997
Date of Patent:
July 7, 1998
Assignee:
Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
Abstract: A treatment device (100) for a textile web (1) comprises a drum (20), rotatable in a container (2) with a treatment liquid (4), around which the web (1) is wrapped. The ends of the drum (20) are supported on bearing plates (10) arranged near the fronts of the container (2). The bearing plates (10) are supported at the upper end on an eccentric (6), opposite the lower end of which there is a torque support (9). As the eccentric rotates, the bearing plates (10) with the drum (20) and the web (1) wrapped around it are caused to oscillate in the treatment liquid (4).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 31, 1996
Date of Patent:
June 23, 1998
Assignee:
Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
Abstract: In a "floating" roller with a fixed cross-beam and a rotating hollow roller, semicylindrical longitudinal chambers are separated and divided off by longitudinal seals and end cross-seals in the space between the crosshead and the hollow roller. At least the longitudinal chamber on the roller nip side can be filled with a compressed gas. The longitudinal seals and the end cross-seals are doubled and are made of closely juxtaposed pairs of sealing strips or. Into the spaces between the sealing strips can be introduced a sealing liquid which seals the longitudinal chambers. Sealing liquid which has penetrated into the longitudinal chambers is continuously removed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 24, 1996
Date of Patent:
March 10, 1998
Assignee:
Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
Abstract: Carpet material with at least a proportion of uncleaned used carpets is shredded to form a fiber-like wooly mass. The carpet material contains a thermoplastic binder with a low melting point, for example polypropylene, which can be derived from the used carpets or be added. On at least one side of the carpet material, a cover layer of wood chips is provided. The carpet material, together with the layers of the adhesive-coated wood chips which form the cover layers, is compressed to form the molded part or panel, at a temperature which lies above the plasticizing point of the thermoplastic binder, but below the plasticizing point of any other thermoplastic components of the carpet material.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 23, 1994
Date of Patent:
September 2, 1997
Assignee:
Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
Abstract: In a full-width washing machine for a steam-permeable textile width of fabric, an injection device for steam is provided on one side the width of fabric, and on the other side, opposite this device, a suction device is provided, which can generate a partial vacuum of at least 0.2 bar. The exit opening of the injection device and the entry opening of the suction device extend over the entire width of the width of fabric. The width of fabric is guided through and between the injection device and the suction device. Steam is injected into the width of fabric and driven through the width of fabric and extracted on the other side, together with the residues which have been dissolved out of the fabric.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 31, 1994
Date of Patent:
February 27, 1996
Assignee:
Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co KG
Inventors:
Helmut Beckstein, Hans Bors, Bernhard Brendel
Abstract: A widening device for increasing the width of a moving web of material comprises a rotatable profiled roller, the outer surface of which defines a plurality of radial projections and recesses distributed along the length of the roller and first and second co-operating rollers rotatable at the same speed as the profiled roller. The first and second co-operating rollers define projections and recesses complementary to those of profiled roller and define first and second treatment nips which serve to increase the width of a web of material passed therethrough. The projections on the co-operating roller defining the second treatment nip extend more deeply into the recesses of the profiled roller than do the projections on the co-operating roller which defines the first treatment nip so that the web of material is stretched gradually over two stages with the stretching effect being uniform across the entire width of the web.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 26, 1994
Date of Patent:
October 10, 1995
Assignee:
Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
Inventors:
Wolfgang Kurschatke, Axel Schneider, Gunter Von Harten, Christian Meyer, Klaus Kadagies
Abstract: A method for manufacturing a laminate material for use as a surface covering or the like, by reusing plastic trimmings, includes the step of forming a layer from the plastic trimmings, and preferably subjecting both sides to a surface compression while simultaneously providing heat transfer, thus allowing the zones near the surface to be melted on.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 16, 1992
Date of Patent:
October 10, 1995
Assignee:
Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
Abstract: In a steamer for the steaming of a web of textile material laden with liquid supplied by an applicator device, steam is continuously fed to the steamer. The quantity of steam fed to the steamer is calculated in dependence upon the amount of liquid previously applied to the web and accurately corresponds to the amount of steam necessary in order to heat the web of material to the steaming temperature.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 13, 1994
Date of Patent:
April 25, 1995
Assignee:
Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
Abstract: A device for applying a treatment liquid to a moving web of material such as a textile web includes a drum that is rotatable around a horizontal axis. At least one guide roller is provided for guiding the fabric web such that the web wraps at least partially around the drum beginning at a side of the drum at which the web is disposed tangentially thereto and continuing around a bottom portion of the drum. A trailing, continuous band is also provided which is closed in a liquid-tight manner and circulates in a plane that is perpendicular to the axis of the drum. The band has an outer circumferential surface that fits closely on the fabric web at a location in which the web contacts the drum. The circumferential surface of the band and drum define a nip therebetween. The band seals off the nip at its bottom. The band has web segments forming lateral sealing elements which extend from the edges of the band to project outwardly. The segments have a side abutting a contact surface formed at the rim of the drum.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 7, 1993
Date of Patent:
November 29, 1994
Assignee:
Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
Abstract: A device for continuously treating a textile fabric web comprises at least one application devices for applying one or more treatment liquors to the fabric web. After applying the liquors, the fabric web exhibits a total moisture content in the range of 100 to 220% of the weight of the dry fabric. The fabric web with the moisture is fed into a tower-like heating zone of an ager, in which the fabric web is guided over a path consisting of a plurality of horizontal loops.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 12, 1992
Date of Patent:
November 1, 1994
Assignee:
Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH
Inventors:
Gunter Von Harten, Walter Keller, Johannes Kutz, Bernhard Benz, Christian Meyer, Wolfgang Kurschatke
Abstract: A washing unit includes several individual washing machines that adjoin the ager of a continuous bleaching installation. The washing machines immediately following the ager are operated in a co-current flow manner and receive between 10%-50% of the washing liquor conveyed through the remaining washing machines, which are operated in a counter-flow manner.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 16, 1993
Date of Patent:
June 21, 1994
Assignee:
Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
Abstract: The inner wall of the ceiling of a steam-filled treatment chamber is made of plastic and has a relief structure with peaks that face the treatment chamber. The spacing between the peaks is smaller than the normal drop diameter, i.e., is smaller than 1 mm. On the side of the inner wall of the ceiling facing away from the treatment chamber, an air gap is provided and maintained by distance pieces. A heat-insulation layer is arranged outside of the air gap.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 4, 1993
Date of Patent:
May 17, 1994
Assignee:
Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
Abstract: In a double-belt press used to produce wood chip boards and the like, narrow edge strips of the filling are vacuumed off at the edge (32) of the filling (33) producing the boards (33), leaving tabs (37) in place. (FIG. 5 ).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 17, 1992
Date of Patent:
February 8, 1994
Assignee:
Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co Kg
Abstract: An inductive coil for heating a rotating roller is embedded in a plastic carrier. To cool the plastic carrier in the region of the coil, a cooling element in the form of a flat cooling chamber through which a fluid cooling medium can flow is provided on the front surface of the plastic carrier facing the roller periphery.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 13, 1992
Date of Patent:
February 1, 1994
Assignee:
Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & CO KG
Inventors:
Bernhard Brendel, Werner Borkenhagen, Bernard Funger, Stefan Krebs
Abstract: Described is a drain board (100) for a device for applying a liquid film to a web (8) of textile material. The drain board (100) comprises a support (1), on which a strip (10), which constitutes the draining surface (A) and is made of planar material is held flat, for example by magnets (3), by means of a vacuum or by a contact adhesive. The liquid is poured out at point (4) on to the draining surface (A); it flows down and falls off the lower edge (6) of the strip (10) in a falling film (7) or veil on to the fabric web (8). As a result of the magnetic retention, the strip cannot be replaced (FIG. 1).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 12, 1992
Date of Patent:
January 11, 1994
Assignee:
Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
Inventors:
Karl-Heinz Ahrweiler, Alfred Blasius, Wolfgang Kurschatke
Abstract: In a double belt press, in which the steel belts are supported on the back by rollers, inherent compressive stress occurs on the side of the steel belts of a double belt press that are supported on the back by rollers, resulting in an undesirable bowl-shaped deformation of the steel belts. In order to avoid this deformation, at least the side of the steel belts which faces away from the rollers is subjected to treatment by shot blasting before being installed in the double belt press.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 24, 1992
Date of Patent:
July 6, 1993
Assignee:
Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co KG
Abstract: An undyed carpet web is pretreated by applying a liquid preparatory agent in a gap of an applicator. Subsequent to the application of the preparatory agent, the carpet web is detained in a dwell apparatus. The web is then suctioned off in a hydroextraction device and steamed in a steaming machine before the dyeing operation begins.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 23, 1992
Date of Patent:
April 27, 1993
Assignee:
Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
Abstract: A roller for compressing of webs of material comprises a rotating hollow roller traversed lengthwise by a stationary crosshead. Hydraulic loading devices in the form of sealing members act on the inside circumference of the hollow roller and delimit hydrostatic bearing pockets to which hydraulic pressure fluid can be supplied. The extension of the sealing members is limited by head bolts, which make it possible to position the hollow roller relative to the crosshead during operation.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 6, 1992
Date of Patent:
March 2, 1993
Assignee:
Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co KG