Patents Assigned to Firma Carl Freudenberg
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Patent number: 7191813Abstract: A method for producing a spunbonded nonwoven fabric by extruding a linear sheet of filaments arranged parallelly side by side in the form of a curtain from a plurality of spinning capillaries, involving aerodynamical pulling off and drawing of the filament sheet, the filament sheet (8) which emerges from the drawing duct (12) or which is pulled off a spool being moved laterally crosswise by an air flow having periodically changing directions, the air flow being oriented alternately at an angle toward the filament sheet (8) as viewed in the horizontal plane.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2004Date of Patent: March 20, 2007Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventors: Engelbert Löcher, Michael Hess
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Patent number: 7086114Abstract: A wet floor wiping device includes a mop made of absorbent material and a mop frame exhibiting a center carrier piece (4) attached to a handle (3). Mounted pivotably at each hinge edge (5) at the center carrier piece (4) are two mop carrier wings (6), the inner surfaces of which, carrying the mop, can be pressed one against another by means of a squeeze feature. At least one of the two side edges (8, 9) extending from the hinge edge (5) is angled in relationship to the opposite side edge (9). Each mop carrier wing (6) forms a trapezoid including a right angle, the longer base line of which is the hinge edge (5).Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2001Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventor: Gernot M. Hirse
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Patent number: 7056271Abstract: A three-dimensional object folded from a flat work piece, particularly a filter element folded from a nonwoven fabric, characterized in that the three-dimensional object (20) is made up of several rows (5, 6, 7) of hollow pyramid elements (30) that are joined in rows and nested into one another.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2001Date of Patent: June 6, 2006Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventors: Ulrich Schlör, Werner Kadel
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Patent number: 6941612Abstract: A mop wringer for a device for cleaning wet floors has a fixed squeezing plate which is positioned between wringer sidewalls. A movable squeezing plate is pivoted to the sidewalls. An actuating lever is configured as a two-armed lever with a shorter lever arm and a longer arm. The actuating lever is connected to the movable squeezing plate by the shorter lever arm and a push guide. A pressing action is carried out by pivoting the actuating lever away from the movable squeezing plate. In the final pressing position, the push guide forms an almost extended toggle lever joint with the shorter lever arm.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1999Date of Patent: September 13, 2005Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventor: Gernot Hirse
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Patent number: 6939598Abstract: A floor covering made of an elastomer material having a relief-type patterned surface (2) which is provided with irregularly distributed indentations (3), which have an elongated shape, which partially contact and/or intersect each other, and which have a depth (T) of 0.02 mm to 0.2 mm, at a width (B) of 0.2 mm to 2.5 mm and a length (L) of 5 mm to 50 mm.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2001Date of Patent: September 6, 2005Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventors: Klaus Heckel, Alfons Butscher, Peter Spissinger
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Patent number: 6887331Abstract: A method for producing a spunbonded nonwoven fabric by extruding a linear sheet of filaments arranged parallelly side by side in the form of a curtain from a plurality of spinning capillaries, involving aerodynamical pulling off and drawing of the filament sheet, the filament sheet (8) which emerges from the drawing duct (12) or which is pulled off a spool being moved laterally crosswise by an air flow having periodically changing directions, the air flow being oriented alternately at an angle toward the filament sheet (8) as viewed in the horizontal plane.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2001Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventors: Engelbert Löcher, Michael Hess
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Patent number: 6845985Abstract: A rotating mechanical seal with a sliding ring, characterized by the sliding ring (5) being attached by way of an O-ring (6) on a shaft (1) of a compressor and rotating with the shaft (1) and by a non-rotating backing ring (4) being provided which is attached by way of an O-ring (3) to a housing (2) of the compressor so as to be gas-tight wherein the sliding ring (5) and backing ring (4) are pressed one against another by a spring (8) to form a seal and slide one upon the other, wherein one of the rings (4,5) is made of a carbon and silicon carbide composite material and the other of a silicon carbide material.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2001Date of Patent: January 25, 2005Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventor: Reinhold Kraus
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Patent number: 6836978Abstract: An improved shoe, promoting a heel-to-toe motion of a foot, comprising an outsole and an upper part. The outsole has a contraction extending to a first area where a back of the foot is located. The upper part has a heel guide, including one of a heelplate and a flexible heel brace, which are arranged in a second area where the heel of the foot is located, such that an Achilles tendon of the foot is free.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2000Date of Patent: January 4, 2005Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventors: Peter Lauer, Hubert Augustin, Ernst Klein, Josef Schröder
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Patent number: 6823557Abstract: A wringing device for cleaning elements of wet and moist mops, the wringing device having a liquid-permeable receptacle (1) which can be affixed to a container, and in which a cleaning element can be wrung out by the exertion of pressure, the receptacle having deformable wall parts (3) and the inside width of the receptacle changing when the cleaning element is pressed in due to the effective force of pressure, wall parts being formed from spring elements (3) with convex curvature, which can be deformed by exertion of pressure for the purpose of enlarging the inside width.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2001Date of Patent: November 30, 2004Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventor: Uwe Dingert
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Patent number: 6779798Abstract: A sealing arrangement includes a sealing ring (1) having a sealing lip (3) which is curved forward in the direction of the area to be sealed off (2). The sealing lip (3) is pre-tensioned so as to surround and form a seal around the circumference of the machine element (4) to be sealed off. The sealing lip (3) has, on the side facing radially away from the machine element (4), at least one recess (5). The recess (5) only connects and allows flow between the area to be sealed off (2) and the surrounding area (6) if the sealing ring (1) is incorrectly mounted and the sealing lip (3) is erroneously curved forward in the direction of the surrounding area (6).Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2001Date of Patent: August 24, 2004Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventor: Fabrice Fougerolle
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Patent number: 6777065Abstract: A fixing liner, made up of a textile liner web (1), which is coated on one side with double-layer adhesive mass points, which are made up of lower points, facing the liner web, and upper points (2, 3); arranged on top of them, the lower points (2) being made up of a powdery mixture of 25 to 90% by weight of an epoxide resin having an epoxide equivalent weight of 500 to 4000 mVal/kg, 10 to 75% by weight of an acid terminated polyamide, a polyester, a polyurethane and/or a vinyl copolymer having carboxyl, anhydro, hydroxy, and/or amido side groups and having a melt flow index (MFI) of 40 to 120 g/10 min measured at 160° C. and 2.16 kg, and 0 to 20% by weight of a hardener as well as the auxiliary and filler materials that are customarily used to produce a paste, the upper points (3) being composed of acid-terminated polyamides and/or copolyesters, and the weight ratio of the masses, obtained in the lower and upper points (2, 3), being 1:0.5 to 1:5.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2001Date of Patent: August 17, 2004Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventors: Peter Grynaeus, Michael Kalbe
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Patent number: 6763574Abstract: A device for the semi- or fully automatic attaching of a contact element (1) to a cable end (2), including a drive unit (3), a storage unit (4) containing a plurality of contact elements (1), a transport device for feeding contact elements (1) to the cable end (2), and a processing unit (5). At least the processing unit (5) and the storage unit (4) are configured as a self-enclosed assembly (6), which, as a self-enclosed unit, can be separated from the drive unit (3).Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2000Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventor: Matthias Woll
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Patent number: 6723416Abstract: A three-dimensionally structured fibrous web made up of continuous-filament layers which alternate perpendicular to the surface plane, and denser short-fiber layers that are permanently thermally bonded in a continuous or spot-like manner to the filament layers, the wide-mesh continuous-filament layers representing a scrim, lattice, or netting, has on the short-fiber layers repeating, fold- or wave-shaped elevations. In the manufacturing process, all of the layers of the laminate are subjected together to a shrinkage process at a temperature which lies between the softening and melting points of the scrim material.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2001Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventors: Dieter Groitzsch, Gerhard Schaut, Hans-Jörg Grimm
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Patent number: 6715768Abstract: A sealing ring having a sealing disk made of polymer material, which has a retaining segment and a sealing segment. The retaining segment is connected to a support ring and the sealing segment is curved in the direction of a space that is to be sealed off and sealingly surrounds a shaft against which it forms a seal on its peripheral side under radial prestressing. The sealing segment on the side facing the shaft has a first surface profiling, the first surface profiling on the side facing the space to be sealed off being formed by at least one recirculating element, and at least one dust lip being arranged on the side of the recirculating element facing away from the space to be sealed off. Between the recirculating element and the dust lip, an annular, self-contained sealing bead is arranged which sealingly surrounds the shaft on the peripheral side.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2000Date of Patent: April 6, 2004Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventors: Eberhard Bock, Gilbert Pataille, Boris Tchilingurian
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Patent number: 6709732Abstract: A web-type floor covering made of vulcanized rubber that includes an elastic rubber web, the top side of which forms a decorative surface, first decorative particles being at least partially embedded in the rubber web so that the first decorative particles are visible from the top side, a transparent coating, in particular made of epoxy resin, being applied to the first decorative particles on at least part of their contact surface with the rubber web, the first decorative particles being preferably made of a different material from that used for the rubber web.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2000Date of Patent: March 23, 2004Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventors: Gerhard Graab, Klaus Heckel, Dieter Rischer, Gerhard Heidecke
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Patent number: 6706652Abstract: A cleaning cloth is described made of a microfilament nonwoven weighing from 30 g/m2 to 500 g/m2, the nonwoven being made from melt-spun, stretched continuous multicomponent filaments having a titer of 1.5 to 5 dtex, which are immediately laid down to form a nonwoven, and the continuous multicomponent filaments, optionally after pre-bonding, being split at least to 80% to form continuous micro-filaments having a titer of 0.05 to 1.0 dtex and bonded.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2001Date of Patent: March 16, 2004Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventors: Robert Groten, Jochen Wirsching, Frank Rudolph, Joerg Dunkel
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Patent number: 6695999Abstract: A method to produce an electrically conductive floor covering made of first particles of a polymer material which are surrounded with electrically conductive second particles and compressed in the intermediate space between the top and bottom sides of the floor covering, with the floor covering having at least one cut surface and the electrically conductive second particles forming conductive paths which connect the upper side and the lower side of the floor covering in an electrically conductive way, in which the first particles comprise at least one granulated elastomer material and form a matrix, in which the second particles form electric conductive paths along the particle boundaries of the first particles.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2002Date of Patent: February 24, 2004Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventors: Hans-Michael Kühl, Gerhard Graab, Peter Platzer, Ralf Möller
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Patent number: 6688413Abstract: A bearing system for a first vehicle part, e.g., a driver's cab of a truck, on a second vehicle part, e.g., a vehicle frame, the first vehicle part being movable from a first position relative to the second vehicle part into a second position, includes a shaft about which the first vehicle part is rotatable from the first position relative to the second vehicle part into the second position, a first flexible bearing element disposed in a first shaft section of the shaft and a second flexible bearing element disposed in a second shaft section of the shaft. The first vehicle part is supported on the shaft in the first shaft section via a first supporting element and in the second shaft section via the flexible second bearing element. The shaft is supported in its first shaft section on the second vehicle part via the first flexible bearing element and in its second shaft section via a second supporting element.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventors: Arno Hamaekers, Arnold Simuttis, Axel Rudolph
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Patent number: 6682683Abstract: A method for manufacturing an accordion filter insert in which an accordion filter pack is introduced into a mold and a space remaining thereafter in the mold is filled with a liquefied polymer material so as to form a frame surrounding the accordion filter pack. At least one peripheral elastically deformable sealing lip, consisting of the material of the frame, is produced together with the frame and is consolidated concurrently therewith.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 1996Date of Patent: January 27, 2004Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventors: Udo Michaelis, Dieter Linse, Jörgen Knudsen
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Patent number: 6666311Abstract: A spring strut support bearing, has a top bearing that can be affixed by its inner ring to the front end of an automobile, e.g. to the end of a piston rod of a shock absorber facing a vehicle body. The inner ring is surrounded by an outer ring with radial clearance; at least one elastic spring element made of rubber-elastic material is arranged in a gap formed by the clearance. The outer ring is disposed in a stationary manner with respect to the vehicle body; and only the component of the loading force of the shock absorber extending through the elastic spring element of the top bearing reaches the vehicle body. The inner ring has on each of its two end faces at least one elastically flexible stop buffer for limiting extreme deflection movements in moving direction of the shock absorber, the stop buffers each having the capability of being brought into contact with counter stop faces.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2000Date of Patent: December 23, 2003Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventor: Michael Schütz