Patents Assigned to Maricap Oy
  • Patent number: 9933099
    Abstract: Pipe joint, which comprises at least one first pipe section (2), and a sleeve part 5, into which the butt end part of the pipe section (2) is disposed in such a way that the sleeve part (5) extends a distance on top of the pipe section (2) from the butt end of the pipe section that is inside the sleeve, and heating means (7), such as resistance wires. For forming the joint, a joint component (3) is arranged between the outer surface (16) of at least one pipe section (2) and the inside surface (15) of the sleeve part (5), which joint component is configured to form a joint with the sleeve part (5) when the joint area is warmed with the heating means (7), and that a collar (6) is arranged on the pipe section (2), which collar comprises a detent surface (10) for the joint component (3). The invention also relates to a method for forming a pipe joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: MARICAP OY
    Inventor: Göran Sundholm
  • Patent number: 9896265
    Abstract: Method for filling a waste container/separating device (50) of a pneumatic material conveying system, in which method material is conducted into a material container from a conveying pipe (100) via an inlet aperture (55) and in which method, for bringing about the suction/partial vacuum needed in conveying the material, the suction side of a partial-vacuum source (30) is connected to act in the container space of the waste container/separating device (50) and onwards into the conveying pipe (100). By changing the point at which the suction of the partial-vacuum source acts or the strength of its action in the container space (68) of the waste container/separating device (50), the input direction in the container space of the material (W) being conducted into the container space from the inlet aperture (55) is acted upon. The invention also relates to an apparatus and to a waste container/separating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: MARICAP OY
    Inventor: Göran Sundholm
  • Patent number: 9790024
    Abstract: A method and a waste handling system, wherein waste or recyclable material is transported in carrier bags, bags or sack to a disposal point, and from there onwards by a transport vehicle for further processing. An RFID identifier is used in connection with the carrier bag, bag, or sack, or used in waste transport. A closing member is provided with an RFID) identifier used in closing, or as verification of the closing of the carrier bag, bag, sack. A sensor is arranged in connection with, or in the proximity of, a disposal point, such as a waste room, of the waste system. Information read from the RFID identifier by the sensor is transmitted to a control unit, that is fitted to control the waste transport system based on the information given by the RFID identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: MARICAP OY
    Inventor: Göran Sundholm
  • Patent number: 9758320
    Abstract: Method for treating outlet air in a pneumatic waste conveying system, in which the outlet air is at least partly the conveying air to be used in waste conveying. In the method in a first phase additional air is brought into the body of conveying air in the partial-vacuum generator of the pneumatic waste conveying system before the output aperture of the partial-vacuum generator, and that in the method in a second phase additional air is brought into the body of outlet air as a consequence of the suction effect brought about by the outlet air in such a way that the outlet air and the additional air mix with each other at least partly. The invention also relates to an apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: MARICAP OY
    Inventor: Göran Sundholm
  • Publication number: 20170225910
    Abstract: Method for handling waste material in a pneumatic pipe transport system, wherein waste material is fed in from an input point into conveying piping, and conveyed in the conveying piping, mainly by the aid of suction/a pressure difference and/or a flow of transporting air, onwards to a separating device (1), in which the waste material to be transported and the transporting air separate from each other, from which separating device the waste material is transferred onwards to a separate waste container (26).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: MARICAP OY
    Inventor: Göran SUNDHOLM
  • Publication number: 20170166409
    Abstract: A method is provided for feeding in and transporting material in a pneumatic conveying system for material, which conveying system includes at least one input point of material, a material conveying pipe, which can be connected to the input point, and a material container, in which the material being transported is separated from the transporting air, and also a device configured to product a partial vacuum/a pressure difference and/or a transporting air current in the conveying pipe at least during the transporting of the material, which device includes at least one partial-vacuum source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: MARICAP OY
    Inventor: Göran SUNDHOLM
  • Patent number: 9555965
    Abstract: Method for feeding material into a rotary shaper device in a pneumatic pipe transport system for material, in which the material is conducted along a feeder channel to the rotary shaper device, in which case the material to be handled is conducted into the shaper device and/or through it by the aid of at least partly the suction and/or a pressure difference of the pneumatic pipe transport system. In the method the material is acted upon in the feeder channel, or in the channel leading into it, with at least one guide member, which is configured to reduce the undesirable rotation of the material in the feeder channel and/or to improve the access of replacement air into the rotary shaper. The invention also relates to an apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: MARICAP OY
    Inventor: Göran Sundholm
  • Patent number: 9546041
    Abstract: Method in a pneumatic material conveying system, such as in a waste conveying system, which conveying system comprises at least one input point (61) of material, more particularly of waste material, a material conveying pipe (100), which can be connected to an input point (61), and a separating device, in which the material to be conveyed is separated from the conveying air, and also means for achieving a pressure difference in the conveying pipe (100) at least during the conveyance of material. In the method material is conveyed from an input point (61) to an accumulator tank (105) of a subsystem (1), where the material is separated from the conveying air and in a second phase the accumulator tank (105) of the subsystem is emptied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: MARICAP OY
    Inventor: Göran Sundholm
  • Publication number: 20160311614
    Abstract: Apparatus for handling material in connection with a pneumatic material conveying system, which apparatus comprises a waste container/separating device (50), into which material is adapted to be conducted from a conveying pipe (100) of the pneumatic material conveying system via an input aperture (55) and which is adapted to be connected to means for achieving a partial vacuum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: MARICAP OY
    Inventor: Göran SUNDHOLM
  • Patent number: 9446915
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for improving the separating efficiency of a separating device of a pneumatic material conveying system, such as of a waste conveying system, in which the material to be transported, is separated from the transporting air, and/or for preventing blocking of the output aperture for the transporting air of the separating device. The transporting air and the material coming with it are initially brought into a rotating movement in the chamber space of the separating device. The transporting air is deflected in the chamber space of the separating device, and is conducted into the output channel. The flow of transporting air is acted upon in the chamber space of the separating device or in the output channel by bringing about a guiding effect for the transporting air in the opposite direction with respect to its direction of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: MARICAP OY
    Inventor: Göran Sundholm
  • Patent number: 9434542
    Abstract: Method for feeding material into a shaping device in a pneumatic materials conveying system, in which method material, such as waste material is fed into a shaping device, and/or through it, in a feeder channel by the aid of at least partly gravity and at least partly suction and/or a pressure difference, which shaping device is a rotary shaper, with which the material is processed so as to be denser and is conveyed onwards. In the material infeed direction before the rotary shaper is a movable arresting device, which arresting device has a first position, in which it extends into the feeder channel and in which first position the arresting device receives at least some of the force effect produced by the material in the feeder channel and in which the transfer of the material in the feeder channel is limited, if necessary, with the arresting device, and which arresting device has a second position, in which the arresting device does not extend into the feeder channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: MARICAP OY
    Inventor: Göran Sundholm
  • Publication number: 20160251173
    Abstract: Apparatus for acting on material to be conveyed in a material conveying channel, which apparatus comprises an impeding means (30), which can be arranged in the material conveying channel, which impeding means (30) can be moved between at least two positions, a first position, in which the impeding means (30) extends into the channel space (10) of the material conveying channel, and a second position, in which the impeding means does not essentially extend into the channel space of the material conveying channel. Means (31, 33) are arranged in connection with the impeding means (30), for conducting flowing medium, such as replacement air, from outside the material conveying channel into the channel space (10) of the material conveying channel to the point of, or into the vicinity of, the impeding means (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: MARICAP OY
    Inventor: Göran SUNDHOLM
  • Publication number: 20160167898
    Abstract: Method for feeding in and for handling waste material in the channel section of a pneumatic wastes conveying system, in which method waste material or recycleable material is fed into a feed-in container (10) from the input aperture (2) of at least two input points (1) of a pneumatic pipe transport system for material and onwards into the channel section (20, 21, 22) between the feed-in container and the material conveying pipe (100), from where the material is conveyed along with the transporting air via the material conveying pipe (100) to the delivery end of the pneumatic material conveying system, where the material is separated from the transporting air. In the method the channel section (20(II), 20(III), 20(IV) . . .
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: MARICAP OY
    Inventor: Göran SUNDHOLM
  • Publication number: 20160145042
    Abstract: Method for feeding in and for handling waste material in the channel section of a pneumatic wastes conveying system, in which method waste material or recycleable material is fed into a feed-in container from the input aperture of an input point of a pneumatic pipe transport system for material and onwards into the channel section between the feed-in container and the material conveying pipe, from where the material is conveyed along with the transporting air via the material conveying pipe to the delivery end of the pneumatic material conveying system, where the material is separated from the transporting air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicant: MARICAP OY
    Inventor: Göran SUNDHOLM
  • Patent number: 9339983
    Abstract: Method for handling material in a pneumatic materials handling system, in which material is input from an input aperture of an input point and is handled with a shaping device, arranged in connection with the input point or in the proximity of it, to be more compact and is transferred onwards, which shaping device is a rotary shaper, which includes a rotatable handling device, which includes an aperture, which is arranged eccentrically with respect to the axis of rotation, and which rotary shaper includes at least one stationary handling device, in which case the material to be handled is conducted into the rotary shaper and/or through it at least partly by means of gravity. The material to be handled is conducted into the rotary shaper and/or through it at least partly by means of suction and/or a pressure difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: MARICAP OY
    Inventor: Göran Sundholm
  • Publication number: 20160116092
    Abstract: Pipe joint, which is formed from the end portions of pipe sections to be joined together with the portions including a collar, and from flange parts which, as seen from the junction, are placed on different sides of the collars and tightened with applicable fixing members, such as with screws and nuts. The collar of the pipe section is formed from the wall of the end of the pipe section by shaping with a shaping member. The joint surface of the collar of at least one of the pipe sections to be joined is arranged to be divergent by the amount of an angle a, p from the plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the pipe section. A method and to a flange part arrangement are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: MARICAP OY
    Inventor: Göran SUNDHOLM
  • Patent number: 9310012
    Abstract: Sleeve part of a pipe joint wherein the sleeve part includes a chamber space, into which the opposing butt ends of the pipe parts to be connected together are placed such that the sleeve part extends a distance from the point of connection of the pipe parts to be connected together on top of both pipe parts. The sleeve part includes heating member, such as resistance wires. As a consequence of the heating of the resistance wires a joint forms between the sleeve part and the pipe parts. An inspection aperture is formed in the sleeve part through the wall of the sleeve part from the exterior to the interior to a point where the positioning of the opposing butt end surfaces of the pipe parts to be connected together can be verified. The invention also relates to a pipe joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: MARICAP OY
    Inventor: Göran Sundholm
  • Publication number: 20160060031
    Abstract: Device component of a pneumatic waste conveying system, which device component includes a frame structure arrangement. A device component, such as a separating device, material container, press device or pump device unit, in the frame structure arrangement is arranged in a supported manner at least partly inside a support body framework, which support body framework is configured to function as a freight transport container. The support body framework is configured to function as a support body for the device component at the installation site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: MARICAP OY
    Inventor: Göran SUNDHOLM
  • Patent number: 9242808
    Abstract: A method and system for pneumatically conveying waste material through a conveying system which includes an input point for introducing waste material, at least one main conveying pipe section, at least one branch conveying pipe section, at least one separating device, and at least one pump unit for producing a pressure differential and air current within the operating system, whereby in a first phase, the main conveying pipe section functions as a material reservoir and in a second phase, the waste material is transferred to the separating device by the suction/pressure difference and/or conveying air flow produced by the pump device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: MARICAP OY
    Inventor: Göran Sundholm
  • Publication number: 20160009044
    Abstract: A method for handling material in a pneumatic materials handling system, in which material, such as waste material, is input from an input aperture of an input point, such as from an input aperture of a refuse chute or of some other input point, and is handled with a shaping device, arranged in connection with the input point or in the proximity of it, to be more compact and is transferred onwards. The shaping device is a rotary shaper, which includes rotatable handling device, which includes an aperture, which is arranged eccentrically with respect to the axis of rotation, and which rotary shaper includes at least one stationary handling device, in which case the material to be handled is conducted into the rotary shaper and/or through it at least partly by means of gravity and/or suction and/or a pressure difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: MARICAP OY
    Inventor: Göran SUNDHOLM