Patents Assigned to Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
  • Patent number: 7004738
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing a melt blown web in which the collecting screen upon which the filaments are deposited passes over a plurality of suction regions or areas which have respective suction blowers and controls for the suction force and air throughput.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Axel Becker, Hans-Peter Schlag, Hans-Georg Geus, Detlef Frey
  • Patent number: 6997694
    Abstract: An extruder drive has a housing, at least two extrusion worms each having a drive shaft extending into the housing, and at least one drive motor including at least one cylindrical stator fixed in the housing and a cylindrical rotor cooperating with the stator so as to be rotatably driven by the stator. The rotor surrounds the drive shafts, and each of the drive shafts is independently connected to the rotor for driving thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Reinhold Winkler, Dieter Thewes, Wieslaw Walach
  • Patent number: 6991758
    Abstract: A method and a device for production of a web with good breathing properties, for example having a nonwoven web based on plastic filaments and/or plastic fibers and a plastic film, applied on one side of the nonwoven web and containing at least one mineral filler. For the production of the good breathing properties, the web is stretched in the longitudinal direction of the same, in two successive steps, and an embossing is carried out, at least in certain sectors of the surface, between the two steps which effect the stretching in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Klemens Krumm, Klaus Reifenhauser
  • Patent number: 6954983
    Abstract: A method for continuously producing flat cables with electric conductors embedded in an isolating material which are arranged at a certain distance from each other, parallel to each other. According to this invention, the band shaped conductors are guided separately in a plane forming two sides of a surface. The surface sides have insulating layers based on thermoplastic synthetic materials. According to this invention, at least one of the insulating layers which covers the surface sides is produced by extrusion coating of a thermoplastic melt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Reifenhäuser GmbH & Co Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Karl Fröschl, Frank Bennerscheidt, Hartmut Halter
  • Patent number: 6932590
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing spun-bond webs has, beneath the receiving belt, a suction unit having at least two suction zones including a primary suction zone and at least one other suction zone, the primary suction zone receiving most of the filaments from an aerodynamic stretching unit below a spinneret. The suction speeds in the two zones can be adjusted independently of one another. Preferably three such zones are provided in succession in the direction of displacement of the perforated belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Hans Georg Geus, Detlef Frey, Peter Schlag
  • Patent number: 6918750
    Abstract: A spun-bond web-making apparatus has the cooling passage below the spinneret provided with a plurality of air chamber sections which are supplied with air at different temperatures, the cooling passage being connected to the drawing unit for aerodynamic stretching of the filaments without a gap through which external air can be supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Hans-Georg Geus, Detlef Frey, Peter Schlag
  • Patent number: 6908292
    Abstract: In the production of a spunbond web by aerodynamically stretching thermoplastic filaments from a spinneret, the stretching nozzle is formed by two nozzle-forming units each of which has a temperature control device, especially a heater, to minimize deformation at the stretching nozzle defining wall. The result is a reduction in the tolerance of the basis weight of the spunbond web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Hans Georg Geus, Hans Jürgen Hofemeister, Falk Rösner, Detlef Frey, Karsten Sievers, Udo Schomer
  • Publication number: 20040265415
    Abstract: A device for producing filaments, in particular, from a thermoplastic polymer, wherein the filaments emerge from the spinneret openings of a spinneret plate. A distribution device is provided for distributing the molten polymer being supplied over a preliminary spinning width. At least one exchangeable distribution plate with several distribution openings that are distributed over the spinning width is arranged downstream of the distribution device. The exchangeable spinneret plate is arranged downstream of the distribution plate, wherein said spinneret plate contains spinneret channels that are distributed over the final spinning width. The spinning width defined by the distribution openings is smaller or larger than the preliminary spinning width, and the preliminary spinning width can be reduced or enlarged to the final spinning width with the aid of the distribution plate. The desired final spinning width can be adjusted by exchanging the distribution plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Applicant: Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventor: Michael Baumeister
  • Publication number: 20040250639
    Abstract: An extruder drive has a housing, at least two extrusion worms each having a drive shaft extending into the housing, and at least one drive motor including at least one cylindrical stator fixed in the housing and a cylindrical rotor cooperating with the stator so as to be rotatably driven by the stator. The rotor surrounds the drive shafts, and each of the drive shafts is independently connected to the rotor for driving thereby.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Applicant: Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Reinhold Winkler, Dieter Thewes, Wieslaw Walach
  • Publication number: 20040216767
    Abstract: Method for the cleaning of spinning devices with a plurality of spinning apertures for the output of molten plastic. With the spinning device in operation, individual dirt-contaminated and/or clogged spinning apertures are closed with plugs, these plugs consisting of at least in part of at least one oxidizable substance. The spinning device is subjected in the course of its cleaning to a pyrolysis treatment for the breakdown of residual plastic. The spinning device is subjected to an oxidative treatment, so that the oxidizable substance is oxidized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2004
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Applicant: Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventor: Sebastian Sommer
  • Publication number: 20040206442
    Abstract: An absorbent wiping cloth can be made by hydraulic bonding of hydrophilic fibers with a prebonded spunbond filament layer. A further spunbond filament layer can be provided on the fiber side of this laminate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2004
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Applicant: Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Sebastian Sommer, Jens Gudden
  • Patent number: 6781271
    Abstract: A smoothing roll for an apparatus for smoothing plastic foils and plates is driven directly by a rotor coaxially received with a stator in an outer housing with the rotor supported by a bearing on the outer housing or on a part of the housing extending coaxially into the rotor. The vibration-free arrangement eliminates chatter marks on the smoothed product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Helmut Meyer, Joachim Lieven
  • Publication number: 20040154731
    Abstract: Spun bond is made by collecting thermoplastic filaments on a perforated surface and the spun bond is then subjected to hydrodynamic consolidation with high-pressure water jets. The filaments before the formation of the spun bond or after the formation of the spun bond are treated with a wetting agent prior to the hydrodynamic consolidation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Sebastian Sommer, Jens Gudden
  • Publication number: 20040131713
    Abstract: A nozzle for producing filaments or fibers of thermoplastic synthetic resin has at the nozzle end one or more bores, preferably opening at a flat surface and receiving respective inserts or shaped bodies which are formfitting in the bores and have along their peripheries respective nozzle channels opening at orifices through which the synthetic resin is discharged. Air streams may be directed at the strand at an acute angle when fibers are to be produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Applicant: Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Ulrich Dzialas, Detlef Frey, Hans-Georg Geus
  • Publication number: 20040121673
    Abstract: A web or fleece of synthetic resin strand collected on a sieve belt is discharged from the sieve belt into further processing equipment over a rerouting roller at the discharge end of the sieve belt. The rerouting roller is perforated and air or another fluid medium is passed through the belt at the rerouting roller to reduce adhesion forces between the belt and the web and lift the web from the belt without damage to the belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Applicant: Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Hans-Georg Geus, Detlef Frey
  • Patent number: 6752348
    Abstract: A method and a device for winding a continuously arriving foil web into a coil on a winding shaft, having a rotatably driveable contact roller, a winding station assigned to the contact roller for the winding shaft for winding the coil, a take-up station for receiving a fresh winding shaft and taking up the foil web, a transverse cutting device between the winding station and the take-up station for transversely cutting the foil web, wherein a charging station for creating an electrostatic charge between the winding shaft and the foil web and a blower device are assigned to the take-up station for the fresh winding shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Reifenhäuser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Karl Dreckmann, Andreas Böhm
  • Publication number: 20040103979
    Abstract: A composite is first formed by depositing on a breathable but water-impermeable synthetic resin film, a multiplicity of molten binding polymer threads from a multiplicity of orifices so that there is substantial space between the threads. A second web, e.g. an open-pore structure is then bonded to the first web by the molten thread so that the composite retains the flexibility and softness of the open-pore structure and the breathability of the film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2003
    Publication date: June 3, 2004
    Applicant: Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventor: Walter Kramer
  • Publication number: 20040086587
    Abstract: A calibrating basket for a film blowing tube is provided with roller bearings to prevent stripe formation on the film and pinching of the film between the rollers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2003
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Applicant: Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventor: Helmut Meyer
  • Publication number: 20040055124
    Abstract: A spun bond mat, after collection on a perforated surface is consolidated by high velocity water jets and then subjected to heat treatment to crinkle or crimp the bicomponent or other multicomponent synthetic resin filaments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Applicant: Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventor: Bernd Kunze
  • Publication number: 20040058028
    Abstract: An apparatus for smoothing and cooling of slit nozzle synthetic web passes the web following the smoothing gap between two rollers along a cooled surface and into contact with cold air introduced by cold air chamber open toward the roller surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Applicant: Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventor: Helmut Meyer