Patents by Inventor Arved Westerkamp

Arved Westerkamp has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7249615
    Abstract: Paper machine clothing, such as a forming fabric formed by a large number of repeating units, wherein each repeat unit includes a paper-side woven structure having paper-side warp and weft threads and a machine-side woven structure having machine-side warp and weft threads, such that the paper side and the machine side woven structures are connected to each other by binding threads, and each repeat unit being formed by at least 26 warp threads and the paper machine clothing having a total thickness of 0.78 mm and less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Voith Fabrics Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Arved Westerkamp, Johann Boeck
  • Publication number: 20070172633
    Abstract: A transport belt including a belt core and a web material contact layer carried by the belt core. The web material contact layer includes a structured surface for contacting a product to be produced or processed, and has a hardness greater than a hardness of the belt core. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in the specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: VOITH PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Arved WESTERKAMP, Hubert WALKENHAUS
  • Publication number: 20070111011
    Abstract: A covering for a machine for treating a material web, in particular a fibrous web, has a multilayer construction with at least two layers formed respectively by at least one polyurethane film, between which there lies a layer made of a reinforcement fabric whose mesh widths are selected such that the two adjacent layers of polyurethane film touch each other in the meshes. This covering can be used advantageously in particular as a transfer belt or a dryer fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2006
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Inventor: Arved Westerkamp
  • Publication number: 20070074836
    Abstract: This invention relates to a belt for transferring an in-production fibrous web, in particular a paper web or paperboard web, in a machine area of a machine producing the fibrous web, in particular a paper machine or paperboard machine, including at least one textile substrate and a coating, which is applied to the substrate and touches the in-production fibrous web, for obtaining a partial or complete impermeability of the belt. The inventive belt has at least one continuously differencing characteristic in at least one region across its overall width. Also, this invention relates to a machine, in particular a paper machine or paperboard machine, for producing a fibrous web, in particular a paper web or paperboard web, as well as to a use of a belt for transferring an in-production fibrous web, in particular a paper web or paperboard web, in one machine area or between two machine areas of a machine producing the fibrous web, in particular a paper machine or paperboard machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventor: Arved Westerkamp
  • Publication number: 20070077388
    Abstract: A covering for a machine for the production of a fibrous web has, at least in some sections, a two-dimensional structure which is formed by a multiplicity of polymer-based regions which differ from each other at least in part by virtue of a different fraction of filler material and/or by virtue of a different type of filler material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Arved Westerkamp, John Jeffery, Antony Morton
  • Publication number: 20070042851
    Abstract: This invention relates to a machine for the production of a paper web, paperboard web or tissue web, having a roller with a circumferential surface and having an endless belt, in particular a transfer belt, which is wrapped around the circumferential surface of the roller in sections and has a bottom side which in the wrap zone can be brought into contact with the circumferential surface, as the result of which the endless belt and/or the roller provide a storage capacity suitable for accommodating at least in part the fluid which gets into the wrap zone between the bottom side and the circumferential surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Inventors: Daniel Gronych, Robert Koplin, Klaus Hermann, Georg Kleiser, Arved Westerkamp
  • Publication number: 20070028992
    Abstract: A method for the production of a paper-machine screen with a paper-side ply of weft threads and a run-side ply of weft threads and with at least two warp thread systems interwoven in each case with the paper-side weft threads and/or the run-side weft threads, each warp thread system being assigned a group of heald frames, by means of which the warp threads of the warp thread systems are to be moved for shedding, including the generation of a draft diagram with a draft repeat for the warp thread systems, in which draft repeat a subrepeat recurring in the draft repeat is provided for at least one of the warp thread systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2006
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Inventor: Arved Westerkamp
  • Publication number: 20070032326
    Abstract: The invention relates to an endless belt having a top side for the transport of a fibrous web in a paper, board or tissue machine, and having an underside opposite the top side, the endless belt having a carrier structure and a polymer layer structure, and the polymer layer structure covering the carrier structure in order to form the top side and/or the underside of the endless belt. The polymer layer structure has material sections with a different hardness, which are arranged one above another between the top side and the underside and which overlap, at least in some sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Inventor: Arved Westerkamp
  • Publication number: 20070026751
    Abstract: A fabric for a paper machine treated on at least one side with a surface-enlarging coating, whose penetration depth, based on the total thickness of the fabric provided with the coating, lies in a range from greater than 0 to about 95%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventor: Arved Westerkamp
  • Publication number: 20070000632
    Abstract: The invention relates to a papermachine fabric for dewatering and drying a fibrous web in a machine producing a fibrous web, including a plurality of layers with at least one carrier structure and a fiber batt having at least one fiber non-woven. The papermachine fabric according to the invention includes a fiber batt provided with a coating on at least one side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventor: Arved Westerkamp
  • Publication number: 20070000554
    Abstract: A fabric belt, in particular mesh belt, for a machine for producing a fibrous web, has warp threads extending generally parallel to the belt running direction and weft threads extending generally transversely with respect to the belt running direction, are connected to each other by crossing. The weave obtained by the arrangement of the warp and weft threads relative to one another on the running side of the fabric belt in the transverse direction and considered for at least one inserted running-side weft thread in each case is produced by a combination of at least two different float lengths. In addition, a process for producing such a fabric belt is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventor: Arved Westerkamp
  • Publication number: 20070000633
    Abstract: A papermachine fabric for dewatering a fibrous web in a machine producing a fibrous web. The fabric including a laid scrim having at least one layer of longitudinal threads and at least one layer of transverse threads crossing the layer of longitudinal threads. At least a selection of the longitudinal threads being laid at different distances both symmetrically and asymmetrically in relation to one another, the distance between two adjacent threads changing in the course of a laying pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventors: Arved Westerkamp, Hubert Walkenhaus
  • Publication number: 20060278328
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fabric for a machine for the production and/or further processing of a material web, in particular a fibrous web, which has a thread structure that comprises at least one layer comprising longitudinal threads and at least one layer comprising transverse threads, the transverse threads being arranged crossing the longitudinal threads, and in which the longitudinal threads and the transverse threads are arranged on a two-dimensionally extended carrier structure along their longitudinal extent, at least in sections, and are firmly joined to the said structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Inventors: Arved Westerkamp, Hubert Walkenhaus
  • Publication number: 20060278361
    Abstract: The invention relates to a papermachine fabric having a batt structure extending over the entire width of the fabric, the batt structure comprising at least one ultrathin elongated fiber batt which extends over a part width of the fabric and has a thickness of 0.3 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Inventor: Arved Westerkamp
  • Publication number: 20060194490
    Abstract: Method for changing properties of papermachine clothing, in particular a dryer fabric. The papermachine clothing is processed specifically, primarily in the transverse direction of the clothing, for the purpose of evening out the properties of the fabric. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2005
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Applicant: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Mark Hodson, Torben Schlieckau, Arved Westerkamp, Berry Brockoetter
  • Publication number: 20060182936
    Abstract: A method for creating a pattern on or in an fabric, comprising producing a topographical polymer pattern on or in a papermachine fabric using a rotary screen. A fabric, comprising a papermachine fabric including a topographical polymer pattern as an external or internal feature. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Applicant: VOITH PAPER PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Justin PAYNE, David PONTON, John JEFFERY, Arved WESTERKAMP, Antony MORTON
  • Publication number: 20060060323
    Abstract: Clothing in a machine for producing a fibrous web, for example a paper, board or tissue web, from a fibrous suspension. The machine has a wet end, a press section and a drying section and in each case there is clothing in the wet end, the press section and the drying section in order to guide the fibrous web. The clothing has integrated into the clothing at least one means for picking up and/or forwarding data about the clothing or the environment of the clothing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2005
    Publication date: March 23, 2006
    Inventors: Arved Westerkamp, Matthias Schmitt, Michael Straub
  • Publication number: 20060016508
    Abstract: Paper machine clothing that includes interwoven warp threads and weft threads forming a weaving pattern composed of repeat units having at least 26 warp threads. The weaving pattern, one of on its own or in combination, is formed by at least one of: at least one basic textile weave, at least one derivative of a basic textile weave, and at least one extension of a basic textile weave. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2005
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Applicant: Voith Fabrics Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Arved Westerkamp, Johann Boeck
  • Publication number: 20060016505
    Abstract: Paper machine clothing, such as a forming fabric formed by a large number of repeating units, wherein each repeat unit includes a paper-side woven structure having paper-side warp and weft threads and a machine-side woven structure having machine-side warp and weft threads, such that the paper side and the machine side woven structures are connected to each other by binding threads, and each repeat unit being formed by at least 26 warp threads and the paper machine clothing having a total thickness of 0.78 mm and less. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2005
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Applicant: Voith Fabrics Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Arved Westerkamp
  • Publication number: 20060016509
    Abstract: Paper machine clothing including paper side woven structure and machine side woven structure having a plurality of binding threads woven to form of a plurality of covering binding points with paper side woven structure, and to form a plurality of supporting binding points with machine side woven structure. Covering binding points and supporting binding points can be arranged by lining up plurality of covering binding point repeat units and plurality of supporting binding point repeat units in a row. In at least one of each covering binding point repeat unit and each supporting binding point repeat unit, at least one of supporting binding points and covering binding points are irregularly arranged in relation to the other supporting binding points and covering binding points. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2005
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Applicant: Voith Fabrics Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Arved Westerkamp, Johann Boeck