Patents by Inventor Bernhard Dinkel

Bernhard Dinkel 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: 5277713
    Abstract: The cabin walls (30) and preferably also the cabin floor (34) and/or the cabin ceiling (36) each consist of a double-walled construction with an inner wall (40), an outer wall (44), and spacer elements (46) which keep the two walls spaced apart. Each wall consists of several layers (1 to 9), in sandwich construction, where the layer (1), which delimits the spray space (42) of the cabin, consists of polypropylene or of polyvinyl chloride plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1994
    Assignee: Gema Volstatic AG
    Inventors: Silvano Gelain, Bernhard Dinkel
  • Patent number: 5256201
    Abstract: A filter unit (12) or a cyclone unit (22) can alternately be attached to a cabin (2) to draw powder out of the cabin. The units move on wheels. In an operating position adjacent to the cabin (2), they are automatically aligned with flow connections and can be connected. A common fan (52) for both units is connected with the filter unit (12) via a compressed air cleaning device (42) in terms of flow, if the former is in the operating position, and at the same time it closes off the inlet to a post-filter unit (32), while when the filter unit (12) is removed and the cyclone unit (22) is in the operating position, this cyclone unit (22) is connected with the fan (52) via the post-filter (32), and the cyclone unit (22) closes off a flow inlet of the compressed air cleaning unit (42). In this way, color changes can be carried out in a short period of time, and good exhaust cleaning is achieved by the filter unit (12) during extended operation with the same color, without a color change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1993
    Assignee: Gema Volstatic AG
    Inventors: Silvano Gelain, Bernhard Dinkel, Markus Beerli
  • Patent number: 4851261
    Abstract: A generally rectangularly shaped powder coating booth of a powder spraying apparatus is fomed of two main sections, each of which is constituted of wall and roof elements which are swingably interconnected to one another. The walls and roof of each half of the booth may be straightened out to form a flat, continuous and rectangularly shaped surface from which residues of powder may be removed easily and rapidly. Thus when the two halves of the booth are flattened out the booth is transformed into two parallel and spaced surfaces which can be cleaned by being vacuumed by a respective suction nozzle that is disposed to travel over and vacuum the surfaces automatically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1989
    Assignee: Ransburg-Gema AG
    Inventors: Silvano Gelain, Bernhard Dinkel