Patents by Inventor Claus Franz

Claus Franz 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: 5899057
    Abstract: For an opener roller for an open-end spinning device provided with a basic body by which it is connected to a supported shaft for rotatable support, it is proposed that the clothing be attached to the basic body via a clothing holder, whereby fasteners are used. For the fixed allocation of the clothing holder to the basic body it is provided that the attachment of the clothing holder by means of the fasteners be effected from the side of the opener roller which is facing the shaft bearing. The face of the opener roller away from the shaft covers the shaft, so that this face of the opener roller is also an even surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: Rieter Ingolstadt Spinnereimaschinenbau AG
    Inventors: Edmund Schuller, Eva-Maria Greppmair, Claus Franz
  • Patent number: 5794311
    Abstract: For an opener roller for an open-end spinning device provided with a basic body by which it is connected to a supported shaft for rotatable support, it is proposed that the clothing be attached to the basic body via a clothing holder, whereby fasteners are used. For the fixed allocation of the clothing holder to the basic body it is provided that the attachment of the clothing holder by means of the fasteners be effected from the side of the opener roller which is facing the shaft bearing. The face of the opener roller away from the shaft covers the shaft, so that this face of the opener roller is also an even surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Assignee: Rieter Ingolstadt Spinnereimaschinenbau AG
    Inventors: Edmund Schuller, Eva-Maria Greppmair, Claus Franz
  • Patent number: 5431006
    Abstract: An open-end spinning machine with a machine frame with at least one section. The latter is provided for each longitudinal machine side with a rigid structural unit which consists of several longitudinal structural elements and two end walls. Intermediate walls are provided at least between two adjoining pairs of spinning stations. These intermediate walls are rigidly connected to the longitudinal structural elements as are the intermediate walls, whereby the groups of technological spinning elements, including the parts of drive units and the winding mechanisms are attached to longitudinal structural elements and/or to the intermediate walls. The end walls of the two structural units are connected to each other in pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1995
    Assignee: Rieter Ingolstadt Spinnereimaschinenbau AG
    Inventors: Edmund Schuller, Rupert Karl, Anton Stanglmair, Gottfried Schneider, Hans Landwehrkamp, Gerhard Hyna, Claus Franz, Thorsten Buchner