Patents by Inventor Dietmar Lohner

Dietmar Lohner 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).

  • Wort copper with an external boiler
    Patent number: 8250968
    Abstract: A wort copper and a method of boiling wort, with the wort copper having an external boiler arranged outside of the wort copper, which cyclically heats wort from the wort copper, wherein the heated wort is re-supplied to the wort copper, and comprises an infeed tube and a rising pipe, through which wort heated by the external boiler rises upwards in the wort copper, as well as at least one intake opening is provided in the rising line for sucking in wort from a wort reservoir of the wort copper, wherein the cross-sectional surface of the rising pipe enlarges at least section-wise towards the upper end of the rising pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Dietmar Lohner, Christian Wetzl, Robert Gruber
  • WORT COPPER WITH AN EXTERNAL BOILER
    Publication number: 20090191321
    Abstract: A wort copper and a method of boiling wort, with the wort copper having an external boiler arranged outside of the wort copper, which cyclically heats wort from the wort copper, wherein the heated wort is re-supplied to the wort copper, and comprises an infeed tube and a rising pipe, through which wort heated by the external boiler rises upwards in the wort copper, as well as at least one intake opening is provided in the rising line for sucking in wort from a wort reservoir of the wort copper, wherein the cross-sectional surface of the rising pipe enlarges at least section-wise towards the upper end of the rising pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: Krones AG
    Inventors: Dietmar Lohner, Christian Wetzl, Robert Gruber