Patents by Inventor Fritz Achelpohl

Fritz Achelpohl 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: 5803706
    Abstract: A palleting device for palleting stacks of flat objects on a height-adjustable pallet includes a moving support device located above the pallet. The stacks are delivered onto the moving support device by a supply conveyor and into formation on the pallet or on a pallet stack forming on the pallet. The layer to be stacked is ejected from the support surface by a release motion of the support device while retaining the stacking pattern of the stack. In order to be able to place the palleted stack onto the support device so that it is lined up edge-to-edge, the supply conveyor is formed from two conveyor belts which are separately controllable and positioned in alignment with each other in a common plane parallel to the support device. The front delivery rollers of the belts can be moved in both the same and opposite directions by movement of lower conveyor belt strands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: Windmoller & Holscher
    Inventor: Fritz Achelpohl
  • Patent number: 5804029
    Abstract: An apparatus for attaching leaves of a film of a plastic material to laid flat workpieces made of a film of plastic material, consists of a frame with a plate or a table over which the workpieces are continuously conveyed by means of a conveyor device. In a gap of the table plate, there is arranged a pair of conveyor rollers mounted in the frame, and having a roller gap substantially aligned with the table surface; the bottom roller of the pair is a counterpressure roller and the top roller is a suction cylinder. A conveyor cylinder cooperating with the suction cylinder successively delivers the leaves to the suction cylinder. A fishtail nozzle directed towards the roller gap blows heated air into the roller gap in a controlled manner so as to weld the leaf to the workpiece. The suction roller prevents the conveyor cylinder from being heated by the hot air in an inadmissible manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: lscher Ho
    Inventors: Fritz Achelpohl, Richard Feldkamper, Andreas Kampschulte, Uwe hn
  • Patent number: 5787811
    Abstract: A printing press includes a central impression drum seated in bearings in a printing press frame. The drum is provided with a drive. At least one printing unit has a driven printing cylinder, which can be pressed against the central impression drum, and an inking roller, which can be pressed against the printing cylinder and which operates in combination with a cleaning inking system. The central impression drum, the printing cylinder and the inking roller have gears on their axles for driving them. The anilox roller is provided with a special continuous running drive. The printing cylinder gear can be coupled with the central impression drum and the anilox roller gear can be coupled with the printing cylinder gear by parallel displacement of the printing cylinder and anilox roller, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: Windmoller & Holscher
    Inventors: Fritz Achelpohl, Gunter Rogge
  • Patent number: 5735209
    Abstract: A doctor blade unit for the inking system of a rotary printing press includes a doctor blade carrier that is formed by a profiled rail with a channel-shaped recess. The doctor blade carrier is provided with two doctor blades that can be screwed to the carrier and moved down on an ink application roller as well as sealing elements at its ends. The face walls on the ends of the ink chamber which carry the sealing elements are provided with holes for accommodating a pipe that is provided with spaced apart holes that form spraying nozzles over its entire length. One end of the pipe is provided with a connection for supplying cleaning fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Windmoller & Holscher
    Inventor: Fritz Achelpohl
  • Patent number: 5617789
    Abstract: A printing press is provided with at least one counterpressure cylinder and with at least one printing roller cantilevered at one end in the rolling stand and at least one inking roller or screen roller of an inking system cantilevered at one end in the rolling stand, where the bearings of the printing roller and screen roller travel, in guide mechanisms, relative to the counterpressure cylinder. In order to ensure that the printing executed by means of the end region of the cantilevered impression cylinder is also perfect, a plate is coupled to the rolling stand, which plate is provided with bearings in order to accommodate the journals of the free ends of the printing and screen rollers. In this regard, the plate can be swung to either a retracted position, in which the cantilevered rollers are freely accessible, or to a operating position, where the journals of the free ends of the rollers are carried by the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1997
    Assignee: Windmoller & Holscher
    Inventors: Fritz Achelpohl, Uwe Rogge, Alois Thole, Rainer Jendroska
  • Patent number: 5588944
    Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus for welding the tubular sections of sacks, bags or the like, having a rotating drum and with welding stations arranged on the periphery of the drum which rotate, fixed in position, with the drum, wherein the welding stations are arranged laterally each on one end side of the drum. To ensure a crease-free processing of the tubular sections to be welded, grippers that can be caused to open and close are arranged on the drum in individual welding stations, for the seizing, holding and release of the tubular sections. A movable welding jaw of the welding station forms a flat bearing surface for the zone of the tubular section to be welded, while the drum itself, has a cylindrical peripheral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1996
    Assignee: Windmoller & Holscher
    Inventors: Fritz Achelpohl, Hermann Sandmeier
  • Patent number: 5580582
    Abstract: A blowing head for the manufacture of tubular film from thermoplastic synthetic resin includes ducts for the supply and removal of internal cooling air, at least one supply duct for fused synthetic resin which opens into an annular outlet nozzle, an external cooling ring encircling the extruded synthetic resin film and a supply of air at different temperatures to sectors of the external cooling ring which are distributed over the periphery of the extruded tubular film for differentially heating or cooling the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: Windmoller & Holscher
    Inventor: Fritz Achelpohl
  • Patent number: 5569145
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method and an apparatus for manufacturing a bag or sack bottom from tubular sections of paper or plastic web. Tubular sections of web material are fed into a feeding plane where they are subsequently sealed along selected seams by a sealing means. The sections are then inverted and fed in parallel to a scoring, gluing and folding section. The tubular section is then inverted again and passed to a pressing section. The tubular sections are stacked on top of each other in a partially overlapping manner as they are passed through the pressing section. After pressing, the tubular sections are passed to a separating station for again separating them before being passed to a packaging station. The invention concerns, moreover, an apparatus for operating the above mentioned method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1996
    Assignee: Windmoller & Holscher
    Inventors: Fritz Achelpohl, Richard Feldkamper
  • Patent number: 5549044
    Abstract: A printing press consists of several printing units arranged in a row, each having one inking unit, and cylinders exchangeable for diverse print runs, the bearings of the exchangeable cylinder being arranged on a carriage displaceable in the printing press frame. An impression cylinder is mounted in the printing press frame. The printing press includes means for lifting out and removing the exchangeable cylinders. The conveyance means has a trolley displaceable on a rail. To allow the cylinders to be easily and rapidly exchanged the carriages are displaceable on at least one horizontal guide means of each printing press frame. Lifting jacks are assigned to the shaft journals projecting outwardly from the bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Assignee: Windmoller & Holscher
    Inventor: Fritz Achelpohl
  • Patent number: 5518103
    Abstract: An apparatus for rotating workpieces fed in a laid flat position, has a pair of conveyor belts which fixes the respective workpiece eccentrically at one point and moves it forward, and at least one carrier belt that runs parallel to the pair of conveyor belts. To permit a reliable introduction of the rotational movement, at least one suction belt is arranged between the pair of conveyor belts and the carrier belt, using which a part of the workpiece that is spaced from the fixed point can be suctionally attracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: Windmoller & Holscher
    Inventors: Fritz Achelpohl, Hermann Sandmeier
  • Patent number: 5480083
    Abstract: A device for separating sections of a perforated tubular web includes a pulling mechanism and a tearing mechanism. Each of these mechanisms has opposing rollers positioned facing each other on either side of the tubular section being separated. Continuous conveyor belts run over these rollers. The rollers of the tearing mechanism can be moved by a control element toward the tubular web. To prevent slippage of the web within the pulling mechanism when the tubular sections are being torn, the pulling mechanism is also provided with a control element which moves the rollers or cylinders of the pulling mechanism in a direction perpendicular to the tubular web in order to increase the pressure on the tubular web. The control element of the pulling mechanism is synchronized with a control element of the tearing mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1996
    Assignee: Windmoller & Hoscher
    Inventor: Fritz Achelpohl
  • Patent number: 5437544
    Abstract: A flattening and removing device for a plastic tubular film web produced by a stationary film blowing head in a blowing process has two deflecting rollers and two turning bars. The first deflecting roller and the squeezing roller are mounted parallel to each other between mounting plates that are rigidly connected to a turntable mounted in turning fashion in the frame floor. The second deflecting roller is connected by a support frame to a retainer having ends which are connected to gearwheels in eccentric fashion. The turning bars are each connected by support frames to gearwheels, and the center lines of all the gearwheels are aligned with each other and with an imaginary swivel axis. Thus, the diameter of the turning bars can be increased to the desired degree without impeding the passage of the flattened tubular film when the device is installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1995
    Assignee: Windmoller & Holscher
    Inventor: Fritz Achelpohl
  • Patent number: 5409565
    Abstract: An apparatus for the application of adhesive coated slips to a moving web or to workpieces being conveyed, and preferably to the drawn up and still open bottoms of bags, consists of pairs of feed rolls for a web of material and means for perforating and tearing off, or means for detaching, the slips from the web of material and of a transfer folding gripper cylinder for receiving and subsequent transfer of the slips or pieces of tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1995
    Assignee: Windmoller & Holscher
    Inventors: Fritz Achelpohl, Helmut Simon
  • Patent number: 5356221
    Abstract: A carrying handle assembly for bags having a flat bottom and more particularly for bags having a cross or block bottom, including two strips of material bent into an L-shape cross section in their position of use, of which the one portion of each strip extending generally in a single plane is bonded with the bottom of the bag and the other portion of each strip, which are arranged alongside of each other, are provided with a carrying handle part. In order to prevent the carrying handle part from being torn out from between the portions of the strips of material, even when subjected to a heavy load, the carrying handle part includes a strip bent into the form of a letter U, having two limbs interconnected by a crosspiece, whose limbs are bonded between and to the superposed portions of the strips of material, which are themselves bonded together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1994
    Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher
    Inventors: Fritz Achelpohl, Hermann Sandmeier
  • Patent number: 5316123
    Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus for turning workpieces moved forward in a flat position, with a conveyor belt pair which engages and moves forward the workpiece eccentrically at one point, and a conveyor belt running parallel thereto which is shorter than the conveyor belt pair. In order to solve the problem of designing a simple apparatus of this species which is also of comparatively compact construction, provision is made according to the invention for both the conveyor belt pair and the parallel conveyor belt to be operated at the same speed, and for at least one additional transfer belt running parallel to the conveyor belt pair and the shorter conveyor belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1994
    Assignee: Windmoller & Holscher
    Inventor: Fritz Achelpohl
  • Patent number: 5308056
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for stacking flat workpieces, which are conveyed on a transport cylinder provided with holding tongs, on a stacking table put against the transport cylinder. The apparatus is provided with a control for opening the holding tongs before reaching the stacking table, and with a braking arrangement for decelerating the workpieces such that the workpieces are set down on the stacking table at a lower speed than the peripheral speed of the transport cylinder. In accordance with the invention the braking arrangement consists of a row of suction nozzles or a suction belt circulating at a lower speed that the transport cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1994
    Assignee: Windmoller & Holscher
    Inventor: Fritz Achelpohl
  • Patent number: 5298007
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing carrier bags of paper with paper handles glued to the outside in a continuous working cycle, firstly, in a bag machine, carrier bags without handles are manufactured. Paper handles are glued to the carrier bags in a handle application unit. The carrier bags are fed from the bag machine with the bottoms leading to the handle application unit. After the handles have been glued to the bags, the bags are removed, again with the bottoms leading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1994
    Assignee: Windmoller & Holscher
    Inventors: Fritz Achelpohl, Friedhelm Brinkmeier, Aloys Winnemoeller, Wilfried Lotz
  • Patent number: 5288284
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for making bags preferably provided with side folds or other flat workpieces, which have a slip extending beyond their boundary. In accordance with the invention partly prefabricated bags are laterally supplied to a conveyor belt driven in a timed manner, and are seized there by grippers and fixed. By means of a glue applicator a glue strip is applied to the bag in its bottom region during the timed feeding movement of the conveyor belt. Finally, in a slip application station a slip is supplied each laterally to the conveyor belt and is placed onto the glue surface. The invention furthermore relates to an apparatus for carrying out the aforementioned method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1994
    Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher
    Inventors: Fritz Achelpohl, Friedhelm Mundus, Hans-Ludwig Voss
  • Patent number: 5282778
    Abstract: A method for making bags of synthetic material in which a tubular foil web of synthetic material is advanced in steps corresponding to the length of one bag. A continuously heated pair (11) of welding jaws grips the tubular foil web (3) of synthetic material prior to cutting and fixes the web in position. The tubular foil web (3) is then cut by means of the transverse cutting knife (10) before the heat of the pair (11) of welding jaws is completely transferred to the tubular foil web (3) of synthetic material. Then the heat is completely transferred to weld the bottom seam of the bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1994
    Assignee: Windmoller & Holscher
    Inventor: Fritz Achelpohl
  • Patent number: 5203758
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for manufacturing a sack or bag with a bottom being rectangular in the filled state and with a handle portion, and it also relates to sacks or bags manufactured in accordance with this method. For the solution of the problem to simplify already known methods, onto a continuously advanced flat web two strips of sealing-wax which are in parallel to each other and perpendicular to the lateral edges are applied on one side at distances of one bag length, respectively, and at corresponding locations of the back side of the flat web four short strips of sealing-wax are applied, and between the strips of sealing-wax two reinforcements are glued thereto with their whole surface. Below the first reinforcement a folded sheet with a leg is glued, whereas the other leg is folded back thereonto. Below the second reinforcement an area is provided with glue which in size corresponds to the leg. On one side of the flat web an adhesive strip is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1993
    Assignee: Windmoller & Holscher
    Inventors: Fritz Achelpohl, Werner Jurgens