Patents by Inventor Gunther Nagels

Gunther Nagels 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: 7021449
    Abstract: The invention relates a method and a device for storing baggage delivered early, so-called early baggage, in traffic facilities, in particular commercial airports, which baggage is delivered to a check-in point a period, for example >2 h before the departure time of the respective transport vehicle, whereby this early baggage is being taken into storage until the time when it will be loaded into the respective transport vehicle by placing the baggage into a conveying system and storing it in this system in such a way that it can be removed from storage at any time and is brought via a removal station to the loading, whereby the early baggage is conveyed from the check-in point via a conveyor section of the conveying system to a special intermediate storage place and is handled there item by item mechanically and stacked in a space-saving manner at assigned intermediate storage places, the respective intermediate storage place for the respective baggage is recorded in an electronic data processing system, a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Koini, Gunar Baier, Gunther Nagel
  • Publication number: 20050056576
    Abstract: The invention relates a method and a device for storing baggage delivered early, so-called early baggage, in traffic facilities, in particular commercial airports, which baggage is delivered to a check-in point a period, for example >2 h before the departure time of the respective transport vehicle, whereby this early baggage is being taken into storage until the time when it will be loaded into the respective transport vehicle by placing the baggage into a conveying system and storing it in this system in such a way that it can be removed from storage at any time and is brought via a removal station to the loading, whereby the early baggage is conveyed from the check-in point via a conveyor section of the conveying system to a special intermediate storage place and is handled there item by item mechanically and stacked in a space-saving manner at assigned intermediate storage places, the respective intermediate storage place for the respective baggage is recorded in an electronic data processing system, a
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2004
    Publication date: March 17, 2005
    Applicant: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Koini, Gunar Baier, Gunther Nagel
  • Patent number: 6786356
    Abstract: A drinks machine, in particular a coffee machine, with an entry device for solid cleaning agent, in particular in pressed form, being user-friendly and safe during cleaning, and having an automatically dosing, enclosed dosage device for the cleaning agent which includes a spout, a storage container protected from the spout, and at least one dosage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: WMF Wuerttembergische Metallwarenfabrik AB
    Inventors: Rudi Geiger, Ewald Bauer, Peter Pulvermüller, Günther Nagel
  • Publication number: 20040136847
    Abstract: A motor-driven pump unit is provided having an electric motor comprising a stator, and a rotor, a pump, and a housing. The pump is concentrically enclosed by the rotor of the motor, and the rotor of the motor is U-shaped in an axial sectional view. The web of the U-shape is provided in the region of the common axis with internal gearing and the shaft of the pump has a pinion that mates with the internal gearing. The housing has a face wall on the web side and an opposite face on the connection side, which carries the connections for the medium to be conveyed. The housing can be arranged in the region of the face wall on the web side as a container for receiving the conveying medium or for receiving a cooling device or for receiving a filtering device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Applicant: Voith Turbo GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Franz Arbogast, Gunther Nagel
  • Patent number: 6659748
    Abstract: An internal geared machine capable of forward and reverse operation in a closed circuit having a pinion and an internal toothed ring gear meshing with the pinion and disposed in a housing. A filling comprising two identical filler pieces fills a sickle-shaped space between the pinion and ring gear and a single stop pin mounted in the housing supports both of the filler pieces by their front ends. A pair of axial discs are seated on the pinion shaft on respective sides of the pinion and axial pressure fields and control fields provide opposing pressures against the axial discs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Voith Turbo GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Franz Arbogast, Günther Nagel
  • Patent number: 6629594
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and to a method for handling objects, in particular items of luggage. The device has a supporting arm that is freely moveable in at least two axes and that is articulated on a central unit which is positioned at the end of a conveyor belt for conveying objects. The movement of the supporting arm is controlled in a predeterminable manner and a loading device is configured at the free end of the supporting arm. The loading device has a supporting platform for picking up objects and has a rear and a side boundary against which the object that has been picked up in each case rests. The device includes an unloading device which removes the object that has been picked up from the supporting platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignee: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Günther Nagel, Georg Gutermuth, Martin Koini, Rainer Strube
  • Patent number: 6588574
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for automatically loading and unloading piece goods of different shapes, consistencies and masses in a permanently installed conveying system. The relevant piece goods are picked up automatically by a remote controlled apparatus, by the piece goods being gripped by friction by the apparatus and moved onto a pick-up platform belonging to the apparatus. Moreover, the piece goods, after being picked up on the pick-up platform, are secured by force and/or shape against slipping off or falling down until they are unloaded, and the loaded goods being put down automatically by the apparatus at the intended location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Koini, Günther Nagel
  • Patent number: 6579456
    Abstract: A device and a method are described, which are used for precipitating beverage sediment from the rinsing mixture of beverage production machines and which comprise a rinsing conduit, a sediment receptacle and a filtering means. In order to design a device of this type in a structurally simple manner such that it can be serviced more easily, it is suggested that the filtering means should comprise a first and a second filter which are arranged one after the other when seen in the direction of flow of the rinsing mixture and which are each provided with filtrate discharge means and that a flow connection for the rinsing mixture discharged from the rinsing conduit and for the filter cake precipitated on the first filter should be provided, said flow connection bypassing said first filter and leading into the sediment receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: WMF Wuerttemergische Metallwarenfabrik AG
    Inventors: Rolf Frey, Frank Göltenboth, Martin Grupp, Günther Nagel, Armin Startz, Gerhard Wittlinger
  • Patent number: 6513419
    Abstract: Described is a coffee machine (1) comprising a brewing member (5, 5′), a support surface (15) for ground coffee and a member (3, 6, 7) for applying water to the ground coffee, in which it is possible to level off the ground coffee positioned on the support surface (15) in a constructionally simple and generally applicable manner to obtain a layer having a substantially uniform thickness. To this end there is provided a member (22, 24, 25, 122, 222, 322) which guides water in a purposefully non-uniform manner over the ground coffee such that the ground coffee is distributed over the support surface (15) in a layer having a substantially uniform thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: WMF Wurttembergische Metallwarenfabrik AG
    Inventors: Siegfried Huber, Günther Nagel
  • Patent number: 6419471
    Abstract: The invention relates to an internal gear machine for reversed operation in a closed circuit comprising an outer-toothed pinion, an inner-toothed ring gear meshing with the pinion; a housing; a filing that fills the sickle-shaped space between the pinion and the ring gear; the filling comprises two identical filler pieces; a stop pin is provided that is mounted in the housing and against which the filler pieces are supported by their front faces; the housing has two pressure lines and a drain outlet; the filler pieces are symmetrically disposed relative to a plane (symmetrical plane) extending through the center points of the pinion and the ring gear; the two pressure lines are located on both sides of the symmetrical plane viewed in axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Turbo GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Franz Arbogast, Günther Nagel
  • Publication number: 20020020607
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and to a method for handling objects, in particular items of luggage. The device has a supporting arm that is freely moveable in at least two axes and that is articulated on a central unit which is positioned at the end of a conveyor belt for conveying objects. The movement of the supporting arm is controlled in a predeterminable manner and a loading device is configured at the free end of the supporting arm. The loading device has a supporting platform for picking up objects and has a rear and a side boundary against which the object that has been picked up in each case rests. The device includes an unloading device which removes the object that has been picked up from the supporting platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Inventors: Gunther Nagel, Georg Gutermuth, Martin Koini, Rainer Strube
  • Publication number: 20020002909
    Abstract: A device and a method are described, which are used for precipitating beverage sediment from the rinsing mixture of beverage production machines and which comprise a rinsing conduit, a sediment receptacle and a filtering means. In order to design a device of this type in a structurally simple manner such that it can be serviced more easily, it is suggested that the filtering means should comprise a first and a second filter which are arranged one after the other when seen in the direction of flow of the rinsing mixture and which are each provided with filtrate discharge means and that a flow connection for the rinsing mixture discharged from the rinsing conduit and for the filter cake precipitated on the first filter should be provided, said flow connection bypassing said first filter and leading into the sediment receptacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2001
    Publication date: January 10, 2002
    Inventors: Rolf Frey, Frank Goltenboth, Martin Grupp, Gunther Nagel, Armin Startz, Gerhard Wittlinger
  • Publication number: 20010050213
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for automatically loading and unloading piece goods of different shapes, consistencies and masses in a permanently installed conveying system. The relevant piece goods are picked up automatically by a remote controlled apparatus, by the piece goods being gripped by friction by the apparatus and moved onto a pick-up platform belonging to the apparatus. Moreover, the piece goods, after being picked up on the pick-up platform, are secured by force and/or shape against slipping off or falling down until they are unloaded, and the loaded goods being put down automatically by the apparatus at the intended location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2001
    Publication date: December 13, 2001
    Inventors: Martin Koini, Gunther Nagel
  • Publication number: 20010042444
    Abstract: Described is a coffee machine (1) comprising a brewing means (5, 5′), a support surface (15) for ground coffee and a means (3, 6, 7) for applying water to the ground coffee, in which it is possible to level off the ground coffee positioned on the support surface (15) in a constructionally simple and generally applicable manner to obtain a layer having a substantially uniform thickness. To this end there is provided a means (22, 24, 25, 122, 222, 322) which guides water in a purposefully non-uniform manner over the ground coffee such that the ground coffee is distributed over the support surface (15) in a layer having a substantially uniform thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 1999
    Publication date: November 22, 2001
    Inventors: SIEGFRIED HUBER, GUNTHER NAGEL
  • Patent number: 5814353
    Abstract: An electrohydraulic hybrid drive for a plastic injection molding machine having at least one hydraulic actuator, at least one feed system for feeding the hydraulic fluid for actuation of the hydraulic actuators, at least one electric motor for operating the feed system for the hydraulic actuators, at least one further electric motor for driving the extruder screw of a plasticator device, a joint frequency convertor which actuates both of the electrical motors and a switching device circuited between the frequency converter and at least one of the electrical motors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Assignee: Voith Turbo GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Gunther Nagel
  • Patent number: 5394787
    Abstract: A hydrostatic displacement machine has in a revolving cylinder block several displacement elements movable in a guideway and having a radial position during the rotation of the cylinder block determined by a nonrotating displacement ring. The displacement elements, viewed axially, are retained on the displacement ring by two retaining rings. The retaining rings feature relative to the displacement ring a radial seal. The axial seal of the retaining rings is effected in standstill, relative to the housing or housing lid, by way of spring elements, and during the pumping operation, by a contact force which is indirectly dependent on the operating pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1995
    Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Fahnle, Gunther Nagel
  • Patent number: 5081907
    Abstract: A hydrostatic displacement engine having pistons which slide on the inside of a stroke ring. The eccentricity of the stroke ring, relative to the cylinder block, is variable. The interior of the housing is divided in two areas which are separated from each other preferably by a seal, namely in the area located radially outside the stroke ring and the area located radially within the stroke ring. The inner and outer areas serve as a leakage oil collection space and connects through a leakage oil line with a pressureless liquid container. Emptying in the area situated radially outside the stroke ring is a connection line which is supplied by a pressure supply. A pressure valve maintains the pressure in the outer area at a value of several bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1992
    Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbH
    Inventors: Gunther Nagel, Franz Arbogast, Peter Peiz
  • Patent number: 4049502
    Abstract: The steam which develops during water cooling of a furnace is withdrawn from the cooling system of the furnace, introduced into a distillation plant wherein it is subjected to at least partial condensation, and the thus-obtained condensate is recirculated into the cooling system of the furnace. An apparatus for carrying out the method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1974
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1977
    Assignee: Klockner-Werke AG
    Inventor: Gunther Nagels