Patents by Inventor Hans-Werner Fuchs

Hans-Werner Fuchs 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: 7387128
    Abstract: The invention relates to a continuous method for pressure-conditioning material for food and/or semi-luxury consumables, wherein said material (12) is introduced through an entrance (4) into a hyperbarically pressurized conditioning chamber (2), where it is treated with a conditioning agent, and extracted again from said conditioning chamber (2) at an exit (8), wherein the material (12) is conveyed continuously from said entrance (4) to said exit (8) in a conditioning chamber (2) inclined obliquely upwards, by means of a mixing conveyor, in particular a conveying screw (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: British American Tobacco (Germany) GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Werner Ehling, Gerald Schmekel, Frank Plückhahn, Hans-Werner Fuchs, Matthias Link
  • Patent number: 7380554
    Abstract: The invention relates to a continuous method for pressure-conditioning material for food and/or semi-luxury consumables, wherein said material (12) is introduced through an entrance (4) into a hyperbarically pressurized conditioning chamber (2), where it is treated with a conditioning agent, and extracted again from said conditioning chamber (2) at an exit (8), wherein the material (12) is conveyed continuously from said entrance (4) to said exit (8) in a conditioning chamber (2) inclined obliquely upwards, by means of a mixing conveyor, in particular a conveying screw (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: British American Tobacco (Germany) GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Werner Ehling, Gerald Schmekel, Frank Plückhahn, Hans-Werner Fuchs, Matthias Link
  • Publication number: 20050098186
    Abstract: The invention relates to a continuous method for pressure-conditioning material for food and/or semi-luxury consumables, wherein said material (12) is introduced through an entrance (4) into a hyperbarically pressurized conditioning chamber (2), where it is treated with a conditioning agent, and extracted again from said conditioning chamber (2) at an exit (8), wherein the material (12) is conveyed continuously from said entrance (4) to said exit (8) in a conditioning chamber (2) inclined obliquely upwards, by means of a mixing conveyor, in particular a conveying screw (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2004
    Publication date: May 12, 2005
    Applicant: British American Tobacco (Germany) GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Ehling, Gerald Schmekel, Frank Pluckhahn, Hans-Werner Fuchs, Matthias Link
  • Patent number: 6857358
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for marking cigarette packets, comprising a transport device for conveying at least one cigarette packet to a marking station for marking cigarette packets, and the following features: the transport device grasps a batch of adjacent, aligned cigarette packets and moves them to the marking station, where the transport device releases the batch; and the released cigarette packets are marked on at least one exposed area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: British American Tobacco (Germany) GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Dittrich, Hans-Werner Fuchs, Bernd Rabenstein
  • Publication number: 20040251640
    Abstract: The invention concerns a chuck device for use in medical, in particular in dental, straight and contra angle handpieces for accepting removable treatment tools by means of a clamping tab. The clamping tab is immovably connected by at least two points of contact with the casing of the chuck device. The spring effect and the clamping force for clamping the tool are generated and exercised exclusively by the clamping tab. Moreover, a method for manufacturing such a chuck device is described, by which means the complete chuck device may be manufactured on one machine only, exclusively by mechanical processing (machining), preferably by milling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Applicant: W&H Dentalwerk Burmoos GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Werner Fuchs
  • Publication number: 20040182258
    Abstract: The invention relates to a continuous method for pressure-conditioning material for food and/or semi-luxury consumables, wherein said material (12) is introduced through an entrance (4) into a hyperbarically pressurized conditioning chamber (2), where it is treated with a conditioning agent, and extracted again from said conditioning chamber (2) at an exit (8), wherein the material (12) is conveyed continuously from said entrance (4) to said exit (8) in a conditioning chamber (2) inclined obliquely upwards, by means of a mixing conveyor, in particular a conveying screw (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Uwe Werner Ehling, Gerald Schmekel, Frank Pluckhahn, Hans-Werner Fuchs, Matthias Link
  • Publication number: 20040079243
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for marking cigarette packets, comprising a transport device for conveying at least one cigarette packet to a marking station for marking cigarette packets, and the following features: the transport device grasps a batch of adjacent, aligned cigarette packets and moves them to the marking station, where the transport device releases the batch; and the released cigarette packets are marked on at least one exposed area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2003
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Applicant: British American Tobacco (Germany) GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Dittrich, Hans-Werner Fuchs, Bernd Rabenstein
  • Patent number: 6502581
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for regulating the output moisture content of tobacco conditioned by a loosening/conditioning and optionally casing (saucing) drum comprising injecting a throughflow of water into the infeed region of the drum by a first nozzle regulated depending on the target value for the tobacco output moisture content and the actual values for the tobacco mass flow, the steam throughflow and the tobacco input moisture content; and injecting a throughflow of water in the outlet region of the drum through a second nozzle, the target value of which is computed depending on the target value and actual value for the tobacco output moisture content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation
    Inventors: Dietmar Franke, Fritz Schelhorn, Hans-Werner Fuchs, Harald Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20010000095
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for regulating the output moisture content of tobacco conditioned by a loosening/conditioning and optionally casing (saucing) drum comprising injecting a throughflow of water into the infeed region of the drum by a first nozzle regulated depending on the target value for the tobacco output moisture content and the actual values for the tobacco mass flow, the steam throughflow and the tobacco input moisture content; and injecting a throughflow of water in the outlet region of the drum through a second nozzle, the target value of which is computed depending on the target value and actual value for the tobacco output moisture content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2000
    Publication date: April 5, 2001
    Inventors: Dietmar Franke, Fritz Schelhorn, Hans-Werner Fuchs, Harald Hofmann
  • Patent number: 6155269
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for regulating the output moisture content of tobacco conditioned by a loosening/conditioning and optionally casing (saucing) drum comprising injecting a throughflow of water into the infeed region of the drum by a first nozzle regulated depending on the target value for the tobacco output moisture content and the actual values for the tobacco mass flow, the steam throughflow and the tobacco input moisture content; and injecting a throughflow of water in the outlet region of the drum through a second nozzle, the target value of which is computed depending on the target value and actual value for the tobacco output moisture content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation
    Inventors: Dietmar Franke, Fritz Schelhorn, Hans-Werner Fuchs, Harald Hofmann
  • Patent number: 5605432
    Abstract: A robot manipulator has an arm with a head which is mounted for movement up and down, along a first horizontal path, along a second horizontal path at right angles to the first path, about a vertical axis and about a horizontal axis so that it can reach all portions of a storage facility for bobbins, stacked blanks and/or other commodities which are to be fed to one or more tobacco processing machines. The head has a jaw chuck which can engage a cylindrical internal surface of a bobbin or the cylindrical internal surface of a tool which is used for the transport of stacks of superimposed blanks of paper or the like. The head further has a vertically movable annular pusher which can strip a bobbin off the chuck or which can actuate one or more pivotable supports forming part of the tool and serving to prop one or more stacks from below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: Hauni Maschinenbau AG
    Inventors: Friedhelm Fink, Klaus Panthel, Hans-Werner Fuchs