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).
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Patent number: 7387128Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 13, 2004Date of Patent: June 17, 2008Assignee: British American Tobacco (Germany) GmbHInventors: Uwe Werner Ehling, Gerald Schmekel, Frank Plückhahn, Hans-Werner Fuchs, Matthias Link
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Patent number: 7380554Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 5, 2004Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Assignee: British American Tobacco (Germany) GmbHInventors: Uwe Werner Ehling, Gerald Schmekel, Frank Plückhahn, Hans-Werner Fuchs, Matthias Link
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Publication number: 20050098186Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2004Publication date: May 12, 2005Applicant: British American Tobacco (Germany) GmbHInventors: Uwe Ehling, Gerald Schmekel, Frank Pluckhahn, Hans-Werner Fuchs, Matthias Link
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Patent number: 6857358Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 15, 2003Date of Patent: February 22, 2005Assignee: British American Tobacco (Germany) GmbHInventors: Andreas Dittrich, Hans-Werner Fuchs, Bernd Rabenstein
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Publication number: 20040251640Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Applicant: W&H Dentalwerk Burmoos GmbHInventor: Hans-Werner Fuchs
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Publication number: 20040182258Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2004Publication date: September 23, 2004Inventors: Uwe Werner Ehling, Gerald Schmekel, Frank Pluckhahn, Hans-Werner Fuchs, Matthias Link
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Publication number: 20040079243Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2003Publication date: April 29, 2004Applicant: British American Tobacco (Germany) GmbHInventors: Andreas Dittrich, Hans-Werner Fuchs, Bernd Rabenstein
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Patent number: 6502581Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 4, 2000Date of Patent: January 7, 2003Assignee: Brown & Williamson Tobacco CorporationInventors: Dietmar Franke, Fritz Schelhorn, Hans-Werner Fuchs, Harald Hofmann
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Publication number: 20010000095Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2000Publication date: April 5, 2001Inventors: Dietmar Franke, Fritz Schelhorn, Hans-Werner Fuchs, Harald Hofmann
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Patent number: 6155269Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 9, 1998Date of Patent: December 5, 2000Assignee: Brown & Williamson Tobacco CorporationInventors: Dietmar Franke, Fritz Schelhorn, Hans-Werner Fuchs, Harald Hofmann
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Patent number: 5605432Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 23, 1994Date of Patent: February 25, 1997Assignee: Hauni Maschinenbau AGInventors: Friedhelm Fink, Klaus Panthel, Hans-Werner Fuchs