Patents by Inventor Heiko Toepke

Heiko Toepke 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: 11649135
    Abstract: A textile machine for producing cross-wound packages, the machine being equipped with a plurality of workstations arranged next to one another on both longitudinal sides of the machine and having a cross-wound package transport apparatus. The cross-wound package transport apparatus has a first transport device, arranged between the two rows of workstations for conveying cross-wound packages, and a handling apparatus for moving cross-wound packages from the first transport device to the second transport device. The handling apparatus is arranged between the end regions of the first transport device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dirk Brakensiek, Robert Geisler, Wolfgang Doerner, Bodo Hansen, Tai Mac, Erwin Peters, Eduard Prediger, Philipp Schiffers, Michael Spitzer, Jonathan Sprecher, Heiko Toepke, Lothar Winzen
  • Patent number: 11180341
    Abstract: A textile machine for producing cross-wound packages, comprising a plurality of workstations, each of which has at least one pneumatic consumer, and comprising a suction system which has at least one vacuum source to which the pneumatic consumers of the workstations are connected via a machine-length vacuum duct arranged in the region of the central axis between two rows of workstations. In order to modify such a textile machine producing cross-wound packages in such a way that it is ensured that the required minimum spinning vacuum is always available at all workstations of the textile machine during spinning operation, according to the invention the textile machine producing cross-wound packages has, in addition to the vacuum duct, a machine-length bypass duct which is also installed in the region of the central axis and is arranged above chain ducts for service units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dirk Brakensiek, Elisabeth Klaczynski, Tai Mac, Erwin Peters, Eduard Prediger, Philipp Schiffers, Michael Spitzer, Detlef Schelter, Heiko Toepke, Lothar Winzen, Lothar Uedinger, Harald Wilhelm Wassen
  • Patent number: 11174105
    Abstract: A tube storage and transport device for a textile machine producing cross-wound packages, which has a plurality of similar workstations arranged side-by-side on both longitudinal machine sides, having a central tube magazine and two empty-tube conveyor belts arranged in the region of the longitudinal machine sides is provided. To improve the known tube storage and transport devices, and in particular to optimize the clock times that can be achieved during the empty-tube delivery, the tube magazine has at least two elevator units, that the elevator units have stacked and vertically displaceable holders for empty tubes, that the holders are designed for the empty tubes to be set down in a manner oriented the longitudinal direction of the machine, and that each of the elevator units is connected to one of the empty-tube conveyor belts and is designed in such a way that empty tubes are removed from the elevator units from the longitudinal machine side and transferred onto the empty-tube conveyor belts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: SAURER SPINNING SOLUTIONS GmbH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Eduard Prediger, Erwin Peters, Lothar Winzen, Bodo Hansen, Lothar Uedinger, Robert Geisler, Heiko Toepke, Dirk Brakensiek, Jonathan Sprecher, Philipp Schiffers, Michael Spitzer
  • Publication number: 20200392650
    Abstract: A spinning machine having several spinning positions, the spinning machine having an air flow supply unit for providing compressed air and/or suction air at the spinning positions and a drafting system support extending along the spinning positions, for detachably arranging drafting systems at the spinning positions. In order to provide a spinning machine that allows compressed air and/or suction air to be supplied to the spinning positions in an energy-efficient manner, it is provided that the drafting system support is designed as a longitudinally channeled tube body having a flow connection to the air flow supply unit and having connection openings assigned to the individual spinning positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Philipp Schiffers, Lothar Uedinger, Heiko Toepke
  • Publication number: 20200331721
    Abstract: A textile machine for producing cross-wound packages, which has a plurality of workstations on the two longitudinal sides of the machine and is equipped with a tube magazine arranged at an end of the machine, the tube magazine having a plurality of empty-tube transport rows, driven by electric motor and loaded with empty tubes of different yarn lots. In order to avoid the fixed division of the empty-tube transport rows that hitherto was defined by the construction of the tube magazine and thus to avoid limited variations in the yarn lot management, the invention provides for the empty-tube transport rows to be equipped with electric drives, which are connected to a control unit of the textile machine, the machine control system being designed in such a way that different lot management programs are set by software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Eduard Prediger, Michael Spitzer, Heiko Toepke, Jonathan Sprecher, Philipp Schiffers, Wolfgang Doerner, Harald Wassen
  • Publication number: 20200331701
    Abstract: A tube storage and transport device for a textile machine producing cross-wound packages, which has a plurality of similar workstations arranged side-by-side on both longitudinal machine sides, having a central tube magazine and two empty-tube conveyor belts arranged in the region of the longitudinal machine sides is provided. To improve the known tube storage and transport devices, and in particular to optimize the clock times that can be achieved during the empty-tube delivery, the tube magazine has at least two elevator units, that the elevator units have stacked and vertically displaceable holders for empty tubes, that the holders are designed for the empty tubes to be set down in a manner oriented the longitudinal direction of the machine, and that each of the elevator units is connected to one of the empty-tube conveyor belts and is designed in such a way that empty tubes are removed from the elevator units from the longitudinal machine side and transferred onto the empty-tube conveyor belts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Eduard Prediger, Erwin Peters, Lothar Winzen, Bodo Hansen, Lothar Uedinger, Robert Geisler, Heiko Toepke, Dirk Brakensiek, Jonathan Sprecher, Philipp Schiffers, Michael Spitzer, I
  • Publication number: 20200189860
    Abstract: A textile machine for producing cross-wound packages, the machine being equipped with a plurality of workstations arranged next to one another on both longitudinal sides of the machine and having a cross-wound package transport apparatus. The cross-wound package transport apparatus has a first transport device, arranged between the two rows of workstations for conveying cross-wound packages, and a handling apparatus for moving cross-wound packages from the first transport device to the second transport device. The handling apparatus is arranged between the end regions of the first transport device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Dirk Brakensiek, Robert Geisler, Wolfgang Doerner, Bodo Hansen, Tai Mac, Erwin Peters, Eduard Prediger, Philipp Schiffers, Michael Spitzer, Jonathan Sprecher, Heiko Toepke, Lothar Winzen
  • Publication number: 20200180900
    Abstract: A textile machine for producing cross-wound packages, comprising a plurality of workstations, each of which has at least one pneumatic consumer, and comprising a suction system which has at least one vacuum source to which the pneumatic consumers of the workstations are connected via a machine-length vacuum duct arranged in the region of the central axis between two rows of workstations. In order to modify such a textile machine producing cross-wound packages in such a way that it is ensured that the required minimum spinning vacuum is always available at all workstations of the textile machine during spinning operation, according to the invention the textile machine producing cross-wound packages has, in addition to the vacuum duct, a machine-length bypass duct which is also installed in the region of the central axis and is arranged above chain ducts for service units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Dirk Brakensiek, Elisabeth Klaczynski, Tai Mac, Erwin Peters, Eduard Prediger, Philipp Schiffers, Michael Spitzer, Detlef Schelter, Heiko Toepke, Lothar Winzen, Lothar Uedinger, Harald Wilhelm Wassen
  • Publication number: 20200040485
    Abstract: A supporting frame for a drafting system unit for drafting a fiber band at a workstation of a textile machine as well as a drafting system comprising such a drafting system unit. In order to make a drafting system and a drafting system unit available, the supporting frame has a coupling section and a locking unit for detachably connecting the supporting frame to an assigned workstation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Philipp Schiffers, Ralf Siewert, Heiko Toepke, Lothar Uedinger