Patents by Inventor Jens Steinberg
Jens Steinberg 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: 10053982Abstract: A milling device is disclosed. The milling device may have a shaft. The shaft may have a shaft axis (A). The milling device may also have a spindle drum rotatably mounted relative to the shaft axis (A) and rotatable about a spindle drum axis (B) coaxial to the shaft axis (A). Further, the milling device may have a plurality of tool spindles rotatably mounted in the spindle drum and rotatable about tool spindle axes (D). Each tool spindle axis (D) may be parallely arranged and spaced apart from the shaft axis (A) and may have a same distance to the shaft axis (A). The milling machine may also have a plurality of machining tools carried by the tool spindles. At least two of the plurality of machining tools may be positioned displaced from one another in a direction of the shaft axis (A).Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2014Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Caterpillar Global Mining Europe GmbHInventors: Joachim Raschka, Jens Steinberg, Ulrich Bechem
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Patent number: 9932826Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mobile mining machine which may comprise a movable machine base frame, a rotatable tool drum and including excavating tools. The mobile mining machine may further comprise a cantilever unit including a front support arm part and a base part, and a pivotal device to pivot the cantilever unit. The mobile mining machine may further comprise a tilt device to tilt the cantilever unit and a rotary mechanism to rotate the support arm part and the tool drum. Thus, a mobile mining machine with which tunnels, galleries or shafts may be continuously driven in even in hard rock with a high mining output and low tool wear may be provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2013Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Caterpillar Global Mining Europe GmbHInventors: Johannes Krings, Joachim Raschka, Jan Rohwer, Oliver Kortmann, Ulrich Bechem, Christian Schreiter, Jens Steinberg
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Patent number: 9359893Abstract: An apparatus for the milling cutting of rock, minerals or other hard materials has a tool drum which is rotatably mounted on a drum carrier about a drum axis and on the peripheral shell surface of which are disposed, in distributed arrangement, a plurality of tool carriers, which carry cutting tools and can be rotatingly driven, where their shaft axes run transversely to the drum axis. A first group of tool carriers and a second group of tool carriers are provided, where the rotational direction of the first group is counter to the rotational direction of the second group, and the shaft axes of the tool carriers of the first group and of the second group are oriented at different setting angles relative to the radial direction of the tool drum.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2012Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Caterpillar Global Mining Europe GmbHInventors: Jan Rohwer, Jens Steinberg, Joachim Raschka, Frank Herrmann, Christian Schreiter
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Publication number: 20160084082Abstract: A milling device is disclosed. The milling device may have a shaft. The shaft may have a shaft axis (A). The milling device may also have a spindle drum rotatably mounted relative to the shaft axis (A) and rotatable about a spindle drum axis (B) coaxial to the shaft axis (A). Further, the milling device may have a plurality of tool spindles rotatably mounted in the spindle drum and rotatable about tool spindle axes (D). Each tool spindle axis (D) may be parallely arranged and spaced apart from the shaft axis (A) and may have a same distance to the shaft axis (A). The milling machine may also have a plurality of machining tools carried by the tool spindles. At least two of the plurality of machining tools may be positioned displaced from one another in a direction of the shaft axis (A).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2014Publication date: March 24, 2016Applicant: Caterpillar Global Mining Europe GmbHInventors: Joachim RASCHKA, Jens STEINBERG, Ulrich BECHEM
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Patent number: 9206685Abstract: A mining apparatus includes two tool drums, which are arranged rotatably side by side in twin arrangement on a drum carrier and which are respectively provided with a plurality of tool carriers which support cutting tools arranged over the periphery of the tool drums and which can be rotatingly driven and the shaft axes of which run substantially transversely to the drum axle. The shaft axes of the tool carriers of the first tool drum span a first conical surface about the drum axis and the shaft axes of the tool carriers of the second tool drum span a second conical surface about the drum axis, where the conical surfaces are open to opposite sides and are preferably oriented such that they are mutually inclined in an O-arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2012Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Caterpillar Global Mining Europe GmbHInventors: Jens Steinberg, Joachim Raschka, Frank Herrmann, Christian Schreiter
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Patent number: 9156621Abstract: A face conveyor includes a continuous conveyor formed by a conveyor chain with entrainment plates that are connected to chain links and which, when conveying, circulates in an outward run and a return run, each of which are guided in trough portions by trough elements, which are arranged in a row. Guides provided on each trough element include a first guide on a working face side and a second guide at a spacing from a goaf side. The first guide on the working face side is secured on the trough element between the outward run and the return run. The outward run and the return run extend in a laterally offset manner with respect to each other, and the trough portion guiding the entrainment plates in the outward run is open on the working face side.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2011Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Caterpillar Global Mining Europe GmbHInventors: Hendrik Padberg, Jens Steinberg, Gerhard Siepenkort, Jörg Wirtz, Detlef Hahn, Joachim Raschka
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Publication number: 20150204190Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mobile mining machine which may comprise a movable machine base frame, a rotatable tool drum and including excavating tools. The mobile mining machine may further comprise a cantilever unit including a front support arm part and a base part, and a pivotal device to pivot the cantilever unit. The mobile mining machine may further comprise a tilt device to tilt the cantilever unit and a rotary mechanism to rotate the support arm part and the tool drum. Thus, a mobile mining machine with which tunnels, galleries or shafts may be continuously driven in even in hard rock with a high mining output and low tool wear may be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2013Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicant: CATERPILLAR GLOBAL MINING EUROPE GMBHInventors: Johannes Krings, Joachim Raschka, Jan Rohwer, Oliver Kortmann, Ulrich Bechem, Christian Schreiter, Jens Steinberg
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Mobile mining machine and method for driving tunnels, roadways or shafts, in particular in hard rock
Patent number: 9068453Abstract: A mobile mining machine includes a movable machine base frame having a boom, a swinging device for swinging the boom, and a tilting device for tilting the boom. At least one tool drum is coupled to the boom for rotation about a drum axis and rotatable tool carriers are arranged on a circumference of the tool drum. The boom has a supporting arm, on which the tool drum is mounted, and a separate swinging base, which is swingable about a swing axis in relation to the machine base frame by the swinging device. The supporting arm and the swinging base are connected to one another by a system of guide bars, by way of which a setting angle of the drum axis in relation to the swing axis is adjustable.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2012Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Caterpillar Global Mining Europe GmbHInventors: Jan Rohwer, Jens Steinberg, Joachim Raschka, Frank Herrmann, Christian Schreiter, Ulrich Bechem, Oliver Kortmann, Johannes Krings -
Publication number: 20140232170Abstract: A mining apparatus includes two tool drums, which are arranged rotatably side by side in twin arrangement on a drum carrier and which are respectively provided with a plurality of tool carriers which support cutting tools arranged over the periphery of the tool drums and which can be rotatingly driven and the shaft axes of which run substantially transversely to the drum axle. The shaft axes of the tool carriers of the first tool drum span a first conical surface about the drum axis and the shaft axes of the tool carriers of the second tool drum span a second conical surface about the drum axis, where the conical surfaces are open to opposite sides and are preferably oriented such that they are mutually inclined in an O-arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2012Publication date: August 21, 2014Inventors: Jens Steinberg, Joachim Raschka, Frank Herrmann, Christian Schreiter
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MOBILE MINING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING TUNNELS, ROADWAYS OR SHAFTS, IN PARTICULAR IN HARD ROCK
Publication number: 20140091612Abstract: A mobile mining machine includes a movable machine base frame having a boom, a swinging device for swinging the boom, and a tilting device for tilting the boom. At least one tool drum is coupled to the boom for rotation about a drum axis and rotatable tool carriers are arranged on a circumference of the tool drum. The boom has a supporting arm, on which the tool drum is mounted, and a separate swinging base, which is swingable about a swing axis in relation to the machine base frame by the swinging device. The supporting arm and the swinging base are connected to one another by a system of guide bars, by way of which a setting angle of the drum axis in relation to the swing axis is adjustable.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2012Publication date: April 3, 2014Inventors: Jan Rowher, Jens Steinberg, Joachim Raschka, Frank Herrmann, Christian Schreiter, Ulrich Bechem, Oliver Kortmann, Johannes Krings -
Publication number: 20140084667Abstract: An apparatus for the milling cutting of rock, minerals or other hard materials has a tool drum which is rotatably mounted on a drum carrier about a drum axis and on the peripheral shell surface of which are disposed, in distributed arrangement, a plurality of tool carriers, which carry cutting tools and can be rotatingly driven, where their shaft axes run transversely to the drum axis. A first group of tool carriers and a second group of tool carriers are provided, where the rotational direction of the first group is counter to the rotational direction of the second group, and the shaft axes of the tool carriers of the first group and of the second group are oriented at different setting angles relative to the radial direction of the tool drum.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2012Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: CATERPILLAR GLOBAL MINING EUROPE GMBHInventors: Jan Rowher, Jens Steinberg, Joachim Raschka, Frank Herrmann, Christian Schreiter
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Publication number: 20140070599Abstract: A mining machine for extracting seam-type or mass-deposit mineral materials includes a conveyor for carrying away mined material, a machine frame that can be moved along the conveyor and that includes at least one drum, which is equipped with extracting tools, is rotatable about its drum axis and is adjustable in height relative to a machine frame by a swivel arm. The drum axis of the drum is parallel to the direction of travel of the mining machine, and the extracting tools are mounted in groups on tool carriers which are arranged on the circumference of the drum so as to be rotatable about rotation axes disposed transversely in relation to the drum axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2012Publication date: March 13, 2014Inventors: Jens Steinberg, Joachim Raschka, Frank Herrmann, Hartmut Mohe
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Publication number: 20130319826Abstract: A face conveyor includes a continuous conveyor formed by a conveyor chain with entrainment plates that are connected to chain links and which, when conveying, circulates in an outward run and a return run, each of which are guided in trough portions by trough elements, which are arranged in a row. Guides provided on each trough element include a first guide on a working face side and a second guide at a spacing from a goaf side. The first guide on the working face side is secured on the trough element between the outward run and the return run. The outward run and the return run extend in a laterally offset manner with respect to each other, and the trough portion guiding the entrainment plates in the outward run is open on the working face side.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2011Publication date: December 5, 2013Inventors: Hendrik Padberg, Jens Steinberg, Gerhard Siepenkort, Jörg Wirtz, Detlef Hahn, Joachim Raschka
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Patent number: 7779984Abstract: An arrangement for extracting extraction products in caving in which the extraction product is extracted downwards through an extraction funnel into an extraction path and from this is transferred onto an extraction conveyor arranged in a conveyor path, in which arrangement the extraction path extends transversely between the conveyor path and an auxiliary path parallel to this, a loading ramp is arranged in the extraction path which forms a ramp surface orientated transversely to the conveying direction of the extraction conveyor and inclined towards it. The extraction path is provided with a rail guidance attached to the bottom and extending in the area between the auxiliary path and the conveying path, on which the loading ramp is guided and along which it can be moved by a displacement drive (20) in the direction of the conveyor path and in the opposite direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2006Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignees: Bucyrus DBT Europe GmbH, Corporacion Nacional Del Cobre De Chile (Codelco)Inventors: Harry Martin, Juan Delgado, Victor Raúl Encina Montenegro, Pablo Antonio Letelier Parga, Jaime Hernán Carreño Valdés, Fernando Arturo Geister Bühlmann, Detlef Hahn, Jens Steinberg, Hans Peter Lanz, Frank Herrmann, Hans Tümpner, Reinhold Brüggemann, Ulrich Pasehedus, legal representative
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Patent number: 7631942Abstract: The invention relates to a device for milling rock or other materials. Said device comprises a spindle drum (13) which is rotatably mounted on a drum support (11) and in which a plurality of tool spindles (22) are received to be rotatable about spindle axes in a manner off-center of the drum axis (43). The tool spindles, at their ends projecting from the spindle drum, carry machining tools (41). The invention is characterized in that at least two of the tool spindles can be driven by a common gear drive which comprises output gears (24), permanently disposed on the tool spindles, and a common drive element (25) interacting with the output gears. The drive element and the spindle drum (13) can be rotated in relation to each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2006Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: DBT GmbHInventors: Ulrich Bechem, Jens Steinberg, Joachim Raschka
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Publication number: 20090255783Abstract: In the arrangement in accordance with the invention for extracting extraction products in caving in which the extraction product is extracted downwards through an extraction funnel (10) into an extraction path (11) and from this is transferred onto an extraction conveyor arranged in a conveyor path, in which arrangement the extraction path extends transversely between the conveyor path (13) and an auxiliary path (12) parallel to this, a loading ramp (16) is arranged in the extraction path (11) which essentially forms a ramp surface orientated transversely to the conveying direction of the extraction conveyor and inclined towards it.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2006Publication date: October 15, 2009Inventors: Harry Martin, Juan Delgado, Victor Raul Encina Montenegro, Pablo Antonio Letelier Parga, Jaime Hernan Carreno Valdes, Fernando Arturo Geister Buhlmann, Detlef Hahn, Jens Steinberg, Hans Peter Lanz, Frank Herrmann, Hans Tumpner, Reinhold Brüggemann, Ulrich Pasehedus
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Patent number: 7490911Abstract: A drive device for rotating tools operating with oscillation superimposition, including a drive housing, a carrier sleeve mounted rotatably within the drive housing, a drive shaft mounted rotatably therein, a tool carrier to receive working tools and an oscillation-generating mechanism for generating the oscillation superimposition for the one or more tool carriers. The oscillation-generating mechanism for each tool carrier includes at least two intermediate shafts. The intermediate shafts are connected to the one or more tool carriers via an eccentric component part may be driven synchronously.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2006Date of Patent: February 17, 2009Assignee: DBT GmbHInventors: Jens Steinberg, Joachim Raschka, Ulrich Bechem
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Publication number: 20080116734Abstract: The invention relates to a device for milling rock or other materials. Said device comprises a spindle drum (13) which is rotatably mounted on a drum support (11) and in which a plurality of tool spindles (22) are received to be rotatable about spindle axes in a manner off-center of the drum axis (43). The tool spindles, at their ends projecting from the spindle drum, carry machining tools (41). The invention is characterized in that at least two of the tool spindles can be driven by a common gear drive which comprises output gears (24), permanently disposed on the tool spindles, and a common drive element (25) interacting with the output gears. The drive element and the spindle drum (13) can be rotated in relation to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2006Publication date: May 22, 2008Inventors: Ulrich Bechem, Jens Steinberg, Joachim Raschka
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Publication number: 20070193810Abstract: A drive device for rotating tools operating with oscillation superimposition, including a drive housing, a carrier sleeve mounted rotatably within the drive housing, a drive shaft mounted rotatably therein, a tool carrier to receive working tools and an oscillation-generating mechanism for generating the oscillation superimposition for the one or more tool carriers. The oscillation-generating mechanism for each tool carrier includes at least two intermediate shafts. The intermediate shafts are connected to the one or more tool carriers via an eccentric component part may be driven synchronously.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2006Publication date: August 23, 2007Inventors: Jens Steinberg, Joachim Raschka, Ulrich Bechem