Patents by Inventor Manfred Gross
Manfred Gross 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: 6877430Abstract: A gripper device in a sheet-processing machine includes a gripper, a gripper pad associated with the gripper and a first drive for moving the gripper out of an opened position thereof into a closed position thereof. The gripper is cooperatively engageable with the gripper pad for producing a clamping force for holding sheets being processed. A second drive is separately operable from the first drive during a production printing operation of the sheet-processing machine. The first and second drives are operable for positioning the gripper and/or the gripper pad so that clamping faces of one of the gripper and/or the gripper pad are movable by the second drive perpendicularly to clamping faces of the other of the gripper and/or the gripper pad.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2003Date of Patent: April 12, 2005Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AGInventors: Volker Müller, Hendrik Frank, Manfred Gross, Karl-Heinz Helmstädter, Hans-Peter Hiltwein, Michael Krüger, Siegfried Kurtzer, Jürgen Maass, Thomas Schaeffer, Rolf Spilger, Norbert Thünker
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Publication number: 20040089178Abstract: A gripper device in a sheet-processing machine includes a gripper, a gripper pad associated with the gripper and a first drive for moving the gripper out of an opened position thereof into a closed position thereof. The gripper is cooperatively engageable with the gripper pad for producing a clamping force for holding sheets being processed. A second drive is separately operable from the first drive during a production printing operation of the sheet-processing machine. The first and second drives are operable for positioning the gripper and/or the gripper pad so that clamping faces of one of the gripper and/or the gripper pad are movable by the second drive perpendicularly to clamping faces of the other of the gripper and/or the gripper pad.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2003Publication date: May 13, 2004Inventors: Volker Muller, Hendrik Frank, Manfred Gross, Karl-Heinz Helmstadter, Hans-Peter Hiltwein, Michael Kruger, Siegfried Kurtzer, Jurgen Maass, Thomas Schaeffer, Rolf Spilger, Norbert Thunker
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Patent number: 6725778Abstract: A pressing device for a printing press or varnishing machine includes a pressing roller for rolling a cylinder packing or dressing onto a circumferential surface of a cylinder, and a finger protection device including a first flap and a second flap connected to the first flap via a swivel joint. The first flap is formed as a pressing element for pressing the cylinder packing on the cylinder. The first flap, in a protective position thereof, covers an inlet wedge or pocket jointly formed by the pressing roller and the cylinder. A printing press or varnishing machine having the pressing device is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2003Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AGInventors: Wolfgang Bitterich, Jürgen Rothaug, Manfred Gross
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Publication number: 20030177926Abstract: A pressing device for a printing press or varnishing machine includes a pressing roller for rolling a cylinder packing or dressing onto a circumferential surface of a cylinder, and a finger protection device including a first flap and a second flap connected to the first flap via a swivel joint. The first flap is formed as a pressing element for pressing the cylinder packing on the cylinder. The first flap, in a protective position thereof, covers an inlet wedge or pocket jointly formed by the pressing roller and the cylinder. A printing press or varnishing machine having the pressing device is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2003Publication date: September 25, 2003Inventors: Wolfgang Bitterich, Jurgen Rothaug, Manfred Gross
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Patent number: 6382624Abstract: An apparatus for transmitting a torque from a drive shaft for a component of a printing machine to a hollow body surrounding the drive shaft, includes a coupling configuration. The coupling configuration is formed through the use of driver elements, engages in a longitudinally displaceable manner on the drive shaft and couples the latter to the hollow body. In order to use such an apparatus for torques which are not constant, according to a first variant, the coupling configuration includes a coupling ring surrounding the drive shaft, a first subgroup of driver elements coupling the drive shaft to the coupling ring, and a second subgroup of driver elements coupling the coupling ring to the hollow body. According to a second variant, the driver elements couple the drive shaft directly to the hollow body and are resilient in an at least substantially radial direction and in the circumferential direction of the drive shaft, relative to an axis of rotation of the drive shaft.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2000Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AGInventors: Carsten Kelm, Bernhard Buck, Manfred Gross
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Patent number: 6186499Abstract: A sheet gripper in a sheet-fed rotary printing press, having a pivotally supported gripper shaft, whereon a gripper element cooperatable with a gripper pad is pivotally disposed and a clamping element is fixedly disposed, includes a spring element for placing the gripper element and the clamping element into operative contact, the spring element being formed as a leaf spring.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 1998Date of Patent: February 13, 2001Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AktiengesellschaftInventor: Manfred Gross
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Patent number: 6102987Abstract: A process for the removal of CO.sub.2 and sulfur compounds from natural gas and raw synthesis gas wherein N-formylmorpholine and N-acetylmorpholine mixtures are used as the desorbent at temperatures between -20.degree. C. and +40.degree. C. at pressures of 10 to 150 bar in a scrubbing operation. The acid gases are removed from the absorbent by flashing and the regenerated absorbent is recycled to the absorbent.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1998Date of Patent: August 15, 2000Assignee: Krupp Uhde GmbHInventors: Manfred Gross, Barbel Kolbe, Johannes Menzel, Werner Pohl
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Patent number: 5672326Abstract: Ammonia and 5 to 40 volume percent hydrogen sulfide containing vapors which arise in the vaporization of process water from hydrogenation or a crude oil fraction or in gas treatment in a coking plant, can be subjected in a cracking catalyst reactor to breakdown of the ammonia to nitrogen and hydrogen. The resulting process gas is cooled to 250.degree. to 350.degree. C. and is fed to a hydrogenation reactor where any sulfur is hydrogenated to the hydrogen sulfide. The process gas can then be subjected to further treatment without the danger of sulfur blockage of the process lines. For example, the hydrogen sulfide can be removed by a selective absorption process.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 1995Date of Patent: September 30, 1997Assignee: Krupp Koppers GmbHInventors: Hans-Peter Minak, Manfred Gross
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Patent number: 5100640Abstract: The method of performing the Claus process includes the steps of connecting in parallel two combustion furnaces with waste heat boilers, further reacting, after the partial combusting in the combusion furnaces, in a single Claus reactor which is connected to both of the waste heat boilers of the combustion furnaces so as to receive partially combusted gas from the combustion furnaces, and partially combusting the reactant gas in only one of the combustion furnaces, when a hydrogen sulfide mass flow rate of the hydrogen sulfide fed with the reactant gas is below a certain threshold, and partially combusting of the reactant gas in both of the combustion furnaces, when the hydrogen sulfide mass flow rate of the hydrogen sulfide is greater than the threshold value. The production capacity of the single Claus reactor is designed for a maximum expected hydrogen sulfide mass flow rate in the inflowing reactant gas.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 1990Date of Patent: March 31, 1992Assignee: Krupp Koppers GmbHInventors: Rainer Dittmer, Manfred Gross, Ulrich Meisl
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Patent number: 4973340Abstract: A method of removing hydrosulfide from a crude gas produced by partial oxidation of carbon-containing material comprises the steps of treating a gas at a temperature between 10.degree. and 60.degree. C. with a suitable absorption solution, regenerating the absorption solution loaded durhg the treating, and cooling the crude gas which has been precleaned and pre-cooled to a temperature of 110.degree.-150.degree. C. before entering the absorption column, in a stepped manner in indirect heat exchange, the cooling including supplying the gas first through a reboiler of a desorption column and then through a heat exchanger which serves for preheating of the loaded absorption solution.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1989Date of Patent: November 27, 1990Assignee: Krupp Koppers GmbHInventors: Manfred Gross, Ulrich Meisl
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Patent number: 4479811Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the drying and removal of hydrocarbons from gases.It is the object of the invention to increase the absorption ability of the solvent for aromatic hydrocarbons including naphthalene and water, to save material and energy, to lower the investment- and operating costs, as well as to avoid operational disturbances and to increase the safety during gas treatment, gas transmittance and gas distribution. This object is accomplished by the invention in that a mixture of glycol, N-methyl-.epsilon.-caprolactam and water is used as solvent. The mixture comprises 79.9 to 97 percent by weight of glycol, 2 to 20 percent by weight of N-methyl-.epsilon.-caprolactam and 0.1 to 1 percent by weight of water. The regeneration temperature of the charged solvent mixture is 150.degree. to 190.degree. C., preferably 170.degree. C. 3 to 15 percent by weight, preferably 10 percent by weight, of crude benzene is added to the charged solvent mixture.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1983Date of Patent: October 30, 1984Assignee: VEB Chemieanlagenbaukombinat Leipzig-GrimmaInventors: Burkhard Schlicht, Christel Sonntag, Hans Beise, Otto Lindner, Klaus Wehner, Werner Burk, Manfred Gross, Hans-Peter Minak
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Patent number: 4300913Abstract: Product gas resulting from the partial oxidation of finely divided fuel in a reactor is discharged as a stream into a tube leading downwardly into a vessel containing a water bath in which the lower end of the tube is immersed. Liquid slag produced during the partial oxidation is also discharged as a solid stream within and surrounded by the stream of product gas. The tube is cooled by circulating cooling water upwardly through an annular clearance in the tube which is discharged from the annular clearance at the upper end of the tube for gravity descent as a liquid film along the inside of the tube. The slag becomes cooled and granulated on contact with the water bath and is discharged from the vessel in granulated condition. The gas escapes from the lower open tube end, travels upwardly through the water bath to become cooled thereby, and is then discharged from the vessel in cooled condition.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 1979Date of Patent: November 17, 1981Assignees: Brennstoffinstitut Freiberg, Gosudarstwennyi Nautschno Issledowatelskij I Projektnyi Institut Asotnoj Promuschlennosti I Produktow Organitschekogo SintesaInventors: Klaus Egert, Wolfgang Heinrich, Klaus Lucas, Klaus-Otto Kuhlbrodt, Friedrich Berger, Peter Gohler, Manfred Schingnitz, Manfred Gross, Aleksander Jegorow, Vasilij Fedotov, Vladimir Gavrilin, Ernest Gudymov, Vladimir Semenov, Igol Achmatov, Nikolaj Majdurov, Evgenij Abraamov
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Patent number: 4145192Abstract: A method of processing technical gases such as natural or synthetic gases containing water vapor, acidic and neutral sulfur compounds and/or higher hydrocarbons which comprises treating said gas with an anhydrous solvent containing N-methyl-.epsilon.-caprolactam, an alkanolamine and a glycol to simultaneously remove said sulfur compounds, hydrocarbons and water vapor.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 1977Date of Patent: March 20, 1979Inventors: Hans Beise, Burkhard Schlicht, Manfred Thiele, Manfred Gross, Hans-Peter Minak, Manfred Schingnitz, Klaus Wehner, Werner Burk