Patents by Inventor Rudiger Grimmel

Rudiger Grimmel 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: 9623458
    Abstract: An installation piece for supporting a roller in a roller stand of a roller frame. The installation piece includes a main bore for receiving a journal of the roller, an inlet for a lubricant, an outlet for the lubricant, and a pump device for pumping the lubricant leaving the installation piece through the outlet. The pump device has a housing, an inlet channel, and an outlet channel. The inlet channel communicates with the inlet and the outlet channel communicates with the outlet for the flow of the lubricant. The pump device is driven by the flow of the lubricant in the inlet. The housing of the pump device is equipped with a screw pump and a turbine, which is driven by the pressurized inflowing lubricant, in the inlet channel for driving the screw pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Rüdiger Grimmel, Karl Keller, Konrad Roeingh, Johannes Alken, Kurt Scheffe
  • Patent number: 9228615
    Abstract: An articulated spindle (3) which is arranged in particular in a drive of a rolling mill, comprises a coupling sleeve for establishing a connection to an articulated head, or an articulated head (4) for establishing a connection to a coupling sleeve (2), wherein the tongue (1) of the coupling sleeve (2) engages with a cylindrical opening (5) of the articulated head (4) that is located transverse to the rotational axis. A sliding block (19) is arranged between the articulated head and the tongue (1), said block being formed by two sliding bodies (21, 22), which have rotational body contours (23, 24) in two portions, said sliding bodies being arranged rotatably in a rotational body-shaped recess (25, 31) adjusted to the shape of the sliding bodies (21, 22) such that they can perform a pivoting motion in the articulated head (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Rüdiger Grimmel, Christoph Sundermann, Ralf Gehle
  • Publication number: 20150352611
    Abstract: An installation piece for supporting a roller in a roller stand of a roller frame. The installation piece includes a main bore for receiving a journal of the roller, an inlet for a lubricant, an outlet for the lubricant, and a pump device for pumping the lubricant leaving the installation piece through the outlet. The pump device has a housing, an inlet channel, and an outlet channel. The inlet channel communicates with the inlet and the outlet channel communicates with the outlet for the flow of the lubricant. The pump device is driven by the flow of the lubricant in the inlet. The housing of the pump device is equipped with a screw pump and a turbine, which is driven by the pressurized inflowing lubricant, in the inlet channel for driving the screw pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Rüdiger GRIMMEL, Karl KELLER, Konrad ROEINGH, Johannes ALKEN, Kurt SCHEFFE
  • Publication number: 20120244954
    Abstract: An articulated spindle (3) which is arranged in particular in a drive of a rolling mill, comprises a coupling sleeve for establishing a connection to an articulated head, or an articulated head (4) for establishing a connection to a coupling sleeve (2), wherein the tongue (1) of the coupling sleeve (2) engages with a cylindrical opening (5) of the articulated head (4) that is located transverse to the rotational axis. A sliding block (19) is arranged between the articulated head and the tongue (1), said block being formed by two sliding bodies (21, 22), which have rotational body contours (23, 24) in two portions, said sliding bodies being arranged rotatably in a rotational body-shaped recess (25, 31) adjusted to the shape of the sliding bodies (21, 22) such that they can perform a pivoting motion in the articulated head (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: SMS SIEMAG AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Rüdiger Grimmel, Christoph Sundermann, Ralf Gerhle
  • Patent number: 8109168
    Abstract: The invention relates to a converter gearing, comprising a gear rim (7), which is connected to the pivoting axis (6) of a converter box, said gear rim being engaged with at least one drive pinion (8) of the converter gearing (9) and at least one locking device, which can be pivoted to engage with and be disengaged from the toothed gearing of the gear rim, (7) in the form of a locking arm (12) that is positioned on a horizontal shaft (10) and configured with toothed gearing (11). The aim of the invention is to improve said locking device. To achieve this, the shaft (10) of the locking arm (12) is mounted in at least one terminal bearing (13, 13?) and the locking arm (12) can be engaged with and disengaged from the toothed gearing of the gear rim (7) in a non-positive manner, preferably by means of active force elements (14, 14?) in its end regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: SMS Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gerhard Wurm, Christoph Sundermann, Rüdiger Grimmel
  • Publication number: 20110289995
    Abstract: The invention relates to a car (100) for transporting at least one drive spindle for a roller of a roll stand (300) and to a method for operating the car. The car comprises a running unit (105) for displacing the car from the operating side of the roll stand, through the roll stand, to the drive side, or vice versa, and the car is built flat enough that it fits under the drive spindles. The car according to the invention is an alternative to the prior art. Said car is designed as a lift car having a first carrier device (110) and a first drive unit (120), wherein the first drive unit (120) serves for raising or lowering the first carrier device (110), optionally having the drive spindle (200), relative to a neutral position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: SMS SIEMAG AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Eckehard Jung, Rüdiger Grimmel, Nikolas Münchow, Christoph Sundermann
  • Publication number: 20110227334
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotary union for supplying and/or discharging a medium under pressure into or out of an axial cavity of a rotating machine part, comprising a union part (12), which does not rotate and is fixed relative to the device, a rotary union part (15) and with bearing means as well as sealing components, which act in a radial sealing plane between the rotary union part (15) and the union part (12) fixed relative to the device. The rotary union is characterized in that the bearing means comprise individual step bearings (13, 14), which fix the radial distance between the union part (12) fixed relative to the device and the rotary union part (15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: SMS SIEMAG AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Rudiger Grimmel, Christoph Sundermann, Uwe Berkholz
  • Publication number: 20050012253
    Abstract: The invention relates to a converter gearing, comprising a gear rim (7), which is connected to the pivoting axis (6) of a converter box, said gear rim being engaged with at least one drive pinion (8) of the converter gearing (9) and at least one locking device, which can be pivoted to engage with and be disengaged from the toothed gearing of the gear rim, (7) in the form of a locking arm (12) that is positioned on a horizontal shaft (10) and configured with toothed gearing (11). The aim of the invention is to improve said locking device. To achieve this, the shaft (10) of the locking arm (12) is mounted in at least one terminal bearing (13, 13?) and the locking arm (12) can be engaged with and disengaged from the toothed gearing of the gear rim (7) in a non-positive manner, preferably by means of active force elements (14, 14?) in its end regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2002
    Publication date: January 20, 2005
    Inventors: Gerhard Wurm, Christoph Sunderman, Rudiger Grimmel
  • Patent number: 6726138
    Abstract: A device for controlling a discharge drop position of rod wire coils transportable by a horizontal conveyor and stackable in a vertical bundle build-up chute located beneath an end of the transporting conveyor and behind the transporting conveyor end in a transporting direction, with the device including friction brake element for impacting an outer circumference of the rod wire coils and located opposite the transporting conveyor end at a distance therefrom and beneath a charging opening of the bundle build-up chute in a drop region of the rod wire coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: SMS Demag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rüdiger Grimmel, Karl Keller
  • Patent number: 6561003
    Abstract: A rolling stand has a frame and a pair of support shafts centered on respective parallel shaft axes and each having an outer end projecting past the frame, inner and outer axially spaced bearing portions in the frame, and a gear between the respective inner and outer bearing portions. Each outer bearing portion lies between the respective inner bearing portion and the respective outer end. Respective rolls are carried on the outer ends outside the frame and respective eccentric sleeves rotatable in the frame about the axes engage the shafts at the bearing portions so that a spacing of the axes can be varied by rotating the sleeves in the frame. Respective pressure sleeves surround the shafts between the respective inner and outer bearing portions and are connected to a controller that pressurizes the sleeves and thereby bends the shafts in the frame between the inner and outer bearing portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: SMS Demag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Rüdiger Grimmel
  • Patent number: 6543712
    Abstract: A laying head for a rapidly movable wire rod and including a carrying sleeve located in the support housing of the laying head for receiving a wire entrance section of a laying pipe and supported by two, spaced from each other bearings, a pipe holder projecting past an end surface of the carrying sleeve remote from a carrying sleeve section that receives the wire entrance section of the laying pipe for supporting a wire laying section of the laying pipe; and a pressing device located in the support housing for applying a radial pressure to a section of the carrying sleeve located between the two bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: SMS Demag AG
    Inventors: Rüdiger Grimmel, Karl Keller
  • Patent number: 6530716
    Abstract: A detachable connection of first and second hollow shafts having first and second end faces is provided by axially insetting the first and second end faces into one another, wherein the first end face has an inner annular flange and the second end face has an outer annular flange. The annular flanges overlap one another when inserted. The inner annular flange has several radially displaceable locking bolts. The locking bolts have first locking bolt ends facing the outer annular flange and second locking bolt ends threadedly guided in the inner annular flange. The outer annular flange has locking bushings for the locking bolts. The locking bolts have a central circumferential pinion having teeth. The inner annular flange has a rotary ring with lateral teeth meshing with the circumferential pinions. The first locking bolt ends have receptacles for a rotary tool for rotating the locking bolts about the bolt axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: SMS Demag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Rüdiger Grimmel
  • Patent number: 6474567
    Abstract: A water cooling device for a controlled cooling of wire, small sections, and ribbed concrete wire guided along a wire rod guiding line out of the rolling heat has a support frame that is parallel-slidable or rotatable. Parallel, adjacently arranged cooling water pipelines are provided each having a different inner diameter and mounted on the support frame. Each cooling water pipeline has arranged thereat water boxes. The cooling water pipelines have cooling water pipes having an inner pipe diameter matching the inner diameter of the correlated cooling water pipeline. The cooling water pipes are arranged in the water boxes. Each cooling water pipeline has guide grooves positioned between the water boxes for connecting the cooling water pipes of each cooling water pipeline with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: SMS Demag AG
    Inventors: Rüdiger Grimmel, Karl Keller, Klaus Küppers, Meinert Meyer, Uwe Plociennik
  • Patent number: 6405958
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for minimizing the coil height of wire coils formed in a coil forming chamber, wherein individual wire windings are conveyed on a horizontal conveyor, the wire windings are allowed to drop at the end of the conveyor in an approximately vertically dropping movement, and the wire windings drop into the coil forming chamber so as to form the coil. The method includes the steps of placing the wire windings Nw from their drop line eccentrically relative to the axis of symmetry of the coil forming chamber, and adjusting an angle offset &Dgr;&phgr; between two successive windings in accordance with the number of wire windings which are placed per 360° in the coil forming chamber, wherein the adjustment is constant or variable, and wherein &Dgr;&phgr;=360°/Nw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: SMS Schloemann-Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Holger Behrens, Hans-Georg Hartung, Rüdiger Grimmel, Karl Keller
  • Publication number: 20020063138
    Abstract: A device for controlling a discharge drop position of rod wire coils transportable by a horizontal conveyor and stackable in a vertical bundle build-up chute located beneath an end of the transporting conveyor and behind the transporting conveyor end in a transporting direction, with the device including friction brake element for impacting an outer circumference of the rod wire coils and located opposite the transporting conveyor end at a distance therefrom and beneath a charging opening of the bundle build-up chute in a drop region of the rd wire coils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Inventors: Rudiger Grimmel, Karl Keller
  • Publication number: 20020044822
    Abstract: A detachable connection of first and second hollow shafts having first and second end faces is provided by axially inserting the first and second end faces into one another, wherein the first end face has an inner annular flange and the second end face has an outer annular flange. The annular flanges overlap one another when inserted. The inner annular flange has several radially displaceable locking bolts. The locking bolts have first locking bolt ends facing the outer annular flange and second locking bolt ends threadedly guided in the inner annular flange. The outer annular flange has locking bushings for the locking bolts. The locking bolts have a central circumferential pinion having teeth. The inner annular flange has a rotary ring with lateral teeth meshing with the circumferential pinions. The first locking bolt ends have receptacles for a rotary tool for rotating the locking bolts about the bolt axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2001
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Inventor: Rudiger Grimmel
  • Publication number: 20020033037
    Abstract: A rolling stand has a frame and a pair of support shafts centered on respective parallel shaft axes and each having an outer end projecting past the frame, inner and outer axially spaced bearing portions in the frame, and a gear between the respective inner and outer bearing portions. Each outer bearing portion lies between the respective inner bearing portion and the respective outer end. Respective rolls are carried on the outer ends outside the frame and respective eccentric sleeves rotatable in the frame about the axes engage the shafts at the bearing portions so that a spacing of the axes can be varied by rotating the sleeves in the frame. Respective pressure sleeves surround the shafts between the respective inner and outer bearing portions and are connected to a controller that pressurizes the sleeves and thereby bends the shafts in the frame between the inner and outer bearing portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2001
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Applicant: SMS DEMAG AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Rudiger Grimmel
  • Publication number: 20020014549
    Abstract: A laying head for a rapidly movable wire rod and including a carrying sleeve located in the support housing of the laying head for receiving a wire entrance section of a laying pipe and supported by two, spaced from each other bearings, a pipe holder projecting past an end surface of the carrying sleeve remote from a carrying sleeve section that receives the wire entrance section of the laying pipe for supporting a wire laying section of the laying pipe; and a pressing device located in the support housing for applying a radial pressure to a section of the carrying sleeve located between the two bearings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2001
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Inventors: Rudiger Grimmel, Karl Keller
  • Publication number: 20010020662
    Abstract: A laying apparatus for forming rings of a rod-shaped rolled strand has at least part of the cantilevered portion of the lying apparatus cantilevered from the main bearing composed of a material lighter than steel to reduce gravitational sag and increase the resonant frequency, thereby increasing the speed of the strand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Publication date: September 13, 2001
    Applicant: SMS DEMAG AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Georg Rebel, Rudiger Grimmel, Peter Haak
  • Publication number: 20010018174
    Abstract: A water cooling device for a controlled cooling of wire, small sections, and ribbed concrete wire guided along a wire rod guiding line out of the rolling heat has a support frame that is parallel-slidable or rotatable. Parallel, adjacently arranged cooling water pipelines are provided each having a different inner diameter and mounted on the support frame. Each cooling water pipeline has arranged thereat water boxes. The cooling water pipelines have cooling water pipes having an inner pipe diameter matching the inner diameter of the correlated cooling water pipeline. The cooling water pipes are arranged in the water boxes. Each cooling water pipeline has guide grooves positioned between the water boxes for connecting the cooling water pipes of each cooling water pipeline with one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Publication date: August 30, 2001
    Inventors: Rudiger Grimmel, Karl Keller, Klaus Kuppers, Meinert Meyer, Uwe Plociennik