Patents by Inventor Siegfried GRÜNINGER

Siegfried GRÜNINGER 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: 11330827
    Abstract: A method for producing herb cheese, in particular for producing hard cheese, which is enriched with herbs, spices or the like, with the herbs introduced by machine. For this purpose, raw cheese mass having about 80% milk removed is filled into cheese molds, which are preferably arranged in a vat of a cartridge press, and subsequently pressed. At the same time, respectively, herbs, spices or the like are introduced uniformly into the cheese molds parallel to the raw cheese mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Kalt Maschinenbau AG
    Inventor: Siegfried Grüninger
  • Patent number: 11284598
    Abstract: An apparatus for cheese production, in particular a cassette press and an articulated tube arrangement for feeding cheese raw mixture from a cheese maker into molds of the cassette press, wherein the most uniform, constant filling can be achieved. The device has a trough open in plan view, a pressing head having a plurality of press plungers aligned on the cheese molds for pressing the cheese raw mixture and a distributor head for filling in the cheese raw mixture. The distributor head is movable along the longitudinal sides of the trough. The distributor head is rotatably coupled to an articulated tube arrangement for feeding the cheese raw mixture of a cheese maker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Kalt Maschinenbau AG
    Inventor: Siegfried Grüninger
  • Publication number: 20200390121
    Abstract: A method for producing herb cheese, in particular for producing hard cheese, which is enriched with herbs, spices or the like, with the herbs introduced by machine. For this purpose, raw cheese mass having about 80% milk removed is filled into cheese molds, which are preferably arranged in a vat of a cartridge press, and subsequently pressed. At the same time, respectively, herbs, spices or the like are introduced uniformly into the cheese molds parallel to the raw cheese mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: Kalt Maschinenbau AG
    Inventor: Siegfried GRÜNINGER
  • Patent number: 10785953
    Abstract: A method and device for handling cheese blocks, which in particular can be assigned to a so-called cassette press with round or cornered cheese moulds. A rapid reloading of cheese blocks can be achieved. Compressed cheese curd is released from the inner wall of a mould and after a turning operation is evacuated from the mould, with the mould rotated, lowered and shaken or blown. Before the shaking or blowing, a pick-up plunger retracts into the mould up to the cheese block; the mould is then raised, rotated and guided back into the cheese press. The pick-up plunger with the cheese block is then lowered and the cheese block is fixed in position on the pick-up plunger by a clamping unit, is swivelled through 180° towards a secondary mould and is guided, i.e. pushed into the latter; the clamping unit is then opened and the pick-up plunger retracts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Kalt Maschinenbau AG
    Inventor: Siegfried Grüninger
  • Patent number: 10785954
    Abstract: A method and device for handling cheese blocks. Compressed cheese curd is released from the inner wall of a mould and after a turning operation is evacuated from the mould, with the mould rotated, lowered and shaken or blown. A lifting gripper is guided as far as the stop on a pick-up device, and in the mould the cheese block is subjected to a shaking movement. The mould, that is to say, the cassette, is then raised, rotated and guided back into the cassette press, so that the cheese block can be fixed in position on the lifting gripper by a clamping means. The pick-up plunger with the cheese block is then lowered, that is to say, retracted, the lifting gripper is traversed towards a secondary mould for the cheese block, preferably downwards, the clamping means open, and the cheese block is positioned in a secondary mould.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Kalt Maschinenbau AG
    Inventor: Siegfried Grüninger
  • Publication number: 20200053975
    Abstract: An apparatus for cheese production, in particular a cassette press and an articulated tube arrangement for feeding cheese raw mixture from a cheese maker into molds of the cassette press, wherein the most uniform, constant filling can be achieved. The device has a trough open in plan view, a pressing head having a plurality of press plungers aligned on the cheese molds for pressing the cheese raw mixture and a distributor head for filling in the cheese raw mixture. The distributor head is movable along the longitudinal sides of the trough. The distributor head is rotatably coupled to an articulated tube arrangement for feeding the cheese raw mixture of a cheese maker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: KALT MASCHINENBAU AG
    Inventor: Siegfried GRÜNINGER
  • Publication number: 20170135310
    Abstract: A method and device for handling cheese blocks. Compressed cheese curd is released from the inner wall of a mould and after a turning operation is evacuated from the mould, with the mould rotated, lowered and shaken or blown. A lifting gripper is guided as far as the stop on a pick-up device, and in the mould the cheese block is subjected to a shaking movement. The mould, that is to say, the cassette, is then raised, rotated and guided back into the cassette press, so that the cheese block can be fixed in position on the lifting gripper by a clamping means. The pick-up plunger with the cheese block is then lowered, that is to say, retracted, the lifting gripper is traversed towards a secondary mould for the cheese block, preferably downwards, the clamping means open, and the cheese block is positioned in a secondary mould.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: KALT MASCHINENBAU AG
    Inventor: Siegfried GRÜNINGER
  • Publication number: 20170135309
    Abstract: A method and device for handling cheese blocks, which in particular can be assigned to a so-called cassette press with round or cornered cheese moulds. A rapid reloading of cheese blocks can be achieved. Compressed cheese curd is released from the inner wall of a mould and after a turning operation is evacuated from the mould, with the mould rotated, lowered and shaken or blown. Before the shaking or blowing, a pick-up plunger retracts into the mould up to the cheese block; the mould is then raised, rotated and guided back into the cheese press. The pick-up plunger with the cheese block is then lowered and the cheese block is fixed in position on the pick-up plunger by a clamping unit, is swivelled through 180° towards a secondary mould and is guided, i.e. pushed into the latter; the clamping unit is then opened and the pick-up plunger retracts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: KALT MASCHINENBAU AG
    Inventor: Siegfried GRÜNINGER
  • Patent number: 6745686
    Abstract: A support for a cylindrical screen in a rotation screen printing apparatus. The apparatus has two sides. The support includes a side flange on each of the two ends of the apparatus; an intermediate ring resiliently supported by each side flange; a turnbuckle rotatable rotatably disposed in each intermediate ring; a stencil ring disposed in each turnbuckle. Whereby the screen is received at each end of the apparatus through the stencil rings in a turnbuckle, so that when subjected to a load, the screen is able to pivot and be displaced in an axial direction relative to the flange at least within predetermined limits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Gallus Ferd, Ruesch AG
    Inventors: Hans-Rudolf Frick, Heinz Brocker, Siegfried Grueninger
  • Patent number: 6318416
    Abstract: The spring interior 10 comprises springs 12 with different spring constants (hardness). The variation of the spring constant is effected by changing the average radius of the windings 13 between the central winding 15 and the two end rings 14 of each individual spring. With a spring winding machine 21 whose bending tools can be set and adjusted by software during the production, in this manner spring interiors 10 may be manufactured which comprises any amount of zones of differing hardness. With this, all springs 12 consist of wire with the same diameter, the same end ring 14 diameter and the same height, and the automatic manufacture may be effected without conversion of the spring interior assembly automatic machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventor: Siegfried Grueninger
  • Patent number: 5788051
    Abstract: Device for transferring springs to an assembly machine, wherein the sprints to be transferred are retained in a guide device wherein for the transfer of the springs sliders are provided engaging at the end winds of the springs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: Spuehl AG
    Inventors: Hans Knoepfel, Siegfried Grueninger
  • Patent number: 5713115
    Abstract: Described is an electronically regulated coiling apparatus for mattress and upholstery springs comprising essentially a wire draw-in, a wire guidance, a cutting device and a bending device for a wire to be processed, and due to short drive trains equipped with few transfer elements, in particular for the bending device, improved torsional rigidity and flexural strength of the particular drive train is attained. The electronically regulated servomotors used according to the invention can therefore transfer their movement directly onto the bending tools and the drive rollers by interconnecting few transfer elements. This permits bending a wire with decreased tolerances into a corresponding spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Assignee: Spuehl AG
    Inventors: Hans Knoepfel, Siegfried Grueninger