Patents by Inventor Walter Keller
Walter Keller 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: 5367895Abstract: A device for applying a treatment liquid to a moving web of material such as a textile web includes a drum that is rotatable around a horizontal axis. At least one guide roller is provided for guiding the fabric web such that the web wraps at least partially around the drum beginning at a side of the drum at which the web is disposed tangentially thereto and continuing around a bottom portion of the drum. A trailing, continuous band is also provided which is closed in a liquid-tight manner and circulates in a plane that is perpendicular to the axis of the drum. The band has an outer circumferential surface that fits closely on the fabric web at a location in which the web contacts the drum. The circumferential surface of the band and drum define a nip therebetween. The band seals off the nip at its bottom. The band has web segments forming lateral sealing elements which extend from the edges of the band to project outwardly. The segments have a side abutting a contact surface formed at the rim of the drum.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1993Date of Patent: November 29, 1994Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Klaus Kadagies, Walter Keller
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Patent number: 5359743Abstract: A device for continuously treating a textile fabric web comprises at least one application devices for applying one or more treatment liquors to the fabric web. After applying the liquors, the fabric web exhibits a total moisture content in the range of 100 to 220% of the weight of the dry fabric. The fabric web with the moisture is fed into a tower-like heating zone of an ager, in which the fabric web is guided over a path consisting of a plurality of horizontal loops.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 1992Date of Patent: November 1, 1994Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbHInventors: Gunter Von Harten, Walter Keller, Johannes Kutz, Bernhard Benz, Christian Meyer, Wolfgang Kurschatke
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Patent number: 5101094Abstract: The device for cutting textile material and sealing the edges of the cut material comprises a heated resistance wire of round cross section supported in a supporting means. The wire forms a flattened central portion shaped to form a semi-circular bow having a symmetrical shape with a curved outer edge ground to a feather cutting edge, an inner edge and two lateral flat faces parallel to each other along which the edges of the textile material are moved after being cut by combined mechanical and thermal action of the wire. The edges of the textile material are sealed thereby. Since the temperature of the wire can be kept relatively low, no ridges of melted material are formed along the edges of the textile material.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 1990Date of Patent: March 31, 1992Assignee: Gebruder Loepf AGInventors: Walter Keller, Hansruedi Stutz
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Patent number: 5054503Abstract: Container for treating fingers or finger nails includes a cup with a sponge therein immersed in a treatment solution. The container is provided with a double walled seal, which is connected positively and/or non-positively to the inner wall of the cup of the container. At the top, the inner seal engages against a shoulder of the cup and secures the underlying sponge. The sponge has a vertically extending hole for receiving a finger to be treated. The sponge absorbs the liquid or solution contained in the cup for treating finger. The hole can be provided with a replaceable lining. Closable slits are provided in the seal for the insertion of the finger, so that no liquid flows out or evaporates. The seal can be held on its circumference by a spring ring, which engages against a cam or is located in a groove in the inner wall of the cup and is consequently positively held.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 1988Date of Patent: October 8, 1991Inventor: Walter Keller
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Patent number: 5055821Abstract: A system for transmitting data between a rotating part and a stationary part, such as is suitable for use in a computer tomography apparatus, has a wiper ring assembly and a number of electronic components disposed on the rotating part from which data is to be transmitted with a minimum of disturbance to the stationary part. A common power supply is provided on one of the stationary part or the rotating part, which powers all components. This common power supply is connected to the components on the other part via a further wiper ring assembly, or via further wiper ring assemblies.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 1990Date of Patent: October 8, 1991Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Walter Keller, Fritz Peter
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Patent number: 5030181Abstract: The electromagnetic clutch that serves for positive-locking assembly of concentric transmission shafts is inserted in a transmission housing (2) concentrically in relation to a shaft (1) and with a bushing (10) which externally encloses it, there resulting outside the bushing (10), in the area of the annular magnet (16), a free space that reduces the leakage, and the sliding sleeve (18) and the armature plate (19) together with the magnet (16) and eventual additionally provided bearings (25) can be preassembled, ready for operation and protected against damage. On the outer end of the bushing (10) can be provided at the same time a roller bearing (25) for the clutch part (24) that carries the counter gear (22) on the other shaft.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 1989Date of Patent: July 9, 1991Assignee: Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen AGInventor: Walter Keller
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Patent number: 4996435Abstract: An optical system for transmitting data between stationary part and a rotating part, such as for transmitting data from the rotating live ring in a computer tomography apparatus, has a number of light transmitter arranged on a circle on one of the parts, with the radiation output of the light transmitters being modulated according to the data to be transmitted, and a light receiver disposed on the other part. The light transmitters emit thin, fan-shaped light beams, each of the light beams being in a plane which is defined by the circle, or parallel thereto. Each fan-shaped light beam has a central ray disposed at an angle relative to a radius of the circle, and the light receiver is disposed relative to the circle and the light transmitters so that the light receiver is within the light beam of at least one light transmitter at every position of the rotating part, and thus supplies a constant output signal, given a constant transmitted signal, during rotation.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 1989Date of Patent: February 26, 1991Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Walter Keller
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Patent number: 4912946Abstract: A steamer contains cleaning elements formed as rotating brushes or nozzle arrangments that extend over the length of guide rollers conducting a textile web through the steamer. The cleaning elements are movable along rows of guide rollers to clean the guide rollers.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1988Date of Patent: April 3, 1990Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co KGInventor: Walter Keller
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Patent number: 4862713Abstract: An apparatus for supplying liquid to an elongated liquid reservoir in a uniform manner over the length of reservoir comprises a trough, extending transversely over the width of a continuous fabric web, into which a liquid is poured from above, and a feed pipe extending longitudinally along the trough. Short, identically formed, curved tubes are uniformly distributed over the length of the feed pipe and arranged to extend transversely therefrom. The liquid is supplied over the length of the liquid reservoir from the short tubes disposed at a plurality of sites along the reservoir. The cross sectional area of the feed pipe may be significantly greater than the total cross sectional of all of the curved tubes to prevent a significant pressure drop.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 1988Date of Patent: September 5, 1989Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Johannes Kutz, Walter Keller
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Patent number: 4775026Abstract: This actuation of a differential lock consists essentially of the locking differential (10) and the coupling (11) connected thereto, which via an electromagnetic actuating means (12) connects that part of the locking differential (10) driven by the universal shaft when and as long as a predeterminable value of the steering angle is attained or exceeded. The sole signal generator used for this purpose may be, as required, realized as a contact built immediately into the switching circuit of the electromagnetic actuating means (2), or an inductive switch or potentiometer, respectively, in the area of the angle-dependent steering elements, and held fast in the axle housing (2), protected from damage. The switching means (7) is capable of being actuated either via further switches (17) and (30) manually by the driver, or may be combined with the engagement lever for the supplementary drive on steering axle (1) so that the locking differential (10) can only be actuated under appropriate driving conditions.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 1986Date of Patent: October 4, 1988Assignee: Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Gerhard Sollbach, Walter Keller, Friedrich Ehrlinger, Peter Dziuba
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Patent number: 4719930Abstract: Hair treatment agent and process for hair treatment on the basis of an alcoholic solution containing a synergistic combination of (A) 0.1 to 40% by weight cetyl alcohol lactic ester and (B) 0.5 to 30% by weight of a monomer quaternary ammonium compound as well as 0 to 15% by weight water. The hair treatment agent may be diluted with water before use. It is applied to the still wet hair after the hair wash and is rinsed off with water after a reaction time of from 3 to 5 minutes. An excellent improvement of the combabillity, the touch and the luster of the hair is noticed with respect to hair treatments with the sole content of one of the two components (A) or (B).Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 1985Date of Patent: January 19, 1988Assignee: Wella AktiengesellschaftInventors: Paul Gross, Walter Keller
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Patent number: 4639223Abstract: In a heart display system a computer is operable to simulate different selected hearts, each with a different pattern of electrophysiological pathways, which conduct waves of depolarization. The computer determines the conduction in the pattern of pathways of a selected heart in accordance with selected parameters and inputs provided by the operator. In simulating the heart, the computer determines whether a depolarization wave proceeds from one pathway segment to an adjacent segment by examining whether the adjacent segment is polarized or depolarized and determines that the depolarization wave proceeds only if the adjacent segment is polarized. The operation of the simulated heart is displayed by showing an animation of the conduction of the depolarization waves in the pattern of electrophysiological pathways of the selected heart, by an ECG, and by a ladder diagram.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 1985Date of Patent: January 27, 1987Inventor: J. Walter Keller, Jr.
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Patent number: 4503802Abstract: In a three-roller device for uniformly coating a moving web with small quantities of fluid, the middle roller is provided with a contoured or grooved elastic covering, one of the two other rollers with a smooth elastic covering and the third with an incised elastic covering or sheath. Fluid is transferred to the middle roller from the roller which is not in contact with the moving web, the fluid being introduced either via a pool on a trough or via a spraying apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 1983Date of Patent: March 12, 1985Assignee: Eduard KustersInventors: Walter Keller, Johannes Kutz, Gerhard Severens
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Patent number: 4452248Abstract: A dual chamber cardiac stimulator provides sequential escape stimuli to the heart for bradycardia by synchronous following of normal sinus rhythm with prosthetic redundant AV coupling pre-empting or substituting for long or blocked physiologic AV delays. The automatic provision for prosthetic conduction of cardiac action in both antero and retrograde directions with pre-emption of pathologic delays prevents the initiation of reentry supraventricular tachyarrhythmias as well as the traditional disrhythms of pacing. Access to both chambers permits automatic injection of simple stimulus programs in either chamber upon the detection of a disrhythm, with immediate interruption by the first normal cardiac event. The pacer responds to arrhythmia provoking events by controlling the conduction time from atrium to ventricle and from ventricle to atrium to maintain cardiac stability and prevent pathological pathways from contributing to satisfy the criteria of reentry tachycardia.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1981Date of Patent: June 5, 1984Inventor: J. Walter Keller, Jr.
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Patent number: 4412541Abstract: A cardiac pacemaker constructed for terminating tachyarrhythmias and including: an atrial electrode implantable in a patient's heart for supplying atrial stimulation pulses thereto and at which a pulse appears in response to each atrial contraction; a ventricular electrode implantable in the patient's heart for supplying ventricular stimulation pulses thereto, and at which a pulse appears in response to each ventricular contraction; separately switchable control paths connected to each electrode for causing one electrode to produce a stimulation pulse at a given time after the occurrence of a pulse on the other electrode; a first time delay unit connected to be actuated by signals derived from the heart behavior for supplying a stimulating pulse to the ventricular electrode at a time after the occurrence of a pulse on the atrial electrode, which is shorter than the physiological atrial-ventricular transfer time; and a second time delay unit connected to be actuated by signals derived from the heart behavior fType: GrantFiled: April 12, 1982Date of Patent: November 1, 1983Inventors: Max Schaldach, J. Walter Keller
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Patent number: 4400953Abstract: In the continuous treatment of webs of material with a treatment medium to be applied to the web of material, especially for dying, wherein foam containing the treatment medium is applied to the web material and is subsequently worked into the web of material, the foam is applied to the circumference of a revolving cylinder, by wiping it off to a defined layer height and the web of material caused to run freely onto the cylinder and the web is looped around the cylinder freely through a given angle.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 1982Date of Patent: August 30, 1983Assignee: Eduard KustersInventors: Manfred Driessen, Walter Keller, Johannes Kutz
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Patent number: 4366682Abstract: An improved apparatus for the continuous treatment of webs of materials such as textile materials with a foamed treatment medium. The apparatus includes a rotating cylinder, the length of which is at least equal to the width of material being treated and the circumference of which engages the web over a portion of the cylinder. The web is looped over the cylinder in a looping region and the apparatus further includes a foam feeding device which transfers foam to the web in a transfer region at the circumference of the cylinder. The improvement of the invention comprises a foam feeding means which includes a foam chamber disposed adjacent the cylinder at the looping region, the looping region being located at a side of the cylinder which descends during rotation of the cylinder. The foam chamber opens adjacent the web at the looping region and a wiper is disposed at the lower end of the foam chamber parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 1980Date of Patent: January 4, 1983Assignee: Eduard KustersInventor: Walter Keller
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Patent number: 4277478Abstract: The invention relates to the new antibiotic Lysolipin including two components X and I, and derivatives thereof. Lysolipin is formed when the strain Streptomyces violaceoniger (Waksman et Curtis) Waksman et Henrici Tu 96, which strain has been deposited under the reference NRRL 8097 at the Northern Regional Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Peoria, Illinois, is cultured in a nutrient medium. The structural formulae of the 2 components are ##STR1## Lysolipin I and X and their derivatives have antibacterial activity and are effective against yeast - like fungi, such as Candida albicans. Their antibiotic action probably depends on an inhibition of the cell wall synthesis.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 1979Date of Patent: July 7, 1981Assignee: Ciba-Geigy CorporationInventors: Hans Zahner, Hannelore Drautz, Walter Keller
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Patent number: 4275683Abstract: In apparatus for applying foam to a moving web comprising a foam generator and a foam box which is coupled to the foam generator, the foam box arranged transversely to the web, extending over its width, and having on its underside an opening which extends over the width of the web and under which a rotatable cylinder is arranged which extends over the width of the web, the cylinder being sealed against the foam box except for an exit for the foam, the cylinder in its rotation, carrying foam from the foam box along at its surface and depositing it on the web passing underneath the cylinder, is a wall element is disposed on the side of the cylinder which is descending during revolution, the wall element, together with the cylinder, forming a canal which is tapered in the circumferential direction of the cylinder with the canal ending in the region between the height of the axis of the cylinder and one half the height of the cylinder above, and a wiper inclined downwardly toward the web rests against the cylindeType: GrantFiled: September 20, 1979Date of Patent: June 30, 1981Assignee: Eduard KustersInventors: Johannes Kutz, Walter Keller, Max Kruger, Eduard Kusters
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Patent number: 4039286Abstract: To permit flexibility in chemical testing steps, a plurality of automatic chemical apparatus units are arranged in modular form, each unit including a main sample receptacle transport conveyor to move the receptacle holding a sample to be tested in a main transport path, a plurality of test and treatment containers being associated with each unit, and a sampling transfer station is located to extract a sample of test substance from the sample receptacle and introduce it into one of the test and treatment containers, which test and treatment container is then moved in a separate test and treatment conveyor path along a plurality of testing and treatment stations until the entire analysis of the removed sample is completed, at which time a new sample receptacle is moved along the main path to the sampling transfer station for introducing a new sample into a subsequent test and treatment receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1976Date of Patent: August 2, 1977Assignee: W. C. Heraeus GmbHInventors: Walter Keller, Hubert Koukol, Werner Ptaschek, Dieter Wendt