Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Andrew Wilford
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Patent number: 7942180Abstract: The invention relates to an installation for applying glue to fibers for the production of fiberboard, especially MDF board or similar wood material board. Said installation comprises a fiber feed unit having at least one fiber feed conduit which opens into a fiber exit tube via e.g. an arched fiber deflection element and receives the air that is used to transport the fibers, a chute which is located downstream of the fiber exit tube, a glue application device which is located between the fiber exit tube and the chute and which has spray nozzles for spraying the fibers that emerge from the fiber exit tube and enter the chute with drops of glue, and a collection device, located downstream of the chute and having a transport device for collecting and optionally carrying off the fibers and a suction device for suctioning air from the chute through the transport belt.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2007Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Siempelkamp Maschinen-und Anlagenbaw GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Dieter Aengenvoort, Michael Schöler, Klaus Schürmann, Lothar Sebastian
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Patent number: 7938404Abstract: A shaft extending along and rotatable about an axis and a housing surrounding a portion of the shaft are provided with a seal assembly having an inner ring fixed on and rotatable with the shaft and having a pair of axially oppositely directed outer faces and a pair of outer slide rings axially flanking the inner ring and having inner faces axially sealed on the inner-ring outer faces. The outer rings, the housing, and the inner ring form an annular housing compartment surrounding the shaft. A blocking compartment on the housing is separate from the housing compartment. The inner ring is formed with a radially throughgoing passage having an inner end open on the shaft and an outer end open into the housing compartment. The housing is formed with a bore between the housing compartment and blocking compartment.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2006Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Wilo AGInventors: Klaus Hagen, Volker Netsch, Bernd Huster
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Patent number: 7939754Abstract: A box for connecting an output conductor of a solar panel with a feed cable has a base mountable on the solar panel and having a generally planar floor from whose outer periphery a side wall projects perpendicularly. A cover engageable with the side wall forms with the floor and side wall a substantially closed compartment. At least one holder in the compartment on the floor grips and positions an end of the feed cable such that it extends in a predetermined first direction. The side wall is formed with a cutout through which the feed cable passes. The cutout and holder are relatively spaced and oriented such that the cable extends in a predetermined second direction that forms an acute angle with the first direction between the holder and the cutout.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2009Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Lumberg Connect GmbHInventors: Michael Richter, Stefan Joergens, Ralf Schuler, Andreas Ross
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Patent number: 7938151Abstract: The invention relates to a device for preventing overfilling of a plurality of fuel tanks (8) at a gasoline station, in the event that fuel tanks are filled simultaneously by multi-chamber tank vehicles (7). The fuel tanks (8) are equipped with filling level threshold indicators (3) linked to a transmitter (1) for wireless transmission of a signal. A receiver (2) mounted in the tank vehicle (7) is provided to control one or several tank valves. In order to ensure safe closure of the tank valves, the filling level threshold indicators (3) of the fuel tanks (8) at the gasoline station are connected each to a signal line (5) leading to a common interface (4). Only one transmitter (1) along with an interrogation control device is provided for connecting to said interface (4) and cooperates with the receiver (2) mounted in the tank vehicle (7).Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2005Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Security & Electronic Technologies GmbHInventor: Dagmar Höckner
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Patent number: 7935210Abstract: A waterless-toilet liner has a seat panel adapted to lie atop a waterless-toilet seat and formed with a central hole of a size and shape generally corresponding to a size and shape of the hole of the seat, and a bag having an upper rim secured to the seat panel around the hole therein. This liner is made by first advancing a foil tube to a first work station and forming a cross-seam and cut in the foil tube-to cut therefrom a bag having an open end. Then the open end of the bag is fitted between a pair of foil sheet. An opening is cut through the foil sheets and open end of the bag and the edges of the bag at the opening and there adjacent are bonded to the foil sheets. Then the foil sheets are cut through or perforated downstream of the bag.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2006Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Lemo Maschinenbau GmbHInventors: Daniel Schega, Armin Meyer
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Patent number: 7922849Abstract: Process of manufacturing spun-bonded fabric, using naturally crimped filaments, whereby the filaments are passed through a stretching unit and finally through a diffusor. The filaments are thereupon layered on a layering device, as crimped filaments. The layered filaments together with the layering device are passed through a solidifying device in which the filaments are solidified by means of a fluid.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2006Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. KG. MaschinenfabrikInventors: Sebastian Sommer, Wilhelm Frey
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Patent number: 7924994Abstract: A telecommunications system has a plurality of mutually independent clients each having a plurality of terminal devices connecting to the telecommunication system and provided in groups. A client specific identification KID and a group specific identification ZID are assigned. A dispatcher number storage can serve to assign the KID and ZID from an E.164 incoming call for routing purposes and to determine whether calls will be executed internally or externally.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2005Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Tenovis GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Frank Rodewald, Hermann Rauth, Udo Kayser
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Patent number: 7908948Abstract: Sensors of the longitudinal edges and/or the width of hot roll metal strip are located immediately ahead of the trimming blades and are used to transversely adjust the trimming heads and/or the centerline position for the strip so that in subsequent trimming operations, the trim widths are identical at both sides. The cutting heads can be positioned in indentations at junctions between the successive segments of the strip.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2004Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: BWG Bergwerk-und Walzwerk-Maschinenbau GmbHInventors: Andreas Noé, Rolf Noé, Dieter Baukloh
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Patent number: 7909599Abstract: Among other things, the invention relates to an injection nozzle for guiding hot-melt plastic within a mold, particularly an injection mold. Said injection nozzle comprises a nozzle housing (11) and a nozzle needle (13) which is mounted in a translationally movable manner and is used for opening and closing a melt opening that leads to a mold cavity. The nozzle needle (13) can be moved by means of a driving mechanism (V) to which a transmitting device (14) is assigned that allows a movement of the driving mechanism (V) to be converted into a movement of the nozzle needle (13). The invention is characterized, inter alia, in that the transmitting device (14) is assigned to an attached unit (22) which can be releasably connected to the injection nozzle (10) and inside which a rod assembly (30) is disposed at least in part.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2007Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Hasco-Hasenclever GmbH + Co. KGInventor: Salvatore De Blasi
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Patent number: 7909158Abstract: A walking-beam conveyor has a pair of longitudinally extending, parallel, and transversely spaced fixed support rails, at least one walking beam between and generally parallel to the rails, and at least two lifters underneath the walking beam and operable to raise the walking beam from a return position generally below the rails to a conveying position generally above the rails. In accordance with the invention a first longitudinally extensible hydraulic actuator has opposite longitudinal ends one of which is secured relative to the rails. A second longitudinally extensible hydraulic actuator has opposite longitudinal one of which is secured to the other end of the first actuator and the other of which is secured to the walking beam.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2007Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: BWG Bergwerk-und Walzwerk-Maschinenbau GmbHInventors: Andreas Noé, Wolfgang Kalbfleisch, Herbert Beuther
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Patent number: 7909658Abstract: The invention relates to a plug connector (1c) with a plug (11) which has a handle element (13) which has at least one snap-in unit (19) and one contact support (14) oriented in the plug-in direction (X), and with a bushing (12) whose handle element (40) forms a contact support holder (45) and an opposing snap-in means (44) corresponding to the snap-in means, said opposing snap-in means cooperates with the snap-in means to secure the plug and the bushing in the connected state, wherein the contact support (14) and the contact carrier holder (45) form mutually corresponding positioning means (23, 49) which allow insertion of the plug into the bushing only with the snap-in means facing the opposing snap-in means. The problem of the invention is to create a plug connector which improves in particular the blind insertion of plug and bushing and thus improves the ease of assembly.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2008Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Lumberg Connect GmbHInventor: Dirk Pfaffenbach
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Patent number: 7905676Abstract: A lock pin has a generally tubular shaft having a front end formed with a radially outwardly open aperture. A locking ball is radially displaceable in the aperture between an outer locking position projecting radially outward from the shaft and an inner position recessed in the shaft. An actuating rod coaxially slidable in the shaft between front and rear positions has a rear end projecting from a rod rear end and a front end at the aperture. The rod has a formation engaging the ball in at least one of its front and rear positions and pressing the ball into its outer locking position. A unitary handle has one end fixed to the rear end of the shaft, an opposite end fixed to the rear end of the rod, and an elastically deformable connecting portion extending between the handle ends and urging the rod into its one position.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2006Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Erwin Halder KGInventor: Stefan Halder
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Patent number: 7901274Abstract: A rotary tool for surface machining has a disk having an elastomeric outer periphery, an array of angularly spaced elastomeric teeth projecting radially and each having a formation forming a hinge so that the tooth can flex at the hinge.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2007Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: MONTI-Werkzeuge GmbHInventor: Werner Montabaur
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Patent number: 7896433Abstract: A seating arrangement for a motor vehicle having at least one front vehicle seat and at least one rear vehicle seat in which the front vehicle seat has a backrest provided at a backrest frame as a unit which can be attached at least indirectly on the backside of the seat back and receives the headrest. A display screen or monitor can be mounted in that frame in a field or space specifically provided for that unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2004Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: Grammer AGInventors: Hannes Mayer, Ingo Thiele
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Patent number: 7891918Abstract: A drill has a housing, a drivable drill spindle rotatably mounted in the housing, a chuck body coaxially connected and rotationally fixed to the drill spindle, a tightening sleeve rotatable on and relative to the chuck body, and jaws moveable relative to the chuck body by the tightening sleeve. A coupling between the housing and the tightening sleeve has a sleeve held on the housing so as not to rotate with the chuck body and movable relative to the chuck body chuck between a coupling position in which it connects the tightening sleeve to the spindle housing angularly in a friction-fit manner and a decoupling position into which it is urged by a decoupling spring when torque between the tightening sleeve and the coupling sleeve in the coupling position exceeds a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2006Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Rohm GmbHInventor: Hans-Dieter Mack
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Patent number: 7892721Abstract: The invention relates to a storage medium for storing information/data, wherein the storage medium comprises a dielectric storage material, more particularly a disk-shaped storage material on which a metal ion donor medium is arranged or can be applied on at least one side thereof. Metal ions can be transferred from the donor medium into the storage medium by exposing the storage medium to radiation, more particularly to laser radiation. The invention also relates to a storage medium for storing information/data, wherein the storage medium comprises a dielectric storage material, more particularly a disk-shaped storage material having at least one local metal ion doping, wherein the metal ions can be converted into metal particles and/or metal particles agglomerations by means of radiation, more particularly laser radiation.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2003Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Inventors: Alexander Cioc, Gerhard Fehr, Reinhard Borek, Thomas Rainer, Jochen Schneider, Klaus-Jürgen Berg, Gunnar Berg
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Patent number: 7861566Abstract: A bending press for making tubing from a substantially planar and longitudinally extending metal sheet has a support extending transversely generally parallel to the sheet vertically offset from the sheet, and a bender at one of the edges of the sheet and slidable transversely generally parallel to the sheet on the support. The bender has a pair of bending tools, a tie rod extending transversely in the direction adjacent the pair of tools, and an actuator braced transversely in the direction between the tie rod and the tools and extensible in the direction to tension the rod and press the tools against opposite faces of the sheets at the one edge to deform the one edge. A clamp is engageable between the bender and the support for releasably locking the bender to the support at any of a plurality of positions offset transversely therealong generally parallel to the sheet.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2008Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: SMS Meer GmbHInventors: Manfred Kolbe, Uwe Feldmann, Frank Viegen, Karl Böhmer
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Patent number: 7854949Abstract: Disclosed is a waffle sheet as a long-life baked product, comprising one respective rib structure on opposite surfaces of a support layer. Said support layer has the shape of a corrugated plate (1, 10, 11, 12), e.g. with a sinusoidal or angular, trapezoidal undulation, the walls of said corrugated plate having the same thickness. Ribs (5, 5?, 6) which penetrate or bridge the wave troughs (3, 3?, 3?, 3??) extend transversal to said undulation. The wave troughs (3, 3?, 3?, 3??) of both surfaces or the top face and bottom face touch or penetrate an imaginary center line (4) of the cross-section of the waffle. The average wall thickness of the ribs (5, 5, 6) corresponds to the wall thickness of the corrugated plate (1, 10, 11, 12). The ribs (5, 5?, 6) extend at an angle from or perpendicular to the apex line of the waves. The ribs (6) in the wave troughs (3, 3?) located on the top face are offset by half a separation relative to the ribs (5, 5?) of the wave troughs (3, 3??) located on the bottom face.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2004Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Inventor: Franz Haas
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Patent number: D633244Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2008Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Inventors: Dagmar Bettina Kramer, Carsten Schaffarz
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Patent number: D637129Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2010Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Adolf Wuerth GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Josef Speigl