Patents Represented by Attorney Nils H. Ljungman & Associates
  • Patent number: 7322777
    Abstract: A cutting tool with a cutting insert and a pivotable screw and nut combination for holding the cutting insert. The cutting tool also has a feed mechanism to adjust the position of at least one cutting edge of the cutting insert in the cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Horst Jåger, Berthold Zeug
  • Patent number: 7322774
    Abstract: An end mill for cutting or milling objects and a method of operation thereof. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.” The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims. Therefore, any statements made relating to the abstract are not intended to limit the claims in any manner and should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventor: Vladimir Volokh
  • Patent number: 7313991
    Abstract: A cutting insert made of cemented carbide and the use thereof for recessing or copy-turning, preferably at a high rotating speed. The cutting insert has at least one recess for insertion therein of a cutting body of a material other than cemented carbide, such as a ceramic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventor: Werner Penkert
  • Patent number: 7311125
    Abstract: Beverage bottle handling and filling machine for containers, such as bottles and cans, with lifting devices to lift the containers by the mouth or neck upward to engage beverage discharge openings to permit filling. The filling machine has a piston/cylinder arrangement that is designed to be pressurized to exert a force on the lifting device in the direction of the initial upward movement to tighten the seal between the bottle mouth and the discharge opening. The cylinder chamber is realized in the form of a duct for permitting flow of pressure media to pressurize the container and the piston/cylinder arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: KHS Maschinen-und Anlagenbau AG
    Inventor: Dieter Rudolf Krulitsch
  • Patent number: 7311481
    Abstract: Milling cutter (1), which can rotate about a cutter longitudinal axis (A), comprises a sleeve-shaped shaft (2) provided with an inner lying chip evacuation channel (11), which is arranged, in essence, symmetric to the cutter longitudinal axis (A), and with a suction opening (12). The milling cutter also comprises a milling head (3, 3a, 3b, 3c), which is held coaxial to the cutter longitudinal axis (A) and to the shaft (2) while being held on said shaft and which comprises, as cutting edges (7, 9), a face cutting edge (7) and a peripheral cutting edge (9). At least one cutting edge (7, 9) forms a positive rake angle (?a, ?r) on the periphery of the milling head (3, 3a, 3b, 3c). The milling cutter (1) is particularly suited for machining light metals, especially for circular milling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Dirk Kammermeier, Peter Mergenthaler
  • Patent number: 7308917
    Abstract: A beverage bottling plant and method for filling bottles with a liquid beverage material having a bottle filling machine with a filling valve for filling bottles with a liquid beverage. The filling valve having a gas cutoff element comprising a plurality of channels being configured and disposed to permit flow of a liquid into a container disposed at some distance beneath said filling element; each of the plurality of channels having a length, a width, and a height, wherein the width is substantially smaller than at least one of the height and the length, and the height is the distance from said liquid beverage inlet to the liquid beverage outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: KHS Maschinen- und Anlagenbau AG
    Inventor: Dieter-Rudolf Krulitsch
  • Patent number: 7302785
    Abstract: A packaging machine with a movable centering and lowering device for inserting partitions between groups of bottles or cans and a method of operation thereof. The movable centering and lowering device is designed to move with a group of bottles or cans and insert a divider between the bottles or cans in the group as the group moves through the packaging machine. The movable centering and lowering device is also adjustable to permit handling of dividers of different size and configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: KHS Maschinen-und Anlagenbau AG
    Inventors: Robert Van Den Heuvel, Hans-Peter Kuhlmann, Lothar Wess, Thomas Nitsch
  • Patent number: 7302945
    Abstract: A compound archery bow with an adaptor device for carrying the bow. The adaptor device includes a cylindrical body portion, having a rear extension piece having holes to receive a carrier ring, connected to a harness, which is held or worn by an archer. The cylindrical body portion includes a longitudinal open portion, intended to receive a cable guard rod of the compound archery bow. Locking grooves are disposed on each side of the longitudinal open portion. A C-shaped locking device is provided, having a locking lip to engage with the locking grooves; the locking device movable from an open non-locked position to a closed locked position, to retain the cylindrical body portion on the cable guard rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Inventor: Gregg L. Ewing
  • Patent number: 7299607
    Abstract: A beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage, having a filling element for filling bottles with a liquid beverage and a filling machine having such a filling element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: KHS Maschinen- und Anlagenbau AG
    Inventors: Ludwig Clüsserath, Dieter-Rudolf Krulitsch
  • Patent number: 7269930
    Abstract: A beverage bottling plant for filling bottles or containers with a liquid beverage which has a labeling device for labeling the bottles or containers. The labeling device has at least two labeling stations, wherein at least one labeling station can be moved from an operating position to a rest position when its supply of labels is exhausted, while at least one other labeling station can be moved from a rest position to an operating position to permit a substantially continuous feed and application of labels to bottles or containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: KHS Maschinen- und Anlagenbau AG
    Inventors: Paul-Gerhard Kahlisch, Klaus-Friedrich Stock, Heinz Thielmann
  • Patent number: 7263812
    Abstract: A beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage material having a machine and method for wrapping filled bottles, wherein one roll of wrapping material is replaced with a new roll of wrapping material quickly and accurately to minimize disruptions or interruptions in the bottle wrapping process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: KHS Maschinen- und Anlagenbau AG
    Inventors: Manfred von Triel, Tuchwat Schagidow
  • Patent number: 7255141
    Abstract: A beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material, a container filling plant container filling machine, and a filter apparatus for filtering a liquid beverage. The filter apparatus has a plurality of filter chambers which are each provided with an individual valve in the outlet for filtered liquid from a filter chamber to optimize filtration. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. § 1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. § 1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.” The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: KHS Maschinen-und Anlagenbau AG
    Inventor: Hans Becker
  • Patent number: 7243483
    Abstract: A method for hot bottling of a liquid in bottles, kegs or similar containers using a filling machine that has a plurality of filling elements, each filling element has a liquid duct disposed at a dispensing opening and a valve for dispensing the hot liquid to the container, the liquid being bottled in the filling elements is substantially continuously conveyed in the hot condition in a circuit comprising a flow path that includes the filling elements and the liquid ducts from a source for the hot liquid being bottled to a reservoir during an interruption of the filling process in order to reduce the cooling of the liquid being bottled in the filling elements and/or to prevent the cooling of the filling elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: KHS Maschinen- und Anlagenbau AG
    Inventors: Ludwig Clüsserath, Volker Till, Dieter-Rudolf Krulitsch
  • Patent number: 7234219
    Abstract: An arrow extractor particularly useful for removing a broadhead or field head arrow embedded in a tree stump, three-dimensional target or other solid object and further designed to pull directly on the arrow shaft whereby such pulling force can be applied evenly and linearly and in parallel with the shaft of the arrow such that the likelihood of damage to the arrow is diminished. The arrow extractor includes two opposed hollowed out arrow grippers attached to pivoted lever arms through which gripping force is applied to the arrow shaft. A further benefit of the invention is that harmful forces are minimized upon the wrists and arms of the person using the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Inventor: Brian S. Deiter
  • Patent number: 7204663
    Abstract: A multi-purpose end-mill to be used for different machining purposes, in particularly useful for closed or open contours machining. The end-mill comprises a cylindrical shank portion connected to a first cutting portion provided with a plurality of spaced-apart cutting teeth and a second portion provided with a plurality of different spaced-apart cutting teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Hanita Metal Works Ltd.
    Inventors: Avi Dov, Vladimir Volokh
  • Patent number: 7201543
    Abstract: A twist drill and method for producing is provided. The cutting edge structure has a first portion at the drill tip portion and a second portion disposed away from the drill tip portion. The flute wall extends further into the land structure at the second portion of the cutting edge structure than at the tip portion to provide a greater amount of drill material at the tip portion than at the second portion of the cutting edge structure. The flute wall extends further into the land structure at the second portion of the cutting edge structure than at the tip portion to provide a greater flute volume per length at the second portion of the cutting edge structure than at the drill tip portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Dieter Mühlfriedel, Bernhard Borschert, Jürgen Schwägerl
  • Patent number: 7200975
    Abstract: A beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material, having a transfer device for the transfer of containers from a transfer starwheel to the carousel of a container handling machine. A transfer device for container handling machines such as fillers, rinsers or cappers for the handling of containers with a neck ring, with a circulating carousel on which there are handling spaces for the container, with at least one infeed starwheel, whereby the transfer device comprises a rigid transfer arm and optionally a drive system to move the transfer arm back and forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: KHS Maschinen-und Anlagenbau AG
    Inventor: Volker Till
  • Patent number: 7186063
    Abstract: A rotary multi-tooth milling cutter, each tooth having a tooth face is provided. The tooth face has at least two sections, a first section nearest the cutting edge having a convex form as viewed in a cross section perpendicular to the cutter axis and a second section in a concave form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Hanita Metal Works Ltd.
    Inventor: Vladimir Volokh
  • Patent number: 7182115
    Abstract: A beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material, a container filling plant container information adding station, such as, a labeling station, configured to add information to containers, such as, bottles and cans, and modules for labeling stations and a bottling plant having a mobile module carrier. The present application further relates to a module carrier for use on labeling machines that are constructed in a modular fashion, whereby the present application teaches that the module carrier is equipped with means that facilitate its mobility. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: KHS Maschinen- und Anlagenbau AG
    Inventors: Siegmar Sindermann, Paul Kahlisch, Klaus Friedrich Stock
  • Patent number: 7168512
    Abstract: A cutting insert 1, 1?, comprising opposite insert planes E1, E2 of a base 2 of one base area 3 wherein a conical surface section 4a of a lateral face 4 and the base area 3 facing the same form an acute angle alpha while forming a cutting edge 5, while a planar surface section 4b of the same lateral face 4 forms an obtuse angle beta with the opposite base area 3. The cone axis 6 of the conical surface area 4a lying in the insert plane E1, E2 runs off-set in parallel to the center insert axis 7 lying in the same insert plane E1, E2 while forming an off-center arcuate profile of the cutting edge 5. A milling cutter 17 comprising a number of such cutting inserts 1, 1? is characterized in that a cutting insert 1, 1? preferably disposed on the periphery of the center line M of a tool support 16 is off-set from the center line M by an angle phi equal to 5±3 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Schuffenhauer, Steffen Kranz, Werner Boguth