Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Taylor & Austin, P.C.
  • Device and method for transferring a threading strip or a material strip
    Patent number: 6425513
    Abstract: An apparatus transfers a threading strip and/or a material web can from a pick-up area into a transfer area along a web travel path for production and/or processing/of the strip and/or web. The device includes a carrier for moving the strip and/or web along the web travel path through the machine at a carrier speed. The device also includes at least one pick-up unit for transferring the strip and/or web from the pick-up area to the transfer area at relocation speed that is lower than the carrier speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Zygmunt Madrzak, Rüdiger Kurtz, Oswald Satzger, Wolf Gunter Stotz, Thomas Hermsen, Georg Kugler, Werner Goebel, Karlheinz Straub, Patric Romes