Patents Assigned to Fette GmbH
  • Patent number: 7211217
    Abstract: A process for the manufacture of compacts, particularly cemented-carbide cutting blades, by compressing metallic powder and subsequently sintering the compacts wherein the compacts are formed in a powder press having a die-plate, an upper ram and at least one lower ram which are associated with a die-bore and are adapted to be actuated by a hydraulic press cylinder with the rams having associated thereto force-measuring devices and path-measuring devices to measure the compression forces during the ram feed motion up to the final positions, wherein the value of the energy to be applied by the upper ram is stored for a compact of predetermined geometry and dimensions and a predetermined material, that the overall energy to be applied by the upper and lower rams is further stored as a second value, that the feed motion of the upper ram is completed when the energy applied by the ram has reached the predetermined first value and the feed motion of the lower ram is effected depending on the application of the res
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jurgen Hinzpeter, Ulrich Zeuschner, Ingo Schmidt, Thomas Pannewitz, Udo Baltruschat, Thorsten Ehrich, Ulf Hauschild
  • Patent number: 7204115
    Abstract: An axial thread-rolling head comprising a shank and a bearing unit held by said shank and having the profiled rolling dies wherein said shank has an elongate gripping portion, a first clutch portion, a supporting portion for the bearing unit, and a driver portion for a central toothed gear of said bearing unit and said bearing unit has a second clutch portion which is in engagement with said first clutch portion when said bearing unit and said shank are in a coupled position because of a spring bias, and is out of engagement when said bearing unit and said shank are axially moved apart, against said spring bias, to a separating position, which allows said bearing unit to perform a relative rotation on said shank, wherein said gripping portion and said clutch portion, on one hand, and said supporting portion and said driver portion, on the other hand, define separate components which are axially fixed and fixed for rotation via connecting portions, but are adapted to be releasably connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Focken
  • Publication number: 20070031528
    Abstract: A rotor for a tablet press including an upper-ram receptacle for the upper rams and a lower-ram guide for the lower rams of the tablet press, as well as a retainer plate having a series of die-bores which are oriented towards the upper and lower rams wherein the retainer plate is composed of at least two ring segments which are adapted to be mounted non-positively and/or positively to the body of the lower-ram guide by means of a fixing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Applicant: Fette Gmbh
    Inventors: Jurgen Hinzpeter, Ulrich Zeuschner, Peter Luneburg, Ulrich Arndt, Hans Wolf, Matthias Rau
  • Publication number: 20070011860
    Abstract: Method for making a form-fitting connection between a tool insert and a tool holder of a rotatingly driven tool, wherein the tool holder has bearing surfaces by which forces or torques are transmitted to the tool insert, wherein the tool insert is made from a material harder than that of the tool holder and by sintering a green compact of powder. A sintered green compact for the tool insert is used as a hob, by which the bearing surfaces in tool holders are manufactured by punching or press-forming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Publication date: January 18, 2007
    Applicant: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Dehn, Christian Gutsche, Michael Kugolowski
  • Patent number: 7158378
    Abstract: Tablet press, with an upper housing part for receiving a rotor and comprising pressing tools, a lower housing part with side walls for receiving a drive device for the rotor, servo drives for peripheral apparatus for the tablet press, a switch cabinet for receiving a machine computer, electrical parts, components, such as power units with their control switches for the drive device, servo drive and peripheral apparatus, a switch cabinet housing with a rear wall, a bottom wall, a cover wall and side walls and an open front face being attached via its rear face to the outer face of a side wall of the lower housing part, furthermore with a hood which comprises hood side walls and a hood cover wall and which is pivotally mounted about a vertical axis on the switch cabinet housing or on the lower housing part by means of a hood side wall, the hood being constructed and slidable over the switch cabinet housing, in such a manner that the hood cover wall seals the front face of the switch cabinet housing and the hood
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Hinzpeter, Ingo Schmidt, Werner Seifert, Alexander Oldenberg
  • Patent number: 7147820
    Abstract: A method for minimizing the spread of the maximum compression forces in compacting powder, specifically metallic powder, by means of a powder press which has a die-plate, an upper ram, and at least one lower ram which are associated with a die-bore and are respectively operable by a hydraulic press cylinder, and a charging shoe movable on the die-plate along a predetermined path for filling the die-bore with the powder, wherein the maximum compression force of at least the upper ram is measured upon arrival at a predetermined position, the charging shoe, the die-plate, the upper ram and/or lower ram are vibrated at a predetermined frequency and amplitude during the filling operation and/or at the beginning of the compression procedure and, in addition, the filling time or the course of charging shoe motion in time are predetermined, wherein the frequency distribution of the maximum compression force values is determined at intervals and the standard deviation is determined therefrom for the maximum compressio
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jurgen Hinzpeter, Ulrich Zeuschner, Ingo Schmidt, Thomas Pannewitz, Udo Baltruschat, Thorsten Ehrich, Ulf Hauschild
  • Patent number: 7125234
    Abstract: A set of compaction rams and/or die-plates for a tabletting machine has all of the compaction rams and/or die-plates of the set furnished with a code containing at least the following information: (a) a label for the set of compaction rams and die-plates; (b) an individual label for each compaction ram and/or die-plate within the set; (c) data effective to critically dimension the compaction ram and/or die-plate which contains the code; and (d) data containing service life information for the compaction ram and/or die-plate which contains the code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Detlev Scholz, Jürgen Hinzpeter, Ulrich Zeuschner, Ingo Schmidt, Jan Naeve, Reno Schiebe, Michael Gruber
  • Patent number: 7125210
    Abstract: Face milling cutter with a shaft section and a tool section, whereby the front end of the tool section has at least one flat, arched, lower cutting edge, a rounded corner cutting edge, and a peripheral cutting edge, whereby the lower cutting edge has a radius r1 from 1 to 2 times d1 and begins at a distance of 0.1 to 0.2 d1 to the axis of the shaft section, whereby d1 is the diameter of the flight circle of the axially parallel tangent to the rounded corner cutting edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Kölker, Olaf Rohr, Uwe Schunk
  • Patent number: 7112143
    Abstract: Cold thread forming tap or screw tap with a shaft, said shaft having a chuck portion at the one end and a forming or cutting profile portion on the other end, the forming or cutting profile portion being realised as a separate profile element and being fixable centrically and secured against rotation on the shaft by means of a fixing device, characterised in that the profile element has a small axial length and on the outside a lead-in or starting tap cone, respectively, that juts and/or indentations are formed at the end of the shaft and on that side of the profile element facing the shaft, which interlock in a positively fitting manner, that an automatic centring of the profile element takes place on the shaft when the profile element is put onto the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Muller
  • Patent number: 7103973
    Abstract: A method for the manufacture of a toothed gear from a gear blank wherein the gear blank loaded into a machine tool and rotationally driven is machined by a hobbing cutter disposed on a rotationally driven tool shaft and the rough-hobbed gear, once produced, is subsequently cleared of burr by means of a rotationally driven deburring tool by causing it to chamfer the front-end edges of the inter-teeth grooves, wherein the number of revolutions of said deburring tool and rough-machined gear has a constant ratio, wherein the removal of burr is performed on said rough-machined gear invariably loaded on said machine tool in a continuous pass by using a deburring tool which is similar to a side milling cutter, has cutting teeth, and is fixedly disposed for rotation on the shaft of said hobbing cutter, wherein the front-end edges of the inter-teeth grooves are successively machined in the way of a gear hobbing process, and wherein said shaft is changed from the gear hobbing setting over to a burr removal setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Alfred Wolff, Siegfried Thiesies, Wolfgang Carmincke
  • Patent number: 7073361
    Abstract: A tangential thread-rolling head comprising two fork-shaped rolling head arms in which thread-rolling dies are rotatably supported by means of parallel axles wherein the thread-rolling dies are in a lateral engagement with a pinion seated on the axles of a gearing coupling both thread-rolling dies and the thread-rolling dies and pinions have lateral jaws such that the jaws of the thread-rolling dies can be pushed into the jaws of the pinions laterally before the axles are mounted wherein the axles have disposed thereon an axially slidable bushing which is adapted to firmly be positioned axially against the pinion with the aid of locating means, wherein each bushing circumferentially has a fine pitch threaded portion which interengages with a female-threaded portion in a seating bore for the pinion and bushing and locking means are provided in the rolling head arms to lock the bushing in an occupied rotational position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Focken, Dirk Marbs
  • Patent number: 7032460
    Abstract: A method for test pressing tablets by means of a rotary tabletting machine, a rotationally driven rotor which has a series of upper and lower rams, a die-plate with dies with which the rams interact, a control cam system for said rams, and a filling assembly to continuously fill said dies with said rotor rotating, further by means of at least one pressure station at which the material located in said dies is compressed into a tablet, and a measuring device having a plurality of measuring positions which measures at least the compression force applied by said rams and the number of revolutions of said rotor, comprising the process steps of, a pair of rams selected for a single compression procedure is automatically moved to a filling position, a die or limited number of dies is filled with material with said filling assembly removed at least in part and said rotor at stoppage, said rotor is set into rotation subsequently and is sped up such as to have the desired production speed in said pressure station, and
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Hinzpeter, Ingo Schmidt, Ulrich Gathmann, Joerg Gaedecke
  • Patent number: 7033155
    Abstract: A hydraulic press for compressing metallic powder or the like to form compacts, comprising a die-plate, an upper ram, and at least one lower ram which interact with a die-bore and are operable each by a dual-action hydraulic press cylinder, whereby a limited dead path length is provided for the return stroke in the force path between the press cylinder and the upper ram in which the upper ram is not carried along, and that a separate pressure generator producing a variable pressure is arranged in parallel with the force path via which a compression force is produced on the upper ram during the dead path length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Hinzpeter, Ulrich Zeuschner, Ingo Schmidt, Thomas Pannewitz, Udo Baltruschat, Thorsten Ehrich, Ulf Hauschild
  • Patent number: 7014443
    Abstract: Tabletting machine in the form of a rotary press, includes a rotor accommodating top and bottom stamping dies that cooperate with molds of a mold plate, rotor associated cam segments, and pressure rollers for actuating the stamping dies, a filling equipment, a stripping device for tablets knocked out of the mold and a computing system for controlling the tabletting machine following a predetermined program and for processing data provided by signal transmitters of the tabletting machine, and for monitoring the machine functions. At least a part of the components and/or subassemblies features a transponder having at least one stored identity number, characterizing the components and/or subassemblies. At least one read head connected with the computing system permits the transponder of the component and/or subassembly to be wirelessly read out even in the assembled state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Hinzpeter, Ingo Schmidt, Jörg Gaedecke, Ulrich Gathmann, Joachim Greve, Enrico Gand, Klaus-Peter Preuss, Alexander Oldenburg
  • Patent number: 7001166
    Abstract: An arrangement of a die-plate of a hydraulic press to press powdered material into shape wherein an upper ram and a lower ram interact with a bore of the die-plate wherein the die-plate is supported via vertically arranged supporting standards which, along with upper supporting portions which are cantilevered towards the axis of the die-bore, define upwardly facing bearing areas located close to the die-bore for the die-plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Hinzpeter, Ulrich Zeuschner, Ingo Schmidt, Thomas Pannewitz, Udo Baltruschat, Thorsten Ehrich, Ulf Hauschild
  • Patent number: 6979187
    Abstract: A tablet-pressing device that includes a tablet press, a control computer configured to drive and regulate the motors of the tablet press, and a service computer which admits the input and output of data for the operation of the tablet press. The tablet press is linked to the control computer via a cable link for high-speed data transfer. The tablet press and the service computer exchange data and control commands via a wireless data link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Hinzpeter, Ingo Schmidt, Ulrich Gathmann, Jörg Gaedecke
  • Patent number: 6966729
    Abstract: A tangential reversible cutting blade, comprising: a prismatic body which is bordered by two opposed, identically shaped first surfaces and four identically shaped, interposed lateral surfaces, four equal-length main cutting edges on each of the first surface which are defined with one lateral face each, a raised web on each lateral surface with the four webs being symmetrical with a central plane through the lateral surfaces, a through mounting bore coaxial with the axis through the centres of the first surfaces, metal-cutting faces on the lateral surfaces which are defined by fillets adjacent to the main cutting edges on either side of the associated web, and cutting-tool flanks on the first surfaces which are defined by a spherical surface shape of the first surfaces adjacent to the main cutting edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Dehn, Achim Engfer, Uwe Schunk, Gerhard Zawidzki
  • Patent number: 6918493
    Abstract: An apparatus for singling out tablets for a rotary tablet-compressing press the rotor of which has associated therewith a nozzle which, via a line and a controllable valve disposed in the line, is adapted to be connected to a pressure source in order to route a tablet into a rejects duct wherein the control signals for the valve are produced by a control device, characterized in that the line, between the orifice of the nozzle and the valve, has disposed a pressure sensor which delivers a sensor signal if the valve is opened or a predetermined minimum pressure prevails in the line and a logic evaluation circuit is provided into which the sensor signal and the control signal are input and that an error signal is produced in the evaluation circuit, which signal is evaluated by the control device if the time relation of the control signals and the sensor signals deviates from a predetermined relation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Hinzpeter, Ingo Schmidt, Ulrich Gathmann, Peter Preuss, Werner Seifert
  • Patent number: 6845710
    Abstract: A process for compressing metallic powder into a compact in a powder press which has a die-plate, a hydraulically operated upper ram and at least one hydraulically operated lower ram, wherein the lower ram is set to vibrations while the die-plate is being filled with metallic powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Hinzpeter, Ulrich Zeuschner, Ingo Schmidt, Thomas Pannewitz, Udo Baltruschat, Thorsten Ehrich, Ulf Hauschild
  • Patent number: 6827889
    Abstract: A process for compacting powdered material to form a compact of a predetermined thickness and having at least one lateral oblique surface by means of a bore in a die bolster for receiving the powdered material and an upper ram and a lower ram, which are operable by means of a hydraulic power-exerting device and are positionable by means of a control device with respect to the die bolster, comprising the following steps: The deformations of the die bolster are measured or calculated for various compacting forces and the correlating values are filed as a table in a memory with the deformations forces being determined from the difference of the compacting forces of the two rams, and Deformation is determined during the compaction procedure by applying the deformation force measured to the table and the feed length of the upper and lower rams is corrected depending on deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Hinzpeter, Ulrich Zeuschner, Ingo Schmidt, Thomas Pannewitz, Udo Baltruschat, Thorsten Ehrich