Patents Assigned to Fette GmbH
  • 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: 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: 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: 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
  • Patent number: 6783306
    Abstract: A rotary cutting tool with a holder body rotating about a central axis on which at least one cutting blade is mountable which has at least one cutting edge that gets in a metal-cutting engagement with a workpiece when the holder body rotates while simultaneously undergoing a linear forward feed, wherein the cutting blade is adapted to be advanced to a predetermined cutting depth, characterized in that the cutting edge of the cutting blade is comprised of at least two cutting edge portions which are disposed in an offset relationship in such a way that they make a partial contribution each to the predetermined cutting depth by means of a different setting angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventor: Herbert Popke
  • Patent number: 6749416
    Abstract: A die for a rotary compression press, comprising a die holder axially supported in a guide bore and a die insert which is seated in the end-side bore of the die holder via a trunnion-shaped projection and is adapted to be mounted via releasable fastening means, wherein the projection is helically guided in the bore between axially spaced stops and is biased by a spring towards the associated front-end face of the die holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Arndt, Andreas Arning, Heinrich Behrmann, Helmut Bommrowitz, Thomas Heinrich, Jürgen Hinzpeter, Thomas Jacob, Peter Lüneburg, Nils Petersen, Hans-Joachim Pierags, Jürgen Schikowski, Elke Wittenberg, Hans Wolf, Ulrich Zeuschner
  • Patent number: 6749375
    Abstract: An end milling cutter for machining workpieces made of a non-ferrous metal or plastic including two or more helically shaped cutting edges between which helically shaped chip flutes are formed which define a chip-cutting face along with the cutting edges, and a tool flank each between the cutting edge and the chip flute which follows next wherein the tool flanks or tooth backs are facet-shaped such that they are composed of individual reference surfaces which are approximately planar and are disposed at an angle with respect to each other as viewed in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventor: Diethard Thomas
  • Patent number: 6695548
    Abstract: A surface milling or angular milling cutter, comprising a carrier body which circumferentially, at uniformly or non-uniformly spread spacings, has disposed pockets which extend in parallel with the axis of rotation of the carrier body for the accommodation of cassettes which, in turn, have seating surfaces for the accommodation of tool tips, a mounting device for the tool tips in the cassette, a bolt mounting to locate the cassettes in the pockets, and an adjusting pin for each cassette for a limited axial displacement of the cassettes in two directions in the pockets, characterized in that the radially outer portion of the cassette is divided by a gap extending approximately in the radial plane, and the gap receives a setting wedge the position of which can be adjusted by means of an adjusting screw in the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Focken, Klaus Oppelt
  • Patent number: 6684674
    Abstract: An axial thread rolling head comprising a bearing unit including rolling dies supported via eccentric shafts, a shank which is axially movable with respect to the bearing unit and has a clutch portion which interacts with a claw clutch portion of a spring housing rotatably supported on the shank in a first axial relative postion and which couples the two components in a torsion-resistant manner, and a first gearing between the shank and the eccentric shafts for varying the mutual spacing of the rolling dies, a spiral-coiled spring between the shank and the bearing unit and mechanical switching means to move the shank and the bearing unit into the second relative position when in contact with a workpiece, wherein at least the bearing unit and the spring housing are formed from titanium or a titanium alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Focken
  • Patent number: 6612827
    Abstract: An apparatus for the manufacture of compacts, preferably a tabletting machine, comprising a rotary cavity block table and a stationary filling shoe associated therewith for feeding the material used which is to be compacted in the cavity block, wherein the filling shoe is adjustable in height with respect to the surface of the rotary cavity block table via a servomotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfram Minke, Rudolf Koch
  • Publication number: 20030161907
    Abstract: Tabletting machine in form of a rotary press, with a rotor which accommodates a set of top and bottom stamping dies, which co-operate with moulds of a mould plate, cam segments associated to the rotor, and pressure rollers for the actuation of the stamping dies, a filling equipment, a stripping device for tablets knocked out of the mould etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Applicant: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jurgen Hinzpeter, Ingo Schmidt, Jorg Gaedecke, Ulrich Gathmann, Joachim Greve, Enrico Gand, Klaus-Peter Preuss, Alexander Oldenburg
  • Publication number: 20030143300
    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: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2003
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Applicant: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Detlev Scholz, Jurgen Hinzpeter, Ulrich Zeuschner, Ingo Schmidt, Jan Naeve, Reno Schiebe, Michael Gruber