Patents Assigned to Matador A. S.
  • Patent number: 7241128
    Abstract: In a roller adjustment apparatus for an extrusion mill, comprising a cylindrical die (2) with radially extending extrusion channels and a number of rollers (1) within the die, rotatable about their axes and co-operating with the die to press material to be treated through the extrusion channels in the die wall, the adjustment apparatus comprises eccentrically journalled bearing shafts (3) for mounting the rollers (1), said eccentrically journalling of the shafts (3) providing a radial adjustment of the position of the rollers (1) relative to the die (2), the rotation of the eccentrically journalled shafts (3) is provided by means of extension arms (6) fixedly mounted on the ends of the eccentrically journalled shafts (3), and said extension arms (6) being connected to an axially movable connection element (8) by means of articulated connected linkage rods (7), and said connection element (8) being connected to a rod (9) provided with its axis in the axis of the die (2) and extending to a position outside the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Sprout-Matador A/S
    Inventor: Jesper Blok
  • Publication number: 20070062631
    Abstract: The invention concerns an assembly of devices for production of green radial tires, comprising a carcass building drum (11), a belt building drum (21) and a completing drum (22), which are arranged on one horizontal axis, wherein the carcass building drum (11) and the belt building drum (21) are equipped with the respective supply systems (4, 5), the carcass building drum (11) is carried by a driving unit (1), and the belt building drum (21) and the completing drum (22) are carried by co-axially arranged shafts of a driving unit (2), which is arranged opposite the driving unit (1) carrying the carcass building drum (11), and between the belt building drum (21) and the carcass building drum (11) there is movably arranged only one transfer device (3). The invention further concerns a method of production of green radial tires using the above assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2004
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Applicant: Matador A.S.
    Inventor: Peter Mihalik
  • Patent number: 7118642
    Abstract: The assembly of devices for production of green tyres, consisting of a belt building drum, tread building drum, band drum for preparing a carcass and a forming drum and further includes devices for transferring particular components or assemblies of the components from one device to another, an apparatus for placing and holding a bead and the carcass assembly, stiching unit, and particular servisers for supplying materials to particular devices. The assembly of devices is arranged into two parallel transfer tracks 20 and 50 and includes the band drum 30 for preparing carcass assembly, the tyre building drum 130, the apparatus 150 for placing and holding the head and the carcass assembly on the first transfer track 20, the apparatus 150 is disposed between the said band drum 30 for preparing the carcass assembly, and the tyre-building drum 130.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Matador A. S.
    Inventors: {hacek over (S)}tefan Bako{hacek over (s)}, Jozef {hacek over (Z)}emla, Ján {hacek over (S)}edik, Peter Mahálik
  • Patent number: 7101451
    Abstract: A tire building drum with a turn-up device for production of unvulcanized tires, consisting of a horizontally disposed central bearing hollow shaft (1) with a driving spindle extending through the centre of the bearing hollow shaft, around which there are arranged two sets of lever arms (26) with rollers (27), between which a mechanism for supporting bead wires from both sides is located at both sides of a vertical symmetry plane, the mechanism consisting of: an axially movably arranged first guiding disc (21) with radially movably arranged clamping bead segments (33), adapted to cooperate with a mechanism for controlling radial lift of clamping bead segments (33), and an axially movably arranged second guiding disc (34) with radially movably arranged supporting bead segments (32), adapted to cooperate with a mechanism for controlling radial lift of the supporting bead segments (32), wherein the clamping bead segment (33) is provided with a space (3) for receiving supporting arms (9, 9a) with a bridge (11) of
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Matador A. S.
    Inventors: Jozef {hacek over (Z)}emla, Mário Janovec, {hacek over (S)}tefan Bakoś
  • Patent number: 7040560
    Abstract: In a rotor construction for hammer- or chopper mills the rotor is formed by a cylindrical shell structure (2) transversally profiled for providing a drum surface comprising at least one longitudinally extending recess (6) for accommodation of base portions of chopper members. In the rotor construction the at least one recess (6) is provided with chopper positioning means (8, 18) at fixed locations for lateral stabilisation of said base portions and for stable accommodation of shaft members (12) for pivotable attachment of said chopper members (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Sprout-Matador A/S
    Inventor: Henning Jørgensen
  • Publication number: 20060037708
    Abstract: Described is a method of joining a belt-tread assembly with a carcass assembly by stitching in green tyre production such that a pressure is applied in radial inward direction on the rotating outer peripheral surface of a belt-tread assembly (5) partially joined with an inflated carcass assembly (1) of a tyre, which is disposed on a tyre building drum, the pressure being exerted by inelastic force of at least two stitching rollers (2) which are rotationally and inelastically disposed on a rigid bearing part (3) of the stitching unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Applicant: Matador A.S.
    Inventor: Peter Mihalik
  • Patent number: 6935855
    Abstract: The inventions relates to an extrusion apparatus suited for water-containing products which heat-expand by internal boiling of water by pressure relief after passing through extrusion nozzles. The apparatus comprises a) an extruder, which at the outlet end thereof comprises a nozzle plate, b) a pressure-controlling chamber for controlling the pressure on the outlet side of the nozzle plate, said pressure-controlling chamber possibly containing a cutting-off unit, and c) a sluice unit downstream of the pressure controlling chamber. The apparatus furthermore comprises that the pressure-controlling chamber and sluice unit being releasably interconnected and at least the sluice unit being mounted movably in and out of the product stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Sprout-Matador A/S
    Inventor: Anders Flarup-Knudsen
  • Publication number: 20050161162
    Abstract: The assembly of devices for production of green tyres, consisting of a belt building drum, tread building drum, band drum for preparing a carcass and a forming drum and further includes devices for transferring particular components or assemblies of the components from one device to another, an apparatus for placing and holding a bead and the carcass assembly, stiching unit, and particular servisers for supplying materials to particular devices. The assembly of devices is arranged into two parallel transfer tracks 20 and 50 and includes the band drum 30 for preparing carcass assembly, the tyre building drum 130, the apparatus 150 for placing and holding the head and the carcass assembly on the first transfer track 20, the apparatus 150 is disposed between the said band drum 30 for preparing the carcass assembly, and the tyre-building drum 130.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Applicant: Matador A.S.
    Inventors: Stefan Bakos, Josef Zemla, Jan Sedik, Peter Mahalik
  • Patent number: 6531077
    Abstract: In the extrusion of feed-stuff pellets and relevant consumer products, the extruded products are subject to expansion as a result of the boiling of their water content when the products, after being exposed to high extrusion pressure and a correspondingly high temperature, are discharged to the atmosphere through the extrusion nozzles. Such an expansion is directly aimed at, but it is desirable to be able to control it, which is difficult by adjustment of the ordinary process parameters. With the invention it has been found that the expansion which arises can be controlled in a highly constant manner, i.e. by carrying out the extrusion into a closed chamber in which an over-pressure of a few bar is established in relation to the atmospheric pressure, and which can be regulated. The extrusion products can be continuously discharged from this chamber, or they can be discharged intermittently in portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Sprout-Matador A/S
    Inventor: Anders Flarup-Knudsen
  • Patent number: 6383562
    Abstract: In practice it is desirable to enrich feedstuff pellets with various additives in quite small amounts, e.g. only 100 g per ton, preferably that they are sprayed in a dissolved or suspended state on a flat stream of the pellets in cold condition. It is known to arrange this by using a falling stream of the pellets along an inclined chute. However, it is difficult hereby to achieve any particularly good dosing precision of the sprayed materials, some of which can be quite expensive. Moreover, the associated plants are difficult to install in normal premises. With the invention, a flat stream is produced by using an ejector wheel, whereby the chute can be quite short for reducing the construction height and, at the same time that this in itself improves the dosing accuracy, use is made of a continuous mass flow measurement which is used for the regulation of the dosing or the ejector capacity in achieving extra good liquid-dosing precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Sprout-Matador A/S
    Inventor: Jan Meincke Iversen
  • Patent number: 5811699
    Abstract: A method and system for handling simple materials in, for example, mixing plants, for enabling a central analysis of the samples. The samples are automatically and frequently taken from outlets of silos and are brought unwrapped and successively to an automatic near infrared reflection analyzing station through an pneumatic conveyor system with substantially common type sections between the station and the single samples. Sample portions which are larger than required for analysis are removed so as to counteract the risk of contamination of the samples, with the large sample portions then being returned to the silos of origin through another pneumatic conveyor system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: Sprout-Matador A/S
    Inventors: Joan Gronkar Pedersen, Henning Jorgensen, Erik Huus Johnsen, Ejner Paaske Jensen
  • Patent number: 5605841
    Abstract: A system for on line analysis of material samples in accordance with the invention includes a grinding mill for comminuting sample material to output comminuted sample material; an analyzer unit for performing the on line analysis of the outputted comminuted sample material and having a housing holding an optical system having a front glass with the optical system performing the on line analysis of the outputted comminuted sample material, and a receiving chamber for receiving the outputted comminuted sample material from the grinding mill; and a mechanism for moving the housing relative to the receiving chamber between a first position at which the front glass closes a wall opening into the receiving chamber and a second position at which the front glass is cleaned by a cleaning mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: Jesma-Matador A/S
    Inventors: Erik Johnsen, Jens Heinrichson, Michael Bjerre
  • Patent number: 5324949
    Abstract: With the present invention, the NIR-technique is utilized for a fully automatic on-line analyzing of successive samples, viz. with the use of a test chamber which is built together with the optical unit and is open towards this unit through a restricted side opening. The test chamber has a volume which is much larger than that of the known test cups, whereby the remnant-pollution of the following sample can be kept at an acceptable low level, without the test chamber having to be totally cleaned each time. A particularly critical area, however, is the material area just next to the optical unit, and remnants at this place must by necessity be removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1994
    Assignee: Jesma-Matador A/S
    Inventor: Erik Johnsen