Patents Assigned to Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
  • Patent number: 9932694
    Abstract: A roller guides and processes synthetic strand material. The roller includes a drivable roller shell. The roller shell has, on a projecting free end thereof, a cover which is effective relative to the surroundings. In order to secure the end of the roller shell relative to an operating side, the cover is freely rotatably connected to the roller shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jens Weinhold, Joachim Lauckner, Bert Wöllner, Marco Sacher
  • Patent number: 9803297
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for passing at least one fiber tow multiple times through an oxidation furnace by means of godets, the at least one fiber tow being diverted via at least one godet that is arranged offset. According to the invention, the godet comprises a shaft on which at least two single rollers are arranged to be mounted, each single roller being arranged so as to be rotatable on the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: OERLIKON TEXTILE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Erwin Glawion, Rolf Schröder, Christian Knörzer
  • Patent number: 9725277
    Abstract: A take-up winding machine continuously coils a plurality of threads. The take-up winding machine has a plurality of rotatably mounted winding turrets which, in each case, support two protruding winding spindles and which are held beside one another in a machine frame so as to be spaced apart by a pitch. The take-up winding machine further has a plurality of traversing units and a plurality of contact rollers which together with the winding turrets form a plurality of coiling positions. The winding turrets are assigned one common turret drive. The winding turrets are configured so as to be drivable in the same direction. The contact rollers and the traversing units are held on the machine frame along one machine longitudinal side so as to be symmetrical to the pitch of the winding turrets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Schröter, Friedrich Lennemann, Klaus Schäfer
  • Patent number: 9657414
    Abstract: A method and device for operating a drawing line or drawing unit for drawing cables from polymer threads using a plurality of driven drawing rollers. According to the invention, each drawing roller is controlled to a prescribed motion value. To this end, each drawing roller is associated with a separately controllable drive device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Schroeder, Michael Breidert
  • Patent number: 9637849
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bath and to a method of treating endless fibers, filaments or fabric webs, especially for electrolysis or for cleaning, comprising a bath container (4), which is at least partly filled with a processing fluid, and means for introducing the endless fibers, filaments or fabric webs, characterized in that the means are arranged in such a way that the endless fibers, filaments or fabric web are conducted in a V-shape through the bath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: OERLIKON TEXTILE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Schröder, Erwin Glawion
  • Patent number: 9631300
    Abstract: A device for pneumatically conveying and guiding a multifilament thread has a closed conveying channel which has a thread inlet opening at one end and a thread outlet opening at the opposite end. An injector zone having at least one compressed air channel which opens into the conveying channel is formed between the thread inlet opening and the thread outlet opening, wherein the compressed air channel can be connected to a compressed air source. In order to avoid blowing air from flowing back from the injector zone at the thread inlet opening, a return flow channel is formed in a channel section of the conveying channel between the thread inlet opening and the opening of the compressed air channel, which return flow channel connects the conveying channel to ambient atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: OERLIKON TEXTILE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Mathias Stündl
  • Publication number: 20170081790
    Abstract: A technique for crimping multifilament threads involves a device having an injector installation and having a stuffing installation. The injector installation has a conveying duct having a thread inlet. The conveying duct of the injector installation opens into a stuffer chamber of the stuffing installation. The stuffer chamber in an upper chamber portion, between a plurality of wall portions of a chamber wall, has a plurality of slot-shaped air-exhaust openings. The wall portions of the chamber wall, in order to configure the air-exhaust openings, each have one flow edge which is aligned so as to be tangential to a chamber circle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Mathias STÜNDL
  • Patent number: 9481544
    Abstract: In a cable guide for fibers, particularly carbon fibers, which are combined into cables and extend in a transport direction in a transport plane, characterized in that the cable guide comprises a plurality of individual pins for separating said cables consisting of fibers, it is provided that the pins relative to the transport direction of the cables are inclined in the transport direction and together with the transport plane include an angle from 20° to 70°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: OERLIKON TEXTILE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Rolf Schröder
  • Patent number: 9447526
    Abstract: Techniques produce intertwining knots in a multifilament thread. In such techniques, an air stream pulse is generated by a nozzle channel opening into a treatment channel periodically with an interval between successive air stream pulses. During an interval, the air stream pulse is directed transversely onto the thread guided in the treatment channel so that a continuous sequence of intertwining knots is produced in the running thread. An auxiliary air stream is generated continuously or discontinuously and the auxiliary air stream and the air stream pulse are blown in together into the treatment channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Mathias Stundl, Claus Matthies, Jan Westphal
  • Patent number: 9428848
    Abstract: A method for melt spinning, stretching, and winding a multifilament thread to form an FDY-yarn as well as a device for performing the method are presented. Hereby, a plurality of filaments are first extruded from thermoplastic melt, cooled to a temperature below the glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic material, and gathered to form a filament bundle without adding a preparation fluid. The filament bundle is then drawn-off at a speed above 1,500 m/min., heated to have a temperature above the glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic material, and stretched at a drawing speed above 4,000 m/min. Preparation of the filament bundle with a preparation fluid and winding the thread to form a spool is then performed. The device has the preparation device arranged in a zone of the thread course between the drawing device and the winding device, in which the thread has a thread-running speed above 4,000 m/min.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Helmut Weigend, Hansjörg Meise, Detlev Schulz
  • Patent number: 9422647
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus produces intertwining knots in a multifilament thread. In this case, an air-stream pulse is directed through a nozzle opening transversely onto the thread. In order to produce a continuous succession of intertwining knots, the air-stream pulse is produced periodically with an interval between the air-stream pulses. In order to be able to produce an irregular thread structure, the interval between successive air-stream pulses is continuously changed. To this end, the apparatus has a nozzle ring carrying the nozzle opening, the nozzle ring being coupled to a drive. The drive of the nozzle ring is assigned a control device, by way of which a rotary speed of the nozzle ring is controllable for the purpose of changing an interval between the air-stream pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Claus Matthies, Mathias Stundl
  • Patent number: 9422646
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing entanglements on a multifilament thread, has a treatment channel, has a nozzle bore that opens into the treatment channel and has an air supply device. The air supply device interacts with the nozzle bore in order to produce pulse-like compressed-air flows, wherein the compressed air is produced via a pressure chamber and a pressure source. In order in particular to control the pressure pulses produced in the pressure chamber, a volume store is arranged between the pressure chamber and the pressure source, wherein the volume store has a storage volume which is greater than a chamber volume of the pressure chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Claus Matthies, Jan Westphal
  • Patent number: 9416781
    Abstract: A gear pump includes a plurality of gear wheels rotatably retained in a pump housing and that engage in one another for the conveyance of a medium. One of the gear wheels is driven by a pump shaft, which can be coupled to a drive by means of a coupling end. To maintain a uniform conveyance flow, in particular with strongly fluctuating operational pressures, during alternating load states, within a single rotation, a brake ring is disposed on the circumference of the pump shaft, which acts with at least one brake surface on a friction surface of the pump shaft or on a friction surface of the pump housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: OERLIKON TEXTILE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ulrich Helbing, Arkardiusz Tomzik, Dietrich Witzler
  • Patent number: 9410269
    Abstract: A method and a device for crimping a multifilament thread are described. The thread is blown by means of a transport nozzle through a compressed air stream guided in a thread channel into a gas-permeable compression chamber. Inside the compression chamber, the thread is compressed to form a thread plug, which is then continuously removed through an outlet of the compression chamber. The compression and the removal of the thread plug are monitored by measuring the pressure of the compressed air stream. According to the invention, a plurality of pressures of the compressed air stream in the compression chamber are measured at a plurality of measurement points distributed over the length of the compression chamber for monitoring the thread plug formation in order to perform the compressing and cooling of the thread plug with a uniform filling of the compression chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: OERLIKON TEXTILE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Mathias Stündl, Claus Matthies, Christian Hubert
  • Patent number: 9371601
    Abstract: A crimping apparatus for crimping a filament bundle in a melt spinning process includes a conveyor nozzle and a stuffer box which is associated with the conveyor nozzle. For thermal processing, a processing unit, which includes a rotatable processing drum which, for guiding and temperature control of a thread plug, has a rotating drum wall, is disposed downstream of the stuffer box. In order to be able to carry out as gentle a processing of the thread plug as possible, the stuffer box is disposed axially parallel to the processing drum in such a manner that the thread plug can be infed in a straight run from a plug outlet of the stuffer box to the circumference of the drum wall. This allows the naturally acting weight force of the thread plug to be advantageously used for guiding the thread plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: OERLIKON TEXTILE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jan Westphal, Mathias Stündl, Claus Matthies
  • Patent number: 9365388
    Abstract: An apparatus for continuously winding up a thread is described and includes two winding spindles that are held in a projecting manner on a rotary table and are associated with spindle drives to allow the thread to be alternately wound to form a bobbin. The rotary table can be activated in order to exchange the winding spindles between a winding region and a changing region. A moveable changing device transfers the thread between the winding spindles and during the exchange of the winding spindles, guides the thread between the winding spindles for transferring to a catching device on one of the winding spindles. The changing device has at least one deflecting thread guide and a movable feeding thread guide, which can be positioned in a deflecting position, the thread being guided at a distance from the winding spindle which receives the thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: OERLIKON TEXTILE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Claus Matthies, Christian Hubert, Jan Westphal, Friedrich Lennemann
  • Patent number: 9308682
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the production of strand-shaped products such as synthetic bands, fiber strands, monofilaments, or films, which are extruded from a polymer melt. The device includes an extrusion device, a cooling device, several rolling feed units and several processing devices mounted between the rolling feed units. In order to obtain short control paths and compact machine units, the processing devices according to the invention are arranged in tiers one above the other, wherein the rolling feed units face each other at both ends of the processing devices so that the product passes through the processing devices in the opposite direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: OERLIKON TEXTILE GMBH & CO., KG
    Inventor: Jens Weinhold
  • Patent number: 9309608
    Abstract: A method and a device for producing a crimped multifilament thread are described. A multiplicity of filaments are extruded by means of a spinning machine, cooled and subsequently treated by a drawing device and a crimping device to form a crimped thread. Before the thread is wound up to form a bobbin, a multiplicity of intertwining knots is produced on the crimped thread by a treatment device. In order to obtain defined patterns of the intertwining knots within the thread, a pulse sequence of compressed air pulses at a predefined frequency is directed at the thread. The treatment device has a controllable blowing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: OERLIKON TEXTILE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Mathias Stündl, Marco Kaulitzki, Claus Matthies, Friedrich Lennemann, Christian Hubert, Ludger Legge, Jan Westphal, Jan Borchardt
  • Patent number: 9289732
    Abstract: A dynamic mixer for mixing flowable media, which has a mixing chamber in a multipart housing is described. A plurality of inlets and an outlet of the mixing chamber are arranged on the housing, and a mixing shaft having a mixer section projects into the mixing chamber. The mixing shaft is mounted in a sliding bearing in the housing by means of a bearing section and passes through the housing with a drive section for coupling to a drive. To avoid dead spaces within the housing, the housing has a sealing hole for accommodating the drive section of the mixing shaft and a bearing hole for mounting the bearing section of the mixing shaft, where the sealing hole has a greater diameter than the bearing hole in order to accommodate a sealing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: OERLIKON TEXTILE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ulrich Helbing, Dietrich Witzler, Heike Jungbluth
  • Patent number: 9243348
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for melt-spinning, drawing and winding multiple synthetic threads and to an apparatus for performing the process. The synthetic threads are spun concurrently side by side through extrusion of fine filamentous strands, cooled down and hauled off to be then collectively drawn as a sheet of threads and wound up on bobbins. To obtain ideally identical physical properties in the collective treatment of the threads, the threads are hauled off independently of each other by separate individual godets after extrusion and before collective drawing. This makes it possible to realize for each thread the same conditions during extrusion, cooling and hauling off. The apparatus includes multiple individual godets arranged side by side, which are arranged upstream of the drawing facility and are each associated with one of the threads. To pull off the threads, the individual godets are configured to be individually driveable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: OERLIKON TEXTILE GMBH & CO., KG
    Inventors: Mathias Stündl, Marco Kaulitzki, Claus Matthies, Ludger Legge, Freddy Van Tricht