Patents Assigned to Reifenhäuser GmbH & Co Maschinenfabrik
  • Patent number: 7604770
    Abstract: A method and a device for producing a film made of a thermoplastic material, wherein a plastic melt is blown up into a film bubble and is shaped into a desired film by a calibrating arrangement, and a downstream arranged flattening device. For providing as contactless as possible a guidance, calibration and flattening, film guidance elements are used with a laminar uniform air cushion between the film guidance element and the surface of the film bubble, without contact between the surface of the film bubble and the film guidance element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Reifenhäuser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Eike Wedell, Helmut Meyer
  • Patent number: 7461438
    Abstract: An apparatus for applying finishing agents onto a nonwoven web, wherein there is provided a device for pre-bonding of the nonwoven web. There is provided at least one guide surface, over which the pre-bonded nonwoven web is guided. Outlet openings for the finishing agent are provided in the guide surface, so that finishing agent can be applied onto the nonwoven web being guided over the guide surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Reifenhaeuser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Sebastian Sommer, Jens Guedden, Thomas Fett
  • Patent number: 7445443
    Abstract: A turning bar draw-off device for a tubular film extrusion installation, with a plurality of turning bars which can be rotatingly driven around a common axis of rotation or in reverse by rotary drive mechanisms. For the rotating or reversing guidance of the turning bars around the axis of rotation, the ends of each turning bar are connected with guide carriages, which are guided on guide rails arranged in a circle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Reifenhäuser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventor: Helmut Meyer
  • Patent number: 7384254
    Abstract: A coextrusion adapter for an extrusion installation with extruders and a tool for producing a composite coextrusion structure of thermoplastic material. The coextrusion adapter has a central conduit with an end at an inlet side for connecting an extruder and an end at an outlet side for connecting the tool. The coextrusion adapter has at least one coextrusion conduit with an inlet end and an outlet end. A second extruder can be connected to the inlet end. At an end facing the outlet end the adjusting elements have a wedge-shape adjusting section with one wedge surface facing the central conduit and another wedge surface facing the outlet end of the coextrusion conduit. The adjusting section of the adjusting elements is pivotal around an axis extending over the width of the outlet end by the actuating drives. When an increase of the inside diameter of the respective transverse section of the outlet end occurs the corresponding transverse section of the central conduit is narrowed, and vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Reifenhäuser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Anton Rübhausen, Peter Siebigteroth
  • Patent number: 7093785
    Abstract: A transverse cutting device for a continuously fed-in web of material which is wound onto sequentially positioned winding tubes, wherein the transverse cutting device includes a cutter block which can be displaced transversely with respect to the web of material and can be driven by a drive mechanism in the displacement direction, and in which a cutting blade for the transverse cutting of the web of material is held, wherein the cutter block has an applicator brush trailing the cutting blade, by which the leading edge of the web of material formed while being severed can be successively placed against the circumference of a waiting winding tube. Also, a winding device for winding a continuously fed-in web of material onto sequentially provided winding tubes is proposed, which has a transverse winding device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Reifenhäuser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Helmut Meyer, Andreas Böhm, Christoph Schmitt
  • Patent number: 7036763
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for winding a continuously delivered film web onto successively delivered winding tubes with a rotatably drivable contact roller, a winding station, associated with the contact roller, for the winding tube for winding the coil, a winding preparation station for receiving a new winding tube and beginning to wind the film web, and a transverse-cutting device for cutting the film web crosswise between the winding station and the winding preparation station. Associated with the winding preparation station for the new winding tube are a charger for generating an electrostatic charge of the new winding tube and a blower device for subjecting the film web to a blown air stream aimed counter to the feeding direction of the film web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Reifenhäuser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Andreas Böhm, Helmut Meyer
  • Patent number: 6954983
    Abstract: A method for continuously producing flat cables with electric conductors embedded in an isolating material which are arranged at a certain distance from each other, parallel to each other. According to this invention, the band shaped conductors are guided separately in a plane forming two sides of a surface. The surface sides have insulating layers based on thermoplastic synthetic materials. According to this invention, at least one of the insulating layers which covers the surface sides is produced by extrusion coating of a thermoplastic melt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Reifenhäuser GmbH & Co Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Karl Fröschl, Frank Bennerscheidt, Hartmut Halter
  • Publication number: 20050173842
    Abstract: Process for the manufacture of a spun fleece web made of filaments and particularly made of filaments made of thermoplastic synthetic material. The filaments are spun out of a mixture comprising at least one polymer and at least one hydrophilic additive and are plaited to form the fleece web. The fleece web is heated to a temperature of at least 30° C. and/or moistened with an aqueous liquid. The fleece web is thereafter hydrodynamically compacted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2005
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Applicant: REIFENHAEUSER GMBH & CO. MASCHINENFABRIK
    Inventors: Sebastian Sommer, Jens Guedden
  • Patent number: 6752348
    Abstract: A method and a device for winding a continuously arriving foil web into a coil on a winding shaft, having a rotatably driveable contact roller, a winding station assigned to the contact roller for the winding shaft for winding the coil, a take-up station for receiving a fresh winding shaft and taking up the foil web, a transverse cutting device between the winding station and the take-up station for transversely cutting the foil web, wherein a charging station for creating an electrostatic charge between the winding shaft and the foil web and a blower device are assigned to the take-up station for the fresh winding shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Reifenhäuser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Karl Dreckmann, Andreas Böhm
  • Patent number: 6666998
    Abstract: A method for producing an at least partially open-celled foam foil on a basis of styrene polymers, nucleating agents, surfactants, physical foaming agents and, if required, further additives, such as foreign polymers and auxiliary materials, comprising a twin-screw extruder with identical parallel screws rotating in the same direction, wherein the twin-screw extruder has a length of at least 25 D (D=screw diameter), in particular 30 to 42 D, with a draw-in and plastification zone of a length of 10 to 15 D, and a mixing zone of a length of 3 to 6 D, and a following cooling zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Reifenhäuser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Ulrich Berghaus, Stephan Homer, Hubert Jansen
  • Patent number: 6612829
    Abstract: An extrusion die having a first die element and a second die element, each of which has a die lip, between which an extrusion gap with a slot-shaped outlet opening extends over a width of the extrusion die. At least one die element has an adjusting device by which the die lip can be adjusted in relation to the die lip of the other die element while changing the width of the outlet opening. The adjusting device has an adjusting bar arranged in a receiving groove of the die element and displaceable in the width extension thereof in a displacement device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Reifenhäuser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventor: Anton Rübhausen
  • Patent number: 6338453
    Abstract: A winding device, having a winding shaft, which can be inserted into and removed from the winding device, and a winding element and bearing journals protruding from both ends in the direction of the center axis of the winding shaft. The winding device has two outer bearings for receiving the bearing journals for rotatable seating of the winding shaft in the winding device, and an additional bearing for the winding shaft is assigned, spaced apart, to each outer bearing. Each outer bearing has a coupling device, and the coupling devices are displaceable along the center axis of the winding shaft and can be connected with or disconnected from the respective ends of the bearing journals. The additional bearings, acting as inner bearings, are formed between the ends of the bearing journals, which can be connected with the outer bearings, and the winding element on the bearing journal of the winding shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignee: Reifenhäuser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventor: Helmut Meyer