Patents Assigned to Stahls' SCS
  • Patent number: 5910284
    Abstract: A composite film of two layers, including a graphic color layer containing at least 50 wt % thermoplastic polyurethane, at least 10 wt % pigment, and a polyester elastomer, and an adhesive layer containing a thermoplastic adhesive. The color layer contains a non-blooming internal wax lubricant constituting less than about 0.1 wt % of the color layer. A combination including a laminate of two layers, one layer of which contains a polyurethane and the other layer of which includes an amorphous polyester directly adhered to a fabric, the improvement including the layer which contains a polyurethane, having an opaque exposed surface substantially free of surface lubricants. In a process for extruding polyurethane film, the improvement including mixing no more than about 0.1 wt % of a non-blooming internal wax lubricant in the polyurethane, prior to extrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1999
    Assignee: Stahls', Inc.
    Inventor: Donald R. Dressler
  • Patent number: 5902667
    Abstract: An impressed emblem is disclosed which includes a cover sheet which is used together with heat and pressure to impress a desired pattern on an emblem. The emblem can also be impressed with a pattern and simultaneously heat-sealed onto a desired substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: Stahls', Inc.
    Inventor: Brett A. Stahl
  • Patent number: 5899441
    Abstract: In an electric chain hoist, there is a slipping clutch in the drive line which connects the electric motor to the chain sprocket, the slipping clutch acting as an overload safeguard. A holding brake is also provided to hold the drive line in the braked state when the motor is switched off. The brake exerts its braking action primarily on that part of the drive line which lies between the slipping clutch and the chain sprocket. To prevent the slipping clutch from entering the slipping state when the motor is switched on before the brake has been released to a sufficient extent, the brake is designed in such a way that it acts on both parts of the drive line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignees: R. Stahl Fordertechnik GmbH, KCI Konecranes International PLC
    Inventors: Ismo Kuivamaki, Helmut Noller
  • Patent number: 5880400
    Abstract: In a metal housing of the "Flameproof Enclosure" ignition protection type, one part of the housing is provided at the parting plane with a rib and the other housing part is provided with a groove complementary thereto. The cross-sectional dimensions of the groove are larger than the cross-sectional dimensions of the rib. The gap-like space obtained thereby is filled with a coating which adheres integrally either to the rib or to the walls of the groove. This gives rise, between the coating and the other part to which it does not adhere integrally, to a gap which meets the requirement placed on an "ex-gap" of a flameproof housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: R. Stahl Schaltgerate GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Leischner, Bernd Limbacher, Dieter Pilz
  • Patent number: 5879046
    Abstract: A vehicle door is made by providing a first sheet metal door panel with fastening portions at a peripheral portion of the first door panel. The fastening portions each have at least a portion that extends at a first angle of not greater than 90 degrees with respect to a body of the first door panel. A second sheet metal door panel is provided with flange portions at a peripheral portion of the second door panel. The flange portions extend transverse to a body of the second door panel. The vehicle door is formed by fastening each of at least two of the fastening portions of the first door panel to an associated one of the flange portions of the second door panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: Stahl/Scott Fetzer Company
    Inventor: George Kalis, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5880401
    Abstract: In a plastic housing of the "Flameproof Enclosure" ignition protection type, one part of the housing is provided at the parting plane with a rib (31) and the other housing part is provided with a groove complementary thereto. The cross-sectional dimensions of the groove are larger than the cross-sectional dimensions of the rib (31). The gap-like space obtained thereby is filled with a coating which adheres integrally either to the rib (31) or to the walls (14, 15) of the groove (13). This gives rise, between the coating and the other part to which it does not adhere integrally, to a gap which meets the requirement placed on an "ex-gap" of a flameproof housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: R. Stahl Schaltgerate GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Leischner, Bernd Limbacher, Dieter Pilz
  • Patent number: 5873949
    Abstract: A pressurized water drain apparatus, for cooling rolling stock, has a pressurized cooling pipe heat exchanger for applying water through nozzle heads onto the rolling stock in a parallel flow and a storage chamber at an outlet of the cooling pipe heat exchanger. The storage chamber includes a deflection system with guiding funnels, a rolling stock outlet and a water outlet. A steam-barrier chamber is connected to the rolling stock outlet of the storage chamber and has a guide funnel with a diameter B and a bifurcated pipe with an input at a top of the steam barrier-chamber and ducts extending down sides of the steam-barrier chamber with outlets opening into the steam-barrier chamber below the guide funnel a distance A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Hennigsdorfer Stahl Engineering GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Tamm, Arnold Joachim, Hartmut Blank, Siegbert Arndt
  • Patent number: 5866248
    Abstract: A composite film of two layers, comprising a graphic color layer containing at least 50 wt % thermoplastic polyurethane, at least 10 wt % pigment, and a polyester elastomer, and an adhesive layer containing a thermoplastic adhesive. The color layer contains a non-blooming internal wax lubricant constituting less than about 0.1 wt % of the color layer. A combination comprising a laminate of two layers, one layer of which contains a polyurethane and the other layer of which includes an amorphous polyester directly adhered to a fabric, the improvement comprising said layer which contains a polyurethane, having an opaque exposed surface substantially free of surface lubricants. In a process for extruding polyurethane film, the improvement comprising mixing no more than about 0.1 wt % of a non-blooming internal wax lubricant in the polyurethane, prior to extrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Assignee: Stahls', Inc.
    Inventor: Donald R. Dressler
  • Patent number: 5862634
    Abstract: A load bearing device is disclosed, which includes a girder to support the load. The girder is accommodated in a housing connected to the load and can be pulled out from the house to engage a girder receptacle, which is fastened to a wall or the like. By means of this bearing device, it is possible to mount prefabricated structural elements such as stairway landings in easy manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: MEA Meisinger, Stahl and Kunststoff GmbH
    Inventors: Xaver Berger, Karl Radimersky, Thomas E. Lernet
  • Patent number: 5853165
    Abstract: A chain hoist contains a slipping overload clutch in the drive line which connects the electric motor to the chain sprocket. This slipping clutch has two clutch halves which are in frictional engagement with one another and are preloaded into frictional engagement with one another by a spring. A holding brake is furthermore provided and this holding brake acts against the clutch disks so as to increase the frictional grip between the clutch disks in the applied state. This ensures that when the hoist is started and the disengagement of the brake is delayed, the slipping clutch does not enter the slipping state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignees: R. Stahl Fordertechnik GmbH, KCI Konecranes International PLC
    Inventor: Ismo Kuivamaki
  • Patent number: 5840206
    Abstract: The subject of the invention is a nozzle for introducing liquid metal into a mold for the continuous casting of flat metal products, having two large walls and two side walls, of the type having at its lower end two outlet ports which are made in its lateral wall opposite each other and intended to send the liquid metal each toward a side wall of said mold, and at least two holes made in the bottom of said lower end, wherein a first group of said holes is arranged on one side of a longitudinal plane of symmetry of the nozzle, which plane includes the axes of the outlet ports, and a second group of said holes is arranged on the other side of said plane of symmetry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignees: Thyssen Stahl Aktiengesellschaft, Usinor Sacilor
    Inventors: Laurent Gacher, Jean-Michel Damasse, Gerard Raisson
  • Patent number: 5839501
    Abstract: The casting roll includes a hub (2) and a shell (3) which are arranged coaxially, and two flanges (5, 6) for supporting and radially centering the shell on the hub. Each flange includes a frustoconical part (51, 61) which cooperates with a corresponding frustoconical surface (34, 35) of the bore in the shell, the frustoconical surface being located in a region (A) where the internal diameter variations of the shell due to the expansion deformations are substantially zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignees: Unicor-Sacilor, Thyssen Stahl Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Pierre Delassus, Fran.cedilla.ois Mazodier, Jean-Marie Pelletier, Gerard Raisson
  • Patent number: 5817393
    Abstract: A simplified assembly for a multi-colored emblem that includes a non-woven base layer which outlines the emblem. The non-woven base layer extends beyond the embroidered fabric layer and provides an emblem with a non-fraying border.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: Stahls' Inc.
    Inventor: Ted A. Stahl
  • Patent number: 5811945
    Abstract: A travel drive for a trolley traveling gear of hoists has a drive train which has the properties of a freewheel as regards the direction of travel. Consequently load oscillation can be rapidly damped out because the speed of the traveling gear is not forcibly held constant during the semioscillation of the load in which it moves ahead of the traveling gear. On the contrary, the swinging load is able to drag the traveling gear behind it, accelerating it in the process, and in this way to convert oscillation energy into driving energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignees: R. Stahl Fordertechnik GmbH, KCI Konecranes International PLC
    Inventors: Frank Hellinger, Ari Vaisanen
  • Patent number: 5807444
    Abstract: The subject of the invention is a process for the continuous casting of an austenitic stainless steel strip directly from liquid metal of composition, expressed in percentages by weight: C.ltoreq.0.08%, Si.ltoreq.1%; Mn.ltoreq.2%; P.ltoreq.0.045%; S.ltoreq.0.030%; Cr between 17.0 and 20.0%; Ni between 8.0 and 10.5% on a machine for casting onto one or between two moving walls whose external surface is provided with dimples and in which the region surrounding the meniscus is inerted with an inerting gas of controlled composition, wherein:a Cr.sub.equ /Ni.sub.equ ratio greater than 1.55 is conferred on said liquid metal, with:Cr.sub.equ =% Cr+1.37.times.% Mo+1.5.times.% Si+2.times.% Nb+3.times.% Ti andNi.sub.equ =% Ni+0.31.times.% Mn+22.times.% C+14.2.times.% N+% Cu;one or more moving walls are used whose entire surface includes touching dimples having a diameter of between 100 and 1500 .mu.m and a depth of between 20 and 150 .mu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignees: Usinor Sacilor, Thyssen Stahl Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Philippe Paradis, Christian Marchionni, Manuel Bobadilla, Jean-Michel Damasse
  • Patent number: 5794894
    Abstract: A selectively adjustable suspension support and a method for suspending a supported member from an overhead support member at a selected distance below the overhead support member includes an elongate flexible cable, a bead affixed to the cable adjacent each end of the cable, and a plurality of separate, discrete tabs affixed to the cable, spaced apart along the length of the cable, each tab including a catch for receiving and capturing a bead in the tab, whereby capture of a bead within a selected tab establishes the distance between the overhead support member and the supported member, and juxtaposition of the cable with the catch precludes inadvertent release of the bead from the catch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Assignee: Carl Stahl Sava Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Zdenek A. Fremund
  • Patent number: 5788824
    Abstract: The subject of the invention is a process for conditioning the copper or copper-alloy external surface of an element of a mold for the continuous casting of metals, of the type including a step of nickel plating of said surface and a step of nickel removal therefrom, wherein:a preparation of said surface, comprising in succession an operation of cleaning said bare surface, an operation of pickling said bare surface in an oxidizing acid medium and an operation of brightening said bare surface, is carried out;then, an operation of nickel plating of said bare surface is carried out by electroplating, by placing said element as the cathode in an electrolyte consisting of an aqueous nickel sulfamate solution containing from 60 to 100 g/l of nickel;then, after said element has been used, an operation of partially or completely removing the nickel from said surface electrolytically is carried out, by placing said element as the anode in an electrolyte consisting of an aqueous nickel sulfamate solution containing fro
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignees: Usinor Sacilor (Societe Anonyme), Thyssen Stahl Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Catonne, Christian Allely, Remy Nicolle, Gerard Raisson
  • Patent number: 5787967
    Abstract: The solidification of the strip (9) is performed by introducing liquid metal between two horizontal rolls rotating in opposition directions (1, 1') which are cooled by an internal circulation of a coolant fluid. A casting space is defined between the rolls and their outer surfaces (3, 3') have a roughness. The casting space is blanketed by a cooling gas or a mixture of gases through a lid (10) covering the casting space. An adjustment of the crown or profile of the rolls (1, 1') is performed by modulating the quantity of cooling gas blown onto the rolls and/or the nature and composition of the gas at least in the vicinity of the surface of each roll (1, 1') upstream of its region of contact with the liquid metal (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignees: Usinor Sacilor, Thyssen Stahl Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Luc Vendeville, Pierre Delassus, Gerard Raisson, Jean-Michel Damasse
  • Patent number: 5769999
    Abstract: An improved apparatus (10) for thermally bonding indicia to caps comprises relatively movable upper and lower platens (12,14) with a heat source in one of the platens for heating it. A handle (18) pivotal in a vertical plane raises and lowers the upper platen (12) swinging it through virtually a 90.degree. arc to permit easy positioning of a cap between the platens where they are open. Both platens (12,14) have curved nesting pressing surfaces (20,20'), the upper platen pressing surface (20) having a concave shape and the lower platen pressing surface (20') having a convex shape with the radius of curvature of the upper platen pressing surface (20) being greater than the radius of curvature of the lower platen pressing surface (20') so that the platens (12,14) apply equal pressure across a cap disposed between them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: Stahls', Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald C. Anderson, David A. Myers
  • Patent number: 5769130
    Abstract: A process for producing a safety belt for use in a motor vehicle comprises the insertion of two yarns into a least one shed. Two weft yarns are inserted over the entire width of the fabric, with one inserted on one side of the fabric and the other on the other side of the fabric at the same time. In addition, a third weft yarn binds over a part of the fabric with warp yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: Carl Stahl GmbH & Co, KG
    Inventor: Roland Brielmann