Patents Assigned to Sulzer Mixpac AG
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Patent number: 8511350Abstract: The system for filling a cartridge employs a piston setting device that has a plunger for moving the venting valve of the piston to an open position and a conduit for venting the air from the opened valve under the influence of a vacuum source connected to the conduit via an attachment device.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2009Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Sulzer MixPac AGInventor: Hayden Turner
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Patent number: 8499976Abstract: A multichamber dispensing device for dispensing a mixture consisting of a plurality of substances includes a receptacle unit (10) with several chambers that are aligned parallel in relation to each other. Each chamber has an open first end for inserting a piston and a second end having an outlet opening. A dispensing unit (30) including a dispensing channel and an adapter section (36) is connected to the receptacle unit (10). The adapter section includes at least one detachable separating element (38) which protrudes radially to the inside and interacts with at least one locking means of the receptacle unit (10), so that after loosening the separating element (38), the dispensing unit (30) opposite the receptacle unit (10) can be shifted in an axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2006Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Sulzer Mixpac AGInventor: Alberto C. Sogaro
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Publication number: 20130182529Abstract: A mixing element for a static mixer for installation into a tubular mixer housing has a longitudinal axis along which a plurality of installation bodies are arranged behind one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2013Publication date: July 18, 2013Applicant: Sulzer Mixpac AGInventor: Sulzer Mixpac AG
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Publication number: 20130161353Abstract: A dispensing device for a multi component cartridge includes a housing in which a reception element for receiving a cartridge end of the multicomponent cartridge is arranged. The cartridge end is located at the inlet side of a first and second storage container filled with a filling mass and respectively sealed in a fluid tight manner at the cartridge end by a respective piston. A plunger arrangement and a drive arrangement for moving the plunger arrangement are arranged in the housing. A movement of the plunger arrangement in a dispensing direction can be carried out by the drive arrangement for dispensing the filling mass from the storage containers of the multicomponent cartridge. The reception element has an axis of rotation which is substantially arranged in parallel to the dispensing direction. The cartridge end pushed into the reception element can be transferred from an assembly position into a dispensing position by a rotation about the axis of rotation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2012Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: SULZER MIXPAC AGInventor: Sulzer Mixpac AG
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Publication number: 20130135963Abstract: A mixing element for a static mixer for installation into a tubular mixer housing has a longitudinal axis along which at least one first and one second installation body are arranged behind one another. An inlet element is provided which is arranged upstream of the first installation body, wherein the inlet element and the first installation body are connected to one another via a connection element. The inlet element has a body which can be sealingly taken up at the peripheral side in the mixer housing. The body has a first inlet passage and a second inlet passage, wherein the first inlet passage has a first entry opening and a first exit opening, wherein the second inlet passage has a second entry opening and a second exit opening so that the corresponding component can be conducted through the corresponding inlet passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2012Publication date: May 30, 2013Applicant: SULZER MIXPAC AGInventor: Sulzer Mixpac AG
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Publication number: 20130119158Abstract: A static spray mixer for the mixing and spraying of at least two flowable components is proposed having a tubular mixer housing (2) which extends in the direction of a longitudinal axis (A) up to a distal end (21) which has an outlet opening (22) for the components, having at least one mixing element (3) arranged in the mixer housing (2) for the mixing of the components as well as having an atomization sleeve (4) which has an inner surface which surrounds the mixer housing (2) in its end region, wherein the atomization sleeve (4) has an inlet channel (41) for a pressurized atomization medium, wherein a plurality of grooves (5) are provided in the outer surface of the mixer housing (2) or in the inner surface of the atomization sleeve (4) which respectively extend toward the distal end and which form separate flow channels (51) between the atomization sleeve (4) and the mixer housing (2) through which the atomization medium can flow from the inlet channel (41) of the atomization sleeve (4) to the distal end (2Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2011Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicant: SULZER MIXPAC AGInventors: Andreas Hiemer, Carsten Stemich
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Publication number: 20130112778Abstract: A static spray mixer for the mixing and spraying of at least two flowable components is proposed having a tubular mixer housing (2) which extends in the direction of a longitudinal axis (A) up to a distal end (21) which has an outlet opening (22) for the components, having at least one mixing element (3) arranged in the mixer housing (2) for the mixing of the components as well as having an atomization sleeve (4) which has an inner surface which surrounds the mixer housing (2) in its end region, wherein the atomization sleeve (4) has an inlet channel (41) for a pressurized atomization medium, wherein a plurality of grooves (5) are provided in the outer surface of the mixer housing (2) or in the inner surface of the atomization sleeve (4) which respectively extend toward the distal end and which form separate flow channels (51) between the atomization sleeve (4) and the mixer housing (2) through which the atomization medium can flow from the inlet channel (41) of the atomization sleeve (4) to the distal end (2Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2011Publication date: May 9, 2013Applicant: SULZER MIXPAC AGInventors: Andreas Hiemer, Carsten Stemich
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Patent number: 8376187Abstract: The dispensing assembly includes a cartridge having at least two containers and accessories. The fastening area (6) of the cartridge (1) and the fastening areas (9) of the accessories (4) are configured such that the accessories are attachable to the cartridge by plugging them on without a twisting motion and removable therefrom by twisting them one relative to another. In a further developed embodiment, the parts comprise coding elements which serve as aligning means and for preventing that the accessory is plugged onto the cartridge in the wrong orientation. An assembly of this kind allows an easy attachment and removal of an accessory such as a mixer or a closure cap and can be produced inexpensively.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2008Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Sulzer Mixpac AGInventor: Wilhelm A. Keller
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Publication number: 20130026182Abstract: A self-supporting cartridge is proposed having at least one reception chamber for a medium to be dispensed extending in a longitudinal direction, having a cartridge base and having a cartridge wall all of which define the reception chamber, wherein the cartridge is made by a thermorforming process or by a blow molding process and the cartridge is adapted to be collapsible in a controlled manner. Further a dispensing apparatus for at least one cartridge in accordance with the invention is provided having a support cartridge for the reception of at least one cartridge having a closure device provided at a first axial end of the support cartridge as well as a dispensing plunger provided at the second axial end of the support cartridge for the controlled collapse of the at least one cartridge.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2011Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: SULZER MIXPAC AGInventor: Sasan Habibi-Naini
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Publication number: 20130021869Abstract: A dynamic mixer for a plurality of fluid components contains a housing and a rotor element which is rotatably arranged in the housing, with the housing having one inlet opening for at least one component each and at least one outlet opening. A ring-shaped intermediate space is provided between the rotor element and the housing in which a mixing element connected to the rotor element is arranged. A seal for sealing the rotor element in the mixer housing is provided at the bearing location of the rotor element in the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2012Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicant: SULZER MIXPAC AGInventors: Valentin Gartmann, Percy Leue
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Publication number: 20130021870Abstract: A mixing element for a static mixer for installation into a tubular mixer housing has a longitudinal axis along which a plurality of installation bodies are arranged behind one another. A first installation body has a first wall element which extends in the direction of the longitudinal axis and a first side wall and a second side wall which is arranged opposite the first side wall. A deflection element is arranged adjacent to the first wall element and has a deflection surface extending in the transverse direction to the wall element at both sides of the wall element. A first opening is provided in the deflection surface at the side which faces the first side wall of the first wall element.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2012Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicant: SULZER MIXPAC AGInventors: Volker Linne, Sasan Habibi-Naini
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Publication number: 20130015205Abstract: A cartridge contains a storage chamber for a fluid filler material in which a piston can be movably received, wherein the storage chamber has a filling end and a discharge end and an inner wall extending between the filling end and the discharge end and the piston is displaceable in the storage chamber from the filling end to the discharge end along the inner wall to discharge the filler material from the storage chamber and the filler material can be enclosed in a sealing manner in the storage chamber by the piston. The piston is captively held within the inner wall by a projection provided at the inner wall in the environment of the filling end.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2012Publication date: January 17, 2013Applicant: SULZER MIXPAC AGInventor: Andreas Hiemer
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Publication number: 20120298775Abstract: A connecting piece is provided for a static spray mixer for mixing and spraying at least two flowable components which has a tubular mixer housing having at least one mixing element as well as an atomizing sleeve, wherein connecting piece has an inlet region for cooperating with the distal end region of the mixer housing as well as an outlet region for cooperating with the atomizing sleeve, with the inlet region and the outlet region including a deflection angle (?) different from zero, and wherein the outlet region has at its end remote from the inlet region an end section whose outer contour is the same as that of the mixer housing so that the end section of the outlet region can cooperate with the atomizing sleeve in the same manner as the distal end region of the mixer housing can cooperate with the atomizing sleeve.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2012Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: SULZER MIXPAC AGInventor: Andreas Hiemer
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Patent number: 8313232Abstract: A dynamic mixer for mixing components in different volumetric amounts comprises a rotor housing which is closed on the inlet side thereof by a cover, the cover defining inlets for the components. The inlet for the first component having the larger volumetric amount leads to an antechamber that communicates with a following mixing chamber by at least one passage. The mixing rotor includes a distributor body located in the antechamber for distributing the first component around the axis of rotation of the mixing rotor. The inlet for the second component having the smaller volumetric amount leads to at least one inlet opening located in the area of the passage to the mixing chamber transversely to the axis of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2006Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Sulzer Mixpac AGInventor: Wilhelm A. Keller
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Publication number: 20120279988Abstract: An apparatus for mixing at least two flowable components having a mixer housing with an outlet opening. At least one mixing element arranged in the mixer housing having at least two separate inlet passages through which the flowable components can be introduced separately from one another. Each inlet passage is capable of being in sealing cooperation with a respective outlet passage of a storage container or a chamber. At least one of the inlet passages has an end configured to cooperate with the outlet passage as a piercing element for opening a flow connection between the storage container or the chamber and the inlet passage. The piercing element includes at least two inflow areas for the flowable components, with the two inflow areas being inclined relative to one another. A dispensing apparatus having such a mixer is furthermore provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2012Publication date: November 8, 2012Applicant: SULZER MIXPAC AGInventor: Andreas Hiemer
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Patent number: 8286832Abstract: The dispensing device for single use includes a multicomponent cartridge (1), a mixer (8) having a mixer housing (9), as well as closure means for closing the outlets (4, 5) of the multicomponent cartridge. These closure means are connected to the mixer housing and comprise a respective closure stopper (13, 14) for each outlet that is insertable in an outlet (4, 5) of the multicomponent cartridge and is deformable such that upon rotation of the mixer housing relative to the cartridge, the closure stoppers (13, 14) are removed from the outlets (4, 5) of the multicomponent cartridge.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2006Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Sulzer Mixpac AGInventor: Wilhelm A. Keller
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Publication number: 20120247323Abstract: A piston includes a piston body which is surrounded by a media side, by an oppositely disposed drive side and, at the peripheral side, by a piston jacket, wherein the piston jacket forms a connection between the media side and the drive side. The piston jacket is arranged about a piston axis, wherein the piston jacket is connected to the piston body via a web element so that a peripheral groove is formed on the media side between the piston body and the piston jacket. A cover element is arranged at the media side, and has a drive side surface which lies directly on the media side surface of the piston body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2010Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: SULZER MIXPAC AGInventor: Manfred Obrist
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Patent number: D675096Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2011Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Sulzer Mixpac AGInventor: Manfred Obrist
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Patent number: D675526Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2011Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Sulzer Mixpac AGInventor: Manfred Obrist
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Patent number: D687273Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2012Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Sulzer Mixpac AGInventors: Remo Breitenmoser, Enrico Baldelli