Patents Assigned to Vecoplan AG
  • Patent number: 12121978
    Abstract: A cutting crown fixing for positively locking and non-rotatable fixing of a cutting crown to a holder associated therewith of a comminuting apparatus, in particular a rotor of a comminuting apparatus, including a cutting crown, a cutting crown holder associated with the cutting crown, a screw bolt and a thread insert having a head portion and a shaft portion, wherein the thread insert has a female thread complementary to the male thread of the screw bolt and the cutting crown holder has a through passage for receiving the screw bolt, and in the installed position the thread insert is arranged in positively locking relationship in the axial and tangential direction in a holding opening of the cutting crown associated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: VECOPLAN AG
    Inventor: Florian Pink
  • Patent number: 11986832
    Abstract: A comminuting apparatus for comminuting comminution stock like recyclable material, waste and product residues, including a comminuting rotor mounted rotatably to a machine frame and having comminuting tools arranged thereon, a receiving region for receiving comminution stock and a feed device having a ram device which is moveable in the direction towards the comminuting rotor by a drive device and which is adapted for feeding comminution stock to the comminuting rotor. The comminuting apparatus is distinguished in that the drive device of the feed device has at least two spaced electric actuators which are controlled by a control device and which are connected at the drive output side by a transverse member, wherein the transverse member is operatively connected to the ram device by a resilient damping device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: VECOPLAN AG
    Inventor: André Schell
  • Patent number: 9233376
    Abstract: A comminuting rotor is driven by a rotary current electric motor via a non-positive traction drive, wherein said rotary current electric motor is energized by a controlled frequency converter for operating the comminuting rotor at a predetermined rotational speed during the normal operating phase. A degree of slip of the traction drive is determined and monitored and the rotary current electric motor is controlled for being powered off if a first slip threshold value is exceeded. If a predetermined second threshold of the traction drive slip is exceeded, which is below said first slip threshold, for continuing the operation of the comminuting device, the frequency converter is controlled in a slip operating phase for a closed or open loop control of the traction drive slip to a predetermined third slip threshold value and for reducing the torque output from the rotary current electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: VECOPLAN AG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Lipowski
  • Patent number: 9144804
    Abstract: A comminuting device for waste products and/or production waste is described that includes a driving device that drives at least one comminuting rotor presenting on the periphery thereof a number of comminuting tools that are fixed to the comminuting rotor, for forming at least one knife bank extending in the axial direction with one directional component The comminuting tools cooperates with at least one counterknife arrangement adapted in its form to the rotation surface of the comminuting rotor equipped with said tools, for disintegrating the material to be processed. Neighboring comminuting tools within a knife bank are arranged adjacent to each other at respectively associated lateral faces and offset to each other on the periphery of the rotor, such that equivalent cutting edges of neighboring comminuting tools have the same distance to the rotor axis and each lie in a plane that runs parallel to the rotor axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Vecoplan AG
    Inventors: Heiko Kessler, Pierre Wiezorek
  • Publication number: 20150174586
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a comminuting device, in which method a comminuting rotor is driven by a driving unit which at least comprises a rotary current electric motor, via a non-positive traction drive, particularly a belt drive, wherein said rotary current electric motor is energized by a controlled frequency converter, for operating the comminuting rotor at a predetermined rotational speed during the normal operating phase, and wherein a degree of slip of the traction drive is determined and monitored and the rotary current electric motor is controlled for being powered off if a first slip threshold value is exceeded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: VECOPLAN AG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Lipowski
  • Patent number: 8434705
    Abstract: This invention relates to a shredding device having a driving unit driving a rotor including shredding tools on its periphery which for comminuting a material such as waste material and/or industrial residues, interact with a least one counter knife assembly that is arranged in a stationary fashion with respect to the machine housing during the shredding operation. The shredding device is characterized in that the counter knife assembly includes at least two counter knife bars which run approximately parallel to each other and are arranged one above the other in the rotating direction of the rotor, the counter knife bars, for the compensation of wear at the shredding tools and/or at the counter knife assembly, being arranged for an adjustment radially to the rotor axis by a mutually different degree by means of an adjustment device. A process for operating a shredding device is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Vecoplan AG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Lipowski
  • Patent number: 7757983
    Abstract: A comminuting apparatus for waster and/or production residues includes a drive device having at least one high-pole three-phase synchronous motor that is operatively connected to a comminuting shaft having at least one shaft bearing arrangement. The motor is connected directly to the comminuting shaft and the comminuting shaft over its working region has comminuting tools that cooperate with a counterpart member for comminuting the material to be processed. The comminuting shaft extends axially into the three-phase synchronous motor and the at least one shaft bearing arrangement of the comminuting shaft is surrounded at least in portion-wise manner by the synchronous motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Vecoplan AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Lipowski, Thomas Sturm