Patents Assigned to Wilhelm Fette GmbH
  • Patent number: 6918493
    Abstract: An apparatus for singling out tablets for a rotary tablet-compressing press the rotor of which has associated therewith a nozzle which, via a line and a controllable valve disposed in the line, is adapted to be connected to a pressure source in order to route a tablet into a rejects duct wherein the control signals for the valve are produced by a control device, characterized in that the line, between the orifice of the nozzle and the valve, has disposed a pressure sensor which delivers a sensor signal if the valve is opened or a predetermined minimum pressure prevails in the line and a logic evaluation circuit is provided into which the sensor signal and the control signal are input and that an error signal is produced in the evaluation circuit, which signal is evaluated by the control device if the time relation of the control signals and the sensor signals deviates from a predetermined relation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Hinzpeter, Ingo Schmidt, Ulrich Gathmann, Peter Preuss, Werner Seifert
  • Patent number: 6783306
    Abstract: A rotary cutting tool with a holder body rotating about a central axis on which at least one cutting blade is mountable which has at least one cutting edge that gets in a metal-cutting engagement with a workpiece when the holder body rotates while simultaneously undergoing a linear forward feed, wherein the cutting blade is adapted to be advanced to a predetermined cutting depth, characterized in that the cutting edge of the cutting blade is comprised of at least two cutting edge portions which are disposed in an offset relationship in such a way that they make a partial contribution each to the predetermined cutting depth by means of a different setting angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventor: Herbert Popke
  • Patent number: 6749416
    Abstract: A die for a rotary compression press, comprising a die holder axially supported in a guide bore and a die insert which is seated in the end-side bore of the die holder via a trunnion-shaped projection and is adapted to be mounted via releasable fastening means, wherein the projection is helically guided in the bore between axially spaced stops and is biased by a spring towards the associated front-end face of the die holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Arndt, Andreas Arning, Heinrich Behrmann, Helmut Bommrowitz, Thomas Heinrich, Jürgen Hinzpeter, Thomas Jacob, Peter Lüneburg, Nils Petersen, Hans-Joachim Pierags, Jürgen Schikowski, Elke Wittenberg, Hans Wolf, Ulrich Zeuschner
  • Patent number: 6749375
    Abstract: An end milling cutter for machining workpieces made of a non-ferrous metal or plastic including two or more helically shaped cutting edges between which helically shaped chip flutes are formed which define a chip-cutting face along with the cutting edges, and a tool flank each between the cutting edge and the chip flute which follows next wherein the tool flanks or tooth backs are facet-shaped such that they are composed of individual reference surfaces which are approximately planar and are disposed at an angle with respect to each other as viewed in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventor: Diethard Thomas
  • Patent number: 6695548
    Abstract: A surface milling or angular milling cutter, comprising a carrier body which circumferentially, at uniformly or non-uniformly spread spacings, has disposed pockets which extend in parallel with the axis of rotation of the carrier body for the accommodation of cassettes which, in turn, have seating surfaces for the accommodation of tool tips, a mounting device for the tool tips in the cassette, a bolt mounting to locate the cassettes in the pockets, and an adjusting pin for each cassette for a limited axial displacement of the cassettes in two directions in the pockets, characterized in that the radially outer portion of the cassette is divided by a gap extending approximately in the radial plane, and the gap receives a setting wedge the position of which can be adjusted by means of an adjusting screw in the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Focken, Klaus Oppelt
  • Patent number: 6684674
    Abstract: An axial thread rolling head comprising a bearing unit including rolling dies supported via eccentric shafts, a shank which is axially movable with respect to the bearing unit and has a clutch portion which interacts with a claw clutch portion of a spring housing rotatably supported on the shank in a first axial relative postion and which couples the two components in a torsion-resistant manner, and a first gearing between the shank and the eccentric shafts for varying the mutual spacing of the rolling dies, a spiral-coiled spring between the shank and the bearing unit and mechanical switching means to move the shank and the bearing unit into the second relative position when in contact with a workpiece, wherein at least the bearing unit and the spring housing are formed from titanium or a titanium alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Focken
  • Patent number: 6612827
    Abstract: An apparatus for the manufacture of compacts, preferably a tabletting machine, comprising a rotary cavity block table and a stationary filling shoe associated therewith for feeding the material used which is to be compacted in the cavity block, wherein the filling shoe is adjustable in height with respect to the surface of the rotary cavity block table via a servomotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfram Minke, Rudolf Koch
  • Patent number: 6598444
    Abstract: A tangential rolling head with a basic body including means for loading it in a machine tool, two two-armed levers pivotally supported about a common axis of the basic body one lever arm of which is traversed by a formed-type roll and the other lever arm of which is traversed by a spindle which has a circumferential annular groove, a sheet metal element which has a forked portion and a fastening portion wherein the forked portion engages the annular groove and the fastening portion is adapted to be fastened in a recess of the basic body by means of a pin, characterized in that the sheet metal element is rigidly formed and is supported in the recess on the two sides by means of disc springs slid onto the pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Focken
  • Patent number: 6595767
    Abstract: A rotary compression press for cylindrical compacts, especially tablets, comprising a rotatably driven rotor including a die-plate and an upper and a lower ram guide for upper and lower rams cooperating with the die bores, and a pressure station with an upper and a lower pressure roller for applying a pressing power to the rams wherein the rams circumferentially have an annular tooth system which cooperates with an opposed tooth system in the area of a pressure station for the rams for the purpose of rotating the rams in the die bores thereof, characterized in that the opposed tooth system is defined by a rotatably supported gear which is acted on by a preset braking torque with the braking torque being chosen so as to be smaller than the torque of the ram when under a maximum pressing power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Hinzpeter, Ulrich Arndt, Heinrich Behrmann, Helmut Bommrowitz, Thomas Heinrich, Thomas Jacob, Peter Lüneburg, Nils Petersen, Hans-Joachim Pierags, Wolfgang Röhrs, Elke Wittenberg, Hans Wolf, Ulrich Zeuschner
  • Patent number: 6562291
    Abstract: A process for the manufacture of compressed articles, particularly cemented-carbide cutting blade inserts, by compacting metallic powder and subsequently sintering the compact, particularly cemented-carbide reversible cutting blade inserts, which have a seating surface and at least one cutting edge extending approximately in parallel with the seating surface which is at a predetermined distance from the seating surface, by means of a press having a die-plate and a top ram and a bottom ram, comprising the steps of: Charging a predetermined volume of metallic powder into the die-plate bore with the bottom ram taking a predetermined charging position in the die-plate bore, Displacing the bottom ram and the top ram to predetermined first and second positions, Displacing the bottom ram and, if need be, the top ram more while simultaneously measuring the compressive force at least for the bottom ram with the shift of the bottom ram or top ram being effected along a predetermined curve desired for the compressive
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Hinzpeter, Ulrich Zeuschner, Thomas Pannewitz, Ulf Hauschild, Klaus Peter Rüssmann
  • Patent number: 6527537
    Abstract: A tablet rotary compression press for the manufacture of multi-layered tablets, comprising a rotationally driven rotor which has a die-plate with die-plate bores and top and bottom rams aligned towards the die-plate bores which are guided in ram guides of the rotor and are axially actuated by stationary control cams, an insertion device for a portion of the tablet-forming compacts which has two or more arms guided in a radially movable manner at the each end of which a compact is held and can be aligned towards a die-plate bore, wherein said rotor has circumferentially included thereon a support ring or support surfaces on which the compacts can be deposited in the positions approximately aligned towards the die-plate bores, the radial arms are disposed in the rotor, rotate therewith, and have radially movable gripping portions adapted to be radially moved to each other, and the rotor has provided therein a stationary guide with first and second guide cams the cam followers of which are interacted with by the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Arndt, Thomas Heinrich, Jürgen Hinzpeter, Thomas Jacob, Peter Lüneburg, Gert Stellmach, Ulrich Zeuschner
  • Patent number: 6451228
    Abstract: An adjusting method for a rotary tablet press with an angle pulse encoder for evaluating the pressing force course at the individual punches in at least one pressing station, in which the angle pulse encoder per revolution of the press rotor produces a pulse per revolution and per rotational angle value produces an angle pulse, characterised by the following steps: the angle pulse encoder is rigidly assembled relative to the rotor shaft in any position the rotor with a predetermined punch is moved visually under the middle of a main pressing roller (coarse position) the rotor is rotated until the pulse per revolution appears, and the angle pulses until the pulse per revolution are counted by a machine computer and their number is stored the computer computes the coarse positions of all punches, expressed in angle pulses, in relation to the pulse per revolution and produces on rotation of the rotor one coarse position pulse per punch in the computer to each coarse position there is allocated a measuring w
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Hinzpeter, Ingo Schmidt, Ulrich Gathmann, Jörg Reitberger, Joachim Greve, Klaus-Peter Preuss
  • Patent number: 6442859
    Abstract: A method for determining the position of a punch with respect to a die in a powder press with the following steps: storing a reference measure in a computer corresponding to a predetermined relatively small distance of the punch to the upper edge or lower edge of the die, storing a reference offset in the computer by counting the pulses of an incremental path sensor actuated by the punch on raising the punch from the reference measure to an index pulse, measuring the position of the punch above the reference offset using an absolute path sensor which evaluates the path of the adjusting piston for the punch and whose readings are inputted into the computer, and inputting the pulses of the incremental path sensor into the computer as soon as the actual position of the punch is equal or smaller than the sum measure of the reference offset and the reference measure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Hinzpeter, Ingo Schmidt, Jörg Reitberger, Ulrich Gathmann, Klaus Peter Rüssmann, Thomas Pannewitz, Stephan Mallon, Alexander Oldenburg
  • Patent number: 6426458
    Abstract: A control cabinet for a tablet press including an enclosure having wall, ceiling, and bottom portions of sheet metal, a door which closes an opening of the enclosure wherein a door board attached to the enclosure by means of at least one hinge only consists of two panels of a transparent material with no surrounding border between which a netting of a conductive material is disposed, and a contacting device which electrically connects the netting to a portion of the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2002
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Hinzpeter, Ingo Schmidt, Joachim Greve, Jörg Reitberger, Ulrich Gathmann, Klaus Peter Preuss
  • Patent number: 6370021
    Abstract: An operating stand for a tablet press device which comprises a process computer with a screen and an input keyboard and where appropriate a printer, wherein the operating lectern is mounted height-adjustable on a traversable base and between the base and the operating lectern there is arranged a linear adjusting drive with a linear guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Hinzpeter, Ulrich Zeuschner, Elke Wittenberg, Peter Lüneburg, Hans-Joachim Pierags, Nils Petersen, Ulrich Arndt, Hans Wolf
  • Patent number: 6361306
    Abstract: A tool arrangement for the manufacture of ring-shaped compacts using a rotary compression press wherein the rotary compression press has a rotatably driven die-plate having die holes in which die inserts are mounted, and upper and lower rams aligned towards the die inserts and rotating together therewith, which are moved by control portions towards each other or away from each other and wherein the bottom rams have a coaxial bore open to the operating end in which a central pin is disposed which is axially located relative to the die-plate by a transverse pin wherein the transverse pin extends through an axial slot of the lower ram, wherein the transverse pin is located in a ring which forms part of a guide bore for the lower ram which is formed in a radially outwardly facing projection of the die-plate, two bracket-shaped retaining clips are disposed on opposed sides of the lower ram a longer leg of which abuts against the underside of the ring and a short, second leg of which is bent over the projection, a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Hinzpeter, Ulrich Zeuschner, Christian Medicus, Christian Hoffmann, Jürgen Schikowski, Andreas Arning, Hans-Wilhelm Christiansen
  • Patent number: 6361302
    Abstract: A rotary tabletting machine with a housing, with a matrix disk in the housing, which in an upper and a lower receiving section guides the upper and lower punch, with an upper and lower cam carrier ring rotationally rigid relative to the housing, for control of the upper and lower punch and with an upright drive shaft, below the matrix disk, driven by a rotational drive and releasably connectable to the matrix disk, wherein the matrix disk and the cam carrier rings with the upper and lower punch after release from the connections as an assembly may be commonly removed from the drive shaft, whereby the cam carrier rings laterally in each case are connected to at least one arm and the arms via an upright connection section are rigidly connected to one another and the connection section is releasably couplable to the housing such that it is secured against rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Hinzpeter, Ulrich Zeuschner, Hans-Joachim Pierags, Nils Petersen, Peter Lüneburg, Elke Wittenberg, Ulrich Arndt, Hans Wolf
  • Patent number: 6361305
    Abstract: A rotary tablet press, with a die plate rotatably mounted in a housing, which comprises guides for the upper and lower punch, whose position is controlled by cam disks rigid with the housing, and with an upright drive shaft which is arranged below the die plate and which can be releasably coupled to the die plate, wherein the die plate is formed such that after releasing from the drive shaft and a slight raising it may be moved out laterally, wherein at the ends, facing one another, of the die plate and drive shaft there is provided a quick locking whose parts are arranged in cavities of the die plate and drive shaft and which may be actuated by an actuation rod which is movably mounted in an axial channel of the drive shaft and is actuatable by an actuation device for the selective tensioning or releasing of the die plate and drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Hinzpeter, Ulrich Zeuschner, Hans-Joachim Pierags, Nils Petersen, Peter Lüneburg, Elke Wittenberg, Ulrich Arndt, Hans Wolf
  • Patent number: 6325573
    Abstract: An arrangement comprising a bore-type hobbing cutter and a holding arbor wherein the bore of the hobbing cutter has ground cylindrical centering surfaces at its ends and the arbor has complementary seating surfaces and wherein the hobbing cutter is axially chucked on the holding arbor by means of axial chucking means, where a preferably sleeve-shaped cage is disposed between centering surfaces and has a thickness which is smaller than the radial distance between centering and seating surfaces, and has an outside diameter which is smaller than the inside diameter of centering surfaces, the cage supports, in a circumferential direction, at least a number of prechucking elements, which are preferably metallic and are in contact with the associated centering surface and the seating surface, and said diameter and the distance between the contacting points or contacting lines of prechucking members are slightly larger than the radial distance between centering and seating surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Carmincke, Christian Davids, Andreas Ebert, Jürgen Hinzpeter, Werner Kölker, Wolfram Lämmerhirt, Ansgar Pleus, Meinhard Schadowski, Wolfgang Soltau, Gerhard Steffen
  • Patent number: 6319435
    Abstract: A method for the production monitoring with the manufacture of tablets in a rotary tabletting machine, with a row of upper and lower punches arranged in pairs, which cooperate with matrix bores, in which for each punch pair the maximum of the pressing force is measured, via a preselected number of readings (measuring row) an actual mean value is computed and compared to a nominal mean value and the supply of material to the individual matrix bores (filling degree) is changed when the deviation exceeds a predetermined measure, wherein before forming the mean value those pressing force readings of each measuring row, which significantly deviate with respect to other readings, are eliminated (freak value test).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Hinzpeter, Ingo Schmidt, Ulrich Gathmann, Jörg Reitberger, Joachim Greve, Klaus-Peter Preuss