Patents Assigned to Windmoeller & Hoelscher
  • Patent number: 7175729
    Abstract: A method for connecting the ends of flat tubular film sheets made of thermoplastic plastic that are equipped with side creases with one another by means of a lateral welding seam in such a manner that the interior creases remain permeable from the exterior even in the connection area. The end of one sheet is equipped with cuts separating the interior edges of the side creases. The end of the other sheet is inserted or placed into the separated area in such a way that both walls of the cut sheet overlie the inserted end, with a layer of each side crease of the end area of the inserted tubular film between the walls. Separating layers are inserted or placed into the side creases of the inserted end area, and the ends of the two sheets are then connected with one another by means of a lateral welding seam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher KG
    Inventor: Ludger Nobbe
  • Patent number: 7159515
    Abstract: A spindle-nut combination for applying a roller to a counterbearing moved essentially at the circumferential speed of the roller. In order to be able to adjust the play of the spindle in a simple manner, an additional nut is associated with, and displaceable against the spindle nut. Both nuts mesh with the thread of the spindle. An additional securable nut is also provided to brace against the additional nut and prevent undesired turning thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher KG
    Inventors: Dietmar Koopmann, Robert Blom, Guenter Rogge
  • Patent number: 7158855
    Abstract: An operating panel for a film extrusion plant displays the spatial relationship of operating elements of the plant relative both to each other and to an operator viewing the display. The panel has a terminal for inputting functional parameters of the operating elements, such as an extruder, a film bubble, a nozzle, a blowing head, a winding section, or a resin hopper or dosimetry unit associated with the extruder. The panel has an indicator that displays both the parameters and an at least two-dimensional view of the spatial relationship of the operating elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher KG
    Inventor: Reinhard Paetzold
  • Patent number: 7100509
    Abstract: A process for correcting the longitudinal registration error of a rotary printing press with several inking systems in which a control unit adjusts the desired application line of the printing plate on the material web lying on one of the two rollers. In making the adjustment, the control unit takes into account the shift of the effective print line that arises as a consequence of an adjustment movement of one of the two rollers along an axis that does not run coincident with the connecting line of the axes of rotation of the two rollers, and determines correction values from the relative positions of the two rollers and the inking system, and the angle between the connecting line of the axes of rotation and the axis of adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher KG
    Inventor: Hermann-Josef Veismann
  • Patent number: 7090483
    Abstract: An extruder which converts preferably granular plastic material into the melted state and which includes an extruder screw rotating within a cylinder and connected to a drive unit having a motor and at least one rotor so that the drive unit provides torque for rotary motion of the extruder screw. The extruder screw and the rotor exhibit the same speed in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher KG
    Inventor: Gerhard Middelberg
  • Patent number: 7070652
    Abstract: A paste unit for a bottom guide device for gluing bottom warps or star seal bottom bags, which are formed of tube sections, is introduced. The paste unit includes an interchangeable glue reservoir and glue source nozzle, a metering roller, a glue application roller, as well as a making roller. Drive mechanisms are assigned to the rollers. The glue is transferred to the printing roller by the glue application roller. The paste unit may be operated with the glue reservoir to provide a closed system that allows the glue to be applied evenly, and the metering to be adjusted at a very fine setting. Alternatively, with the glue source nozzle installed, the paste unit functions as an open system, which is beneficial for use with certain types of glue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher KG
    Inventors: Ruediger Duwendag, Guido Kerres, Andrees Erdmann
  • Patent number: 7055776
    Abstract: A device for continuous winding of webs on winding shafts onto winding rollers consisting of arms supporting the winding shaft, a pressure roller that can be engaged on the winding shaft or winding core, a knife separating the web during the roller change, and of a charging electrode supplying the web start with an electrostatic charge, which attaches the web start, newly formed by the web cut, on the winding shaft. In order to always maintain the correct equal distance to the web supplied with the charge, the same is tracked in such a manner that the distance of the charging electrode to the web remains constant regardless of the diameter of the winding shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Windmoeller and Hoelscher
    Inventors: Thomas Hawighorst, Rolf Kammann, Juergen Linkies
  • Patent number: 7033440
    Abstract: An adhesive application device, preferably in a tube extruding machine, for transferring adhesive to a sizing roller using an adhesive transfer roller that is mounted with bearings in lever arms so that it can rotate. The adhesive transfer roller can be moved toward and away from the sizing roller using the lever arms which are mounted so that they can rotate in the machine frame. The bearings, with which the adhesive transfer roller is mounted in the lever arms are accessible from the outside of the machine frame side walls so that the bearings can be replaced without removing the transfer roller from its position between the side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher KG
    Inventor: Peter Sieweke
  • Patent number: 7018471
    Abstract: A paste unit and method of glue metering therein for a bottom guide device for star seal bottom bags, which are formed from tube sections, for gluing of bottom warps or star seal bottom bags. The paste unit includes a glue reservoir, a metering roller connected with the glue reservoir, a glue application roller which may be connected to the glue reservoir and a making roller connected to the glue application roller which transfers glue from the application roller to the bottom warps or the star seal bottoms. Drive mechanisms assigned to the above listed rollers enable the circumference speed of the glue application roller and of the making roller to be adjusted independently of one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher KG
    Inventors: Ruediger Duwendag, Guido Kerres
  • Patent number: 7011268
    Abstract: For the winding of a material web on a driven winding roll, it is cut through after the completed winding of a winding roll and the start of the following web is fastened on a winding core. The web is fed in the winding roll via a guide device, preferably consisting of a winding roller, and, after being cut through in a guide channel laid around a winding tube. In order to be able to wind the web with alternating outer sides into a winding roll, the web is fed, according to the desired outer side, from the left or from the right on winding in the winding tube. The winding tube is driven with a corresponding one of two opposite directions of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher KG
    Inventors: Fritz Achelpohl, Jris Looser, legal representative, Gottlieb Looser, deceased
  • Publication number: 20060045676
    Abstract: The invention relates to a changing station for sleeves of printing machines with a lifting platform, disposed on the side of the printing machine, and with a wagon, in which a vertically adjustable shelf with carrying mandrels for receiving sleeves is received, whereby the shelf can be coupled to the lifting platform for joint lifting and lowering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2005
    Publication date: March 2, 2006
    Applicant: WINDMOELLER & HOELSCHER KG
    Inventors: Rainer Jendroska, Alois Thoele
  • Patent number: 6918732
    Abstract: A changing station for sleeves of printing machines with a lifting platform, disposed on the side of the printing machine, and with a wagon, in which a vertically adjustable shelf with carrying mandrels for receiving sleeves is received, whereby the shelf can be coupled to the lifting platform for joint lifting and lowering while the wagon remains on the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher KG
    Inventors: Rainer Jendroska, Alois Thoele
  • Patent number: 6899663
    Abstract: For the production of loop handle shopping bags based on semi-tube sheeting consisting of thermoplastic plastic, an edge strip of the semi-tube sheeting is folded onto itself and reinforcement warps, consisting of a weld-friendly thermoplastic plastic that provides a good weld, are attached on the interior sides of the edge areas by means of glueing or welding at a distance corresponding to the width of the shopping bags to be produced. Subsequently, the edge strip is folded back so that the added reinforcement warps are positioned back-to-back. Double-layer handle strips are positioned in a U-shape and placed between the reinforcement warps with their end areas of the free shanks, and welded together with the edge areas through the reinforcement warps between welding devices. The shopping bags are then separated from the semi-tube sheeting by means of separating weld seams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher KG
    Inventor: Konrad Tetenborg
  • Patent number: 6880742
    Abstract: Shown is a device and a process for the simultaneous separating and welding of foils or foil tubes (5) where the device comprises at least one welding terminal (2) and an opposing terminal (3), and at least a part of the surface of the opposing terminal (3) turned toward the welding terminal (2) is equipped with a flexible absorbing body (4). It is inventive that the surface of the absorbing body (6) turned toward the welding terminal consists of metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher KG
    Inventors: Hans-Ludwig Voss, Friedrich Goecker
  • Patent number: 6875382
    Abstract: A process to purge film extrusion systems with at least one extruder for the purpose of changing batches, wherein the speed is changed periodically in at least that part of the extruder in which the material is changed. By considering the mass flow rate of the film extrusion system, advantageous improvements of the process avoid the situation in which the film tears off. To this end, at least one selected guide extruder is operated at a speed which is increased as compared to the normal operation, and at least one selected downstream extruder is operated at a speed that is decreased as compared to the normal operation. Also included are control and operating units and extrusion systems to carry out the process, which include, among other things, the elements necessary for an automated program run of the purging program and the optical display of the parameters of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher
    Inventors: Reinhard Paetzold, Ulrich Krause
  • Patent number: 6868876
    Abstract: A device for the sacking of bulk material having a product container for receiving bulk material, a filling funnel, and a dust filter. A separator, which is connected to the filling funnel via a connection line, is arranged upstream to the dust filter. Furthermore, the separator for the extracted bulk material is connected to the product container for returning extracted bulk material thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher KG
    Inventor: Ludger Nobbe
  • Patent number: 6854370
    Abstract: A device for the cross perforation of webs, preferably paper webs for producing sacks, comprises a rotatingly driven perforating blade and a grooved roller, both of which are mounted on a machine frame and between them passes the web to be perforated. To adjust the penetration depth of the teeth of the perforating blade into the ring grooves of the grooved roller, there is at least one adjusting device for changing the distance between the axes of rotation of the perforating blade and the grooved roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher
    Inventor: Andreas Sonntag
  • Patent number: 6832551
    Abstract: An ink chamber for rotation printing machines having an ink roll that rotates around an axis during operation, an elongated doctor blade chamber body that limits the ink chamber at least on the side opposite the ink roll, two wedge-like doctor blades that can be set to the ink roll, two sealing bodies that limit the ends of the ink chamber, whereby the sealing surfaces of the sealing bodies are set against the ink roll, and two first intermediate walls, of which one each is arranged between the dye zone of the ink roll and the respective sealing body so that first chambers are created on each side of the doctor blade chamber between the sealing bodies and the intermediate walls. At least one of the doctor blades has a length that ends between one of the intermediate walls and the sealing body on at least one end of the ink chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher KG
    Inventors: Rainer Jendroska, Guido Averdiek
  • Patent number: 6766722
    Abstract: A cutting and transport roller and a process for cutting the material webs which rest on the peripheral surface of the cutting and transport roller. In so doing, the material webs are severed with the aid of a cutter, which is located inside the shell of the cutting and transport roller in its resting position and which exhibits at least one knife, which during the cutting process of the material web reaches through an opening in the shell of the cutting and transport roller. The cutting motion, which is executed by the cutting surfaces of the knife during the cutting process, exhibits rotary components, whereby the rotational motions of the knife run about an axis of rotation, which is either parallel or at an acute angle to a perpendicular line on the plane which is defined by the radial (r) and axial (z) coordinates of the cutting and transport roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher
    Inventor: Franz Plasswich
  • Patent number: 6705980
    Abstract: A lay-flat removal device for a plastic tube film web with a lay-flat and squeezing device having lay-flat plates and squeezing rolls that are rotatable in a reversing manner around an axis of a supplied film tube. The removal device includes a first reversing, non-rotational pneumatic reversal rod and a first reversing, rotating deflection roll mechanically connected to one another in a first fixed transmission ratio to form a first functional pair which is driven by a first motor, and a second reversing, non-rotational pneumatic reversal rod and a second reversing, rotating deflection roll mechanically connected to one another in a second fixed transmission ratio to form a second functional pair driven by a second motor. The motors are controlled in such a way that the different functional pairs cover angles of rotation that can be determined in a variable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Windmoeller & Hoelscher
    Inventors: Michael Hoene, Franz Plasswich