Patents Assigned to Wirtgen GmbH
  • Publication number: 20080260461
    Abstract: The invention relates to a self-propelled civil engineering machine, in particular a road-milling machine, a road recycler, or a road stabilizer, having a frame carried by a set of running gear, a working unit for performing work required for the civil engineering operation, and in particular a working drum, and a drive unit carried by the frame of the machine, to drive the working drum. A power transmitter is used to transmit the driving power from the drive unit to the working unit. The drive unit of the self-propelled civil engineering machine has a first and a second drive engine, the power transmitter being so designed that the driving powers coming from the first and the second drive engines can be transmitted to the working unit together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Dieter Simons, Peter Busley
  • Patent number: 7438364
    Abstract: In a scraper device for a milling drum (2) mounted in a construction machine, with a scraper blade (10) arranged in a height-adjustable manner behind the milling drum (2) when seen in the direction of travel, which can glide on the surface (3) milled or to be milled by the milling drum (2), where the scraper blade (10) is guided in lateral guides (12) in a height-adjustable manner relative to the milling drum (2), and where first centering devices (14) are provided which center the scraper blade (10) between the guides (12) with small lateral play of movement when in a raised position, and which allow a greater lateral play of movement of the scraper blade (10) when the scraper blade (10) is in a lowered working position, it is provided that the second centering devices (20) act upon the upper end (16) of the scraper blade (10), restricting the lateral displacement of the scraper blade (10) at the upper end (16) in case of a lateral movement of the scraper blade (10) in the guides (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Heiko Boehme, Herbert Ley, Urban Kurscheid, Guenter Tewes
  • Patent number: 7422390
    Abstract: Disclosed is an automotive milling machine for machining ground surfaces, comprising an engine frame (2), a movable milling drum (8) which is mounted on the engine frame (2), at least one conveying device (14,18) which is arranged on the engine frame (2) and takes over the milled material (3) from the milling drum (8) at a transfer location (5), and a device (20) sucking off the air that is polluted with dust and fumes. The milled material (3) is enclosed by a duct (16,16a,16b) on the at least one conveying device (14,18), said duct (16) being separated into two sections (16a,16b). The suction device (20) is connected to the first section (16a) of the duct (16) downstream from the first transfer location (5) and sucks off the air that has been polluted during milling at the milling drum (8) as well as inside the first section (16a) of the duct (16) essentially in the direction in which the material is conveyed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Olaf Gaertner, Christian Berning, Dieter Simons
  • Patent number: 7422391
    Abstract: A road milling machine having a milling roller with a plurality of chisels. A signal receiving unit is assigned to a machine component which is directly or indirectly involved in the milling process or to another machine component. The signal receiving unit detects an operating condition of the machine component and is connected to a signal emitting unit. An optical detecting device may be assigned to the road milling machine, whereby operations are made easier and the milling pattern is optimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Holl, Kay Heemann, Günter Hähn, Axel Mahlberg
  • Publication number: 20080203684
    Abstract: The invention relates to a road-building machine whose left front wheel (4) or caterpillar, right front wheel (6) or caterpillar, left rear wheel (8) or caterpillar and right rear wheel (10) or caterpillar are connected to the road-building machine chassis by means of an actuating element and are height-adjustable with respect to the road-building machine frame. According to said invention, different actuating elements are rigidly connected to the road-building machine chassis and forcedly coupled to each other in such a way that the left front wheel (4) or caterpillar and the right rear wheel (10) or caterpillar are height-adjustable in the same direction and with respect to the right front wheel (6) or caterpillar and the left rear wheel (8) or caterpillar are adjustable in the opposite directions. The all wheels (4, 6, 8, 10) or caterpillars are equally height-adjustable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicant: WIRTGEN GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Dieter Simons, Markus Schafer
  • Patent number: 7401862
    Abstract: A construction machine for machining floor surfaces, wherein the machine includes a milling roll having a plurality of tool holders on a surface thereof. A tool, especially a straight shank tool, is received in a tool receiving element of the tool holder in an exchangeable manner. With this invention it is possible to change the tool in one such construction machine in a simplified manner. Thus, the milling roll is associated with a tool changing device, and the tool changing device dismounts each tool from the tool holder and/or mounts each tool in the tool holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Holl, Günter Hähn, Martin Lenz
  • Patent number: 7370916
    Abstract: A rear-loader road milling machine with a milling roll, which is arranged in a roller housing open on the bottom, and having an opening between a front part of the roller housing and a road surface, that faces in a direction of travel, which can be closed with a sealing device, the height of which can be altered. The sealing device can be pivoted around an axis in front of the milling roll for the purpose of adjusting the height of the sealing device. As a result of the pivotability of the sealing device on an axis, it becomes possible to pull the sealing device slidingly above the road surface so that it follows any unevennesses, for example, waviness of the road surface or existing milling tracks, following these unevennesses by pivoting frontward and backwards. Interruption or even blocking of the advance by jamming is excluded in this way. The sealing device also provides safe protection against milled material thrown forward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Ley, Olaf Gaertner, Stefan Abresch, Dieter Simons
  • Publication number: 20070286678
    Abstract: An automotive construction machine for working ground surfaces, with a machine frame, a drive engine for driving traveling devices and for driving working devices, and a milling drum for milling the ground surfaces, which can be raised, driven by, and can be uncoupled from a drum drive, the milling drum can be moved into a raised position when not in milling mode, and when raised, the rotating direction of the milling drum corresponds to the rotating direction of the traveling devices and remains coupled with the drive engine, and a monitoring device monitors the distance between the milling drum and the ground surface and uncouples the raised milling drum from the drive engine or uncouples the traveling devices from the drive engine or raises the machine frame or generates an alarm signal when the monitoring device detects a deviation that falls below a pre-determined distance, or any of the latter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Applicant: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Herbert Lange, Dieter Simons
  • Patent number: 7300115
    Abstract: A chisel holder for a road milling machine or the like, having a base element which supports a holding neck, wherein the holding neck has a chisel receiver and a protrusion is connected to the base element upstream of the holding neck when viewed in an advancing direction of the tool. For improving the cutting output, in particular in connection with rough-chipped milling materials, the base element has a connecting section designed as a chip breaker, which is formed on the base element and extends, starting at the holding neck, at least partially over the protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Holl, Günter Tewes
  • Patent number: 7219964
    Abstract: At a milling machine to work ground surfaces, with a machine frame, a milling drum supported at the machine frame, at least one transport device arranged at the machine frame which accepts the milled material from the milling drum, as well as with a suction device for the air polluted with dusts and vapors, whereby the milled material on the at least one transport device is enclosed by a channel, the suction device is connected to a rear channel section of the channel in the direction of the material transport and sucks off the air polluted during milling at the milling drum and in the rear channel section essentially in the direction of the material transport, it is provided that the suction device consists of a suction ventilator, a separator device for solids and a suction channel which is connected to the rear channel section, that the suction ventilator is arranged downstream of the separator device, and that the suction device disposes of the separated solids onto the transport device in a forward chann
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Herbert Lange, Dieter Simons
  • Patent number: 7175364
    Abstract: Disclosed is an automotive milling machine for machining ground surfaces, comprising an engine frame (2), a movable milling drum (8) which is mounted on the engine frame (2), at least one conveying device (14, 18) which is arranged on the engine frame (2) and takes over the milled material (3) from the milling drum (8) at a transfer location (5), and a device (20) sucking off the air that is polluted with dust and fumes. The milled material (3) is enclosed by a duct (16, 16a, 16b) on the at least one conveying device (14, 18), said duct (16) being separated into two sections (16a, 16b). The suction device (20) is connected to the first section (16a) of the duct (16) downstream from the first transfer location (5) and sucks off the air that has been polluted during milling at the milling drum (8) as well as inside the first section (16a) of the duct (16) essentially in the direction in which the material is conveyed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Olaf Gaertner, Christian Berning, Dieter Simons
  • Patent number: 7144192
    Abstract: A self-propelled road milling machine includes a chassis (2) housing a rotatable milling roll (4) between lateral plates (12,13) disposed orthogonal to the axis of the milling roll (4). The milling roll (4) has a base body (14) and a milling tube (10), and is driven by a drive device (6) mounted on an exterior of an input-side of the lateral plate (12) by a reduction gear unit (8). The lateral plate (13) provides for exchanging alternatively mountable milling tubes (10) of different milling widths by being easily detached. For milling near an edge, a reduction gear unit (8) is mounted on the input side, and the reduction gear unit (8) is mounted on the interior of the input-side lateral plate (12) whose outer surface (25) forms a seat for milling tube elements that can be slid thereon from a non-driven side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Holl, Herbert Ley, Guenter Haehn
  • Patent number: 7086704
    Abstract: A fixing device for a shank chisel, having a base part and an upper part, wherein the upper part is detachably connected to the base part. The upper part has an opening for receiving a shank chisel and the base part has a shaft opening, into which a shaft of the upper part is inserted, and the shaft has a tensioning surface that rests against the counter surface of a clamping element. The clamping element has a tensioning screw which is used to clamp the tensioning surface against the counter surface. The base part has a shoulder surface, which is located in the vicinity of or near the shank opening and at least partially surrounds the shank opening. A stop surface adjoins the rear region of the shoulder surface in the infeed direction at an angle. The upper part rests on the stop surface by a supporting surface and is held at a distance, at least in sections, from the base part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Holl, Günter Tewes
  • Patent number: 7040837
    Abstract: A self-propelled road milling machine is equipped with a cooling system comprising a fan for drawing in air, a cooler, and a suction channel. The suction channel has a vent opening facing the cooler and an intake opening. In relation to the longitudinal axis of the road milling machine, the intake opening points to the side of the road milling machine, so that air is drawn in from the side. This results in significantly less dirt being sucked into the machine than when the suction channel is positioned in the direction of travel. In a preferred embodiment, the suction channel is formed in one piece with a liquid tank of the road milling machine. The liquid tank and suction system therefore form a modular unit, which can be easily installed on the chassis of the road milling machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: WIRTGEN GmbH
    Inventors: Olaf Gaertner, Thorsten Langen, Dieter Bungarten
  • Patent number: 6997641
    Abstract: A road milling machine has a driver's cab equipped with a floor plate and a steering gear mounted on the chassis of the road milling machine. The steering gear includes a console, on which a steering wheel is positioned. One end the console is fastened laterally to the chassis, while the other end of the console is not attached to anything. The console extends over the floor plate, forming an opening between the floor plate and the console on a side. Since this opening is below the console, it is possible for the operator to observe the road surface without having to lean to the side, as is necessary with conventional road milling machines, in which the side of the chassis on which the console is positioned blocks the view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Olaf Gaertner, Dieter Bungarten, Roland Lull
  • Patent number: 6923508
    Abstract: In a stripping means for milling rolls (2) of a construction machine, comprising at least one stripping blade (8) arranged behind the milling roll (2) in traveling direction so as to be adjustable in height, which is able to glide over the surface (3) milled or to be milled by the at least one milling roll (2), it is provided that the stripping blade (10) covers the maximum milling width, and that a mounting means (16) adjustable in height relative to the stripping blade (20) is arranged for at least one lower stripper portion (20) adapted to the respectively used milling roll (2) or milling rolls, the lower stripper portion (20) being able to be positioned, by means of the mounting means (16), in a position corresponding to the milling roll (2) within the width of the stripping blade (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Holl, Herbert Ley, Guenther Haehn
  • Patent number: D574021
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Busley
  • Patent number: D574689
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Holl, Thomas Lehnert, Günter Tewes, Günter Hähn
  • Patent number: D575610
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Holl, Thomas Lehnert, Günter Tewes, Günter Hähn
  • Patent number: D576181
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Busley