Patents by Inventor Adrian Bednarczyk

Adrian Bednarczyk has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20130168460
    Abstract: A system for fixing a rail onto a foundation and a support plate intended for such a system. The system comprises a guide plate, a spring element which can be clamped against the foundation by means of a clamping element, sits on the guide plate and in the final mounted system with its free spring arm exerts a retaining force on a rail foot of the rail, and a support plate which is arranged to compensate for height differences between the guide plate and the foundation concerned. The system proposes dividing the support into two parts along a joint line which runs, starting from the one long side of the support plate aligned transverse to the rail to be fixed, at a distance from the one short side to the passage opening and from there intersecting the passage opening in the direction of the short side of the support plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: VOSSLOH-WERKE GMBH
    Inventors: Winfried Bösterling, Adrian Bednarczyk
  • Publication number: 20130153671
    Abstract: A system for fixing a rail onto a foundation and to a guide plate. The system comprises a spring element, with at least one spring arm, which can be clamped against the foundation by means of a clamping element, an adapter piece, with a contact surface section, which sits on an end section of the spring arm, and a guide plate. The guide plate has a contact surface for the rail foot and a sliding surface which adjoins the contact surface via which the adapter piece can be moved from a pre-assembly position in which it sits on the guide plate with its contact surface section to an assembly position in which it is seated, with its contact surface section, on the rail foot of the rail to be fixed. A stop is provided on the sliding surface against which the adapter piece rests in the pre-assembly position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: VOSSLOH-WERKE GMBH
    Inventors: Winfried Bösterling, Adrian Bednarczyk, André Hunold, Nicole Wiethoff
  • Patent number: 8413910
    Abstract: The invention provides a base plate, and a fastener equipped with such a base plate, whose weight is minimized and whose stiffness is optimised on the one hand and which is suitable for being supported on an elastic intermediate layer on the other hand. To this end, a base plate according to the invention for fastening a rail to a fixed bottom support has, the base plate being made of a plastics material and a stiffening structure which is formed by ribs and by depressions present between the ribs being formed or molded in the underside of the base plate, which underside is associated with the fixed bottom support, depressions of the stiffening structure being closed off, in accordance with the invention, by a filling material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Vossloh-Werke GmbH
    Inventors: Winfried Bösterling, Lutz Rademacher, Adrian Bednarczyk, André Hunold
  • Publication number: 20130015256
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for fastening a rail to a baseplate with a spacer, which includes at least one side portion and a bearing surface adjoining the side portion for the rail to be fastened, and with at least one guide plate that sits on the side portion. In order to simplify the installation on the respective baseplate in such a system, the invention provides that the guide plate is held on the spacer by a catch connection formed in the region of the side portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: VOSSLOH-WERKE GMBH
    Inventors: Adrian Bednarczyk, Nikolaj Krieg, Serdar Gözsüz
  • Publication number: 20120187206
    Abstract: A system includes a guide plate, a fastening member and a resilient member, for fastening a rail on a solid base. The guide plate serves as a guide for the rail in the horizontal direction and as a stop for movements of the rail in the vertical direction. The guide plate has a contacting surface against which the longitudinal side of the foot of the rail rests. The resilient member which rests on the guide plate exerts substantially no hold-down force on the rail and merely supports the guide plate elastically against the clamping member. The resilient member is of a W-shaped or S-shaped configuration and, in the fitted state, a portion thereof projects sufficiently far over the foot of the rail for it to be retained resiliently by the resilient member if it is moved upwards in the vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: VOSSLOH-WERKE GMBH
    Inventors: Winfried Bösterling, Lutz Rademacher, Adrian Bednarczyk
  • Publication number: 20120031991
    Abstract: The invention provides a system for fastening a rail in place and a rail fastener which, while being simple to install, allow a large measure of freedom in the production of the components required and at the same time have great practical utility. To this end a system according to the invention for fastening a rail to a fixed bottom support comprises: a base plate produced from a plastics material, an intermediate layer which is arranged between the base plate and the fixed bottom support, a carrier plate which is arranged between the intermediate layer and the bottom support, a resilient member to hold down the rail which is to be fastened in place, a clamping bolt to brace the resilient member against the base plate, and a fastening member for fastening the base plate to the fixed bottom support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: Vossloh-Werke GmbH
    Inventors: Winfried Bösterling, Lutz Rademacher, Adrian Bednarczyk, André Hunold, Michael Harraß
  • Patent number: 7992796
    Abstract: A base plate for fastening a rail to a fixed bottom support, having a through-opening which runs from the upper side of the base plate to its underside and through which a clamping bolt having a polygonal head is inserted from the underside, forming in the underside, a receptacle, wherein the head of the clamping bolt is seated. Each side-face of the bolt head has a face for contact formed on the circumferential wall, which extends for part of the length of a side-face of the bolt head, and against which side-face has, planar support. The faces for contact on the circumferential wall are spaced apart from one another. There is formed in the circumferential wall of the receptacle, between each pair of adjacent faces for contact, a recess wherein there is no contact between the bolt head and the circumferential wall of the receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Vossloh-Werke GmbH
    Inventor: Adrian Bednarczyk
  • Publication number: 20110068185
    Abstract: The invention provides a system for fastening a rail in place and a rail fastener which, while being simple to install, allow a large measure of freedom in the production of the components required and at the same time have great practical utility. To this end a system according to the invention for fastening a rail to a fixed bottom support: a base plate produced from a plastics material, an intermediate layer which is arranged between the base plate and the fixed bottom support, a carrier plate which is arranged between the intermediate layer and the bottom support, a resilient member to hold down the rail which is to be fastened in place, a clamping bolt to brace the resilient member against the base plate, and a fastening member for fastening the base plate to the fixed bottom support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: VOSSLOH-WERKE GMBH
    Inventors: Winfried Bösterling, Lutz Rademacher, Adrian Bednarczyk, André Hunold, Michael Harraß
  • Publication number: 20110068182
    Abstract: The invention provides a base plate, and a fastener equipped with such a base plate, whose weight is minimised and whose stiffness is optimised on the one hand and which is suitable for being supported on an elastic intermediate layer on the other hand. To this end, a base plate according to the invention for fastening a rail to a fixed bottom support has, the base plate being made of a plastics material and a stiffening structure which is formed by ribs and by depressions present between the ribs being formed or moulded in the underside of the base plate, which underside is associated with the fixed bottom support, depressions of the stiffening structure being closed off, in accordance with the invention, by a filling material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: VOSSLOH-WERKE GMBH
    Inventors: Winfried Bösterling, Lutz Rademacher, Adrian Bednarczyk, André Hunold
  • Publication number: 20110068183
    Abstract: A base plate for fastening a rail to a fixed bottom support, having a through-opening which runs from the upper side of the base plate to its underside and through which a clamping bolt having a polygonal head is inserted from the underside, forming in the underside, a receptacle, wherein the head of the clamping bolt is seated. Each side-face of the bolt head has a face for contact formed on the circumferential wall, which extends for part of the length of a side-face of the bolt head, and against which side-face has, planar support. The faces for contact on the circumferential wall are spaced apart from one another. There is formed in the circumferential wall of the receptacle, between each pair of adjacent faces for contact, a recess wherein there is no contact between the bolt head and the circumferential wall of the receptacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: VOSSLOH-WERKE GMBH
    Inventor: Adrian Bednarczyk