Patents by Inventor Andreas Riekes

Andreas Riekes 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).

  • Patent number: 9206682
    Abstract: A boring element of a ground boring device includes a housing having a receptacle, a transmitter arranged in the receptacle of the housing and supported in the receptacle for movement in a longitudinal-axial direction of the boring element, and a front buffer connecting the transmitter with the housing. The transmitter moves towards a rear in the receptacle as a result of a deformation of the front buffer, when a rear percussive impulse is applied to the boring element, without the transmitter coming directly into contact with another part of the boring element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: TRACTO-TECHNIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Franz-Josef Püttmann, Peter Grass, Gerhard Völkel, Andreas Riekes, Frank Prutti
  • Publication number: 20120273274
    Abstract: A boring element of a ground boring device includes a housing having a receptacle, a transmitter arranged in the receptacle of the housing and supported in the receptacle for movement in a longitudinal-axial direction of the boring element, and a front buffer connecting the transmitter with the housing. The transmitter moves towards a rear in the receptacle as a result of a deformation of the front buffer, when a rear percussive impulse is applied to the boring element, without the transmitter coming directly into contact with another part of the boring element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: Tracto-Technik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Franz-Josef Püttmann, Peter Grass, Gerhard Völkel, Andreas Riekes, Frank Prutti
  • Patent number: 7337859
    Abstract: In a drilling method for creating a channel leading from surrounding soil into a shaft which is separated from the soil by a wall, a channel is drilled through the soil from a starting pit in the direction of the shaft using a first drill head. The first drill head continues to drill in this direction in order to create a breach in the wall, and a second drill head is then used in the shaft to widen the breach in the wall by drilling in the opposite direction with the second drill head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Tracto-technik GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Völkel, Andreas Riekes
  • Publication number: 20060060383
    Abstract: Drilling method for creating a channel leading from surrounding soil into a shaft which is separated from the soil by a wall, said method comprising the following steps: drilling a channel through the soil from a starting pit in the direction of the shaft using a first drill head, drilling through the wall in this direction with the first drill head in order to create a breach in the wall, changing from the first drill head to a second drill head in the shaft, widening the breach in the wall by drilling in the opposite direction with the second drill head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2003
    Publication date: March 23, 2006
    Inventors: Gerhard Volkel, Andreas Riekes
  • Patent number: 6238141
    Abstract: In an apparatus for drilling in earth, a push-pull linkage, especially a ladder-type linkage consisting of individual sections connected together in each case by a plug-in coupling, is connected to a push-pull drive, and a stationary locking pawl and a thrust pawl which is moveable in the longitudinal direction of the linkage and is connected to the drive, with two mutually opposite directions of action, can each be brought into active connection with the linkage in order to move the linkage forward stepwise and lock it temporarily after each movement step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Tracto-Technik-Paul Schmidt Spezialmaschinen
    Inventors: Franz-Josef Püttmann, Andreas Riekes, Frank Prutti, Bernhard Kaufmann