Patents by Inventor Arved H. Westerkamp

Arved H. Westerkamp 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: 8312900
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a paper machine fabric, especially a forming fabric, including a top woven fabric layer and a bottom woven fabric layer which are connected with each other by paired binder yarns. The present invention is characterized in that at least one of the binder yarn pairs is formed by machine direction yarns (binding machine direction yarns) and at least one of the other binder yarn pairs is formed by cross machine direction yarns (binding cross machine direction yarns).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Petra Hack-Ueberall, Arved H. Westerkamp
  • Publication number: 20100236741
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a paper machine fabric, especially a forming fabric, including a top woven fabric layer and a bottom woven fabric layer which are connected with each other by paired binder yarns. The present invention is characterized in that at least one of the binder yarn pairs is formed by machine direction yarns (binding machine direction yarns) and at least one of the other binder yarn pairs is formed by cross machine direction yarns (binding cross machine direction yarns).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Inventors: Petra Hack-Ueberall, Arved H. Westerkamp
  • Patent number: 7776186
    Abstract: A transport belt, in particular for machines for the production of web material such as paper or paperboard, having a printed material at least in some regions on a web material contact side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Arved H. Westerkamp, Matthias Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20100186919
    Abstract: A transport belt, in particular for machines for the production of web material such as paper or paperboard. The transport belt includes a web material contact side having a substantially smooth unstructured web material surface and having printing material thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: VOITH PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Arved H. WESTERKAMP, Matthias SCHMITT
  • Patent number: 7722741
    Abstract: This invention relates to a machine for the production of a paper web, paperboard web or tissue web, having a roller with a circumferential surface and having an endless belt, in particular a transfer belt, which is wrapped around the circumferential surface of the roller in sections and has a bottom side which in the wrap zone can be brought into contact with the circumferential surface, as the result of which the endless belt and/or the roller provide a storage capacity suitable for accommodating at least in part the fluid which gets into the wrap zone between the bottom side and the circumferential surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Gronych, Robert Koplin, Klaus Hermann, Georg Kleiser, Arved H. Westerkamp
  • Patent number: 7670461
    Abstract: The invention relates to a papermachine fabric for dewatering and drying a fibrous web in a machine producing a fibrous web, including a plurality of layers with at least one carrier structure and a fiber batt having at least one fiber non-woven. The papermachine fabric according to the invention includes a fiber batt provided with a coating on at least one side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Arved H. Westerkamp
  • Patent number: 7638018
    Abstract: A covering for a machine for the production of a fibrous web has, at least in some sections, a two-dimensional structure which is formed by a multiplicity of polymer-based regions which differ from each other at least in part by virtue of a different fraction of filler material and/or by virtue of a different type of filler material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Arved H. Westerkamp, John Jeffery, Antony Morton
  • Patent number: 7584768
    Abstract: A woven belt for a machine for producing web material, in particular forming mesh, including at least two woven layers with warp threads extending in a belt longitudinal direction and weft threads extending in a belt transverse direction, wherein a first of the woven layers provides a web material contact side and a second of the woven layers provides a machine contact side and the woven layers are joined together by tie warp threads, wherein the first woven layer is woven with at least 26 different warp runs, the structure-forming warp threads woven into the first woven layer and the weft threads of the first woven layer having a maximum floating length of 3 in relation to each other, wherein, when the tie warp threads for providing structure-forming tie thread pairs are arranged in pairs relative to each other so that where a tie warp thread of a respective structure-forming tie warp thread pair is integrated into the first woven layer then the other tie warp thread of this structure-forming tie warp thread
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Arved H. Westerkamp, Petra Hack-Ueberall
  • Patent number: 7513276
    Abstract: A method for the production of a paper-machine screen with a paper-side ply of weft threads and a run-side ply of weft threads and with at least two warp thread systems interwoven in each case with the paper-side weft threads and/or the run-side weft threads, each warp thread system being assigned a group of heald frames, by means of which the warp threads of the warp thread systems are to be moved for shedding, including the generation of a draft diagram with a draft repeat for the warp thread systems, in which draft repeat a subrepeat recurring in the draft repeat is provided for at least one of the warp thread systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Arved H. Westerkamp
  • Publication number: 20080214346
    Abstract: A woven belt for a machine for producing web material, in particular forming mesh, including at least two woven layers with warp threads extending in a belt longitudinal direction and weft threads extending in a belt transverse direction, wherein a first of the woven layers provides a web material contact side and a second of the woven layers provides a machine contact side and the woven layers are joined together by tie warp threads, wherein the first woven layer is woven with at least 26 different warp runs, the structure-forming warp threads woven into the first woven layer and the weft threads of the first woven layer having a maximum floating length of 3 in relation to each other, wherein, when the tie warp threads for providing structure-forming tie thread pairs are arranged in pairs relative to each other so that where a tie warp thread of a respective structure-forming tie warp thread pair is integrated into the first woven layer then the other tie warp thread of this structure-forming tie warp thread
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Inventors: Arved H. Westerkamp, Petra Hack-Ueberall
  • Patent number: 7419050
    Abstract: A transport belt, in particular for machines for the production of web material such as paper or paperboard, which on a web material contact side (18) includes at least two material layers (20, 22, 24) of different material arranged one above the other, wherein prior to starting up for the first time the transport belt (10) is subjected on its web material contact side (18), at least in some regions, to a material-removing process such that the transport belt (10) has on its web material contact side (18) a web material contact surface (26) provided by various material layers (20, 22, 24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Arved H. Westerkamp, Matthias Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20070169909
    Abstract: A transport belt, in particular for machines for the production of web material such as paper or paperboard, which on a web material contact side (18) includes at least two material layers (20, 22, 24) of different material arranged one above the other, wherein prior to starting up for the first time the transport belt (10) is subjected on its web material contact side (18), at least in some regions, to a material-removing process such that the transport belt (10) has on its web material contact side (18) a web material contact surface (26) provided by various material layers (20, 22, 24).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: VOITH PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Arved H. WESTERKAMP, Matthias SCHMITT
  • Publication number: 20070169907
    Abstract: A transport belt, in particular for machines for the production of web material such as paper or paperboard, the transport belt including a web material contact side having surface depressions, such that the surface depressions are filled with filler material to provide a substantially flat web material contact surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: VOITH PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Arved H. WESTERKAMP, Matthias SCHMITT
  • Publication number: 20070169323
    Abstract: A transport belt, in particular for machines for the production of web material such as paper or paperboard, has, on a web material contact side, depressions of which the majority has a depression opening with a dimension smaller than 20 ?m in at least one direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: VOITH PATENT GmbH
    Inventors: Arved H. WESTERKAMP, Hubert WALKENHAUS
  • Publication number: 20070169910
    Abstract: A transport belt, in particular for machines for the production of web material such as paper or paperboard, having a printed material at least in some regions on a web material contact side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: VOITH PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Arved H. WESTERKAMP, Matthias SCHMITT
  • Publication number: 20070137770
    Abstract: A transport belt and method of making a transport belt for a web-processing machine, in particular a paper machine, paperboard machine or tissue machine, is provided. The transport belt has a load-bearing carrier structure which is covered at least in sections by a polymer areal structure, as the result of which the polymer areal structure and the load-bearing carrier structure make contact with each other in sections either indirectly or directly. The contact region between the load-bearing carrier structure and the polymer areal structure comprises sections in which the carrier structure can move relative to the polymer areal structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Inventors: Arved H. Westerkamp, Hubert Walkenhaus
  • Patent number: 6546964
    Abstract: A paper machine wire for dewatering and sheet forming purposes is structured such that the tendency of causing wire marks is decreased and simultaneously a greater wearing capacity is gained by exchangeably working threads. The multi-layer paper machine wire includes an upper fabric layer and a lower fabric layer with each layer being connected to one another by binding thread. The lower fabric includes a weft thread that extends from a running side of the lower fabric to a center position and overlaps a warp thread. The weft thread protects the warp thread against wear and forms a cushion against wire marking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Voith Fabrics Heidenheim GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Arved H. Westerkamp
  • Patent number: 6530398
    Abstract: A multi-layer paper machine wire includes an upper fabric layer, a lower fabric layer and an additional layer disposed between the upper and lower fabric layers. The additional layer includes weft threads that alternate with binding threads. Warp threads of the upper fabric layer run over the weft threads of the additional layer and are interwoven with binding threads of the additional layer. Likewise, weft threads of the lower fabric layer run below the weft threads of the additional layer and are interwoven with binding threads of the additional layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Voith Fabrics Heidenheim GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Arved H. Westerkamp
  • Patent number: 6511582
    Abstract: The invention relates to a paper machine wire for the wet end section of a paper machine, comprising a textile or non-texile fabric, especially a woven fabric, the one side of which is directed to the paper and the other, opposite side of which is directed to the paper machine, the one side of the fabric directed to the paper being at least partly covered by a fiber layer. The fiber layer is permanently compressed in some regions less intensively than in other regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: Voith Fabrics Heidenheim GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventor: Arved H. Westerkamp
  • Publication number: 20020060057
    Abstract: The invention relates to a paper machine wire for the wet end section of a paper machine, comprising a textile or non-textile fabric, especially a woven fabric, the one side of which is directed to the paper and the other, opposite side of which is directed to the paper machine, the one side of the fabric directed to the paper being at least partly covered by a fiber layer. The fiber layer is permanently compressed in some regions less intensively than in other regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 1999
    Publication date: May 23, 2002
    Inventor: ARVED H. WESTERKAMP