Patents by Inventor Bernd Budenbender

Bernd Budenbender 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).

  • Pallet-type conveyor system for hot metal-strip coils
    Patent number: 7549529
    Abstract: A conveyor having an array of rollers defining a transport plane is used with pallets each having supports forming an upwardly open saddle adapted to hold a coil of metal strip, and a pair of generally parallel and longitudinally extending rails underneath and fixed to the supports. Each rail has a downwardly directed face adapted to ride directly on the rollers and having a generally planar center region and a pair of upwardly angled end regions each forming a small acute angle with the respective center region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Siemag GmbH
    Inventors: Günther Dreisbach, Bernd-Uwe Fingerle, Bernd Büdenbender, Bernd Klein, Jürgen Peschke
  • Pallet-type conveyor system for hot metal-strip coils
    Publication number: 20060157434
    Abstract: A conveyor having an array of rollers defining a transport plane is used with pallets each having supports forming an upwardly open saddle adapted to hold a coil of metal strip, and a pair of generally parallel and longitudinally extending rails underneath and fixed to the supports. Each rail has a downwardly directed face adapted to ride directly on the rollers and having a generally planar center region and a pair of upwardly angled end regions each forming a small acute angle with the respective center region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2006
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Inventors: Gunther Dreisbach, Bernd-Uwe Fingerle, Bernd Budenbender, Bernd Klein, Jurgen Peschke
  • Container having at least one filling opening with a threaded closure
    Patent number: 5356030
    Abstract: A tubular fitting of sheet metal is formed in one piece of a container, for example, a bung container and an internally threaded bushing is press fitted into tubular fitting or is held therein by formations, texturing and/or adhesive and is braced axially against a bead formed on the free end of the tubular fitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1994
    Inventor: Bernd Budenbender
  • Butt welding sheets
    Patent number: 5205468
    Abstract: Fusible sheet edges are joined by first forming each of the edges with a laterally projecting burr and then butting the edges together at a join line with both the burrs directed in the same lateral direction adjacent each other and plastically deforming the laterally projecting burrs at the join line in the lateral direction opposite their projection direction. Finally the edges are fused together at the join line. The burrs are plastically deformed by pressing them with a barrel-shaped roller that is moved along the join line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1993
    Inventor: Bernd Budenbender
  • Container with cap-type closure
    Patent number: 5190181
    Abstract: A cap-type container has a tube stub formed directly from sheet metal of the container cover and from which the opening can be shaped. The tube stub is externally threaded and cooperates with a cap provided with a sealing ring engaging an annular surface of the tube stub. The latter can be double walled and a reinforcing ring inserted between the walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1993
    Inventor: Bernd Budenbender
  • Sheet metal container with attached end closures
    Patent number: 5186592
    Abstract: A drum is formed by bracing a transition of a cover or between closure member inserted into the sheet metal drum body against a flank of a corrugation. A laser weld seam is formed between the flank of the corrugation and this transition region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1993
    Inventor: Bernd Budenbender
  • Internally lined bung-type container
    Patent number: 5169019
    Abstract: A bung-type drum or barrel has an internal liner formed by a removable insert container which can be introduced through one of the bung openings and has tubular formations of the synthetic resin foil which can be held in or drawn into the bung openings and there can be held by retaining elements. The liner conforms to the interior of the drum and, for the removal of residues, can be withdrawn through a bunghole and replaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1992
    Inventor: Bernd Budenbender
  • Method of and apparatus for the formation of containers
    Patent number: 5125780
    Abstract: A fold along the exterior of a container body between the rim of the latter and a sheet metal closure member forming the top or bottom of the container defines a crevice between material of the closure member and the container body adjacent the latter. A laser beam is directed in this crevice and the container and beam are relatively rotated to form a continuous weld in the crevice so that reflection of laser energy from the weld site is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1992
    Assignee: Buco Budenbender & Co.
    Inventor: Bernd Budenbender
  • Container with cap-type closure
    Patent number: 5052576
    Abstract: A cap-type container has a tube stub formed directly from sheet metal of the container cover and from which the opening can be shaped. The tube stub is externally threaded and cooperates with a cap provided with a sealing ring engaging an annular surface of the tube stub. The latter can be double walled and a reinforcing ring inserted between the walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1991
    Inventor: Bernd Budenbender
  • Bung-type container
    Patent number: 5016775
    Abstract: A tube stub is formed from the material of a sheet metal cover to define the bunghole of a drum, cask or barrel and is provided with a screwthread into which the bung is threadedly fitted so that the bung will press a seal against an annular sealing surface defined by the tube stub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1991
    Inventor: Bernd Budenbender
  • Method of and apparatus for the welding of thin sheet metal workpieces
    Patent number: 4945202
    Abstract: Thin sheet metal workpieces are overlapped and a laser beam trained on the overlapping regions to heat them to a fusion temperature. The fusion seam is compressed to a maximum of 1.6 times the thickness of the sheet metal workpieces to provide a tight reliable fatigue-resistant seam of a thickness less than twice the sheet metal thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Inventor: Bernd Budenbender
  • Cover for a bung-type barrel or drum
    Patent number: 4934551
    Abstract: A drum cover has a short wall portion received in the drum and connected at its outer edge to an edge of the drum body. The cover is provided with two openings or lands which are thrust out of the plane of the cover disk, the lands annularly surrounding the filling openings and lying in planes normal to the drum axis to facilitate connection of pipe stubs or the like thereto, e.g. by welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1990
    Inventor: Bernd Budenbender
  • Sheetmetal container with attached end closures
    Patent number: 4905858
    Abstract: A container especially a drum, composed of sheetmetal has its end closures formed with cup-shaped depressions which are fitted snugly into the cylindrical ends of the drum body. A weld seam at an intermediate portion of the height of the wall of the depression seals each closure to the drum body, a flange of the wall abuts an end edge of the drum body and each end is additionally reinforced by an inwardly rolled rim on the flange of the closure. The ends of the body are not rolled or bent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1990
    Inventor: Bernd Budenbender
  • Container of sheet metal
    Patent number: 4854467
    Abstract: A container of sheet metal includes a side wall whose ends are connected by means of a fold to a bottom wall and/or a top wall. Each fold is additionally reinforced, secured and/or sealed by welding. The welding seam is arranged along an outer, exposed toroidal surface of the fold and extends within an end portion of a circular arc formed in cross-sectional direction of the fold. The end portion is located near the rim regions of the walls being connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1989
    Inventor: Bernd Budenbender