Patents by Inventor Bernhard Kock

Bernhard Kock 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: 12208970
    Abstract: A conveying apparatus for tablet products produced by a tableting apparatus having a sliding base and a conveying mechanism, which runs over the sliding base and has a pockets for the separated products, the pockets being open in relation to the sliding base and being movable by the conveying mechanism in a conveying direction over the sliding base, the conveying apparatus includes a discharge device having an aperture, which is provided in the sliding base and encompasses a discharge portion of the conveying path, and having a movable discharge base, which is assigned to the aperture and has at least one closed base region for closing the discharge portion and at least one open through-passage region for giving the discharge portion free, wherein the movement direction of the discharge base for optionally closing or freeing the discharge portion is essentially the same as the conveying direction of the conveying mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Romaco Kilian GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Kock, Martin Baksa, Roman Kübler, Mark Strerath
  • Publication number: 20230063559
    Abstract: A conveying apparatus which is intended for individually separated products, in particular for tablet products produced by means of a tableting apparatus, and has a sliding base and a conveying mechanism, which runs over the sliding base and has a multiplicity of accommodating pockets for the separated products, said accommodating pockets being open in relation to the sliding base located beneath and being movable by the conveying mechanism in a conveying direction along a conveying path over the sliding base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Bernhard Kock, Martin Baksa, Roman Kübler, Mark Strerath
  • Patent number: 7909594
    Abstract: The invention relates to a machine for processing residual material, comprising at least one actuator which acts mechanically upon the residual material and at least a portion of the surface of which is movable relative to a corresponding surface of an adjacent component of the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Metso Lindemann GmbH
    Inventor: Bernhard Kock
  • Publication number: 20100098368
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for axially supporting a shaft of a work machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Inventors: August van der Beek, Bernhard Kock, Jochen Weiers
  • Publication number: 20080274221
    Abstract: The invention relates to a machine for processing residual material, comprising at least one actuator which acts mechanically upon the residual material and at least a portion of the surface of which is movable relative to a corresponding surface of an adjacent component of the machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Inventor: Bernhard Kock
  • Patent number: 7237739
    Abstract: The invention relates to a grinding machine for all kinds of material, the machine comprising: a receiving element for the material (5); at least one shaft (2) positioned in the housing (1) and provided with grinding tools (3); rigid cutting tools (4) which are arranged in the housing (1) and against which the grinding tools (3) operate, grinding the material (5) with specifically low forces. To this end, the grinding tools (3) comprise cutting regions (3.1, 3.2) within which an inner cutting region (3.1) can take a large amount of material (5) to be ground and grind the same, thus comprising a small lever arm, and an outer cutting region (3.2) can take a smaller amount of material (5) to be ground and grind the same, thus comprising a large lever arm. According to the invention, the rigid cutting tools (4) are provided with teeth (4.2) having profiles (4.3) which cooperate with one of the cutting regions (3.1, 3.2), a first transversal edge (3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Metso Lindemann GmbH
    Inventor: Bernhard Kock
  • Publication number: 20060054031
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to monitor the operating condition of a press, especially a packing press (1) while preventing the machine parts that are involved in the relative movements from fretting. Said aim is achieved by a) detecting amplitudes of vibrations during the time and/or a distance of a relative movement occurring between at least one compressor (3.1, 3.2, 3.3) and/or a door (5.1) and the press case (2.2) within a cycle that lasts from the beginning to the end of the compression process and the ejection of the pressed article, and predefining an admissible oscillation amplitude of the entire press within the control mechanism (16.2) as a “normal condition” for increments of the duration and/or the distance of the relative movements; b) generating an “alert value” lying above the maximum value established for the normal condition and a shut-off value lying above the alert value; c) inputting both threshold values of the alert value and the shut-off value in the control mechanism (16.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Inventors: August Beek, Gunter Bombosch, Thomas Kaprolat, Bernhard Kock
  • Patent number: 6766971
    Abstract: A method and an installation for operating a system for comminuting scrap material is provided. The installation includes a supply device (1) for the scrap material to be comminuted, and a comminuting machine (2) with at least one motor-driven (2.3) rotor (2.2) which has comminuting tools (2.2.1) and is horizontally positioned in a housing (2.1) and has an ejection door (2.1.1). The inventive installation also includes drive means for controlling the power and for protecting the installation from scrap material which is difficult to comminute or which cannot be comminuted at all, such as coarse, heavy or hard parts. For optimizing the comminuting process, the values of the motor output, of the rotation speed of the rotor, of the temperature of the motor and the motor bearings and/or of the height of the scrap material flow (3) supplied to the comminuting machine (2), are inputted in a controller (4) and used to control/regulate the scrap material supply. Technical means (4.5, 4.6, 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: Metso Lindemenn GmbH
    Inventors: August Van Der Beek, Erich Köhl, Rainer Voss, Bernhard Kock
  • Publication number: 20040056126
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and an arrangement for operating a system for comminuting scrap material. The installation includes a supply device (1) for the scrap material to be comminuted, and a comminuting machine (2) with at least one motor-driven (2.3) rotor (2.2) which has comminuting tools (2.2.1) and is horizontally positioned in a housing (2.1) and has an ejection door (2.1.1). The inventive installation also includes drive means for controlling the power and for protecting the installation from scrap material which is difficult to comminute or which cannot be comminuted at all, such as coarse, heavy or hard parts. In order to optimize the comminuting process, the values of the motor output, of the rotation speed of the rotor, of the temperature of the motor and the motor bearings and/or of the height of the scrap material flow (3) supplied to the comminuting machine (2), are inputted in a control device (4) and used to control/regulate the scrap material supply. Technical means (4.5, 4.6, 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Applicant: Metso Lindemann
    Inventors: August Van Der Beek, Erich Kohl, Rainer Voss, Bernhard Kock
  • Publication number: 20030038194
    Abstract: A method and an installation for operating a system for comminuting scrap material is provided. The installation includes a supply device (1) for the scrap material to be comminuted, and a comminuting machine (2) with at least one motor-driven (2.3) rotor (2.2) which has comminuting tools (2.2.1) and is horizontally positioned in a housing (2.1) and has an ejection door (2.1.1). The inventive installation also includes drive means for controlling the power and for protecting the installation from scrap material which is difficult to comminute or which cannot be comminuted at all, such as coarse, heavy or hard parts. For optimizing the comminuting process, the values of the motor output, of the rotation speed of the rotor, of the temperature of the motor and the motor bearings and/or of the height of the scrap material flow (3) supplied to the comminuting machine (2), are inputted in a controller (4) and used to control/regulate the scrap material supply. Technical means (4.5, 4.6, 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2002
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Applicant: Metso Lindemann GmbH
    Inventors: August Van Der Beek, Erich Kohl, Rainer Voss, Bernhard Kock
  • Patent number: 5749267
    Abstract: A device for reducing ventilation loss of a high-speed gear mechanism with a gear housing NS intermeshing gears, which are surrounded by a casing and to which lubricant is supplied in the engagement area for the purpose of reducing friction. The gear mechanism consists, in a known manner, of a gearwheel and a pinion that intermeshes therewith. Utilizing the pressure that is automatically established in the tooth engagement and disengagement area, only the pinion is encapsulated over area of more than 180.degree. of its peripheral distance. The end of the encapsulation in the tooth disengagement area is designed so that there is constant enlargement of the uncovered cross-sectional area between the pinion and the gearwheel. Additionally, and the encapsulation is sealed on both sides relative to the non-toothed shaft area of the pinion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: Mannesmann Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Bernhard Kock