Patents by Inventor Christian Splinter

Christian Splinter 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: 8820668
    Abstract: In order to create a roller press, particularly for comminuting a bed of material, the roller press having two rollers separated from each other by a roller nip and using hydraulic cylinders to press the one roller against the oppositely situated roller over the material situated in the roller nip, the stress on the surface of the rollers to be reduced and their service life to be increased, it is proposed according to the invention that both rollers are designed as loose rollers that are displaceable transversely relative to the roller nip, the bearing housings of the rollers being supported on side parts of the machine frame by hydraulic cylinders that apply the roller compaction pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: KHD Humboldt Wedag GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Hagedorn, Christian Splinter, Meinhard Frangenberg, Matthias Mersmann
  • Patent number: 8795563
    Abstract: A roll press for the compression or compacting of granular products. Two detachable rolls separated by a roll gap are driven in opposite directions and mounted on shafts to rotate in a machine frame. The shafts of the mobile rolls are received in bearing housings arranged in a mobile manner in the machine frame. Two respective bearing housings of different rolls, arranged on one side of the rolls, are interconnected by at least one pressure cylinder having at least two working chambers. A method for centering mobile rolls in such a roll press. The at least two working chambers have a force effect acting in opposite directions, and are interconnected in such a way that a pressure medium can circulate between the chambers. In this way, the hydraulic system is positioned in a fixed manner on the machine frame, the rolls nonetheless being mounted in the machine frame in a floating manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: KHD Humboldt Wedag GmbH
    Inventor: Christian Splinter
  • Publication number: 20120067989
    Abstract: In order to create a roller press, particularly for comminuting a bed of material, the roller press having two rollers separated from each other by a roller nip and using hydraulic cylinders to press the one roller against the oppositely situated roller over the material situated in the roller nip, the stress on the surface of the rollers to be reduced and their service life to be increased, it is proposed according to the invention that both rollers are designed as loose rollers that are displaceable transversely relative to the roller nip, the bearing housings of the rollers being supported on side parts of the machine frame by hydraulic cylinders that apply the roller compaction pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: KHD HUMBOLDT WEDAG GMBH
    Inventors: Alexander Hagedorn, Christian Splinter, Meinhard Frangenberg, Matthias Mersmann
  • Patent number: 7896272
    Abstract: A tandem roller press has two roll pairs which are arranged next to one another in an axially parallel manner in order to provide a roller press system, in particular for the material bed comminution of granular material, which can considerably exceed previous limits with regard to throughput performance but also with regard to the specific energy requirement. Preferably, common feeding of the granular material and common discharge of the material which has been subjected to the material bed comminution are arranged. A tandem separator device may be arranged below the two roll pairs in order to form two parallel compact milling circuits with a high throughput performance overall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: KHD Humboldt Wedag GmbH
    Inventors: Meinhard Frangenberg, Alexander Hagedorn, Christian Splinter
  • Patent number: 7862333
    Abstract: In order to provide, for a grate cooler for cooling hot bulk material, such as, for example, cement clinker, an, in particular, automatically operating cooling air regulator which has a simple construction and can be used without difficulty both for unmoved and, in particular, for moved cooling grate regions or moved cooling grate systems, for example, cylindrical hose sleeve comprised of elastic material be tension-mounted as an actuating member coaxially in the regulator housing which is arranged below the cooling grate, participates in the movements of the latter and has a casing comprised of solid material, the pressure difference inside and outside the hose sleeve and the deformation resistance of the sleeve being set such that the hose sleeve is deformable, in particular, automatically from its maximum flow cross section into its minimum flow cross section and at the same time regulates the volume flow of the cooling air flow from below into the cooling grate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: KHD Humboldt Wedag GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Schinke, Christian Splinter
  • Publication number: 20100310702
    Abstract: A roll press for the compression or compacting of granular products. Two detachable rolls separated by a roll gap are driven in opposite directions and mounted on shafts to rotate in a machine frame. The shafts of the mobile rolls are received in bearing housings arranged in a mobile manner in the machine frame. Two respective bearing housings of different rolls, arranged on one side of the rolls, are interconnected by at least one pressure cylinder having at least two working chambers. A method for centering mobile rolls in such a roll press. The at least two working chambers have a force effect acting in opposite directions, and are interconnected in such a way that a pressure medium can circulate between the chambers. In this way, the hydraulic system is positioned in a fixed manner on the machine frame, the rolls nonetheless being mounted in the machine frame in a floating manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: KHD HUMBOLDT WEDAG GMBH
    Inventor: Christian Splinter
  • Patent number: 7841273
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to simplify and to improve mounting of roller bearings in double roller machines, for example, roller presses for interparticle comminution of granular goods. The rollers and the bearing housing thereof are formed by means of slanting rollers and/or thermal roller longitudinal changes. The rollers are guided in a secure manner on the slide guides thereof. The invention is characterized in that the fixed bearing housing and the moveable bearing housing are connected together via a guide rod in each roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: KHD Humboldft Wedag GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Splinter, Meinhard Frangenberg
  • Publication number: 20100127110
    Abstract: In order to create a roller press, particularly for comminuting a bed of material, the roller press having two rollers separated from each other by a roller nip and using hydraulic cylinders to press the one roller against the oppositely situated roller over the material situated in the roller nip, the stress on the surface of the rollers to be reduced and their service life to be increased, it is proposed according to the invention that both rollers are designed as loose rollers that are displaceable transversely relative to the roller nip, the bearing housings of the rollers being supported on side parts of the machine frame by hydraulic cylinders that apply the roller compaction pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Alexander Hagedorn, Christian Splinter, Meinhard Frangenberg, Matthias Mann
  • Patent number: 7708556
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to design a bulk-material cooler, particularly one for cooling cement clinker, which operates according to the walking floor principle, so that its cooling grate can be composed of a multitude of ventilated cooling grate modules, which can be assembled in an easy and variable manner, in order to obtain large lengths and widths of the cooler. When these cooling grate modules move between an advancing and returning position, even lateral and/or height offset of the guiding elements can be compensated for in a kinematic manner. To this end, the invention provides that the cooling grate, when viewed over the length and width of the cooler, is composed of a multitude of modules (13, 14) ventilated with cooling air. The coupling of the cooling grate modules of each longitudinal row of cooling grate modules is effected by an articulated joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: KHD Humboldy Wedag GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Splinter, Karl Schinke
  • Patent number: 7699254
    Abstract: In the design of a twin-roller machine, such as a roll press for comminuting a bed of granular material, with two rotatably mounted, counter rotationally driven rollers which are separated from each other by a roller nip, and which use hydraulic cylinders to provide a roller pressing force the hydraulic cylinders are arranged in such a manner that they act in each case both on the bearing housings of one roller and on the respectively opposite bearing housings of the other roller with a self-contained system of milling pressing forces being formed without a closed machine frame loaded by the roller pressing forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: KHD Humboldt Wedag GmbH
    Inventors: Meinhard Frangenberg, Christian Splinter, Alexander Hagedorn
  • Publication number: 20090314868
    Abstract: A tandem roller press has two roll pairs which are arranged next to one another in an axially parallel manner in order to provide a roller press system, in particular for the material bed comminution of granular material, which can considerably exceed previous limits with regard to throughput performance but also with regard to the specific energy requirement. Preferably, common feeding of the granular material and common discharge of the material which has been subjected to the material bed comminution are arranged. A tandem separator device may be arranged below the two roll pairs in order to form two parallel compact milling circuits with a high throughput performance overall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Inventors: Meinhard Frangenberg, Alexander Hagedorn, Christian Splinter
  • Patent number: 7628347
    Abstract: A two-roll machine, in particular a roll press, for interparticle comminution of granular material with two rotatably mounted, counter-rotating driven rolls separated from one another by a roll gap. Drive journals of the roll's shaft-mounted gearboxes are shaft-mounted as step-down planetary gear units. A machine table with a table platen is arranged under each of the shaft-mounted gearboxes that can move back and forth parallel to the roll shaft in at least one direction, and three vertically and horizontally adjustable supporting rests arranged in a triangle are arranged on the table platen on which the respective shaft-mounted gearbox can be supported offset-free and aligned with the roll shaft drive journal during its installation and removal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: KHD Humboldt Wedag GmbH
    Inventors: Meinhard Frangenberg, Erich Sommer, Jörg Schnepper, Christian Splinter, Alexander Hagedorn
  • Patent number: 7497396
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to provide grinding rolls in particular for high-pressure roller mills or rolling presses for pressure grinding a granular material not only with a wear-resistant coating but also with a face armour plating in the area of the roller annular edge, which has a long service life due to the high wear resistance thereof and whose production and repair are, in general, relatively simple and inexpensive. For this purpose, the inventive face armour plating consists of a plurality of prefabricated hard bodies which are circularly arranged side by side in such a way that the circular face edge of the roller is formed, said hard bodies are disposed on said circular shoulder of a roll shell such that said hard bodies are placed axially and radially against said circular shoulder of the roll shell and are movably assembled with the roll shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: KHD Humboldt Wedag GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Splinter, Meinhard Frangenberg, Frank Fischer-Helwig, Dieter Brendler
  • Publication number: 20080296424
    Abstract: A two-roll machine, in particular a roll press, for interparticle comminution of granular material with two rotatably mounted, counter-rotating driven rolls separated from one another by a roll gap. Drive journals of the roll's shaft-mounted gearboxes are shaft-mounted as step-down planetary gear units. A machine table with a table platen is arranged under each of the shaft-mounted gearboxes that can move back and forth parallel to the roll shaft in at least one direction, and three vertically and horizontally adjustable supporting rests arranged in a triangle are arranged on the table platen on which the respective shaft-mounted gearbox can be supported offset-free and aligned with the roll shaft drive journal during its installation and removal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2006
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Inventors: Meinhard Frangenberg, Erich Sommer, Jorg Schnepper, Christian Splinter, Alexander Hagedorn
  • Publication number: 20080173352
    Abstract: In order to provide, for a grate cooler for cooling hot bulk material, such as, for example, cement clinker, an, in particular, automatically operating cooling air regulator which has a simple construction and can be used without difficulty both for unmoved and, in particular, for moved cooling grate regions or moved cooling grate systems, for example, cylindrical hose sleeve comprised of elastic material be tension-mounted as an actuating member coaxially in the regulator housing which is arranged below the cooling grate, participates in the movements of the latter and has a casing comprised of solid material, the pressure difference inside and outside the hose sleeve and the deformation resistance of the sleeve being set such that the hose sleeve is deformable, in particular, automatically from its maximum flow cross section into its minimum flow cross section and at the same time regulates the volume flow of the cooling air flow from below into the cooling grate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: KHD HUMBOLDT WEDAG GMBH
    Inventors: Karl Schinke, Christian Splinter
  • Publication number: 20080149749
    Abstract: In the design of a twin-roller machine, such as a roll press for comminuting a bed of granular material, with two rotatably mounted, counter rotationally driven rollers which are separated from each other by a roller nip, and which use hydraulic cylinders to provide a roller pressing force the hydraulic cylinders are arranged in such a manner that they act in each case both on the bearing housings of one roller and on the respectively opposite bearing housings of the other roller with a self-contained system of milling pressing forces being formed without a closed machine frame loaded by the roller pressing forces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Inventors: Meinhard Frangenberg, Christian Splinter, Alexander Hagedorn
  • Publication number: 20080017052
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to simplify and to improve mounting of roller bearings in double roller machines, for example, roller presses for interparticle comminution of granular goods. The rollers and the bearing housing thereof are formed by means of slanting rollers and/or thermal roller longitudinal changes. The rollers are guided in a secure manner on the slide guides thereof. The invention is characterized in that the fixed bearing housing and the moveable bearing housing are connected together by means of a guide rod in each roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2005
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventors: Christian Splinter, Meinhard Frangenberg
  • Patent number: 7300007
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to create a compact circulating grinding plant comprising a product bed comminution roller mill or roller press and a sifter device, in which the problem of mechanically transporting the grinding product that is directed through the circuit is minimized. Said aim is achieved by a circulating grinding plant in which a static cascade sifter is disposed below the gap of the roller press while a subsequent sifter, particularly a dynamic rod basket sifter, is disposed above said roller press. The sifting product discharge area of the static cascade sifter is connected to the sifting air and sifting product inlet of the subsequent sifter via an ascending duct which pneumatically conveys the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: KHD Humboldt Wedag GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Hagedorn, Frank Fischer-Helwig, Christian Splinter, Meinhard Frangenberg
  • Publication number: 20070259298
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to design a bulk-material cooler, particularly one for cooling cement clinker, which operates according to the walking floor principle, so that its cooling grate can be composed of a multitude of ventilated cooling grate modules, which can be assembled in an easy and variable manner, in order to obtain large lengths and widths of the cooler. When these cooling grate modules move between an advancing and returning position, even lateral and/or height offset of the guiding elements can be compensated for in a kinematic manner. To this end, the invention provides that the cooling grate, when viewed over the length and width of the cooler, is composed of a multitude of modules (13, 14) ventilated with cooling air. The coupling of the cooling grate modules of each longitudinal row of cooling grate modules is effected by an articulated joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2005
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Christian Splinter, Karl Schinke
  • Publication number: 20070215733
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to provide grinding rolls in particular for high-pressure roller mills or rolling presses for pressure grinding a granular material not only with a wear-resistant coating but also with a face armour plating in the area of the roller annular edge, which has a long service life due to the high wear resistance thereof and whose production and repair are, in general, relatively simple and inexpensive. For this purpose, the inventive face armour plating consists of a plurality of prefabricated hard bodies which are circularly arranged side by side in such a way that the circular face edge of the roller is formed, said hard bodies are disposed on said circular shoulder of a roll shell such that said hard bodies are placed axially and radially against said circular shoulder of the roll shell and are movably assembled with the roll shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Inventors: Christian Splinter, Meinhard Frangenberg, Frank Fischer-Helwig, Dieter Brendler