Patents by Inventor Claus-Jürgen Steffler

Claus-Jürgen Steffler 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: 6875267
    Abstract: In order to make sure, for cement clinker production lines with blown injection of dispersible solid fuels such as, for example, coal dust, into the calcinator which is provided with fuel, that an open flame does not occur at the fuel injection point, it is proposed according to the invention that the fuel is fed into a meal intake box that has a sloping raw meal chute and deflector slide and is arranged on the outside of the calcinator and connected to it through a wall opening and the fuel is pre-mixed with the pre-heated raw meal there, and then introduced via the deflector slide into the reaction section of the calcinator in order to form a gas-raw meal-solid fuel-suspension that is uniformly distributed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: KHD Humboldt Wedag AG
    Inventors: Claus-Jürgen Steffler, Wolfgang Müller, Stefan Köllen
  • Patent number: 6444026
    Abstract: In cement clinker production installations, especially with short rotary tubular kiln, in order to find a way in which the thermally highly stressed rotary kiln intake chamber can be protected from overstress and therewith the entire production installation can be reliably operated it is proposed, according to the invention, to introduce directly into the rotary kiln intake chamber, a finely granular non-preheated substance usable in the cement clinker production process, to suspend or disperse it there in the rotary kiln exhaust gas and thereby to continuously cool the kiln intake chamber, and to discharge the heated finely granular substance with the exhaust gas from the kiln intake chamber and to add it to the process raw meal or direct it elsewhere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: KHD Humboldt Wedag AG
    Inventors: Claus-Jürgen Steffler, Hans-Wilhelm Meyer