Patents by Inventor Constantin Rieger

Constantin Rieger 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).

  • Publication number: 20230257916
    Abstract: An open-end spinning device for an open-end spinning machine includes a rotor housing and a spinning rotor having a rotor cup accommodated in the rotor housing. A drive for the spinning rotor is arranged in a drive housing. At least one receptacle for a cover element that closes the rotor housing during spinning operations is provided. The rotor housing includes an adjustable stop for the cover element, the stop positioning the cover element in an axial direction of the spinning rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Matthias Lauer, Markus Kuebler, Siegfried Krohmer, Bernd Loos, Constantin Rieger, Alexander Fuchs, Constanze Gebauer
  • Publication number: 20230257915
    Abstract: An open-end spinning device for an open-end spinning machine includes an individually drivable spinning rotor having a rotor cup accommodated in a rotor housing. An individual drive for the spinning rotor arranged in a drive housing. A receptacle for a cover element that closes the rotor housing during spinning operations is provided. The rotor housing defines a central support part fixable to a machine frame of the open-end spinning machine. The rotor housing is formed as one piece with the drive housing and the receptacle for the cover element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Matthias Lauer, Markus Kuebler, Siegfried Krohmer, Bernd Loos, Constantin Rieger, Alexander Fuchs, Constanze Gebauer
  • Publication number: 20230008607
    Abstract: An opening roller housing (1) for an opening roller (2) of an open-end spinning machine (3) has a feed opening (4) for feeding a fiber material (5) into the opening roller housing (1), a delivery opening (6) for drawing opened individual fibers (7) out of the opening roller housing (1), a trash removal opening (8) for extracting trash (9) out of the fiber material (5), and an inner circumferential wall (10), which surrounds the opening roller (2) during operation and has a fiber-guiding area (11), which extends from the feed opening (4), over the trash removal opening (8), and up to the delivery opening (6). The opening roller housing (1) includes a hollow cylindrical ring (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Markus Kuebler, Siegfried Krohmer, Bernd Loos, Frank Riedel, Helmut Wollinger, Constantin Rieger
  • Patent number: 11028503
    Abstract: A method for operating a spinning device of a rotor spinning machine, and associated rotor spinning machine are provided in which a spinning rotor includes a rotor cup and a rotor shaft that is set into rotation with the aid of a drive situated in a drive housing. The drive is operatively connected to the rotor shaft, and the rotor shaft is supported in the drive housing by a bearing. The rotor cup is situated in a rotor housing to which vacuum is applied, and the rotor shaft extends between the drive housing and the rotor housing through a connection opening such that when a vacuum is drawn in the rotor housing during a spinning process, a vacuum is also drawn in the drive housing. Compressed air is feed into the drive housing via an air inlet at intervals to clean one or both of the drive housing and the bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AG
    Inventors: Markus Kuebler, Constantin Rieger
  • Patent number: 10822726
    Abstract: An opening roller for an open-end spinning device includes a drive shaft and a roller body connected to the drive shaft. The drive shaft includes a coupling element for connection to a driven shaft of a drive. The coupling element includes a form-locking element. An open-end spinning device is also provided that incorporates the opening roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AG
    Inventors: Markus Kuebler, Constantin Rieger
  • Publication number: 20200199789
    Abstract: The invention relates to a workstation of a rotor spinning machine including a spinning rotor (3) mounted so as to be rotatable about a rotational axis (X), wherein the workstation comprises a cleaning unit (1) including a mechanical cleaning element (2) for cleaning an inner surface (21) of the spinning rotor (3). According to the invention, it is provided that the cleaning element (2) is movably arranged on the workstation in such a way that, starting from a neutral position in which the cleaning element (2) is not in contact with the spinning rotor (3), the cleaning element (2) can be moved into various cleaning positions for various inner diameters of the spinning rotor (3), wherein the cleaning element (2), in the particular cleaning position, is in contact with the inner surface of the spinning rotor (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Markus Kuebler, Constantin Rieger
  • Publication number: 20190257007
    Abstract: A method for operating a spinning device of a rotor spinning machine, and associated rotor spinning machine are provided in which a spinning rotor includes a rotor cup and a rotor shaft that is set into rotation with the aid of a drive situated in a drive housing. The drive is operatively connected to the rotor shaft, and the rotor shaft is supported in the drive housing by a bearing. The rotor cup is situated in a rotor housing to which vacuum is applied, and the rotor shaft extends between the drive housing and the rotor housing through a connection opening such that when a vacuum is drawn in the rotor housing during a spinning process, a vacuum is also drawn in the drive housing. Compressed air is feed into the drive housing via an air inlet at intervals to clean one or both of the drive housing and the bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Markus Kuebler, Constantin Rieger
  • Publication number: 20190177883
    Abstract: An opening roller for an open-end spinning device includes a drive shaft and a roller body connected to the drive shaft. The drive shaft includes a coupling element for connection to a driven shaft of a drive. The coupling element includes a form-locking element. An open-end spinning device is also provided that incorporates the opening roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Markus Kuebler, Constantin Rieger
  • Publication number: 20180142736
    Abstract: A rotor cup for spinning a fiber material includes a coupling device to detachably connect the rotor cup to a rotor shaft. The coupling device includes a connecting means for transfer of torque from the rotor shaft to the rotor cup and for axial securing of the rotor cup on the rotor shaft, and a centering means for centering the rotor cup on the rotor shaft. The centering means may include a cone-shaped extension or cone-shaped receiver defined on the rotor cup. The connecting means may include an extension on the rotor cup, with the centering means being a centering element separate from the connecting means and defined as one of a cylinder pin fixed in the rotor cup or a centering bore arranged in the rotor cup. An open end spinning rotor may include the rotor cup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Markus Kuebler, Bernd Loos, Constantin Rieger