Patents by Inventor Dominik Knauer

Dominik Knauer 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).

  • Classifying wheel for a centrifugal-force air classifier
    Patent number: 10252298
    Abstract: A classifying wheel for a centrifugal-force air classifier where the flow pattern of the classifying air is contrary to its centrifugal direction, namely centripetal, and which is equipped with extensions fitted to the classifying wheel vanes within the flow channels which influence the flow pattern is to be executed in wear-protected design. This is achieved in that the classifying wheel has at least one reinforcing ring which has uniformly spaced hooks arranged around its periphery which fix the classifying wheel vanes to the extensions so that the outside radial edge of the classifying wheel vanes is not in contact with the reinforcing ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: HOSOKAWA ALPINE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Dominik Knauer, Karl Herman Kraus, Horst Skirde
  • CLASSIFYING WHEEL FOR A CENTRIFUGAL-FORCE AIR CLASSIFIER
    Publication number: 20180169706
    Abstract: A classifying wheel for a centrifugal-force air classifier where the flow pattern of the classifying air is contrary to its centrifugal direction, namely centripetal, and which is equipped with extensions fitted to the classifying wheel vanes within the flow channels which influence the flow pattern is to be executed in wear-protected design. This is achieved in that the classifying wheel has at least one reinforcing ring which has uniformly spaced hooks arranged around its periphery which fix the classifying wheel vanes to the extensions so that the outside radial edge of the classifying wheel vanes is not in contact with the reinforcing ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: HOSOKAWA ALPINE Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dominik Knauer, Karl Herman Kraus, Horst Skirde