Patents by Inventor Gerd Menke

Gerd Menke 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).

  • UV-irradiation device for treating fluids, comprising an improved cleaning device
    Patent number: 7112310
    Abstract: A UV irradiation device for the treatment of fluids has an improved device for the cleaning of the surfaces of the jacket tube with a number of lamp units that each have a radiation source and a jacket tube that surrounds the radiation source, whereby the lamp units are essentially cylindrical. A cleaning device has cleaning elements that annularly extend around the jacket tubes 3. Each jacket tube has at least one cleaning element, and the cleaning elements are displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the jacket tubes by at least one drive unit. The cleaning elements have an axially delimited, annular chamber that is open towards the surface of the jacket tubes. At least one elastomeric ring is disposed in the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: Wedeco AG Water Technology
    Inventor: Gerd Menke
  • Uv-irradiation device for treating fluids, comprising an improved cleaning device
    Publication number: 20030185727
    Abstract: The invention relates to a UV irradiation device for the treatment of fluids and has an improved device for the cleaning of the surfaces of the jacket tube
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Inventor: Gerd Menke