Patents by Inventor Guido Huber

Guido Huber 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: 6176927
    Abstract: A coating apparatus with a spray head is provided for coating can bodies internally. The spray head is supplied with coating material through a feed line which passes through the seam welding machine for the container bodies. The combined spray and extraction head is also connected to a suction line which extracts excess coating material which has not been deposited on the internal walls of the container bodies, and returns it through the welding machine. In this way, the escape of coating material between the individual can bodies can largely be avoided, thus reducing contamination of equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: Elpatronic AG
    Inventors: Hans-Jörg Nussbaumer, Guido Huber, Felix Walser
  • Patent number: 6110526
    Abstract: A coating apparatus with a spray head is provided for coating can bodies internally. The spray head is supplied with coating material through a feed line which passes through the seam welding machine for the container bodies. The combined spray and extraction head is also connected to a suction line which extracts excess coating material which has not been deposited on the internal walls of the container bodies, and returns it through the welding machine. In this way, the escape of coating material between the individual can bodies can largely be avoided, thus reducing contamination of equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Elpatronic AG
    Inventors: Hans-Jorg Nussbaumer, Guido Huber, Felix Walser
  • Patent number: 6051274
    Abstract: A method is provided for use with an injector arrangement where particulates are to be entrained in a gas transport medium. The apparatus has a nozzle discharging conveying gas and a secondary, dosing gas flow provided from an annular passage. This secondary flow envelopes the conveying gas. Particulates are drawn into the combined gas streams by a venturi effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: Elpatronic AG
    Inventors: Guido Huber, Hans-Jorg Nussbaumer
  • Patent number: 5906858
    Abstract: An injector for conveying a pulverulent material is supplied with entraining air via a line and with dosing air via another line. Dosing air and entraining air are kept constant in their total rate of flow by a flow controller. This yields a particularly homogeneous powder/air mixture, which is particularly advantageous in the conveying of coating powder for coating welded seams on can bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignee: Elpatronic AG
    Inventors: Guido Huber, Hans-Jorg Nussbaumer, Felix Walser
  • Patent number: 5873680
    Abstract: An injector arrangement for use where particulates are to be entrained in a gas transport medium. The apparatus has a nozzle discharging conveying gas and a secondary, dosing, gas flow provided from an annular passage. This secondary flow envelopes the conveying gas. Particulates are drawn into the combined gas streams by a venturi effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Elpatronic AG
    Inventors: Guido Huber, Hans-Jorg Nussbaumer
  • Patent number: 4790263
    Abstract: The material is applied to the inner surface by means of a carrier gas stream, provided with a swirl, conducted through the hollow space. To prevent or reduce the swirl loss, which occurs if the laden carrier gas stream, provided with the swirl, forces the stagnant air in the hollow space from this space and then the loss develops by friction on the inner surface, before and during the flow of the laden carrier gas provided with the swirl, an additional gas, not laden with the material, is conducted through the hollow space with a siwrl, whose direction of rotation corresponds to the swirl of the laden carrier gas stream. For this purpose, the device has on the outlet of a passage element (1), equipped with a swirl-producing device 3 for the laden carrier gas stream, outlet nozzles (4), which feed to the laden carrier gas stream the additional gas with a swirl, whose direction of rotation corresponds to that (5) of the swirl-producing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1988
    Assignee: Lonza, Ltd.
    Inventors: Beat Eckert, Guido Huber, Norbert Richle