Patents by Inventor Hans Muller

Hans Muller 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: 20030211195
    Abstract: The arrangement is based on the principle that the ejector (9) of a moulding tool actuates the rear ejector plates (5, 5A, 5B) and the front plates (4, 4A, 4A) are conveyed along until the bearing segments (23) reach the free groove (17) in the central pin (12). Balancing against misalignment of the ejector package is obtained at the same time through the incorporation of this two-stage ejector, and, at the same time, it replaces extra guides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2002
    Publication date: November 13, 2003
    Inventor: Hans Muller
  • Patent number: 6575730
    Abstract: A two-stage ejector (2) in a molding tool (3), comprising an actuator part (7) exhibiting connecting segments (5) capable of radial displacement (4) and an attaching part (6) capable of detachable attachment to the actuator part (7). The attaching part is a telescopic tube (8) for determining the length of stroke attached to the inside (50A) of a front part (50) of the tool. The connecting tube (8) exhibits pairs of slots (10, 11) along its length. An attachment part (13) capable of being attached to a moving from ejector plate (12) is accommodated in the slots (10, 11) and is capable of displacement in the longitudinal extent (A) of the slots. A moving rear ejector plate (9) is attached to the actuating part (7), and the actuating part (7) is capable of displacement in a hole (17) passing through the tool frame (16), in the interior of which the rear part (18) of the actuating part is accommodated within the side (19) of the frame (16) facing away from the ejector plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Inventor: Hans Müller
  • Publication number: 20030047867
    Abstract: A feeder for collecting printed sheets in an astride position includes a pulling-off drum which has at the circumference thereof gripping members for pulling off printed sheets stacked in a magazine. The feeder further includes a unit for conveying the printed sheets with an open side facing forward into an opening device. The opening device is arranged in front of a collecting device. The unit arranged between the pulling-off drum and the opening device is formed by a pocket wheel or a pocket chain provided with revolving pockets for receiving the printed sheets which are supplied with their folds facing forwardly, and a conveying member arranged in front of the pockets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Inventor: Hans Muller
  • Patent number: 6508881
    Abstract: A device for maintaining constant a certain viscosity of an adhesive, that is used for pasting a spine of an inner book or a book cover, by adding a diluent has an adhesive container filled with an adhesive. A rotating conveyor roll is immersed in the adhesive. An applicator roll is positioned downstream of the conveyor roll. It receives the adhesive from the conveyor roll and applies the adhesive onto a spine of an inner book or a book cover passing by the applicator roll. A stirring apparatus is arranged on the container and has a stirrer immersed in the adhesive. The stirring apparatus stirs the adhesive received in the container and also measures the viscosity of the adhesive received in the container. A control unit with a computer is connected to the stirring apparatus. The control unit compares a measured value of the viscosity with a set-point value of the viscosity and meters the diluent to the adhesive in order to regulate the viscosity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: Grapha-Holding AG
    Inventors: Hans Müller, Karl Zweig
  • Publication number: 20030003185
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement (2) for a two-stage ejector (3), which has a follow-on action, capable of installation centrally in a moulding tool (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2001
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Inventor: Hans Muller
  • Publication number: 20020170405
    Abstract: A three knife trimmer has a front knife and two lateral knives. A drive device drives the front knife and the two lateral knives such that a front cut and at least one lateral cut are performed with phase displacement by the front knife and at least one of the two lateral knives on the material to be cut. The drive device has at least one drive curve. At least two pivotable levers engage the drive curve, wherein the front knife and at least one of the two lateral knives are drivingly connected to the at least two pivotable levers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2002
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Applicant: Muller Martini Holding AG
    Inventor: Hans Muller
  • Publication number: 20020142063
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement (1) for a two-stage ejector (2) in a moulding tool (3), which comprises an actuator part (7) exhibiting connecting segments (5) capable of being caused to be displaced radially (4) and an attaching part (6) capable of detachable attachment to the aforementioned actuator part (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventor: Hans Muller
  • Publication number: 20020140155
    Abstract: An arrangement for stitching the spine of printed products, complied of folded printed sheets, by staples has a stitching device with a stitching head/bending arrangement. A conveying device for conveying the printed products to the stitching device at a spacing sequentially behind one another and with the spine transverse to the conveying direction is provided. The stitching device has a stitching support on which the stitching head/bending arrangement is arranged. The stitching support is configured to move during the stitching process approximately in the same direction and at least approximately at the same speed as the conveying device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2002
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Applicant: GRAPHA-Holding AG
    Inventor: Hans Muller
  • Publication number: 20020041067
    Abstract: A feeder device for removing folded or unfolded signatures from a stack of signatures in an adjacent signature magazine and feeding a production line with the signatures. The device includes a conveying rotor having an approximately circular circumference and being rotatable in a conveying direction. The conveying rotor includes a recess at the approximately circular circumference for holding a front edge, in the conveying direction, of a printed product removed from the stack of signatures. A conveying belt partially rests against the circumference of the conveying rotor, and is drivable in the same direction as the conveying rotor, and together with the conveying rotor forms a conveying gap through which the signatures are conveyed to the processing line. At least one synchronously driven separating element includes a control device comprising a pivotal control shaft arranged parallel to the rotational axis of the conveying rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Publication date: April 11, 2002
    Inventor: Hans Muller
  • Patent number: 6318237
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for a fluid-driven lock cylinder for the actuation of moving parts such as slides, cores and corresponding units on press tools and injection moulding tools for metal or plastic materials. A piston is accommodated in a displaceable fashion in a piston cylinder. A divided ring forms an end stop for the piston. The stop ring exhibits a maximum diameter which exceeds the diameter of the piston. An inclined external axial part of the stop ring forms a stop for making contact with a counter-pressure part of the piston cylinder. The counter-pressure part is inclined to a degree corresponding to the inclination of the end stop on the stop ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Inventor: Hans Müller
  • Patent number: 6315107
    Abstract: A conveyor plant for gathering and processing printed sheets includes a saddle-shaped collecting chain, a double chain with a gap between the individual chains of the double chain, a transfer area in which the collecting chain travels into the gap of the double chain, and carrier members for the printed sheets arranged successively on the collecting chain. The carrier members are mounted on the collecting chain in an upright position. The carrier members of the collecting chain are inclined forwardly at least in the travel direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Grapha-Holding AG
    Inventors: Hans Müller, Peter Merkli
  • Patent number: 6253925
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement (5) for a filter (6) for plastic material in the form of granulates supplied to an injection nozzle (7), whereby accommodated internally in a casing (8) is a filter body (20) extending in the longitudinal sense of the casing. The filter body (20) consists of metal or some other hard material. Arranged essentially in the longitudinal extent (10) of the filter body (20) is a number of groove-shaped unevennesses (11, 12) in the form of peaks (11) and valleys (12) extending along the filter body on its envelope surface, which unevennesses are executed so as to extend internally within the casing (8) at a distance (S) from it. A gap (9) is formed between the peaks (11) and the casing (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Inventor: Hans Müller
  • Patent number: 6152002
    Abstract: A method for trimming flat printed products along a predetermined cutting line includes the steps of continuously feeding the printed products in succession in a feed direction parallel to a plane defined by the printed products. The printed products are passed between two superposed knives, each knife having a cutting edge facing the other cutting edge. The two knives are moved in cutting engagement with one another in a direction that is substantially perpendicular to the plane of the printed products. The apparatus according to the invention includes a conveyor for continuously feeding the printed products in succession in a feed direction parallel to a plane defined by the printed products. At least one cutting device having two superposed knives is provided. Each knife has a cutting edge facing the other cutting edge. The printed products are passed by the conveyor between the two knives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Assignee: Grapha-Holding AG
    Inventor: Hans Muller
  • Patent number: 6106271
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for a two-stage ejector for an injection moulding tool. It comprises a piston cylinder arrangement with piston cylinder elements capable of axial displacement relative to one another in separate stages for the actuation of separately moving ejector plates, having the front plate attached to a piston capable of detachable attachment to a sleeve accommodating said piston via radially moving coupling segments. Internally inside the sleeve, which is attached to the rear plate via a threaded connection, an accommodating body for the coupling segments is fixed to the front plate via radial wings. The wings are capable of movement along the sleeve in matching recesses along the rear part of the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Hans Muller
    Inventor: Hans Muller
  • Patent number: 5871459
    Abstract: In an apparatus for the extra-corporal treatment of blood wherein blood is supplied from a body to a vacuum bottle via a conduit and an insertion spike, the insertion spike is in communication, by way of a gas hose, with a pressure compensation bag from which a predetermined amount of gas can be supplied to the insertion spike for foaming the blood in the vacuum bottle, whereby no excess pressure can be generated in the vacuum bottle. The blood conduit further includes a quartz glass portion to permit UV irradiation of the blood while passing therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Inventor: Hans Muller
  • Patent number: 5782872
    Abstract: For an apparatus for the extra-corporal treatment of blood wherein blood is supplied from a body to a vacuum bottle via a conduit, an insertion spike for piercing a closure plug of a vacuum bottle has a front end with a pointed tip and includes a first passage extending from the front end to a connecting piece for connection to a gas supply means, the front end having a perforated side wall for the diffused discharge of gases admitted through the first passage and a second passage having means for connection to a blood conduit and extending to an opening in the side of the insertion spike adjacent the perforated side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Inventor: Hans Muller
  • Patent number: 5770147
    Abstract: In an apparatus for the irradiation of body fluids by ultraviolet light in a containment for receiving the body fluids which is disposed in the radiation range of an ultraviolet light source, the containment includes baffle means arranged so as to subject the body fluids circulated through the containment to turbulence whereby the body fluid in the containment is uniformly exposed to the UV radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Inventor: Hans Muller
  • Patent number: 5720018
    Abstract: An improved technique for monitoring computer processes and their attributes using a three-dimensional graphical image. The three dimensional graphical image is formed by displaying the graphical objects associated with the computer processes and their attributes. The physical relationship between the various graphical objects within the graphical image preferably model the actual relationships between the processes and their attributes. The computers which run or activate the processes may also be represented by a graphical object within the graphical image. As the attributes of the computer processes change, the characteristics of the graphical objects are quickly adjusted and the three-dimensional graphical image is updated to reflect the changes to the attributes of the computer processes being monitored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Hans Muller, Greg B. Nuyens, Qiang A. Zhao, Nikhyl Singhal
  • Patent number: 5698129
    Abstract: A metallurgical vessel has a refractory head piece and a vessel outlet at the refractory head piece. A sliding gate valve for this metallurgical vessel includes a housing frame that is mounted to the vessel at the outlet so as to be removable therefrom. A slider unit is mounted in the housing frame having a sliding plate therein. A refractory base plate is also mounted in the housing frame, and has an upper side with a plane sliding surface that is engaged with the refractory head piece and a lower side having a lower sliding surface that is parallel to the plane sliding surface. The sliding plate is pressed against the lower sliding surface of the refractory base plate. The refractory base plate is fixed in the housing frame in a direction parallel to the sliding surfaces of the refractory base plate, but is movable in the housing frame in a direction perpendicular to the sliding surface of the refractory base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: Stopinc AG
    Inventors: Werner Keller, Walter Toaldo, Hans Muller, Werner Plattner, Anton Pfyl
  • Patent number: 5388616
    Abstract: An invertible tubular substrate of resin-permeated fibrous material is surrounded by an impermeable tubular film which, in turn, is surrounded by an impermeable tubular calibrating element. One end of the substrate is inserted into one end of a pipe which is to be lined from the inside, and the assembly of substrate, film and calibrating element is thereupon inverted into the pipe wherein the substrate is immediately adjacent the internal surface of the pipe and surrounds the film. The calibrating element is separable from the film and can be withdrawn from the interior of the inverted film by a flexible cord. The resin in the substrate sets upon inversion and maintains the inverted substrate in contact with the internal surface of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1995
    Inventors: Hans Muller, Hermann Suerbaum