Patents by Inventor Heiko Faubel

Heiko Faubel 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: 7994251
    Abstract: A coating system for floors, containing a) one or more agents in which, together or separately, a polymer or polymer/wax dispersion and aziridine and, where desired, a flatting component are present, for application on the floor in order to form a crosslinked base film that is not capable of being removed by wet chemical means, as well as b) an aziridine-free agent containing conventional floor-maintenance components, in particular a polymer or polymer/wax dispersion, for the purpose of generating a sacrificial film on said base film that is capable of being removed by wet chemical means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Rogmann, Ulrike Scheuvens, Heiko Faubel, Michael Decker
  • Patent number: 7776158
    Abstract: Aqueous floor cleaning and/or care composition, containing, based on the total composition, at least 3% by weight of a nonionic surfactant of formula I: wherein R1 represents hydrogen or an alkyl radical having 1 to 18 C atoms, and R2, independently of R1, represents hydrogen or an alkyl radical having 1 to 18 C atoms, and the sum of the C atoms present overall in R1 and R2 is between 6 and 18, and R3 represents an alkyl radical having 4 to 18 C atoms, and R4 hydrogen or an alkyl radical having 1 to 6 C atoms and n is a number from 1 to 30 and m a number from 0 to 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Rogmann, Nicola Kriens, Heiko Faubel
  • Patent number: 7743453
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wiping device for wiping surfaces to be cleaned, especially floor surfaces, comprising a plate-type or frame-type wiping element holder (1), preferably in an essentially long, rectangular form, and a wiping element (4) consisting of textile material or the like, which is adapted and fixed to the wiping element holder (1). Said wiping element (4) respectively comprises, on the upper side facing the wiping element holder (1), close to the two opposing sides, and close to the narrow sides in the long, rectangular form, a narrow fixing strip (5), which is applied with its ends to the wiping element (5) [sic]. Said fixing strip extends approximately transversally on the wiping element holder (1) when the wiping element (4) is fixed to the same (1). Position fixing arrangements are provided on the wiping element holder (1), where the fixing strips (5) should extend when the wiping element is fixed (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Ecolab Inc.
    Inventors: Franz Kresse, Heiko Faubel
  • Patent number: 7670073
    Abstract: A device, for applying a flowable medium to a surface, includes a container, equipment to be worn on a back, a hose and a hose adapter, which can attach the hose to an outlet opening of the container, and which includes a ventilating element. The device further includes a handle having an end to which a wiping or applying device is mounted. The equipment includes a mounting plate attached to supporting straps to hold the container; and the container includes coupling elements for coupling the container to the mounting plate. A duct of the device extends from a first end of the hose, such that, when the hose is attached to the container, at the first end thereof, by the hose adapter, the duct conducts the flowable medium, from the container, to an outlet of the handle, which outlet is spaced apart from the wiping or applying device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Ecolab Inc.
    Inventors: Hans-Leo Fernschild, Heiko Faubel, Karl-Heinz Rogmann, Ulrike Scheuvens
  • Patent number: 7621686
    Abstract: A device, for applying a flowable medium to a surface, includes a container, equipment to be worn on a back, a hose and a hose adapter, which can attach the hose to an outlet opening of the container, and which includes a ventilating element. The device further includes a handle having an end to which a wiping or applying device is mounted. The equipment includes a mounting plate, which is attached to supporting straps, to hold the container. A duct of the device extends from a first end of the hose, such that, when the hose is attached to the container, at the first end thereof, by the hose adapter, the duct conducts the flowable medium, from the container, to an outlet of the handle, which outlet is spaced apart from the wiping or applying device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Ecolab GmbH & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Hans-Leo Fernschild, Heiko Faubel, Karl-Heinz Rogmann, Ulrike Scheuvens
  • Publication number: 20090257812
    Abstract: A device, for applying a flowable medium to a surface, includes a container, equipment to be worn on a back, a hose and a hose adapter, which can attach the hose to an outlet opening of the container, and which includes a ventilating element. The device further includes a handle having an end to which a wiping or applying device is mounted. The equipment includes a mounting plate attached to supporting straps to hold the container; and the container includes coupling elements for coupling the container to the mounting plate. A duct of the device extends from a first end of the hose, such that, when the hose is attached to the container, at the first end thereof, by the hose adapter, the duct conducts the flowable medium, from the container, to an outlet of the handle, which outlet is spaced apart from the wiping or applying device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: Ecolab GMBH & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Hans-Leo FERNSCHILD, Heiko FAUBEL, Karl-Heinz ROGMANN, Ulrike SCHEUVENS
  • Publication number: 20090258809
    Abstract: Aqueous floor cleaning and/or care composition, containing, based on the total composition, at least 3% by weight of a nonionic surfactant of formula I: wherein R1 represents hydrogen or an alkyl radical having 1 to 18 C atoms, and R2, independently of R1, represents hydrogen or an alkyl radical having 1 to 18 C atoms, and the sum of the C atoms present overall in R1 and R2 is between 6 and 18, and R3 represents an alkyl radical having 4 to 18 C atoms, and R4 hydrogen or an alkyl radical having 1 to 6 C atoms and n is a number from 1 to 30 and m a number from 0 to 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: Ecolab, Inc.
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Rogmann, Nicola Kriens, Heiko Faubel
  • Patent number: 7563759
    Abstract: Aqueous floor cleaning and/or care composition, containing, based on the total composition, at least 3% by weight of a nonionic surfactant of formula I: wherein R1 represents hydrogen or an alkyl radical having 1 to 18 C atoms, and R2, independently of R1, represents hydrogen or an alkyl radical having 1 to 18 C atoms, and the sum of the C atoms present overall in R1 and R2 is between 6 and 18, and R3 represents an alkyl radical having 4 to 18 C atoms, and R4 hydrogen or an alkyl radical having 1 to 6 C atoms and n is a number from 1 to 30 and m a number from 0 to 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Ecolab Inc.
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Rogmann, Nicola Kriens, Heiko Faubel
  • Patent number: 7441301
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mopping device for mopping surfaces to be cleaned. The mopping device is characterized in that the mop covering holder (1) has a reservoir (6) for holding a large quantity of cleaning liquid which can flow via at least one discharge opening (7) inside the mop covering holder (1) to the mop covering (5) attached to the mop covering holder (1). In addition, the mop covering holder (1) has at least one ventilation opening (8), via which air can escape from the reservoir (6) when filling the reservoir (6) with cleaning liquid, and air can flow into the reservoir (6) when cleaning liquid is discharged from said reservoir (6). The mop covering holder (1) itself serves as a conveying element to the cleaning liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Ecolab Inc.
    Inventors: Franz Kresse, Heiko Faubel
  • Publication number: 20080188389
    Abstract: Aqueous floor cleaning and/or care composition, containing, based on the total composition, at least 3% by weight of a nonionic surfactant of formula I: wherein R1 represents hydrogen or an alkyl radical having 1 to 18 C atoms, and R2, independently of R1, represents hydrogen or an alkyl radical having 1 to 18 C atoms, and the sum of the C atoms present overall in R1 and R2 is between 6 and 18, and R3 represents an alkyl radical having 4 to 18 C atoms, and R4 hydrogen or an alkyl radical having 1 to 6 C atoms and n is a number from 1 to 30 and m a number from 0 to 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: ECOLAB INC.
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Rogmann, Nicola Kriens, Heiko Faubel
  • Patent number: 7181801
    Abstract: The invention relates to an absorbent structure for cleaning surfaces. The absorbent structure has areas or sections or mixtures comprising different material, these areas, sections or mixtures having either a primarily absorbent effect or a primarily cleaning effect. The structure has a support structure to which the cleaning material has been applied. The aim of the invention is to provide an absorbent structure with greater potential for variation and variants in terms of its cleaning and absorbency properties and/or effects. To this end, the inventive absorbent structure has a pocket or bag-shaped cavity in which pieces or strips of highly absorbent materials are located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Ecolab Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Kresse, Heiko Faubel
  • Patent number: 7174600
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wiping device, a squeezing out device and a container device enabling a textile wiping element located on a wiping panel of the wiping device to be squeezed out simply and reliably. The wiping panel is provided with edge fixing sections which can be held from behind by a counter bearing device of the squeezing out device in order to prevent the wiping panel from being moved out of the squeezing out device unintentionally when the textile element is squeezed out on a bearing surface, or which have an insertion ramp which facilitates the optionally jamming insertion between the bearing surface and a counter bearing surface that is set apart from said bearing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: Ecolab GmbH & Co. OGH
    Inventors: Franz Kresse, Heiko Faubel
  • Publication number: 20070004846
    Abstract: A coating system for floors, containing a) one or more agents in which, together or separately, a polymer or polymer/wax dispersion and aziridine and, where desired, a flatting component are present, for application on the floor in order to form a crosslinked base film that is not capable of being removed by wet chemical means, as well as b) an aziridine-free agent containing conventional floor-maintenance components, in particular a polymer or polymer/wax dispersion, for the purpose of generating a sacrificial film on said base film that is capable of being removed by wet chemical means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Applicant: ECOLAB INC.
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Rogmann, Ulrike Scheuvens, Heiko Faubel, Michael Decker
  • Publication number: 20060245820
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mopping device for mopping surfaces to be cleaned. Said device is provided with a longitudinally extended mop covering holder (1), which forms a mopping side and a top side, with a handle sleeve (3), which is placed on the top side of the mop covering holder (1), with a handle (4), which is inserted into the handle sleeve (3) or integrated with this handle sleeve (3), and with a mop covering (5). This mop covering is placed on the mopping side of the mop covering holder (1), can be attached in a manner that enables it to be replaced and is made of a textile or textile-like material. The mopping device is characterized in that the mop covering holder (1) has a reservoir (6) for holding a large quantity of cleaning liquid which can flow via at least one discharge opening (7) inside the mop covering holder (1) to the mop covering (5) attached to the mop covering holder (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Applicant: Ecolab Inc.
    Inventors: Franz Kresse, Heiko Faubel
  • Patent number: 7118785
    Abstract: A coating system for floors, containing a) one or more agents in which, together or separately, a polymer/wax dispersion and aziridine and, where desired, a flatting component are present, for application on the floor in order to form a crosslinked base film that is not capable of being removed by wet chemical means, as well as b) an aziridine-free agent containing conventional floor-maintenance components, in particular a polymer/wax dispersion, for the purpose of generating a sacrificial film on said base film that is capable of being removed by wet chemical means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Ecolab Inc.
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Rogmann, Ulrike Scheuvens, Heiko Faubel, Michael Decker
  • Publication number: 20060024119
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for applying flowing media to a surface. Said device comprises a container for the media with at least one opening which is located above the surface and can be deaerated and a mopping or applicator device which is attached to a handle. In addition, the device has a flow-regulating hose which can be shut off, for conveying the media form the container by force of gravity to an outlet on the mopping or applicator device. In addition, the device has a portable unit which is worn on the back, comprising supporting and fixing straps and a mounting plate which is fitted to said unit and which has a rapid-action coupling device. The container has a resealable exit opening at one end with a connecting sleeve and a resealable fill opening at the opposite end, in addition to a hose adapter which can be connected to the connecting sleeve of the exit opening. Said adapter has a shut-off device and a rapid-action coupling for the hose with a drip-protection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2005
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Applicant: Ecolab GMBH & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Hans-Leo Fernschild, Heiko Faubel, Karl-Heinz Rogmann, Ulrike Scheuvens
  • Patent number: 6982245
    Abstract: The invention relates to portioned cleaning shaped bodies which are comprised of solid cleaning agent and of a water-soluble coating and which are used for producing liquid cleaning agent concentrates. The invention also relates to the use of the cleaning shaped bodies in the area of building cleaning or industrial cleaning services or in the area of household cleaning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Ecolab GmbH & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Heiko Faubel, Francois Prebin, Gerd Rupietta, Karl-Heinz Rogmann, Heiko Hiltner, Barbara Zupp
  • Patent number: 6951430
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for applying flowing media to a surface. Said device comprises a container for the media with at least one opening which is located above the surface and can be deaerated and a mopping or applicator device which is attached to a handle. In addition, the device has a flow-regulating hose which can be shut off, for conveying the media form the container by force of gravity to an outlet on the mopping or applicator device. In addition, the device has a portable unit which is worn on the back, comprising supporting and fixing straps and a mounting plate which is fitted to said unit and which has a rapid-action coupling device. The container has a resealable exit opening at one end with a connecting sleeve and a resealable fill opening at the opposite end, in addition to a hose adapter which can be connected to the connecting sleeve of the exit opening. Said adapter has a shut-off device and a rapid-action coupling for the hose with a drip-protection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignee: Ecolab GmbH & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Hans-Leo Fernschild, Heiko Faubel, Karl-Heinz Rogmann, Ulrike Scheuvens
  • Publication number: 20050120499
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wiping device for wiping surfaces to be cleaned, especially floor surfaces, comprising a plate-type or frame-type wiping element holder (1), preferably in an essentially long, rectangular form, and a wiping element (4) consisting of textile material or the like, which is adapted and fixed to the wiping element holder (1). Said wiping element (4) respectively comprises, on the upper side facing the wiping element holder (1), close to the two opposing sides, and close to the narrow sides in the long, rectangular form, a narrow fixing strip (5), which is applied with its ends to the wiping element (5) [sic]. Said fixing strip extends approximately transversally on the wiping element holder (1) when the wiping element (4) is fixed to the same (1). Position fixing arrangements are provided on the wiping element holder (1), where the fixing strips (5) should extend when the wiping element is fixed (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Inventors: Franz Kresse, Heiko Faubel
  • Publication number: 20050044649
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wiping device for wiping surfaces that are to be cleaned, especially floor surfaces. Parts of the wiping device according to the invention are on the one hand a wiping element holder, and on the other hand the removable wiping element that is to be fixed to the wiping element holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Applicant: ECOLAB INC.
    Inventors: Franz Kresse, Heiko Faubel