Patents by Inventor Heinrich Niemann

Heinrich Niemann 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: 5921452
    Abstract: A device (5) for swinging a roll (4) for a moving web (15) consists of a shaft (6) extending through the roll (4), with provision made for gearings (7, 8) on the ends of said shaft. A servo-drive (10) engages the gearing (7), putting the shaft (6) into rotation and displacing its end (9). Gearing (8) on the counter end (12) of the roll (4) translates the rotary motion of the shaft (6) into a motion of thrust of the counter end (12) in the opposite sense, so that shaft (6) is swiveled by the single servo-drive (10) around its central point (13). Roll (4) is rotatably supported on shaft (6) and is jointly swiveled with the latter (FIG. 1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignee: Erhardt & Leimer GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Wulf, Heinrich Niemann
  • Patent number: 5663510
    Abstract: A method and a device for compensating and equalizing the tension forces across the width of a moving web makes use of a tension compensation roll, which is pivotably supported, and rotatable around a pivotal axis. In the presence of a difference in the tension force across the width of the moving web, the tension compensation roll is pivoted via gears with teeth to an extent such that the tension forces in both halves of the web are equalized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1997
    Assignee: Erhardt + Leimer GmbH
    Inventors: Heinrich Niemann, Johannes Wulf
  • Patent number: 5421500
    Abstract: For guiding webs of paper or cardboard, a guide cylinder extending across half of the web grips onto the surface of the web and achieves moving corrections on the webs by rotation or swinging. The long, linear support zone of the guide cylinder causes a high mechanical stress, whereby the guide cylinder exerts almost no corrective effect in its center zone. By dividing the guide cylinder into at least two spaced-apart, parallel guide rolls having their axes disposed perpendicular to the running direction of the material web, a suitable larger effective area is obtained for correction of the direction of movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1995
    Assignee: Erhardt & Leimer GmbH
    Inventors: Heinrich Niemann, Hans Wulf
  • Patent number: 5111986
    Abstract: The web-motion controller comprises a guide frame (4) with two guide rollers (2.1, 2.2). The lateral deviation of the web 91) downstream of the second guide roller (2,.2) is monitored by a position sensor (8), whose output signal is converted into control commands for a servomotor (7) turning the guide frame (4). In the guide frame (4), between the guide rollers (2.1, 2.2) a braking roller (11) is provided which is wrapped and entrained by the web and has a braking device (12). A force-measuring drum (14) finding out the web traction after the braking roller (11) in the travel direction of the web serves for producing measured-value signals, which control the braking device (12) via a control unit (13) with a selected value setting (19).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1992
    Assignee: Erhard & Leimer GmbH
    Inventor: Heinrich Niemann