Patents by Inventor Herbert Robert Coura

Herbert Robert Coura 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: 6305665
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bellows to seal a valve rod passage in a lifting valve, specifically formed as an expansion bellows or corrugated tube, which ensures a reliable, hygienically proper and durable static sealing of the connecting flange of a closing-member unit in the box of the lifting valve under the occurring forces at an adequately long service life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Tuchenhagen GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Robert Coura, Wolfgang Rauen, Martin Sauer, Werner Schmid
  • Patent number: 6047730
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the drive system for double seat valves comprising two individually movable closure members which, in addition to the open position, can each be individually moved into a partial open position. The object of the invention is to construct a device which is easy to assemble and is space-saving and which should be able to provide externally adjustable, partial lift stops for both closure members. Said object is attained in that a piston (107) of a first individual adjustment device (1b) for the partial open position (T1) of the independently driven closure member (4) is displaceably arranged, to form a seal, externally in a drive housing (100) of the drive device (1), and a piston (108) of a second individual adjustment device (1c) for the partial open position (T2) of the dependently driven closure member (5) is displaceably arranged, to form a seal, externally in a cylindrical recess (107a) of the piston (107), which recess faces a main adjustment device (1a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Assignee: Tuchenhagen GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Robert Coura, Jurgen Schreiber
  • Patent number: 6029302
    Abstract: The invention concerns a cleanable scraper station which is designed as a dispatch/receive station (1;1*) and through which the product or cleaning agent flows. The aim of the invention is to improve the cleanability of the scraper station compared with prior art devices, as measured by increased throughput, and in particular to ensure through cleaning of the entire scraper surface. This is achieved by virtue of the fact that the scraper (9) is positioned with play in all directions when in the through-flow position (II,II*) by means of a controllable second stop (6a;6a*) acting in conjunction with a displaceable first stop (5a,5a*) or by means of the controllable second stop (6a;6a*) acting in conjunction with a coupling cage (50;50*) connected to the displaceable first stop (5a;5a*) and in which the scraper (9) is positively locked, or only by means of the coupling cage (50;50*) connected to the displaceable first stop (5a;5*) and in which the scraper (9) is positively locked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Tuchenhagen GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Robert Coura, Gundar Helge Scholz