Patents by Inventor Horst Wimmer

Horst Wimmer 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).

  • Converter drive and bearing arrangement
    Patent number: 3995841
    Abstract: An apparatus for preventing the transmission of converter oscillations in the blowing phase onto the converter carrying bearings and the converter drive, wherein at least one of the carrying trunnions of the converter is driven by a spur gear with a plurality of slip-on gears arranged around the periphery of the spur gear wheel and at least one of the drive pinions of the slip-on gears can be braced relative to the spur gear wheel and the torsion flank play is compensated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1976
    Assignee: Vereinigte Osterreichische und Eisen- Stahlwerke-Alpine Montan Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ernst Riegler, Manfred Schmidt, Horst Wimmer