Patents by Inventor Hubert Muller

Hubert 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).

  • Patent number: 5896771
    Abstract: A pair of roll support shafts which are supported by bearings provided at both ends of the roll support shafts, wherein, between the bearings, toothed drums are mounted on the roll support shafts or the circumference of the roll support shafts is provided with toothings. Outside of the bearings, roll disks can be mounted on the ends of the roll support shafts, wherein one of the toothed drums meshes with a drive pinion mounted on a parallel drive shaft and the other toothed drum meshes with a loosely mounted intermediate pinion, wherein the drive and the intermediate pinion also mesh with each other. The roll support shafts are each supported in a free end of a single-armed tumbler lever which is swingable about the longitudinal axis of the drive pinion or the intermediate pinion, wherein the tumbler levers are supported relative to the roll stand by means of adjustable and securable rigid or elastic support members and the free ends are supported relative to each other through elastic members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: SMS Schloemann-Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hubert Muller, Albert Hauck
  • Patent number: 5698097
    Abstract: An oil filter for internal combustion engines is disclosed herein. The filter includes a housing with a bottom arranged below an open top and a screw-on cover threadedly engaged within the open top. The housing includes an inlet duct, a first oil discharge duct in the bottom of the housing, and a second oil discharge duct in the bottom of the housing and coaxially surrounding the first oil discharge duct. A support part is provided within the housing having a first end which is connected to the cover in an axially force-transmitting manner and a second free end inserted into the first oil discharge duct when the cover fully threadedly engaged to the open end of said housing to sealingly close the first discharge duct, and is withdrawn from the discharge duct when the cover is removed from the open end of the housing to enable discharging of oil from the housing via the first oil discharge duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: Knecht Filterwerke GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Gebert, Rolf Mohle, Dietmar Sonntag, Elke Bruss, Dietwart Guntert, Hubert Muller
  • Patent number: 5682785
    Abstract: A roll mill and method for rolling wires or rolling stock having a round cross-section and made from high grade steel or other alloyed steel in a high production-light section/wire mill is disclosed. By the invention, the tightest wire tolerances to roll the rolling stock in a temper roll block of the roll mill with a distinctly lower pass reduction compared to the reduction passes performed in the finishing roll block of the wire mill is achieved. The wire mill comprises a break-down train comprising respectively several roll stands or roll units, at least one intermediate train with adjoining or subsequent finishing train, wherein the finishing train is, in particular, configured as the finishing roll block. A temper roll block, comprising at least two stands is disposed downstream of the finishing roll block, and a cooling path 13 and/or a temperature compensation device 14 is, if needed, disposed between the finishing roll block and the temper roll block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: SMS Schloemann-Siemag
    Inventors: Hubert Muller, Karl Keller, Paul Josef Mauk
  • Patent number: 5613392
    Abstract: A horizontal/vertical roll stand with a pair of work rolls which can be exchangeably mounted with chocks and adjusting spindles in the stand includes a housing which is formed by four posts which extend from the corners of a common base plate, wherein the posts have an essentially rectangular cross-section. A cube-shaped receiving space which is open toward the top and at the sides for a cassette-type roll mounting unit is defined by the base plate and the four posts. During the exchange of the rolls, the roll mounting unit can be pulled out as a structural unit from the receiving space of the stand. Pairs of the posts form guides therebetween. A total of four support plates with a center support member each for four adjusting spindles are releasably fastened to the guides. The adjusting spindles have adjusting nuts on right/left thread portions, wherein pairs of adjusting nuts engage with cylindrically shaped projections into chocks of the rolls and adjust the rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Assignee: SMS Schloemann-Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hubert Muller, Konrad Hamraths
  • Patent number: 5516425
    Abstract: An oil filter has a cap screwed to the approximately upright arranged filter housing of the oil filter for the cleaning of lubricating oil, with a ring-shaped filter insert being detachably fastened on the cap and separating the outer inflow space from the inner flow-off space. In the lower zone of the filter housing, provision is made for a valve-like acting member, which is automatically opened with each change of the filter insert and serves for discharging oil that remained in the filter housing into an oil-collecting space via a discharge duct. A center bar is rotatably connected with the cap. The center bar is axially displaceable in a limited way and has in its zone close to the cap a piston-like flange, which is sealed against the filter insert and separates the inflow space from the flow-off space. The center bar has, in its lower end zone, the valve-like acting member cooperating with the discharge duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1996
    Assignee: Mahle GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Brieden, Rolf Mohle, Hubert Muller, Dietmar Sonntag
  • Patent number: 5317987
    Abstract: An indicator for attachment to objects to display elapsed times and/or changes of state, in which a visible display is brought about by color change of the indicator upon reaction of chemical substances and with destruction of a barrier preliminarily separating the chemical substances. The barrier is a separating or covering layer that can be penetrated by selective pitting by a chemical substance preliminarily enclosed by the barrier. An embodiment of the invention includes selective pitting of the barrier member with a resulting visible change of the indicator. Another embodiment of the invention includes initial separation of two chemical substances that can react with one another with visible change, of which at least one reacts chemically with the barrier for the latter's penetration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1994
    Assignee: Badische Tabakmanufaktur Roth-Handle GmbH
    Inventors: Hubert Muller, Bruno Langenfeld
  • Patent number: 5269582
    Abstract: A convertible top has the edges of its cover stitched to polyethylene-shaped strips which conform to the undersides of the frame members around the front, rear and sides of the convertible top. The strips are held against the undersides of the frame members complementarily by holding rails and screws, and sealing strips are fitted onto the holding rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Assignee: Firma Parat-Werk Schonenbach GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hubert Muller, Manfred Kasparak
  • Patent number: 5144828
    Abstract: A combined, continuously operating high-speed light-section and wire mill composed predominantly of so-called cantilever stands or CL stands with overhung-mounted collars. In the roughing train and in the intermediate train and/or in the finishing train, some rolling mill stands with a modular unti with double-mounted collars are arranged. A CL modular unit of the CL stands with overhung-mounted collars can be exchanged as required against a modular unit with double-mounted collars. The second bearing of the modular unit is arranged in a box stirrup which can be coupled to the gear box of the CL stand. The collar can be assembled and disassembled with an automatically actuated, preferably hydraulically acting quick fixing device which includes piston-cylinder units for clamping and releasing the collar on the shaft in axial and in radial direction. The modular unit is a roll box of sandwich construction with box plates which can be separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1992
    Assignee: SMS Schloemann-Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Johann Grotepass, Konrad Hamraths, Albert Hauck, Karl Keller, Hubert Muller
  • Patent number: 5000023
    Abstract: An operating method and a rolling mill train for continually rolling a profiled billet to a predetermined finished cross-sectional shape of accurate dimensions by means of successively arranged rolling mill stands with pairs of rolls, wherein the axes of the pairs of rolls extend perpendicularly to each other. The pairs of rolls have oppositely located pass screws which determine the cross-sectional shape of the rolled steel section billet which travels through the pairs of rolls. The billet is sized in one or more roughing stands locally in a circumferential portion of the cross-section thereof which, after leaving the last roughing stand, runs in the subsequent main stand into the region of a contact line of the two rolls of the main stand, such that the entire material of the billet running into the main stand completely fills out the pass of the main stand without significantly deforming the region of the contact line of the two rolls of the main stand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: SMS Schloemann-Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hugo Feldmann, Gunter Kirchmann, Hubert Muller, Paul Kreisel
  • Patent number: 4966270
    Abstract: A hydraulically operated double clutch for a motor vehicle is used for the alternating coupling of a central shaft and a hollow shaft, which is concentric to this central shaft, of a speed change gear with the clutch housing driven by the engine output shaft. Thus a gear shifting becomes possible without an interruption of the traction force. The clutch housing is composed of a left cover plate and a lateral plate, of a right cover plate and a lateral plate as well as of a casing part connecting them. At the junction planes between the left cover plate and the lateral plate as well as the right cover plate and the lateral plate, annular pistons are fitted in, which can be acted upon by hydraulic pressure and, by means of cylindrical pins, resting against them on the end face, operate the two disk bundles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1990
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Siegfried Rispeter, Hubert Muller, Rainer Wust
  • Patent number: 4831750
    Abstract: A shoe foundation in which a shoe support is formed by several superimposed layers mutually connected to one another includes a base layer of rubber-bound cork, an elastic support layer of foamed material disposed on the base layer, and a cover layer of leather or the like disposed on the support layer, and wherein the layers are interconnected into a unit free of any adhesive means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Inventor: Hubert Muller
  • Patent number: 4803863
    Abstract: A pair of roll grooves defining a rolling passage for the bar stock in respective rolls having abutting or bearing portions which are undercut to increase elasticity and are separated from the grooves by recesses. The force with which the rolls are pressed against one another far exceeds the rolling force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1989
    Assignee: SMS Schloemann-Siemag AG
    Inventors: Hugo Feldmann, Hubert Muller, Claus Schlanzke
  • Patent number: 4518732
    Abstract: A solid composition, suitable for stabilizing a halogen-containing polymer, consisting essentially of (a) 16.7 to 50% by weight of a liquid sulfur-containing organotin stabilizer, in intimate admixture with (b) 83.3 to 50% by weight of a solid lubricant, having a melting point of 50.degree. to 120.degree. C., selected from the group consisting of paraffin wax, montan wax, oxidized paraffin wax, oxidized polyethylene wax, oxidized and partially saponified polyethylene wax and mixtures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1985
    Assignee: Ciba Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Jurgen Bussing, Hubert Muller