Patents by Inventor Ingo Kumpf

Ingo Kumpf 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).

  • Publication number: 20260090633
    Abstract: A separating device (1) for separating bundles of bristles from a store (2) of loose bristle filaments (3). The separating device has a material box (4) for receiving the store of loose bristle filaments (3), a bundle separator (5) having at least one separating notch (6), and at least one counter piece (7). The bundle separator (5) is movable with the at least one separating notch (6) through a separating region (8) at the material box (4) in order to separate bundles of bristles, and the at least one separating notch (6) is movable with the bundle separator (5) along the counter piece (7) into a bundle delivery position (33). The bundle separator (5) has, on its front side (11) facing the counter piece (7), a profile (12) with which the bundle separator (5) overlaps the counter piece (7) when the separating notch (6) is at the counter piece (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2025
    Publication date: April 2, 2026
    Applicant: Zahoransky AG
    Inventors: Marc KÖNIG, Ingo KUMPF, Florian KIEFER
  • Publication number: 20250338952
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing bristle products (2), in which a bristle carrier (3) provided with at least one bundle receptacle bore (4) is provided, and a bristle bundle (5) is incorporated conjointly with a fastening anchor (6) into the bundle receptacle bore (4) and anchored in the latter by the fastening anchor (6). The fastening anchor (6), during incorporation into the bundle receptacle bore (4), is deformed while forming at least one end-proximal anchoring structure (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2025
    Publication date: November 6, 2025
    Applicant: Zahoransky AG
    Inventors: Marc KÖNIG, Ingo KUMPF, Stefan ZIMMERMANN
  • Publication number: 20250331632
    Abstract: Improvements in the technical field of brush manufacturing include providing a profiling device (25) for profiling a set of bristles (3) of a brush (1) to be manufactured, which profiling device is set up to profile a cleaning side (27) of the set of bristles by axially displacing bristle filaments (4) of the set of bristles (3) relative to their longitudinal axes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: October 30, 2025
    Applicant: ZAHORANSKY AG
    Inventors: Marc KÖNIG, Ingo KUMPF, Florian KIEFER
  • Publication number: 20250302187
    Abstract: A device for the production of bristle products is provided. The device includes a device (1) for compacting bristle bundles (2), which device (1) includes at least one preparation The the compacting receptacles (5) are designed to remove bristle bundles (2) from the bundle notches (4) of the preparation arrangement (3) and the compacting tools (6) are designed to compact bristle bundles (2) positioned in the compacting receptacles (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 2, 2025
    Applicant: Zahoransky AG
    Inventors: Ingo Kumpf, Stefan ZIMMERMANN, Florian KIEFER, Marc KÖNIG
  • Publication number: 20250261752
    Abstract: A method for producing bristle products (1), in particular brushes, having a bristle carrier (2) and a bristle set (3) of bristle filaments (4), wherein a bristle carrier (2) and fastening-proximal ends (5) of bristle filaments (4) are connected to one another by a thermal joining process, and the bristle carrier (2), in particular its external contour, is deformed from an initial shape to a target shape by a temperature variation of the bristle carrier (2). A bristle product production device (100) to carry out the method is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2025
    Publication date: August 21, 2025
    Applicant: Zahoransky AG
    Inventors: Ingo Kumpf, Marc König, Stefan Zimmermann, Florian Kiefer
  • Patent number: 12114768
    Abstract: An apparatus (1) for forming bristle bundles (2) is provided. The apparatus (1) includes at least one bundle pocket (3), intended to receive a bristle bundle (2) to be formed. The bundle pocket (3) has at least one piercing (6) in the side. A displacement device (7) on the apparatus (1) can be introduced into the bundle pocket (3) through this piercing (6) to create a clearance (29) inside a bristle bundle (2) to be formed. The bundle pocket (3) and the bristle bundle (2) located therein are heated by the heating device (4) in the apparatus (1) to fix the shape of the bristle bundle (2) defined by the bundle pocket (3) and the displacement device (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: ZAHORANSKY AG
    Inventors: Marc König, Ingo Kumpf, Florian Kiefer
  • Patent number: 12102221
    Abstract: An apparatus (1) for forming bristle bundles (2) is inter alia proposed as an improvement in the technical field of manufacturing and designing brushes. The apparatus (1) includes at least one bundle pocket (3) which is specified for receiving bristle bundles (2) to be formed. The bundle pocket (3) has a common bundle receptacle portion (50) for unifying at least two bristle bundles (2). The bundle pocket (3) and the bristle bundles (2) situated therein are heated by the heating apparatus (4) of the apparatus (1) so as to set the shaping of the bristle bundles (2) that is predefined by the bundle pocket (3) and the displacement means (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Zahoransky AG
    Inventors: Marc König, Ingo Kumpf, Florian Kiefer
  • Patent number: 11484114
    Abstract: To improve the brush-making field, a tuft-picking device (4) is provided, which includes the tuft picker (8) that is movable in relation to the material box (2) of the brush-making machine (1) and, on its front side (11), which in the operating position faces the bristle supply (3) held in the material box (2), includes at least one tuft-picking notch (12). The tuft-picking notch (12) has two opposing knife edges (14, 15), which delimit the notch opening (13) of the tuft-picking notch (12) and are oriented transverse to the direction of movement of the tuft picker (8). Another part of the tuft-picking device (4) is the counter piece (9), which is provided with the separating edge (17) facing the tuft picker (8). In order to allow bristle filaments (16) to be removed from the bristle supply (4) as gently as possible, at least one of the two knife edges (14, 15) and/or the separating edge (17) is rounded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: ZAHORANSKY AG
    Inventors: Harald Fritz, Robert Steinebrunner, Ingo Kumpf
  • Patent number: 11457724
    Abstract: A method and device (1) for producing and machining screwed-in brushes (2). In the method and in the device, at least one grinding sleeve (4) is used to grind down free bristle ends (5) of a brush (2) to be machined and thus remove edges and/or burrs on the free bristle ends (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Zahoransky AG
    Inventors: Ingo Kumpf, Marc Konig, Florian Kiefer
  • Publication number: 20210401162
    Abstract: A method of producing a brush as well as a brush (1), in particular a toothbrush, which has at least one bristle bundle (3) which includes at least one bristle filament having a curved and/or kinked profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Zahoransky AG
    Inventors: Ingo KUMPF, Marc KÖNIG, Floiran KIEFER, Gerhard Steinebrunner
  • Publication number: 20210353047
    Abstract: An apparatus (1) for forming bristle bundles (2) is inter alia proposed as an improvement in the technical field of manufacturing and designing brushes. The apparatus (1) includes at least one bundle pocket (3) which is specified for receiving bristle bundles (2) to be formed. The bundle pocket (3) has a common bundle receptacle portion (50) for unifying at least two bristle bundles (2). The bundle pocket (3) and the bristle bundles (2) situated therein are heated by the heating apparatus (4) of the apparatus (1) so as to set the shaping of the bristle bundles (2) that is predefined by the bundle pocket (3) and the displacement means (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: Zahoransky AG
    Inventors: Marc KÖNIG, Ingo KUMPF, Florian KIEFER
  • Publication number: 20210337962
    Abstract: An apparatus (1) for forming bristle bundles (2) is provided. The apparatus (1) includes at least one bundle pocket (3), intended to receive a bristle bundle (2) to be formed. The bundle pocket (3) has at least one piercing (6) in the side. A displacement device (7) on the apparatus (1) can be introduced into the bundle pocket (3) through this piercing (6) to create a clearance (29) inside a bristle bundle (2) to be formed. The bundle pocket (3) and the bristle bundle (2) located therein are heated by the heating device (4) in the apparatus (1) to fix the shape of the bristle bundle (2) defined by the bundle pocket (3) and the displacement device (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: Zahoransky AG
    Inventors: Marc KÖNIG, Ingo KUMPF, Florian KIEFER
  • Publication number: 20210330069
    Abstract: To improve the brush-making field, a tuft-picking device (4) is provided, which includes the tuft picker (8) that is movable in relation to the material box (2) of the brush-making machine (1) and, on its front side (11), which in the operating position faces the bristle supply (3) held in the material box (2), includes at least one tuft-picking notch (12). The tuft-picking notch (12) has two opposing knife edges (14, 15), which delimit the notch opening (13) of the tuft-picking notch (12) and are oriented transverse to the direction of movement of the tuft picker (8). Another part of the tuft-picking device (4) is the counter piece (9), which is provided with the separating edge (17) facing the tuft picker (8). In order to allow bristle filaments (16) to be removed from the bristle supply (4) as gently as possible, at least one of the two knife edges (14, 15) and/or the separating edge (17) is rounded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: Zahoransky AG
    Inventors: Harald Fritz, Robert Steinebrunner, Ingo Kumpf
  • Publication number: 20210267359
    Abstract: A toothbrush head (3) is provided, the cleaning element carrier (11) of which and/or at least one cleaning element (12, 12a, 12b, 12c) of the toothbrush head (3) are/is produced via an additive manufacturing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: Zahoransky AG
    Inventors: Florian KIEFER, Ingo KUMPF, Marc KONIG
  • Publication number: 20200282571
    Abstract: For handling blanks, semi-finished products or finished products in an automated production processes, a gripping device (3) is provided that has a gripper (4) that is assigned a stripper (5), with the stripper having at least one stripping element (6). The stripping element (6) can be moved as required past the gripper (4) in a stripping movement between a starting position and an end position in order to remove bodies (2) possibly interfering with the gripping process from a gripping region of the gripper (4). This occurs in particular when the gripper (4) has already gripped a body (2) to be gripped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: Zahoransky AG
    Inventors: Florian KIEFER, Ingo KUMPF, Marc KONIG
  • Publication number: 20200229587
    Abstract: A method and device (1) for producing and machining screwed-in brushes (2). In the method and in the device, at least one grinding sleeve (4) is used to grind down free bristle ends (5) of a brush (2) to be machined and thus remove edges and/or burrs on the free bristle ends (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: Zahoransky AG
    Inventors: Ingo KUMPF, Marc KONIG, Florian KIEFER
  • Patent number: 10213014
    Abstract: A transfer station for bristle filaments that are fed to the transfer station in bristle bundles is provided. The bristle filaments are assembled in bundle form by at least one band and are transferred to a magazine in which the bristle filaments are stored. The transfer station has at least two pairs of gripping fingers spaced apart from one another in the longitudinal direction of the bundles, with the gripping fingers of the gripping-finger pairs being movable relative to one another in order to grip a bristle bundle by a distance between said gripping fingers being reduced. The gripping-finger pairs grip the bristle bundle such that the band of the bristle bundle is arranged between adjacent gripping-finger pairs. This makes it possible for the bristle filaments fed in bundle form to be transferred in an automated manner to the magazine arranged upstream of a stuffing tool of a brush-production machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Zahoransky AG
    Inventors: Ingo Kumpf, Florian Kiefer, Bernhard Rees, Christoph Albrecht
  • Patent number: 9986816
    Abstract: A method and device for manufacturing bristle arrangements for brushes. The brush is populated with a carrier pad, and to enable simplification of the manufacture of bristle arrangements for brushes, the bristle bundles which are conveyed by a gas or air stream through the conveying device to the bundle-retaining plate, when being conveyed through the conveying device are electrostatically discharged, such that they are more easily conveyed through the conveying device, and in that they reduce the complexity in the fastening of bristle bundles in a carrier pad without anchoring, since the carrier pad on the rear side has material protrusions which are fused and thereafter interference-fitted in a bundle-fastening plane, in order for bristle bundles which have been incorporated into the perforations of the carrier pad to be connected in a form-fitting and/or force-fitting manner to the carrier pad in a simple manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Zahoransky AG
    Inventor: Ingo Kumpf
  • Publication number: 20170119141
    Abstract: The method for manufacturing bristle arrangements for brushes, and the device (1), the carrier pad (17), and the brush (60) which is populated with a carrier pad (17) of this type, enable simplification of the manufacture of bristle arrangements for brushes, inter alia in that the bristle bundles (5) which by means of a gas or air stream are conveyed through the conveying device (6) to the bundle-retaining plate (9) when being conveyed through the conveying device (6) are electrostatically discharged, such that they may be more easily conveyed through the conveying device (6), and in that they reduce the complexity in the fastening of bristle bundles (5) in a carrier pad (17) without anchoring, since the carrier pad (17) on the rear side has material protrusions (54) which are fused and thereafter interference-fitted in a bundle-fastening plane, in order for bristle bundles (5, 5a) which have been incorporated into the perforations (24) of the carrier pad (17) to be connected in a form-fitting and/or force-fi
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: Zahoransky AG
    Inventor: Ingo Kumpf
  • Patent number: 9375077
    Abstract: In an apparatus (1a) for the production of brushes or bristled-wares (9) having bristle bundles (3) melted at a fastening-side end, a reception sleeve (2) made from silica glass, crystal glass, glass ceramic and/or an alloy thereof for the positive, at least regional reception of a bristle bundle (3), on the one hand, and of a functional part (4) arranged, in the bristle longitudinal direction, behind its fastening-side end, on the other hand, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Zahoransky AG
    Inventor: Ingo Kumpf