Patents by Inventor John Mladota

John Mladota 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: 5354005
    Abstract: Grinding equipment for a Jordan refiner for grinding paper pulp having a rotating part in form of a truncated cone and a stationary part in the form of a hollow truncated cone, on which bar-shaped knives are arranged at predetermined angles with respect to the conical shell generating lines. To improve the grinding equipment of the refiner, a pre-grinding zone is arranged upstream of one or more fine grinding zones whose configuration and arrangement are adapted to the state and desired development of the fibers in the grinding stock flowing through the grinding equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1994
    Assignee: Bematec S.A.
    Inventor: John Mladota
  • Patent number: 5033403
    Abstract: An apparatus for applying a thin layer of a coating material (2) to a web of material (4) passing over a counter-pressure roller (3), with a slot nozzle device (1) includes a vertical nozzle box (5) with an upper nozzle slot (7) between inlet (8) and outlet (9) nozzle lips and a laterally mounted storage tank (6) for coating material (2). In order to keep the layer thickness the same and without coating flaws and thickened edges according to the operating speed and fluctuations in thickness of the web of material (4), the storage tank (6) is mounted on the nozzle box (5) in such a way that the liquid level of the coating material (2) in the storage tank (6) and in the nozzle box (5) is essentially the same. Furthermore, appropriately in the nozzle box (5) is provided a driven continuous conveyor roller (10) mounted eccentrically in a roller chamber (11) in the path of the coating material ( 2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1991
    Assignee: BemaTec SA
    Inventor: John Mladota
  • Patent number: 4765272
    Abstract: A device for the application of a thin layer of a coating material (7) onto a material web (2) passing across a backing roller (1) comprises a slot nozzle arrangement (3) having a nozzle slot (4). In order to ensure uniform and sufficient delivery of coating material (7) across the length of the nozzle slot (4), the coating material (7) is delivered from a supply container (8) through a delivery channel (10, 11) extending across the coating width to the nozzle slot (4) of the slot nozzle arrangement (3) and in the delivery channel (10, 11) of the slot nozzle arrangement (3) a gear pump arrangement (12) is provided which has a plurality of rectilinearly aligned pump sections (13), each having two intermeshed pump gears (14, 15), the arrangement extending over the coating width and arranged with the distance pieces mounting the pump gears (14, 15) between the pump sections (13) to be easily removable. The distance pieces (16) are formed as carbon bearings and the parts are channeled for heating and cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Assignee: Bolton-Emerson, Inc.
    Inventor: John Mladota
  • Patent number: 4167914
    Abstract: An extrusion coater for high viscosity, thin coatings of the hot melt type, includes an elongated slot coating head across which the web to be coated is advanced under tension and includes a lead-on lip at the slot plus a fixed, unyieldable, lead-off lip having an elongated, rotatable, cylindrical rod deeply seated for about two thirds of its circumference therein and unyieldably supported on a fixed axis of rotation. A yieldably mounted, press roll with a rubber like surface forms a pressure nip with the smooth hard unyieldable surface of the rod and the rod is rotated intermittently, or continuously by power means depending on the amount of impurities in the coating media. The rod rotation is not for metering purposes but for spreading wear while overcoming any streaking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1979
    Assignee: Bolton-Emerson, Inc.
    Inventor: John Mladota
  • Patent number: 4025434
    Abstract: A screen changer mounted between a flowable plastic extruder and a die has a clamp frame movable rectilinearly across the extrusion passage by fluid piston and cylinder means to successively position one of four screen blocks across the passage. A used block is removable from the frame at one end, whereupon latch mechanism retains three blocks while the frame retracts to receive a fresh block. Each block contains a filter recess, a purge recess and a pre-fill groove in the upstream face, so that the incoming block is pre-filled with plastic and purged while moving into position across the passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1977
    Assignee: Bolton-Emerson, Inc.
    Inventor: John Mladota