Patents by Inventor KAI POEHLER

KAI POEHLER 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: 20230304200
    Abstract: The invention relates to an installation and to a method of producing a web, wherein the installation includes a device for producing a layer of wet laid fibres, which has an entangling device and at least one dryer disposed downstream in material transport direction. The device for producing the wet laid fibres is formed as a cylinder mould former.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicants: TRÜTZSCHLER GROUP SE, VOITH PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas WEIGERT, Kai PÖHLER, Ralf SCHRÖDER, Andreas SCHILZ
  • Publication number: 20230051101
    Abstract: An installation and a method for selectively producing a single-ply or alternatively a multi-ply nonwoven includes an inclined wire former configured to deposit a sheet of wet-laid fibre material on a first circulating belt, a further belt configured to receive the sheet of wet-laid fibre material from the first circulating belt, a roller card arranged downstream in the material transport direction and configured to introduce a roller card web into the installation, a hydroentanglement arranged downstream in the material transport direction and including at least one water beam configured to entangle, bond and/or structure a single sheet of fibres or a plurality of sheets of fibres, and a dryer arranged downstream in the material transport direction
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicants: TRÜTZSCHLER GROUP SE, VOITH PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas WEIGERT, Kai PÖHLER, Sven THOMßEN
  • Patent number: 11578439
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a wet-laid nonwoven web includes the following steps: feeding a pulp suspension onto a forming screen for depositing a fibrous web thereon, wherein the pulp suspension has industrially produced, inorganic fibers or fibers of synthetically produced polymers and the pulp suspension is substantially free from binders, such as chemical binders, and hydraulic consolidation of the fibrous web to generate the nonwoven web through water jet needling of the fibrous web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignees: Voith Patent GmbH, Truetzschler GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Weigert, Kai Poehler, Ralf Schroeder
  • Publication number: 20230026339
    Abstract: The invention relates to an installation and a method for selectively producing a single- or multi-ply nonwoven includes an inclined wire former configured to deposit a sheet of wet-laid fibre material on a first circulating belt, a further belt configured to receive the sheet of wet-laid fibre material from the first circulating belt, a roller card arranged downstream in the material transport direction and configured to introduce a roller card web into the installation, a hydroentanglement arranged downstream in the material transport direction and including at least one water beam configured to entangle, bond and/or structure a single sheet of fibres or a plurality of sheets of fibres, and a dryer arranged downstream in the material transport direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicants: TRÜTZSCHLER GROUP SE, VOITH PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas WEIGERT, Florian SEILS, Kai PÖHLER
  • Publication number: 20190249346
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a wet-laid nonwoven web includes the following steps: feeding a pulp suspension onto a forming screen for depositing a fibrous web thereon, wherein the pulp suspension has industrially produced, inorganic fibers or fibers of synthetically produced polymers and the pulp suspension is substantially free from binders, such as chemical binders, and hydraulic consolidation of the fibrous web to generate the nonwoven web through water jet needling of the fibrous web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: THOMAS WEIGERT, KAI POEHLER, RALF SCHROEDER