Patents by Inventor Karl-Friedrich Fuhrmann

Karl-Friedrich Fuhrmann 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: 7181946
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to configure a device for winding and unwinding partly rolled products, in a way that ensures the smallest possible accumulation of scrap. To achieve this, a roller (20, 20?, 20?) whose position is controlled and which runs on the periphery of the coil is used during the transfer of the coils from the winding station to the unwinding station. The vertical adjustment of said roller ensures that the coil is completely unwound, even with a diminishing coil diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: SMS Demag AG
    Inventors: Matthias Krüger, Jürgen Merz, Karl-Friedrich Fuhrmann
  • Publication number: 20040239018
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to configure a device for winding and unwinding partly rolled products, in a way that ensures the smallest possible accumulation of scrap. To achieve this, a roller (20, 20′, 20″) whose position is controlled and which runs on the periphery of the coil is used during the transfer of the coils from the winding station to the unwinding station. The vertical adjustment of said roller ensures that the coil is completely unwound, even with a diminishing coil diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventors: Matthias Kruger, Jurgen Marz, Karl-Friedrich Fuhrmann
  • Publication number: 20020184984
    Abstract: A flying shear with knife edges mounted on drums arranged opposite each other, wherein the knife edges can be accelerated to the feeding speed of the strip to be cut and the knife edges can be adjusted toward each other for carrying out a cut. The drums can be accelerated at least one drive unit to a circumferential speed which corresponds to the speed of the strip to be cut and a separately controllable adjusting device is provided for at least one of the drums. At least one of the drums is mounted on links which are connected to the adjusting devices; on the other hand, at least one of the drums may be mounted by means of at least one linear guide and the adjusting device acts on the guide members thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Inventors: Dieter Rosenthal, Friedhelm Kalteich, Martin Braun, Karl-Friedrich Fuhrmann, Stephan Kramer, Gunter Kneppe
  • Patent number: 6385832
    Abstract: A descaling device for hydromechanically descaling metal strip has a descaling spray arrangement with first and second spray nozzles arranged adjacent to one another in first and second spray nozzle rows transverse to the transport direction with several first and second spray nozzle rows successively arranged in the transport direction above a top side and underneath a bottom side of the metal strip. The first and second spray nozzles spray a high pressure water jet onto the top and bottom sides. First catch troughs are correlated with the first spray nozzles and catch water of the high pressure water jets of the first spray nozzles. The first spray nozzle rows together with the first catch troughs are pivotable about a pivot axis and vertically adjustable relative to the top side by a signal from a measuring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: SMS Schloemann-Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Horst Grafe, Barbara Ladda-Zunk, Karl-Friedrich Fuhrmann
  • Publication number: 20020035906
    Abstract: A flying shear with knife edges mounted on drums arranged opposite each other, wherein the knife edges can be accelerated to the feeding speed of the strip to be cut and the knife edges can be adjusted toward each other for carrying out a cut. The drums can be accelerated at least one drive unit to a circumferential speed which corresponds to the speed of the strip to be cut and a separately controllable adjusting device is provided for at least one of the drums. At least one of the drums is mounted on links which are connected to the adjusting devices; on the other hand, at least one of the drums may be mounted by means of at least one linear guide and the adjusting device acts on the guide members thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2001
    Publication date: March 28, 2002
    Inventors: Dieter Rosenthal, Friedhelm Kalteich, Martin Braun, Karl-Friedrich Fuhrmann, Stephan Kramer, Gunter Kneppe