Patents by Inventor Keith Sippel

Keith Sippel 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).

  • Reel spool storage and loading device and method
    Patent number: 7255301
    Abstract: A plurality of upper spool rails arranged over a reel-up device. Each elevated rail temporarily stores reeling spools that are successively loaded into a reeling station to wind a web and form finished reels of paper. The elevated spool rails include: a first pair of parallel upper spool rails extending over the reel-up device and adapted to support a plurality of a first type of reeling spools; and a second pair of parallel upper spool rails spaced above the first pair, and adapted to a plurality of a second type of reeling spools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Andritz Tissue Inc.
    Inventors: Harald Schmidt-Hebbel, John H. Schamell, Gerald J. Kramer, Keith Sippel, Bradford Dolbey
  • Reel spool storage and loading device and method
    Publication number: 20050189448
    Abstract: A plurality of upper spool rails arranged over a reel-up device. Each elevated rail temporarily stores reeling spools that are successively loaded into a reeling station to wind a web and form finished reels of paper. The elevated spool rails include: a first pair of parallel upper spool rails extending over the reel-up device and adapted to support a plurality of a first type of reeling spools; and a second pair of parallel upper spool rails spaced above the first pair, and adapted to a plurality of a second type of reeling spools.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Applicant: Voith Andritz Tissue LLC
    Inventors: Harald Schmidt-Hebbel, John Schamell, Gerald Kramer, Keith Sippel, Bradford Dolbey