Patents by Inventor Kim Träger

Kim Träger 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: 8628458
    Abstract: A separator including a separator drum having a conical interior and rotatably mounted at an axial end about a vertical axis of rotation. A rotating spindle is located at either a lower or upper end of the separator drum and is configured to drive the separator drum. The rotating spindle is disposed in an oscillating manner about a hinge point. Also included is supply tube for a product to be processed and two fluid outlets. One fluid outlet is for a light phase and one fluid outlet is for a heavy phase. A solids material discharge opening is located in an area of the separator drum's largest inner circumference. Further included is a separation pan assembly. A pressure chamber is configured to be acted upon by a fluid to change a location of a separation zone between the light phase and the heavy phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: GEA Mechanical Equipment GmbH
    Inventor: Kim Träger
  • Patent number: 8192342
    Abstract: A separator having a conical separator drum mounted rotatably at only one of its axial ends and having a vertical axis of rotation. The drum includes a rotary spindle for driving the separator drum. The separator includes an inflow pipe for a product to be processed and at least two liquid outlets. The first liquid outlet is for a lighter phase and the second liquid outlet is for a heavier phase. The first liquid outlet includes a stripping disk. Further included is a solids discharge port and a separation plate stack in the separator drum. The second liquid outlet is followed outside the drum by a settable throttle device having an annular disk for displacing a liquid radius of the heavier phase by a throttling in an outflow cross section for the heavier phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Westfalia Separator AG
    Inventors: Kim Träger, Herbert Kunz
  • Publication number: 20100184579
    Abstract: A separator including a separator drum having a conical interior and rotatably mounted at an axial end about a vertical axis of rotation. A rotating spindle is located at either a lower or upper end of the separator drum and is configured to drive the separator drum. The rotating spindle is disposed in an oscillating manner about a hinge point. Also included is supply tube for a product to be processed and two fluid outlets. One fluid outlet is for a light phase and one fluid outlet is for a heavy phase. A solids material discharge opening is located in an area of the separator drum's largest inner circumference. Further included is a separation pan assembly. A pressure chamber is configured to be acted upon by a fluid to change a location of a separation zone between the light phase and the heavy phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Inventor: Kim Träger
  • Publication number: 20090298666
    Abstract: A separator with an at least inwardly singly or doubly conical separator drum (1) which is mounted rotatably at only one of its axial ends and which has a vertical axis of rotation and which, furthermore, has the following: only at its lower end or at its upper end, a rotary spindle for driving the separator drum, which rotary spindle is mounted oscillatingly about an articulation point (G), an inflow pipe (4) for a product to be processed, at least two liquid outlets for a lighter phase (LP) and a heavier phase (HP), the liquid outlet for the lighter phase (LP) being provided with a stripping disk, preferably solid discharge ports in the region of its largest inner circumference, and a separation plate stack arranged in the separator drum, the further liquid outlet (12) being followed outside the drum by a settable throttle device (13) which preferably has an annular disk (19) and is designed for displacing the liquid radius R(HP), up to which the heavy phase extends in the drum, by a variation in the outflo
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2006
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: WESTFALIA SEPARATOR AG
    Inventors: Kim Träger, Herbert Kunz