Patents by Inventor Klaus Esslinger

Klaus Esslinger 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: 20050016703
    Abstract: A smoothing device of a press arrangement for dewatering a fibrous web in a machine for producing or finishing the fibrous web including a rough belt, a smooth belt and a smoothing element. The rough belt being endless and water-absorbing. The rough belt arranged on a side of the fibrous web. The smooth belt is endless and arranged on an opposite side of the fibrous web. The rough belt, the fibrous web and the smooth belt running through a press nip together and the rough belt is led away from the fibrous web after passing through the press nip. The smoothing element forms a smoothing nip with the smooth belt after the rough belt is led away from the fibrous web, the smoothing element having a smooth pressing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2004
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Karl Steiner, Andreas Meschenmoser, Joachim Henssler, Klaus Esslinger
  • Patent number: 6261416
    Abstract: Device and method for draining a web in a paper production machine. The device may include a press section having at least one press nip for draining and smoothing the web. The at least one press nip may be arranged to smooth one surface of the web more than its opposite surface and the device may also include a roughening device that roughens the one surface of the web. The method may include guiding the web through a press section of the paper production machine to drain and smooth the web in which the press section include at least one nip, smoothing one surface of the web more than its opposite surface in the at least one nip, and roughening the one surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Esslinger, Gerhard Kotitschke, Wolfgang Mayer, Andreas Meschenmoser, Günther Mohrhardt
  • Patent number: 6235158
    Abstract: A wet section (10) of a paper or cardboard machine and a process for the manufacture of a fibrous material web are suggested. The wet section (10) exhibits a double-screen segment (US), in which two screens (16, 18) are guided about parallel to one another and into which a fibrous material suspension (27) is introduced. The double-screen segment (US) is looped around a roll (22). The means (30, 32, 38) for the immobilization of the fibrous material suspension in the double-screen segment (US) are provided on the roll (22), for the formation of the fibrous material web. Moreover, the wet section exhibits means (32, 34, 36; 34, 36, 66) for further draining of the fibrous material web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Dahl, Gerhard Kotitschke, Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Wilfried Kraft, Hans-Jürgen Wulz, Klaus Esslinger, Wolfgang Mayer, Andreas Meschenmoser, Gunther Mohrhardt
  • Patent number: 6221214
    Abstract: A wet section of a machine for producing a fibrous material web that includes at least one press. The press includes a nip through which the fibrous material web is guided. The fibrous material web is preformed in a web forming zone. At least one press is an elongated nip press that is elongated in direction of the web travel. This nip is positioned in a region where the dry matter content of the preformed fibrous material web that comes into the nip is less than or equal to about 15% and, preferably is less than or equal to about 12%. A method for treating a fibrous material web in a wet section of a machine for producing the fibrous material web. The wet section includes at least one press including an elongated nip, at least one press and the elongated nip are elongated in a web travel direction. Further, the elongated nip is positioned in a region of the machine where the dry matter content of the fibrous material web, as it enters the elongated nip, is less than or equal to about 15%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Kotitschke, Wolfgang Mayer, Klaus Esslinger, Andreas Meschenmoser, Günther Morhardt
  • Patent number: 6200427
    Abstract: Suction roll for the formation or treatment of a material web that includes an outer suction roll jacket comprising a perforated rotating hollow cylinder, a non-perforated support body arranged to extend through the outer suction roll jacket and to support the outer suction roll jacket at at least one point of its axial extent, and sealing ribs arranged to extend radially between the support body and the suction roll jacket and axially over a full length of the suction roll jacket. In this manner, the support body is adapted to rotate at a same speed as the suction roll jacket. The support body can include an axially extending, through-going bore arranged concentrically with the outer suction roll surface. An axially extending, rotationally fixed yoke extends through the through-going bore, and the rotationally fixed yoke has two ends which are supported outside of the support body on a frame. At least one support element is arranged to support the support body on the yoke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Inventors: Gerhard Kotitschke, Wolfgang Mayer, Hans-Peter Sollinger, Klaus Esslinger, Andreas Meschenmoser, Günther Mohrhardt, Peter Mirsberger
  • Patent number: 6136154
    Abstract: Press section of a machine for manufacturing a fibrous pulp web. The press section may include a press roll, at least one flexible circulating press belt, at least one press shoe, and at least one extended press nip formed to extend in a web run direction by the press shoe pressing the flexible circulating press belt against the press roll. The press section further includes one of a felt or screen belt that may be guided through the at least one extended nip, and the press roll may be substantially centrally located within the press section and may have a diameter greater than a diameter of the at least one flexible circulating press belt. The center press roll has two press shoes positioned opposite it; the two press shoes are offset with respect to one another such that the direction of force exerted by each extends through the center press roll axis and defines an acute angle, with support elements within the center press roll positioned opposite the press shoes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Kotitschke, Wolfgang Mayer, Klaus Esslinger, Andreas Meschenmoser, Gunther Mohrhardt
  • Patent number: 5932070
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a device for removing at least one of paper sheet remnants and a paper sheet from a belt. The device may include a blow device including at least one blow opening extending lateral to a travel direction of the belt and a compressor coupled to the blow device to supply compressed air to the at least one blow opening. The at least one blow opening may be directed toward the at least one of the paper sheet remnants and the paper sheet to be removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Esslinger, Gerhard Kotitschke, Wolfgang Mayer, Andreas Meschenmoser, Gunther Mohrhardt
  • Patent number: 5647958
    Abstract: A wire part of a machine for the production of continuous fibrous material webs, especially a papermaking machine, includes two continuous wire belts which together form a twin-wire zone. At least one supporting element having a supporting surface is disposed in the region of the twin-wire zone. At least a part of the supporting surface provides a supporting region which supports a first wire belt on its inner surface and a second wire belt on its outer surface. At least one formation box is provided and is disposed in the supporting region. The formation box is designed in such a way that, in the region of the inner surface of the second wire belt in the formation box, pressure values can be adjusted from a reduced pressure to an excess pressure acting on the inner surface of the second wire belt. The formation box extends in the direction of movement of the wire part over at least a part of the supporting region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Hans-Peter Sollinger, Klaus Henseler, Klaus Esslinger
  • Patent number: 5480520
    Abstract: The wire end or forming section of a paper making machine is a twin wire section defined by two endless loop wire belts or wires between which fibrous suspension moves through the wire end. A supporting element, either in the form of a rotating cylinder or in the form of a support belt, has the wires passing over it in the twin wire zone. Pressure elements, in the form of strips, rods or even a shoe, are supported to apply pressure on the wire belts and directed toward the moving supporting surface. The pressure elements are placed along the twin wire path so that pressure free regions remain between neighboring pressure elements. The pressure elements are distributed over the entire width of the wire belts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1996
    Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Esslinger