Patents by Inventor Konrad Schermutzki

Konrad Schermutzki 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: 20110017130
    Abstract: A device for expelling drops of a flowable product. The invention relates to a device for expelling drops of a flowable product, comprising a rotating outer drum and a feed channel for the product to be expelled extending into the outer drum, wherein the outer drum comprises passage openings on the circumference thereof, through which the product to be expelled runs from the feed channel and then exits in droplet shape. According to the invention, at least one outer circumference of the outer drum is provided with a coating that reduces wetting with the product to be tabletted compared to a base material of the outer drum. For example, the invention can be used for tabletting flowable products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: Sandvik Materials Technology Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Kuert Schromm, Konrad Schermutzki, Matthias Kleinhans
  • Publication number: 20070131381
    Abstract: Method for belt conditioning in pelletizing plants, method for pelletizing urea and pelletizing plant. The invention relates to a method for belt conditioning in pelletizing plants with a rotating steel belt to which is applied in drop-like manner a melt of a product to be pelletized which is then solidified on the steel belt. According to the invention there are steps of washing off product residues left on the steel belt after removing the solidified pellets using a washing liquid containing at least the dissolved product and drying the washing liquid adhering to the steel belt for forming a dry product film thereon prior to the renewed application of a melt of a product to be pelletized. Use e.g. for pelletizing urea.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Inventors: Konrad Schermutzki, Hans-Kurt Schromm
  • Publication number: 20050158416
    Abstract: An extruder for extruding a flowable substance in the form of droplets includes a perforated rotating drum, and a nozzle strip arranged inside the drum at a lower portion thereof in facing relationship to an inner circumference of the drum. A cantilevered restricting strip is disposed within a flow channel of the nozzle strip to form a flow-restricting slot for apportioning and calming the flowing substance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2002
    Publication date: July 21, 2005
    Applicant: Santrade Ltd.
    Inventors: Matthias Kleinhans, Stephan Gierke, Konrad Schermutzki
  • Patent number: 6510941
    Abstract: An endless conveyor belt has a thermal fluid (gas or liquid) sprayed against a portion of its underside to define a temperature-controlled region of the belt. To prevent the lateral escape of the thermal fluid, stationary seals are provided which contact the belt underside adjacent respective longitudinal edges of the belt. To keep the seals in continuous contact with the belt, despite warping that might occur, the seals carry magnets, and the belt is formed of a magnetizable material. Hence, the magnets force the belt and seals together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: Santrade Ltd.
    Inventors: Konrad Schermutzki, Matthias Kleinhans
  • Publication number: 20020005273
    Abstract: An endless conveyor belt has a thermal fluid (gas or liquid) sprayed against a portion of its underside to define a temperature-controlled region of the belt. To prevent the lateral escape of the thermal fluid, stationary seals are provided which contact the belt underside adjacent respective longitudinal edges of the belt. To keep the seals in continuous contact with the belt, despite warping that might occur, the seals carry magnets, and the belt is formed of a magnetizable material. Hence, the magnets force the belt and seals together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2001
    Publication date: January 17, 2002
    Inventors: Konrad Schermutzki, Matthias Kleinhans
  • Patent number: 5445108
    Abstract: A melt is crystallized by introducing the melt into a gap formed between two belts. The gap-forming flights of the belts travel in opposite directions. An upper one of the flights is cooled so that an upper surface of the melt crystallizes thereon and is removed from the gap on the upper belt. The lower belt removes the residual melt from the gap and that residual melt is recycled to the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Assignee: Santrade Ltd.
    Inventors: Konrad Schermutzki, Herbert Wurmseher
  • Patent number: 5269817
    Abstract: A melt is crystallized by introducing the melt into a gap formed between two belts. The gap-forming flights of the belts travel in opposite directions. An upper one of the flights is cooled so that an upper surface of the melt crystallizes thereon and is removed from the gap on the upper belt. The lower belt removes the residual melt from the gap and that residual melt is recycled to the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Assignee: Santrade Ltd.
    Inventors: Konrad Schermutzki, Herbert Wurmseher
  • Patent number: 5149445
    Abstract: A substance is provided in molten form and then converted into crystallized pellets. The pellets are conveyed into a vessel having an open lower end, whereby the pellets continuously advance downwardly. As the pellets advance, they are subjected to a hot gas flow which causes outer contaminated surfaces of the pellets to melt and drip off. The remaining pellets travel out through the opening in a direction transversely of the direction of the dripping. In this manner, the substance is purified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1992
    Assignee: Santrade Ltd.
    Inventors: Konrad Schermutzki, Herbert Wurmseher
  • Patent number: 4793787
    Abstract: A layer of granules is deposited onto a conveyor belt and then heated and pressed to form a final product (e.g., floor covering). The layer is deposited from a funnel having a bottom outlet. Disposed across the outlet are a rotary sizing roll which forms a first gap with the belt, and an inclined guide plate which forms a second gap with the sizing roll. Granules flow through the second and first gaps, and then onto the belt. The second gap is larger than the first gap so that excess granules are supplied to the first gap, thereby assuring that no voids are created in the deposited layer. The guide plate is oscillated to facilitate a back-flow of excess granules to resist the possibility of excess granules being forced through by the sizing roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1988
    Assignee: Santrade Ltd.
    Inventor: Konrad Schermutzki
  • Patent number: 4790257
    Abstract: A fiber web reinforced plastic is formed by applying dry resin powder to opposite sides of a vertically moving web, and then melting and pressing the power into the web. The dry powder is applied to the web by being thrown thereagainst. The powder thus more effectively occupies the voids in the web to minimize the presence of air in the web. The thrown-on powder can be melted before the laminating pressure is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1988
    Assignee: Santrade Ltd.
    Inventor: Konrad Schermutzki
  • Patent number: 4771683
    Abstract: A dual belt press comprises a pair of endless belts forming oppositely facing press flights. The press flights are pressed toward one another by press plates, with freely rotating rollers disposed between the press flights and press plates. Each press plate comprises a support plate and a plurality of plate strips mounted on a surface of the support plate facing the associated press flight. The plate strips have longitudinal axes extending obliquely relative to the direction of travel of the press flights and obliquely relative to axes of rotation of the rollers. The plate strips are heated or cooled by a fluid traveling through conduits formed in the plate strips or clamped between adjacent plate strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1988
    Assignee: Santrade Ltd.
    Inventor: Konrad Schermutzki
  • Patent number: 4748907
    Abstract: In a dual belt press, the press belts are supported at each end by a first chain. The first chain includes spaced links through which a stud projects. A sleeve is mounted on each stud between the spaced links. The outer circumferences of adjacently disposed sleeves abut one another to prevent lateral displacement of the studs and rolls. A second chain is connected to the studs and is adapted to be driven in order to displace the rolls along a press zone of the press.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1988
    Assignee: Santrade Ltd.
    Inventor: Konrad Schermutzki
  • Patent number: 4743187
    Abstract: In the production of a glass mat-reinforced thermoplastic, a mat and resin are pressed and heated in a compression zone of a dual belt press. The resin is metered onto the upper flights of the two belts of the press in powder form, and is heated at least to the extent that it adheres as a layer to those flights so as to be conveyed without difficulty into the compression zone. The glass fiber mat itself can be preimpregnated with resin prior to entering the press.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1988
    Assignee: Santrade Ltd.
    Inventor: Konrad Schermutzki
  • Patent number: 4690721
    Abstract: Apparatus for the production of multilayer laminated plates, in particular circuit boards for electrotechnical applications, wherein webs of glass fiber roving fabric are impregnated with a synthetic resin binder, and subsequently pressed in a dual belt press. Upstream of the press, a heating table comprising a plurality of heating panels is provided. The webs of material, coated with the binder, are combined and impregnated in the heating zone. In the heating zone the binder used may be maintained exactly at the processing temperature. Rapid hardening binders may be used so that the transition of the binder from its liquid to its solid state takes place in the press even during short press durations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1987
    Assignee: Santrade Ltd.
    Inventor: Konrad Schermutzki
  • Patent number: 4578021
    Abstract: An apparatus produces granules from two-phase mixtures wherein an initial substance is enriched with crystal nuclei in a temperature controlled precrystallizer and the resultant precrystallized melt is fully crystallized on a cooling surface. A droplet former is disposed over the cooling surface and includes inner and outer telescoping tubes. The inner tube communicates downstream with the precrystallizer and has a plurality of outlet orifices for conducting the precrystallized melt outwardly therethrough. The outer and inner tubes are arranged for relative rotation. The outer tube has a plurality of discharge orifices which are intermittently alignable with the outlet apertures in response to relative rotation between the tubes for discharging drops of precrystallized mass onto the cooling surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1986
    Assignee: Santrade Ltd.
    Inventor: Konrad Schermutzki
  • Patent number: 4449448
    Abstract: In a double band press the compressing pressure is applied to the endless bands by pressure plates via intermediate pressure rolls. The pressure rolls extend transversely to the running direction of the steel bands and are interconnected at their ends by a guide chain. More than two pressure rolls are associated with each pair of connecting bolts of the guide chain. The axes of the pressure rolls are parallel and are offset transversely relative to the axes of the connecting bolts of the guide chain. In this manner, a stable connection of the pressure rolls among themselves is made possible, with the pressure rolls having a smaller diameter and being capable of being arranged closely adjacent to each other. A more uniform and higher distribution of pressure may be obtained thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1984
    Assignee: Santrade Ltd.
    Inventors: Gerhard Stabler, Konrad Schermutzki
  • Patent number: 4443412
    Abstract: A crystallizing apparatus particularly for use with undercooled melts. Crystallizing is effected on the cooling conveyor belt in a thick layer. A precrystallizer comprises at least two rolls arranged above the cooling conveyor and rotating in the same direction. A shear gap is formed between the at least two rolls. A melt is applied to an uppermost one of the at least two rolls in a thin layer. In the course of the path followed by the melt over the at least two rolls, shearing forces are generated within the area of the shear gap, which enhance the nucleation. A further enhancement of nucleation is obtained by cooling the at least two rolls, so that relatively large volumes of the melt may be crystallized per unit time in the crystallizing apparatus without the need for the addition of supplemental seed crystals to the melt. The amount of melt in the precrystallizer is very small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1984
    Assignee: Santrade, Ltd.
    Inventors: Konrad Schermutzki, Wolfgang Weber
  • Patent number: 4334468
    Abstract: A double belt press comprises two endless steel belts revolving in opposing directions with mutually facing sides thereof pressed against each other and against material passed therebetween by means of stationary, temperature-controlled press plates. The belts are guided by revolving roller chains on the press plates which are speed-coordinated with the roller chains. A heat transfer mechanism is provided along the path of travel of the roller chain of at least one press plate in order to change the temperature of the roll elements of the roller chains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1982
    Assignee: Sandvik Conveyor GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Guttinger, Konrad Schermutzki
  • Patent number: 4256581
    Abstract: An apparatus for the preparation of granulate from hot-melting mixes comprises a pourer connected by a filter-containing conduit to at least one mixing and melting device. The strip pourer is disposed above a cooling conveyor which feeds to a crushing device. The pourer comprises a heated tubular body provided on its under side with discharge nozzles arranged in at least one row. A filter is disposed within the tubular body across the discharge nozzles to prevent unwanted particles from reaching the nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1981
    Assignee: Sandvik Conveyor GmbH
    Inventors: Karl G. Boman, Konrad Schermutzki
  • Patent number: 4186797
    Abstract: A dual-belt system for cooling a continuous layer or strip of a product. A treatment zone is formed by co-extensive runs of two endless steel belts, which are mounted upon end rolls and are positioned in predetermined relationship. The coolant liquid exerts the desired pressure on the layer of the product to insure the proper heat-exchange relationship between the product and the coolant. The cooling liquid is supplied to headers having a belt run as one wall, and variations in the thickness of the layer of the product do not change the pressure exerted on the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1980
    Assignee: Sandco Limited
    Inventors: Manfred Guttinger, Konrad Schermutzki