Patents by Inventor Lars-Peter Weiland
Lars-Peter Weiland 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).
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Publication number: 20230294050Abstract: A high pressure homogenizer for flowable substances charged with particles, having a high pressure chamber and a homogenizer unit that is located fluidically downstream thereof and, by swirling, expands the fluid to be homogenized which has previously been brought to a pressure of more than 500 bar in the high pressure chamber, and a plunger pump associated with the homogenizer unit, the plunger of which plunger pump pressurizes the high pressure chamber, wherein the high pressure homogenizer has a low pressure chamber which surrounds the plunger shaft to cool the plunger and which has an operating pressure of PN?25 bar, wherein the low pressure chamber and the high pressure chamber are separated from each other by a seal which is penetrated by the plunger, the seal being a throttle gap which is formed between the plunger shaft and a bushing that does not contact the plunger shaft, the ratio S/L of the length to the radial annular gap height of the throttle gap being ?0.0015.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2021Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Udo Enderle, Holger Moeschl, Lars-Peter Weiland
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Patent number: 11731139Abstract: Machine having a rotor which is mounted in a cantilevered fashion on a bearing and has a rotational axis along which a free, subsequently non-mounted rotor end runs starting from the bearing, the rotor end having a rotor end side which is spaced apart from a fixed rotor opposing side by a gap, and which, during operation of the machine when the rotor is rotating, is deflected with respect to the rotational axis as a result of imbalance of the free, non-mounted rotor end, or as a result of externally applied forces, wherein the rotor end side is curved or beveled so as to drop away at least in its end region towards its edge and in a direction towards the bearing.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2014Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Netzsch Trockenmahltechnik GMBHInventors: Roland Nied, Lars-Peter Weiland
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Publication number: 20230128694Abstract: An agitator mill including a grinding chamber containing grinding bodies and an agitator shaft, which revolves therein around a horizontal axis and which supports several grinding disks, which are connected thereto and which are spaced apart from one another in the direction of the horizontal axis and which move the grinding bodies, wherein grinding disks preferably in each case have slits or apertures, wherein adjacent grinding disks are arranged on the agitator shaft so that the ratio of the grinding chamber length to the radial grinding chamber height is greater than or equal to 2:3, and that the radial distance between the outer jacket surface of the grinding disks and the inner wall of the grinding container limiting the grinding chamber is more than 20% of the radial grinding chamber height.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Udo Enderle, Thomas Goller, Holger Möschl, Witali Sudermann, Lars-Peter Weiland
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Patent number: 11318475Abstract: A stirring mill, including a horizontally arranged milling vessel and a stirring shaft which is arranged therein so that it can be rotationally driven are provided. The stirring shaft has a first stirring shaft section adjacent to an inlet for material to be ground, which has a smaller diameter D24, and a second stirring shaft section adjacent to an outlet for material to be ground, which has a larger diameter D25 and in which a separating device is formed. Bypass channels leading into the separating device are formed in the first stirring shaft section.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: NETZSCH-Feinmahltechnik GmbHInventors: Horst Pausch, Gerhard Kolb, Holger Moeschl, Udo Enderle, Witali Sudermann, Lars-Peter Weiland
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Patent number: 11154072Abstract: The invention relates to a system for producing and/or preparing confectionery compounds from at least one liquid raw material and granular and/or powder raw materials. The system includes at least one first mixing container and at least one other product-processing device. The first mixing container has at least one raw material inlet, a product outlet, and a mixing device for mixing the raw materials in an at least largely homogenous manner. According to the invention, at least the mixing container includes at least one spray device in an upper container region for introducing the at least one liquid raw material, wherein at least one exit cone of the spray device is oriented in the direction of an inner wall surface of the first mixing container at least in some regions. The invention further relates to a method for cleaning a system for producing and/or preparing confectionery compounds.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2016Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: NETZSCH-Feinmahltechnik GmbHInventors: Theron Harbs, Holger Moeschl, Lars-Peter Weiland, Sergio Devegili
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Publication number: 20200324297Abstract: A stirring mill, including a horizontally arranged milling vessel and a stirring shaft which is arranged therein so that it can be rotationally driven are provided. The stirring shaft has a first stirring shaft section adjacent to an inlet for material to be ground, which has a smaller diameter D24, and a second stirring shaft section adjacent to an outlet for material to be ground, which has a larger diameter D25 and in which a separating device is formed. Bypass channels leading into the separating device are formed in the first stirring shaft section.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2018Publication date: October 15, 2020Applicant: NETZSCH-Feinmahltechnik GmbHInventors: Horst Pausch, Gerhard Kolb, Holger Moeschl, Udo Enderle, Witali Sudermann, Lars-Peter Weiland
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Patent number: 10603669Abstract: An agitator ball mill with a fluid circuit, which includes a grinding container and a casing container disposed around the latter uniformly spaced apart axially with a cavity formed between the containers. The fluid circuit is led at at least one flange through at least one flange lead-through introduced there, wherein a first opening of the at least one flange lead-through is constituted in a side wall of the corresponding flange lying orthogonal to the outer surface of the casing container.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2016Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: NETZSCH-Feinmahltechnik GmbHInventors: Philipp Rath, Lars-Peter Weiland
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Patent number: 10471436Abstract: A preliminary size reduction device for a ball mill or agitator ball mill and a ball mill with a preliminary size reduction device, wherein the preliminary size reduction device is disposed between a grinding stock inlet of the ball mill or agitator ball mill and a grinding chamber and includes a first size reduction mechanism constituted stationary and a second, rotationally mobile size reduction mechanism, between which a size reduction gap is formed. The first size reduction mechanism constituted stationary is a size reduction ring disposed in the grinding container.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2016Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: NETZSCH-Feinmahltechnik GmbHInventors: Udo Enderle, Theron Harbs, Holger Moeschl, Lars-Peter Weiland
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Patent number: 10383343Abstract: An installation and method for producing and/or processing confectionery masses which are made from at least one liquid raw material and granular and/or powdery raw materials. The installation includes at least a first mixing container and at least one further product-processing device. The first mixing container has at least one raw-material inlet and a product outlet and a mixing device for mixing the raw materials at least largely homogeneously. At least the mixing container includes at least one spraying device in an upper container region, which at least one spraying device serves to feed the at least one liquid raw material, wherein at least one outlet cone of the spraying device is directed, at least in some regions, toward an inner wall surface of the first mixing container.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2016Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: NETZSCH-Feinmahltechnik GmbHInventors: Theron Harbs, Holger Moeschl, Lars-Peter Weiland, Sergio Devegili
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Patent number: 10279353Abstract: A mill and operating method for using grinding bodies for grinding a grinding stock. Grinding bodies that have passed through the through the product outlet enter an upwardly inclined discharge pipe from where, when the grinding body mill is at a standstill, the grinding bodies are directed out of the discharge pipe through the product outlet into a rotor body of the separating device. When operation of the grinding body mill is resumed, the grinding bodies are conveyed back into the grinding chamber owing to the rotation of the rotor body.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2014Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Netzsch TrockenmahltechnikInventors: Roland Nied, Lars-Peter Weiland
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Publication number: 20180280987Abstract: A closure system is disclosed for the grinding container of a crushing apparatus; the grinding container includes at least one closure plug, an adapter unit having a through-opening, in which the closure plug can be inserted, the latter therefore closing the opening and being retained by the adapter unit, and also includes one or more fixing elements, wherein the one or more fixing elements establish a releasable connection between the adapter unit and the grinding container, in order to secure the adapter unit in removable fashion on the grinding container. Also disclosed is a grinding container having a closure system and further discloses a crushing apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2016Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventors: Lars-Peter Weiland, Martin Betzl, Philipp Rath
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Patent number: 10000224Abstract: The invention relates to a method and handling device for the maintenance of agitator ball mills with a horizontally disposed grinding container. The handling device comprises a transport means and at least one holding unit for machine parts of an agitator ball mill, wherein the transport means is connected to the holding unit in a detachable manner.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2016Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: NETZSCH-Feinmahltechnik GmbHInventor: Lars-Peter Weiland
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Publication number: 20160353762Abstract: An installation and method for producing and/or processing confectionery masses which are made from at least one liquid raw material and granular and/or powdery raw materials. The installation includes at least a first mixing container and at least one further product-processing device. The first mixing container has at least one raw-material inlet and a product outlet and a mixing device for mixing the raw materials at least largely homogeneously. At least the mixing container includes at least one spraying device in an upper container region, which at least one spraying device serves to feed the at least one liquid raw material, wherein at least one outlet cone of the spraying device is directed, at least in some regions, toward an inner wall surface of the first mixing container.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Theron Harbs, Holger Moeschl, Lars-Peter Weiland, Sergio Devegili
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Publication number: 20160330994Abstract: The invention relates to a system for producing and/or preparing confectionery compounds from at least one liquid raw material and granular and/or powder raw materials. The system includes at least one first mixing container and at least one other product-processing device. The first mixing container has at least one raw material inlet, a product outlet, and a mixing device for mixing the raw materials in an at least largely homogenous manner. According to the invention, at least the mixing container includes at least one spray device in an upper container region for introducing the at least one liquid raw material, wherein at least one exit cone of the spray device is oriented in the direction of an inner wall surface of the first mixing container at least in some regions. The invention further relates to a method for cleaning a system for producing and/or preparing confectionery compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2016Publication date: November 17, 2016Inventors: Theron Harbs, Holger Moeschl, Lars-Peter Weiland, Sergio Devegili
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Publication number: 20160318027Abstract: An agitator ball mill with a fluid circuit, which includes a grinding container and a casing container disposed around the latter uniformly spaced apart axially with a cavity formed between the containers. The fluid circuit is led at at least one flange through at least one flange lead-through introduced there, wherein a first opening of the at least one flange lead-through is constituted in a side wall of the corresponding flange lying orthogonal to the outer surface of the casing container.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2016Publication date: November 3, 2016Inventors: Philipp Rath, Lars-Peter Weiland
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Publication number: 20160288810Abstract: The invention relates to a method and handling device for the maintenance of agitator ball mills with a horizontally disposed grinding container. The handling device comprises a transport means and at least one holding unit for machine parts of an agitator ball mill, wherein the transport means is connected to the holding unit in a detachable manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventor: Lars-Peter Weiland
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Publication number: 20160271616Abstract: A grinding device, including: a closed grinding chamber for accommodating a material to be ground and for accommodating a plurality of grinding bodies that can be moved together with the material; a stirring unit accommodated in the grinding chamber, which stirring unit is rotatably operatively connected to a drive unit arranged outside of the grinding chamber; a bearing unit, which guides the shaft and is arranged in the region of an opening of the grinding chamber; and at least one wear disk, which keeps the bearing unit covered at least in some regions with respect to the material to be ground and which lies against a counter surface associated with the bearing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: Udo Enderle, Holger Moeschl, Lars-Peter Weiland, Andreas Sawerwald
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Publication number: 20160199846Abstract: A preliminary size reduction device for a ball mill or agitator ball mill and a ball mill with a preliminary size reduction device, wherein the preliminary size reduction device is disposed between a grinding stock inlet of the ball mill or agitator ball mill and a grinding chamber and includes a first size reduction mechanism constituted stationary and a second, rotationally mobile size reduction mechanism, between which a size reduction gap is formed. The first size reduction mechanism constituted stationary is a size reduction ring disposed in the grinding container.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2016Publication date: July 14, 2016Inventors: Udo Enderle, Theron Harbs, Holger Moeschl, Lars-Peter Weiland
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Publication number: 20150174585Abstract: Machine having a rotor which is mounted in a cantilevered fashion on a bearing and has a rotational axis along which a free, subsequently non-mounted rotor end runs starting from the bearing, the rotor end having a rotor end side which is spaced apart from a fixed rotor opposing side by a gap, and which, during operation of the machine when the rotor is rotating, is deflected with respect to the rotational axis as a result of imbalance of the free, non-mounted rotor end, or as a result of externally applied forces, wherein the rotor end side is curved or beveled so as to drop away at least in its end region towards its edge and in a direction towards the bearing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2014Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: NETZSCH TROCKENMAHLTECHNIK GMBHInventors: Roland Nied, Lars-Peter Weiland
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Publication number: 20150174583Abstract: An operating method for a grinding body mill having a housing which surrounds a grinding chamber in which grinding bodies are arranged and, during normal operation, are set in motion for the purpose of grinding a grinding stock to be ground, which housing includes a product inlet and a product outlet, between which the grinding stock to be ground flows through the moving grinding bodies, wherein, by means of a separating device positioned upstream of the product outlet, grinding bodies are prevented from exiting the grinding chamber into the product outlet during normal operation of the grinding body mill, and wherein furthermore, grinding bodies that have passed through the separating device and onward through the product outlet pass into an upwardly inclined discharge pipe from where, when the grinding body mill is at a standstill, the grinding bodies are directed out of the discharge pipe through the product outlet into a rotor body of the separating device and, when operation of the grinding body mill isType: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2014Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: Netzsch Trockenmahltechnik GmbHInventors: Roland Nied, Lars-Peter Weiland