Patents by Inventor Manfred Franz

Manfred Franz 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: 6957741
    Abstract: A screening panel 10 comprises a peripheral frame 12 consisting of a pair of mutually laterally spaced side members 14, 16, which are integral with a pair of mutually axially spaced end members 18, 20. The side members 14, 16 and end members 18, 20 define corners of the panel 22.1, 22.2, 22.3 and 22.4 and the peripheral frame 12 where they meet. A plurality of mutually spaced ribs 15 extend across the periphery of the panel 10 to define a screening surface. The side members and end members are rectangular in cross-section, thereby defining substantially flat upper peripheral surfaces 12.1, outer peripheral surface 12.2 and lower peripheral surface 12.3 of the peripheral frame 12 and thus also the panel 10. The panel 10 includes locating recesses 24 provided at or near to the corners 22.1, 22.2, 22.3 and 22.4 of the panel 10. The panel 10 also has separate securing recesses in the form of semi-circular grooves 30 formed in the lower surface 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Inventors: Manfred Franz Axel Freissle, Peter Helmut Franz Freissle
  • Patent number: 6881349
    Abstract: A mobile apparatus and method for recycling an invert emulsion based drilling fluid, in which the invert emulsion based drilling fluid includes an oleaginous component and an aqueous component. The apparatus includes an emulsion breaking tank, a water treatment tank, a filter press, and hydrocarbon filters. The method includes: mixing said invert emulsion drilling fluid with a emulsion breaker, wherein the emulsion breaker is a mixture of an alkyl glucoside and an alkane sulfonate; and separating the oleaginous component of the invert emulsion drilling fluid from the aqueous component of the invert emulsion drilling fluid. The method preferably utilizes an emulsion breaker that is a combination of an anionic surfactant, a nonionic surfactant and an alkyl polyglycoside surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: M-I LLC
    Inventor: Frank Manfred Franz Mueller
  • Publication number: 20050002027
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing color pastes, in which a component comprising colorant particles is dispersed in a binder. In the method of the invention the dispersing operation is controlled by beaming excitational light of a defined wavelength range into a mixture of the component comprising colorant particles and the binder, detecting the light transmitted, reflected and/or scattered by the mixture and determining a sample spectrum, evaluating the sample spectrum and hence determining parameters of the color paste, and monitoring changes in the sample spectrum over time and terminating the dispersing operation when predetermined target parameters are attained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2002
    Publication date: January 6, 2005
    Inventors: Claudia Sierakowski, Ines Mangels, Zenon -Paul Czornij, Thomas Kruger, Peter Hoffmann, Thomas Frey, Benno Sens, Manfred Franz Mielke, Paul Gunthert, Gerhard Berger, Peter Blaschka, Gunter Etzrodt
  • Publication number: 20040094483
    Abstract: A mobile apparatus and method for recycling an invert emulsion based drilling fluid, in which the invert emulsion based drilling fluid includes an oleaginous component and an aqueous component. The apparatus includes an emulsion breaking tank, a water treatment tank, a filter press, and hydrocarbon filters. The method includes: mixing said invert emulsion drilling fluid with a emulsion breaker, wherein the emulsion breaker is a mixture of an alkyl glucoside and an alkane sulfonate; and separating the oleaginous component of the invert emulsion drilling fluid from the aqueous component of the invert emulsion drilling fluid. The method preferably utilizes an emulsion breaker that is a combination of an anionic surfactant, a nonionic surfactant and an alkyl polyglycoside surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2002
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventor: Frank Manfred Franz Mueller
  • Publication number: 20030100452
    Abstract: A method for recycling an invert emulsion based drilling fluid, in which the invert emulsion based drilling fluid includes an oil component and an aqueous component. The method includes: mixing the invert emulsion drilling fluid with a emulsion clearing agent, wherein the emulsion clearing agent is a mixture of an anionic tensid and a non-ionic tensid; and separating the oil component of the invert emulsion drilling fluid from the aqueous component of the invert emulsion drilling fluid. The method preferably utilizes an emulsion breaking agent that is a combination of an anionic tensid, a non-ionic tensid and an alkyl polyglycoside tensid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Inventors: Frank Manfred Franz Mueller, Juergen Rudolph
  • Publication number: 20030038060
    Abstract: A screening panel 10 comprises a peripheral frame 12 consisting of a pair of mutually laterally spaced side members 14, 16, which are integral with a pair of mutually axially spaced end members 18, 20. The side members 14, 16 and end members 18, 20 define corners of the panel 22.1, 22.2, 22.3 and 22.4 and the peripheral frame 12 where they meet. A plurality of mutually spaced ribs 15 extend across the periphery of the panel 10 to define a screening surface. The side members and end members are rectangular in cross-section, thereby defining substantially flat upper peripheral surfaces 12.1, outer peripheral surface 12.2 and lower peripheral surface 12.3 of the peripheral frame 12 and thus also the panel 10. The panel 10 includes locating recesses 24 provided at or near to the corners 22.1, 22.2, 22.3 and 22.4 of the panel 10. The panel 10 also has separate securing recesses in the form of semi-circular grooves 30 formed in the lower surface 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Inventors: Manfred Franz Axel Freissle, Peter Helmut Franz Freissle
  • Publication number: 20030012833
    Abstract: A screening element 10 for screening particulate materials such as mineral ores of all types, shapes are a densities, as well as difficult to screen cloggy, and slabby materials. The screening element 10 has a screening surface 12 formed by a plurality of elongate zig-zagged shaped ribs 14. The ribs 14 are resiliently deformable and extend within the periphery of the element 10 in a chevron pattern across the element 10. The ribs 14 are spaced from each other to define between them rows of square screening apertures 22. The screening apertures 22 have sides 22.1 which are orlentated transversely at 90° to an axis 10.1 of the screening element 10; and sides 22.2 which are substantially aligned with the axis 10.1. The element 10 is divided into two rectangularly shaped portions 16, 18 by a centrally disposed straight rib 20. The ribs 14 extend, in the portion 16, at an angle A of approximately 315° to the axis 10.1; and in the portion 18, at an angle B of approximately 45° to the axis 10.1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2002
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventors: Manfred Franz Axel Freissle, Jacobus Janse Van Rensburg
  • Patent number: 5938042
    Abstract: A screening arrangement support frame component in which a pair of complementary elongate component members have body portions and cavity defining formations. The component members are secured side by side to one another such that the body portions abut and the cavity defining formations register to form a plurality of cavities for receiving socket elements. A plurality of socket elements, each defining a socket for receiving a protrusion that secures a screening panel to the component, the socket elements being mounted in the cavities when the component members are secured to one another. The thickness of each support frame component at the locations where the body portions abut is smaller than the cross-sectional dimension of the socket elements mounted in the cavities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Inventors: Manfred Franz Axel Freissle, Jacobus Van Rensburg, Peter Helmut Franz Freissle
  • Patent number: 5554901
    Abstract: A known servo-drive including a stator which is formed with two-component design or the exciter winding has to be attached directly to the stator, which is associated with a costly production method. The new servo-drive is to permit easy and cost-effective manufacture with favorable actuation properties. The stator of the servo-drive includes in the region of the poles, weak points which are formed either by recesses or by gaps. An induction core includes a winding which is inserted into a yoke constructed on the stator by which a magnetic field can be induced in the stator. The alternating combination of sheet-metal laminas having gaps and recesses permits the torque/rotary angle characteristic of the servo-drive to be optimized with favorable production properties. The servo-drive for rotary angle adjustment of an actuator is used for example to control the opening cross-section of a medium-conducting flow line in internal combustion engines for the purpose of controlling idling speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Friedrich Wendel, Manfred Franz, Johannes Meiwes, Uwe Hammer, Michael Altmann, Dieter Dick
  • Patent number: 5415714
    Abstract: A method for positionally securing two components together, in which a hollow body is introduced into the two components. Once the final position of the components relative to one another has been established, the hollow body is driven directly into the second component with the application of axial pressure and sonic energy. The method is suitable for employment with thermoplastic components whose relative position to one another is known beforehand, an example being in the assembly of housing parts of a rotary adjuster for controlling a flow cross section in internal combustion engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1995
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Altmann, Dieter Dick, Manfred Franz, Albert Gerhard, Uwe Hammer, Johannes Meiwes, Friedrich Wendel, Wolfgang Staudenmaier, Frank Frankenhauser, Gerhard Kirschner, Egon Waldvogel, Rolf Bald, Arno Altpeter
  • Patent number: 5232197
    Abstract: A control device for the control of an opening cross-sectional area of a flow duct, in particular for internal combustion engines, comprising three sub-assemblies, an actuator housing with flow channel and setting window, a rotor with a rotary valve for controlling the window opening, and a drive housing with stator and stator winding. For setting a required air gap between the rotary valve and the setting window, a control section of the rotary valve covering the setting window is designed as a cone envelope segment, and is inclined at an acute angle to the rotor axis. The window lying in a cone envelope plane is located at the same angle of inclination. By means of a spacing disk between the rotor, with the rotary valve affixed thereon, and the actuator housing, the air gap is set and fixed as required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1993
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Kalippke, Manfred Franz, Erhard Renninger, Johannes Meiwes, Albert Gerhard, Uwe Hammer
  • Patent number: 4236551
    Abstract: A steel wire directly from the rolling mill is formed into a horizontally advancing helix having a succession of upstanding turns. This helix is fed into a horizontally opening end of an elbow and a roller at the short side of the elbow deflects the helix so that it exits from the downwardly opening outlet end of the elbow. An upright cooling tube is provided immediately at this downstream end and has a multiplicity of throughgoing holes each aligned with a respective nozzle for spraying of liquid on the descending coil so as rapidly to cool it and to transform at least the surface of it into martinsite. At the lower end of the tube the cooled coil, at a temperature of 500.degree. C.-600.degree. C. as compared with the starting temperature of 750.degree. C., is carried horizontally away by a conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1980
    Assignee: VEB Schwermaschinenbau-Kombinat Ernst Thalmann Magdeburg
    Inventors: Walter Worgt, Gerhard Pechau, Ewald Wyzgol, Manfred Franz
  • Patent number: 4082770
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel benzo(b)thiophene derivatives of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein Y represents a hydrogen or halogen atom; A represents a hydrogen atom or a phenyl group which may be substituted with a halogen atom or a lower alkoxy group; B represents a radical of the formula OR' or NR.sup.2 R.sup.3, wherein R' is an alkyl radical of 1 to 5 carbon atoms which may be substituted with hydroxy, lower alkoxy, phenyl or phenoxy groups or a cycloalkyl or phenyl group which may be substituted by lower alkoxy or halogen atoms; R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, which may be identical or different, represent, if identical, hydrogen, alkyl radicals of 1 to 5 carbon atoms which may be substituted by hydroxy, lower alkoxy, phenoxy, di-lower alkylamino, or phenyl groups; or, if R.sup.2 is hydrogen, R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1978
    Assignee: Warner-Lambert Company
    Inventors: Peter Johannes Stoss, Manfred Franz Reinhold Herrmann, Gerhard Satzinger
  • Patent number: 4061635
    Abstract: The invention relates to 1-phenyl-4-amino-cyclohex-2-ene-1-carboxylic-acid-esters of the general formula I ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may be the same or different and may be H, alkyl, hydroxyalkyl, alkenyl, preferably with 1 to 4 C-atoms, aralkyl which may be bonded to each other, in which connection the heterocyclic system formed may be substituted further by the OH- group and where attachment takes place by an oxygen or a nitrogen atom, if desired, which in its turn carries an H, alkyl with 1 to 4 C-atoms, aryl which may be substituted by chlorine, preferably in 3 or 4-position, and by methoxy, preferably in 2 or 4-position, acyl, preferably alkanoyl with 1 to 4 C-atoms, and aroyl, or aralkyl, and R.sub.3 represents an alkyl radical with 1 to 4 C-atoms, the salts thereof and quarternary ammonium compounds, and a process for their preparation. These compounds have analgesic and neuroleptic properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1974
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1977
    Assignee: Warner-Lambert Company
    Inventors: Gerhard Satzinger, Manfred Franz Herrmann
  • Patent number: 4056526
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel benzo(b)thiophene derivatives of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein Y represents a hydrogen or halogen atom; A represents a hydrogen atom or a phenyl group which may be substituted with a halogen atom or a lower alkoxy group; B represents a radical of the formula OR' or NR.sup.2 R.sup.3, wherein R' is an alkyl radical of 1 to 5 carbons which may be substituted with hydroxy, lower alkoxy, phenyl or phenoxy groups or a cycloalkyl or phenyl group which may be substituted by lower alkoxy or halogen atoms; R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, which may be identical or different, represent, if identical, hydrogen, alkyl radicals of 1 to 5 carbon atoms which may be substituted by hydroxy, lower alkoxy, phenoxy, di-lower alkylamino, or phenyl groups; or, if R.sup.2 is hydrogen, R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1977
    Assignee: Warner-Lambert Company
    Inventors: Peter Johannes Stoss, Manfred Franz Reinhold Herrmann, Gerhard Satzinger
  • Patent number: 4018793
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel benzo(b)thiophene derivatives of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein Y represents a hydrogen or halogen atom; A represents a hydrogen atom or a phenyl group which may be substituted with a halogen atom or a lower alkoxy group; B represents a radical of the formula OR' or NR.sup.2 N.sup.3, wherein R' is an alkyl radical of 1 to 5 carbons which may be substituted with hydroxy, lower alkoxy, phenyl or phenoxy groups or a cycloalkyl or phenyl group which may be substituted by lower alkoxy or halogen atoms; R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, which may be identical or different, represent, if identical, hydrogen, alkyl radicals of 1 to 5 carbon atoms which may be substituted by hydroxy, lower alkoxy, phenoxy, di-lower alkylamino, or phenyl groups; or, if R.sup.2 is hydrogen, R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1977
    Assignee: Warner-Lambert Company
    Inventors: Peter Johannes Stoss, Manfred Franz Reinhold Herrmann, Gerhard Satzinger
  • Patent number: 3980555
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wear-resistant element in the form of a screen or a lining which has protrusions by means of which the element may be replaceably secured to a support frame. The wear-resistant element is moulded in a synthetic plastics material such as polyurethane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1974
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1976
    Assignee: Screenex Wire Weaving Manufacturers Limited
    Inventor: Manfred Franz Axel Freissle
  • Patent number: 3971814
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel benzo(b)thiophene derivatives of the general formula: ##SPC1##Wherein Y represents a hydrogen or halogen atom; A represents a hydrogen atom or a phenyl group which may be substituted with a halogen atom or a lower alkoxy group; B represents a radical of the formula OR' or NR.sup.2 R.sup.3, wherein R' is an alkyl radical of 1 to 5 carbons which may be substituted with hydroxy, lower alkoxy, phenyl or phenoxy groups or a cycloalkyl or phenyl group which may be substituted by lower alkoxy or halogen atoms; R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, which may be identical or different, represent, if identical, hydrogen, alkyl radicals of 1 to 5 carbon atoms which may be substituted by hydroxy, lower alkoxy, phenoxy, di-lower alkylamino, or phenyl groups; or, if R.sup.2 is hydrogen, R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1976
    Assignee: Warner-Lambert Company
    Inventors: Peter Johannes Stoss, Manfred Franz Reinhold Herrmann, Gerhard Satzinger
  • Patent number: 3966779
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new thymol derivatives with strong sympatholytic effect and low toxicity and to a process for their preparation.These novel thymol derivatives have the following general formula: ##SPC1##Wherein R is an alkyl group of 4 to 11 carbon atoms or an alkoxy group R'--O-- wherein R' is an alkyl group of 3 to 10 carbon atoms, and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1976
    Assignee: Warner-Lambert Company
    Inventors: Gerhard Satzinger, Manfred Franz Herrmann
  • Patent number: 3957851
    Abstract: The invention relates to 1-phenyl-4-amino-cyclohex-2-ene-1-carboxylic-acid-esters of the general formula I ##SPC1##wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may be the same or different and may be H, alkyl, hydroxyalkyl, alkenyl, preferably with 1 to 4 C-atoms, aralkyl which may be bonded to each other, in which connection the heterocyclic system formed may be substituted further by the OH-- group and where attachment takes place by an oxygen or a nitrogen atom, if desired, which in its turn carries an H, alkyl with 1 to 4 C-atoms, aryl which may be substituted by chlorine, preferably in 3 or 4-position, and by methoxy, preferably in 2 or 4-position, acyl, preferably alkanoyl with 1 to 4 C-atoms, and aroyl, or aralkyl, and R.sub.3 represents an alkyl radical with 1 to 4 C-atoms, the salts thereof and quarternary ammonium compounds, and a process for their preparation. These compounds have analgesic and neuroleptic properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1972
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1976
    Assignee: Warner-Lambert Company
    Inventors: Gerhard Satzinger, Manfred Franz Herrmann