Patents by Inventor Manfred Zelder

Manfred Zelder 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: 7520454
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting tool pertaining to a centrifugal pump for liquids loaded with solids. Said cutting tool comprises a rotating cutting body comprising at least one opening forming a cutting edge and through which the liquid flows, the lateral surface of the cutting body facing the rotationally fixed opposite surface that also comprises at least one opening through which the liquid flows. The lateral surface of the cutting body, facing the opposite surface, is curved in a convex manner, and the opposite surface is curved in a correspondingly concave manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: WILO AG
    Inventors: Manfred Zelder, Michael Müller
  • Publication number: 20070164136
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting tool pertaining to a centrifugal pump for liquids loaded with solids. Said cutting tool comprises a rotating cutting body comprising at least one opening forming a cutting edge and through which the liquid flows, the lateral surface of the cutting body facing the rotationally fixed opposite surface that also comprises at least one opening through which the liquid flows. The lateral surface of the cutting body, facing the opposite surface, is curved in a convex manner, and the opposite surface is curved in a correspondingly concave manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2005
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Inventors: Manfred Zelder, Michael Muller
  • Patent number: 5692880
    Abstract: An impeller for a submersible radial pump has an impeller disk which is formed with a pair of blades on a side thereof opposite the boss. The leading end of one of the blades is thicker than the leading end of the other blade to reduce the possibility that pieces of fabric or the like will hang up on the blades in operation of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1997
    Assignee: Wilo GmbH
    Inventor: Manfred Zelder
  • Patent number: 5516261
    Abstract: A centrifugal pump having a single-blade rotor whose central suction mouth, remote from the driving shaft, is in alignment with the inlet opening, the inlet opening forming an annular collar which so projects into the inside of the rotor that the inner end of the rotor blade forms a narrow gap with the outer surface of the collar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1996
    Assignee: Wilo GmbH
    Inventor: Manfred Zelder
  • Patent number: 5480290
    Abstract: A submersible motor-driven pump which has a jacket for the motor casing through which a coolant flows, the jacket receiving a pipe with a bent inlet for discharging the coolant and which lies against the motor casing and extends the full height of the jacket from the partition between the motor casing and the pump below the motor to the top of the jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1996
    Assignee: Wilo GmbH
    Inventor: Manfred Zelder
  • Patent number: 5362258
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for attaching and connecting a multicore electric cable to the motor of a pump, more particularly a submersible motor-driven pump, having a tubular connecting casing, wherein the connecting casing is attached, more particularly screwed in an outwardly open aperture in the motor casing and/or in the pump bearing support and has internally a water-tight transverse wall which is disposed transversely of the longitudinal axis of the connecting casing and in which conductive pins are cast which project axis-parallel on both sides of the transverse wall and onto which on both sides bushes are fitted which are connected on the motor side to leads of the motor and on the outside to cores of a connecting cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Assignee: Wilo GmbH
    Inventors: Kurt-Werner Arnswald, Manfred Zelder