Patents by Inventor Markus Felix

Markus Felix 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: 10532888
    Abstract: A conveying appliance with a conveying member that is movable along a conveying stretch and forms a conveying surface for an item that is to be conveyed, wherein the conveying surface of the conveying member includes openings. An active device has at least one active element that is movable along a closed circulating path, wherein in an active section of the conveying stretch, the circulating path forms an actively effective path section that runs parallel to the conveying member. The active device interacts with the conveying member in the active section in a manner such that the at least one active element along the actively effective path section projects through an opening through the conveying member and projects beyond the conveying surface, in a manner such that the at least one active element is capable of mechanically acting upon a conveyed item which lies on the conveying surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: WRH WALTER REIST HOLDING AG
    Inventor: Markus Felix
  • Patent number: 10358299
    Abstract: A loading device (10) for continuously loading receiving units (4.1-4.8) with transport goods (T), wherein the loading device (10) comprises a plurality of receiving units (4.1-4.8), a conveyor device (2), in which the receiving units (4.1-4.8) can be conveyed, a supply device (3) for supplying transport goods (T) and a transfer device (1), which is designed to acquire the transport goods (T) from the supply device (3), as well as to convey and transfer the transport goods to the receiving units (4.1-4.8), wherein the transfer device (1) and the receiving units (4.1-4.8) can be moved in the same direction during the transfer of the transport goods (T).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: FERAG AG
    Inventors: Martin Ruge, Markus Felix
  • Publication number: 20190135545
    Abstract: A conveying appliance with a conveying member that is movable along a conveying stretch and forms a conveying surface for an item that is to be conveyed, wherein the conveying surface of the conveying member includes openings. An active device has at least one active element that is movable along a closed circulating path, wherein in an active section of the conveying stretch, the circulating path forms an actively effective path section that runs parallel to the conveying member. The active device interacts with the conveying member in the active section in a manner such that the at least one active element along the actively effective path section projects through an opening through the conveying member and projects beyond the conveying surface, in a manner such that the at least one active element is capable of mechanically acting upon a conveyed item which lies on the conveying surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventor: Markus Felix
  • Publication number: 20180208407
    Abstract: The invention proposes a loading device (10) for continuously loading receiving units (4.1-4.8) with transport goods (T), wherein the loading device (10) comprises a plurality of receiving units (4.1-4.8), a conveyor device (2), in which the receiving units (4.1-4.8) can be conveyed, a supply device (3) for supplying transport goods (T) and a transfer device (1), which is designed to acquire the transport goods (T) from the supply device (3), as well as to convey and transfer the transport goods to the receiving units (4.1-4.8), wherein the transfer device (1) and the receiving units (4.1-4.8) can be moved in the same direction during the transfer of the transport goods (T).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: FERAG AG
    Inventors: Martin RUGE, Markus FELIX
  • Patent number: 9886811
    Abstract: The invention relates to a warehousing installation (1) for a plurality of roller packaging units embodied as a rollable body, which comprises at least one storage device (20) for storing several rolling packaging units, a single storage device (30) for receiving a rolling packaging unit and for guiding said roller packing unit into the storage device, a rolling out device (40, 40?, 40?) for rolling away a rolling packaging unit stored in the storage device as a rolling away rolling packaging unit and a control device (50) for controlling the rolling out device (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: WRH Walter Reist Holding AG
    Inventors: Martin Ruge, Markus Felix
  • Publication number: 20180034320
    Abstract: A rolling body (10a) for temporarily accommodating goods or products for purposes of storage and/or transport includes a shell (11) that encloses an inner space (12). A usable volume (13) for accommodating the goods is provided in the inner space (12). An autonomous mode of functioning is made possible in that an energy store (14) and an energy consumer (15) are additionally situated in the inner space (12), and the energy store (14) is connectable to the energy consumer (15) in order to deliver energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: WRH WALTER REIST HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Martin RUGE, Markus FELIX
  • Patent number: 9494128
    Abstract: A plant for extracting electric energy from water power. The plant has an energy extraction module designed as an assembly unit, and includes a drive arrangement, with a multiplicity of flow-impinged components, which can be driven in a circulating direction by water power, two spaced-apart deflection elements around which the drive arrangement is guided in a circulating manner, an electric power generator for extracting electric energy from the circulating drive arrangement, a water conveying duct for forming water receiving compartments interacting with the flow-impinged components, and also a module frame, to which are connected the drive arrangement, the deflection elements, the electric power generator and the water conveying duct. The module frame includes an interface via which the energy extraction module is connected to a sub-structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: WRH WALTER REIST HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Felix Widmer, Martin Ruge, Markus Felix
  • Publication number: 20160122127
    Abstract: The invention relates to a warehousing installation (1) for a plurality of roller packaging units embodied as a rollable body, which comprises at least one storage device (20) for storing several rolling packaging units, a single storage device (30) for receiving a rolling packaging unit and for guiding said roller packing unit into the storage device, a rolling out device (40, 40?, 40?) for rolling away a rolling packaging unit stored in the storage device as a rolling away rolling packaging unit and a control device (50) for controlling the rolling out device (40).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: WRH Walter Reist Holding AG
    Inventors: Martin RUGE, Markus Felix
  • Publication number: 20160114956
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rollable transport container (1) comprising an outer shell (2) that can roll on a support, and an inner holder (3) for holding goods to be transported (5). Bearing means (4) are configured to allow the inner holder (3) to be rotatably arranged in the outer shell (2). The bearing means (4) are only in a central and/or lower region of the rollable transport body (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: WRH Walter Reist Holding AG
    Inventors: Markus FELIX, Martin RUGE
  • Patent number: 9186882
    Abstract: A device and method for producing complex multipart collections (K1) of printed products includes at least two partial collections (T1, T2, T3) of precursors. The device comprises a collating device (6) having a conveyor track (41) on which a plurality of receptacle units (50) circulate in a closed circuit for receiving collated precursors, and on which a plurality of feeder apparatuses (101-112) are disposed in at least one collating region (11, 12), from which precursors are dispensed into the receptacle units (50) moving past on the conveyor track. A transfer apparatus (30) is disposed in at least one location of the conveyor track (42), transferring collated first partial collections (T1) from the receptacle units (50) for further processing, and a collator (31, 32) is disposed in at least one further location of the conveyor track (41, 43), collating further collated partial collections (T3, T4) from the receptacle units (50) into collections (K1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Ferag AG
    Inventors: Markus Felix, Martin Ruge
  • Patent number: 9162823
    Abstract: A conveying system includes rolling bodies each with a rolling element cage and rolling elements. The rolling elements are arranged in recesses of the rolling element cage and for the rolling in a guide channel. In each case two or three or more rolling elements form a roller set, and the rolling elements of a roller set roll on one another as well as on the guide channel, and at least one roller set is present per rolling body. The conveying system includes at least two guide channels which run at an essentially constant distance to one another and together form a guide path; and at least two rolling bodies are connected to one other by way of a connection element, into a conveying element, and the conveying element with its at least two rolling bodies is movable in at least two guide channels along the guide path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Ferag AG
    Inventors: Martin Ruge, Markus Felix
  • Publication number: 20150211476
    Abstract: A plant for extracting electric energy from water power. The plant has an energy extraction module designed as an assembly unit, and includes a drive arrangement, with a multiplicity of flow-impinged components, which can be driven in a circulating direction by water power, two spaced-apart deflection elements around which the drive arrangement is guided in a circulating manner, an electric power generator for extracting electric energy from the circulating drive arrangement, a water conveying duct for forming water receiving compartments interacting with the flow-impinged components, and also a module frame, to which are connected the drive arrangement, the deflection elements, the electric power generator and the water conveying duct. The module frame includes an interface via which the energy extraction module is connected to a sub-structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Felix Widmer, Martin Ruge, Markus Felix
  • Publication number: 20130248326
    Abstract: A conveying system includes rolling bodies each with a rolling element cage and rolling elements. The rolling elements are arranged in recesses of the rolling element cage and for the rolling in a guide channel. In each case two or three or more rolling elements form a roller set, and the rolling elements of a roller set roll on one another as well as on the guide channel, and at least one roller set is present per rolling body. The conveying system includes at least two guide channels which run at an essentially constant distance to one another and together form a guide path; and at least two rolling bodies are connected to one other by way of a connection element, into a conveying element, and the conveying element with its at least two rolling bodies is movable in at least two guide channels along the guide path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: FERAG AG
    Inventors: Martin Ruge, Markus Felix
  • Publication number: 20130209151
    Abstract: A device and method for producing complex multipart collections (K1) of printed products includes at least two partial collections (T1, T2, T3) of precursors. The device comprises a collating device (6) having a conveyor track (41) on which a plurality of receptacle units (50) circulate in a closed circuit for receiving collated precursors, and on which a plurality of feeder apparatuses (101-112) are disposed in at least one collating region (11, 12), from which precursors are dispensed into the receptacle units (50) moving past on the conveyor track. A transfer apparatus (30) is disposed in at least one location of the conveyor track (42), transferring collated first partial collections (T1) from the receptacle units (50) for further processing, and a collator (31, 32) is disposed in at least one further location of the conveyor track (41, 43), collating further collated partial collections (T3, T4) from the receptacle units (50) into collections (K1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Inventors: Markus Felix, Martin Ruge
  • Publication number: 20130174066
    Abstract: In order to produce a graphical user interface for operating one or more machines, a graphical symbol library having a plurality of graphical control elements is created and stored. Furthermore, a function library comprising a plurality of function designations having associated classification information is created and stored. Function designations are selected from the function library for a user interface, and graphical control elements from the graphical symbol library are associated with the function designations. The graphical control elements are grouped and arranged in the user interface on the basis of the classification information, class-specific rules, and stored design rules. The user interface is displayed on a touch-sensitive display in accordance with the size of the display and function rights of a user. An electromechanical control element is provided for inputting a control command regardless of rights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventor: Markus Felix
  • Patent number: 7556248
    Abstract: In order to produce final printed products (14) in the same compartment (12), a first product for insertion (22) is inserted into a first folded printed product (10), and a second product for insertion (28) is inserted into a second folded printed product (24). The printed products (10, 24) are displaced in the direction of the folds (16), and as a result each of the printed products (10, 24) has an edge section (26) projecting beyond the other printed product. This permits fault-free, simple access to each of the printed products (10, 24) in order to open and insert the products for insertion (22, 28).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Ferag AG
    Inventors: Erwin Müller, Markus Felix
  • Patent number: 7490821
    Abstract: Two folded and printed products (11, 12) are introduced into a pocket-like holding compartment (1) with respective ones of their side surfaces resting against each other and are moved in such position jointly along a processing section in a direction running transversely with respect to the folded edge. In the course of this movement, the printed products (11, 12) are displaced in opposite directions (H, I) relative to each other in the direction of their folded edge and toward opening elements (7, 8). The opening elements (7, 8) move between the two halves (11a, 11b; 12a, 12b) of the two printed products (11, 12) and have the effect that the two product halves (11a, 11b; 12a, 12b) are lifted off each other. Inserts are then inserted into the printed products (11, 12) opened simultaneously in this way. In a second embodiment, first and second clamping fingers (107, 111) act in conjunction with a pivotable separating element (113) to open the two printed products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Ferag AG
    Inventors: Erwin Müller, Markus Felix
  • Patent number: 7422203
    Abstract: In order to produce final printed products (14) in the same compartment (12), a first product for insertion (22) is inserted into a first folded printed product (10), and a second product for insertion (28) is inserted into a second folded printed product (24). The printed products (10, 24) are displaced in the direction of the folds (16), and as a result each of the printed products (10, 24) has an edge section (26) projecting beyond the other printed product. This permits fault-free, simple access to each of the printed products (10, 24) by grippers (44, 46) respectively positioned adjacent the end regions of each of the compartments and which are configured to open the products for insertion (22, 28).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Ferag AG
    Inventors: Erwin Müller, Markus Felix
  • Publication number: 20070132168
    Abstract: In order to produce final printed products (14) in the same compartment (12), a first product for insertion (22) is inserted into a first folded printed product (10), and a second product for insertion (28) is inserted into a second folded printed product (24). The printed products (10, 24) are displaced in the direction of the folds (16), and as a result each of the printed products (10, 24) has an edge section (26) projecting beyond the other printed product. This permits fault-free, simple access to each of the printed products (10, 24) by grippers (44, 46) respectively positioned adjacent the end regions of each of the compartments and which are configured to open the products for insertion (22, 28).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2007
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Inventors: Erwin Muller, Markus Felix
  • Publication number: 20060055101
    Abstract: Two folded and printed products (11, 12) are introduced into a pocket-like holding compartment (1) with respective ones of their side surfaces resting against each other and are moved in such position jointly along a processing section in a direction running transversely with respect to the folded edge. In the course of this movement, the printed products (11, 12) are displaced in opposite directions (H, I) relative to each other in the direction of their folded edge and toward opening elements (7, 8). The opening elements (7, 8) move between the two halves (11a, 11b; 12a, 12b) of the two printed products (11, 12) and have the effect that the two product halves (11a, 11b; 12a, 12b) are lifted off each other. Inserts are then inserted into the printed products (11, 12) opened simultaneously in this way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2005
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Inventors: Erwin Muller, Markus Felix