Patents by Inventor Peter Obstfelder

Peter Obstfelder 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: 9909806
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dryer for a lacquering facility: a) having a dryer housing, in which heated air is circulated, b) having an exhaust air line for a exhausting exhaust air from the dryer housing; c) having a combustion unit, which is connected to the exhaust air line, and which is used for thermal post-treatment of the exhaust air from the dryer housing and for providing hot air to a heat exchanger; d) wherein said heat exchanger is set up to supply said dryer housing with heated fresh air; and wherein e) at least one heating unit for heating the air circulated in said dryer housing is associated with said dryer housing. It is provided according to the invention that a combustion air supply of the heating unit is connected so it communicates with the dryer housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: EISENMANN SE
    Inventors: Peter Schwerer, Peter Obstfelder
  • Patent number: 9605903
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gate unit for gas-tight sealing of two adjacent high temperature zones within a high temperature oven, comprising a gate panel displaceable between an open position and a closed position within a guide structure. At least one sealing element is transported with the gate panel. Protecting means can be transported by the gate panel over at least one part of a transport path of the same, by which at least one segment of the sealing element can be protected over at least one part of the displacement path of the gate panel against influences harmful to the sealing element particularly against radiant heat. The invention further relates to a high temperature oven having an oven tunnel comprising a first high temperature zone and a second high temperature zone. The gate panel is disposed in a transition region between the first and the second high temperature zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: EISENMANN AG
    Inventors: Karl Berner, Peter Obstfelder
  • Patent number: 9410295
    Abstract: A rail system for an in-floor electric conveyer system having a main track with at least two fixed parallel rails, at least two secondary tracks which enclose an angle and each have fixed rails, and a switch arranged between the main track and the secondary tracks. Each rail of the main track is assigned a moveable rail section connected to the corresponding rail of the main track via a joint. Each joint has at least one end face of the rail of the main track embodied as part of a rotational face about the axis of a pivot pin, at least one end face, embodied in a complementary fashion thereto, of the assigned movable rail section and at least one transition body, which overlaps the fixed rail and the movable rail section and is connected in one end region to the fixed rail, and in the other end region to the movable rail section in an articulated fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: EISENMANN AG
    Inventors: Herbert Schulze, Peter Obstfelder
  • Publication number: 20140021305
    Abstract: A rail system for an in-floor electric conveyer system having a main track with at least two fixed parallel rails, at least two secondary tracks which enclose an angle and each likewise have fixed rails, and a switch arranged between the main track -and the secondary tracks. Each rail of the main track is assigned a moveable rail section connected to the corresponding rail of the main track via a joint. Each joint has at least one end face of the rail of the main track embodied as part of a rotational face about the axis of a pivot pin, at least one end face, embodied in a complementary fashion thereto, of the assigned movable rail section and at least one transition body, which overlaps the fixed rail and the movable rail section and is connected in one end region to the fixed rail, and in the other end region to the movable rail section in an articulated fashion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: EISENMANN AG
    Inventors: Herbert Schulze, Peter Obstfelder
  • Publication number: 20110023314
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dryer for a lacquering facility: a) having a dryer housing, in which heated air is circulated, b) having an exhaust air line for a exhausting exhaust air from the dryer housing; c) having a combustion unit, which is connected to the exhaust air line, and which is used for thermal post-treatment of the exhaust air from the dryer housing and for providing hot air to a heat exchanger; d) wherein said heat exchanger is set up to supply said dryer housing with heated fresh air; and wherein e) at least one heating unit for heating the air circulated in said dryer housing is associated with said dryer housing. It is provided according to the invention that a combustion air supply of the heating unit is connected so it communicates with the dryer housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: EISENMANN ANLAGENBAU GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Peter Schwerer, Peter Obstfelder
  • Publication number: 20110008743
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gate unit for gas-tight sealing of two adjacent high temperature zones within a high temperature oven, comprising a gate panel displaceable between an open position and a closed position within a guide structure. At least one sealing element is transported with the gate panel. Protecting means can be transported by the gate panel over at least one part of a transport path of the same, by which at least one segment of the sealing element can be protected over at least one part of the displacement path of the gate panel against influences harmful to the sealing element particularly against radiant heat. The invention further relates to a high temperature oven having an oven tunnel comprising a first high temperature zone and a second high temperature zone. The gate panel is disposed in a transition region between the first and the second high temperature zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: EISENMANN ANLAGENBAU GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Karl Berner, Peter Obstfelder