Patents by Inventor Rüdiger Kurtz
Rüdiger Kurtz 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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Patent number: 7691232Abstract: A method and a device for treating a web, wherein the web is coated by a coating device. The coated web is calendered, and a steam application device applies steam to the coated web before the coated web is calendered. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2005Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbHInventors: Ruediger Kurtz, Joerg Rheims
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Publication number: 20070284072Abstract: A sheath for a pressing device, the sheath having a cylindrical circumferential face having a circumferential face radius and an annular bearing resiliently mounted to at least one axial end of the sheath in a spring elastic manner. The annular bearing has a smaller radius than the circumferential face radius. Additionally, the sheath has a bellows-shaped transition region extending at the at least one axial end of the sheath from the cylindrical circumferential face to the annular bearing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2005Publication date: December 13, 2007Applicant: VOITH PATENT GmbHInventors: Josef Schneid, Ruediger Kurtz, Jens Mueller, Andreas Schuette, Dirk Hoeckelmann, Uwe Matuschczyk
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Patent number: 6989077Abstract: Wide nip calender arrangement and process for glazing a paper or cardboard web that includes a back pressure surface, a support shoe arrangement, and a circulating jacket loaded by the support shoe arrangement in a direction of the back pressure surface to form a wide nip. A moistening device is arranged before, relative to a web travel direction, an intake to the wide nip, and a calibration nip is arranged behind, relative to a web travel direction, a discharge from the wide nip. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2003Date of Patent: January 24, 2006Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbHInventor: Rüdiger Kurtz
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Publication number: 20050194112Abstract: A method and a device for treating a web, wherein the web is coated by a coating device. The coated web is calendered, and a steam application device applies steam to the coated web before the coated web is calendered. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2005Publication date: September 8, 2005Applicant: Voith Paper Patent GmbHInventors: Ruediger Kurtz, Joerg Rheims
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Patent number: 6599395Abstract: A method of producing paper webs coated on both sides includes the following steps: a) indirectly applying a liquid onto the paper web by passing the web through at least one nip formed by a roll and a counterelement, whereafter the web is dried; b) next, directly applying coating mixture at surplus only on one side of the web, whereafter the surplus coating mixture is removed again by use of a doctor element, the web being dried again thereafter; and c) lastly, directly applying coating mixture at surplus only on the other web side, whereafter the surplus coating mixture is removed by use of a doctor, whereafter the web is dried again. In the indirect application of liquid in the nip, or in the nips, either coating mixture to produce so-called MWC papers or a sizing suspension to produce so-called LWC papers is selectively applied.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2001Date of Patent: July 29, 2003Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbHInventors: Hans-Jürgen Wulz, Rüdiger Kurtz, Gerhard Kotitschke, Bernhard Kohl, Peter Petermann, Erhard Gruber
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Patent number: 6579368Abstract: An application apparatus is for applying a liquid or pasty medium to a moving base. The moving base is a surface of a material web in a case of direct application and a surface of a transfer element for transferring the medium to the material web in a case of indirect application, the material web being one of paper and cardboard. The application apparatus has an inlet side and an outlet side with respect to a direction of movement of the moving base. The application apparatus includes a carrying beam; an essentially rigid supporting unit provided on the carrying beam; a sealing doctor device positioned at the inlet side of the application apparatus, the sealing doctor device being fixedly attached to the supporting unit; and a metering doctor device positioned at the outlet side of the application apparatus, the metering doctor device being fixedly attached to the supporting unit. The sealing doctor device and the metering doctor device define an application chamber therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2000Date of Patent: June 17, 2003Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbHInventors: Bernhard Kohl, Stefan Reich, Benjamin Méndez-Gallon, Martin Kustermann, Manfred Ueberschär, Christioph Henninger, Rüdiger Kurtz, Martin Tietz
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Patent number: 6568318Abstract: Process for operating a calender and a calender. The calender includes a hard roll and a soft roll with an elastic surface, in which the hard roll and the soft roll are arranged to form at least one nip, and a finishing medium application device positioned adjacent the soft roll. The process includes providing a finish on the elastic surface of the soft roll.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2001Date of Patent: May 27, 2003Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbHInventor: Rüdiger Kurtz
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Patent number: 6494954Abstract: The invention relates to a method for directly or indirectly applying a liquid or pasty application medium (2) onto one or both sides of a continuous surface (4), wherein the application medium (2) is applied to the surface (4) in a plurality of single application regions by means of a plurality of single application nozzles (12) spaced apart from one another side by side and/or in succession in the direction of width (B) and/or longitudinal direction of the surface (4) and clearly distanced (D) from the surface (4), the application medium (2) emerging from each of these nozzles, wherein adjacent single application regions each intersect (U) at least in part in their respective edge regions, causing a layer of application medium to be produced across substantially the entire width (B) of the surface (4) to be coated. The invention also relates to an apparatus for performing this method.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2000Date of Patent: December 17, 2002Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbHInventors: Richard Bernert, Rüdiger Kurtz, Martin Kustermann, Bernhard Kohl, Hans-Dieter Dörflinger, Benjamin Mendez-Gallon
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Patent number: 6444030Abstract: An apparatus applies a liquid or viscid coating medium onto a moving material web, especially one made of paper or cardboard. A coating mechanism first applies the coating medium onto an applicator element or an applicator roll, which subsequently transfers the coating medium at a coating location onto the material web in the form of a coating layer. Furthermore, if so desired, a doctoring device can be positioned at a doctor station, adjacent to the coating location, on the downstream side relative to the movement of the material web for the purpose of smoothing and/or metering the coating. The coating apparatus incorporates an apparatus for the generation and/or supplying of a fluid, preferably steam. This apparatus is positioned adjacent to the coating location or to the doctor station on the downstream side relative to the movement L of the material web.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2000Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbHInventors: Bernhard Kohl, Martin Kustermann, Oswald Satzger, Rüdiger Kurtz, Harald Hess, Karl-Heinz Hannen, Hans Peter Hoffmann, Franz Kustos
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Patent number: 6425513Abstract: An apparatus transfers a threading strip and/or a material web can from a pick-up area into a transfer area along a web travel path for production and/or processing/of the strip and/or web. The device includes a carrier for moving the strip and/or web along the web travel path through the machine at a carrier speed. The device also includes at least one pick-up unit for transferring the strip and/or web from the pick-up area to the transfer area at relocation speed that is lower than the carrier speed.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1999Date of Patent: July 30, 2002Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbHInventors: Zygmunt Madrzak, Rüdiger Kurtz, Oswald Satzger, Wolf Gunter Stotz, Thomas Hermsen, Georg Kugler, Werner Goebel, Karlheinz Straub, Patric Romes
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Patent number: 6410100Abstract: The invention relates to a method for directly or indirectly applying a liquid or pasty application medium (2) onto one or both sides of a continuous surface (4), wherein the application medium (2) is applied to the surface (4) in a plurality of single application regions by means of a plurality of single application nozzles (12) spaced apart from one another side by side and/or in succession in the direction of width (B) and/or longitudinal direction of the surface (4) and clearly distanced (D) from the surface (4), the application medium (2) emerging from each of these nozzles, wherein adjacent single application regions each intersect (U) at least in part in their respective edge regions, causing a layer of application medium to be produced across substantially the entire width (B) of the surface (4) to be coated. The invention also relates to an apparatus for performing this method.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2000Date of Patent: June 25, 2002Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbHInventors: Richard Bernert, Rüdiger Kurtz, Martin Kustermann, Bernhard Kohl, Hans-Dieter Dörflinger, Benjamin Mendez-Gallon
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Patent number: 6372046Abstract: A device designed for coating a material web with a coating medium includes a coater, a metering/smoothing device positioned downstream of the coater in the direction of feed of the material web, at a certain distance from the coater, and a support roll around which the material web is guided. Moreover, the material web is guided around the support roll only in the area of the metering/smoothing device, and it traverses essentially in a straight line between the coater and the support roll. In accordance to a first aspect of this invention, a support arrangement supports the material web in the straight web section between the coater and the support roll. In accordance to a second aspect of this invention, devices are provided which stabilize the material web in the area where the web traverses in a straight line.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 1999Date of Patent: April 16, 2002Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbHInventors: Ingo Gottwald, Bernhard Kohl, Stefan Reich, Benjamin Méndez-Gallon, Richard Bernert, Martin Kustermann, Manfred Ueberschär, Christoph Henninger, Ruediger Kurtz, Harald Hess
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Patent number: 6309704Abstract: A device for direct or indirect application of a liquid or viscous coating medium onto a moving material web, specifically a paper or cardboard web, includes an applicator unit which, in the direct application method, applies the coating medium in the form of a coating layer directly onto the material web at a point of application. In the indirect application method, the coating medium is first applied onto an applicator element, for example an applicator roll, which then transfers, at the point of application, the coating medium to the material web in the form of a coating layer. In addition, a drying device for drying of the coating layer is provided downstream from the point of application, viewed in the direction of flow of the material web. In the applicator unit, a device for moistening and/or warming the material web, coating medium or the coating layer is additionally provided before the drying device, viewed in the flow direction of the material web.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 1999Date of Patent: October 30, 2001Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbHInventors: Harald Hess, Rüdiger Kurtz, Benjamin Mendéz-Gallon
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Patent number: 6309463Abstract: A device for direct or indirect application of a liquid or viscous coating medium onto a moving material web, specifically a paper or cardboard web, includes an applicator unit which, in the direct application method, applies the coating medium in the form of a coating layer directly onto the material web at a point of application. In the indirect application method, the coating medium is first applied onto an applicator element, for example an applicator roll, which then transfers, at the point of application, the coating medium to the material web in the form of a coating layer. In addition, a drying device for drying of the coating layer is provided downstream from the point of application, viewed in the direction of flow of the material web. In the applicator unit, a device for moistening and/or warming the material web, coating medium or the coating layer is additionally provided before the drying device, viewed in the flow direction of the material web.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2000Date of Patent: October 30, 2001Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbHInventors: Harald Hess, Rüdiger Kurtz, Benjamin Mendéz-Gallon
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Patent number: 6299728Abstract: A multi-ply paper includes a fiber material base layer, which is unbleached or made of wastepaper, and a top layer. Instead of a conventional “white” fiber material top layer, the top layer is in the form of a white or colored top coating.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1998Date of Patent: October 9, 2001Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbHInventors: Rüdiger Kurtz, Kurt Hack
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Patent number: 6284097Abstract: A method of producing paper webs coated on both sides includes the following steps: a) indirectly applying a liquid onto the paper web by passing the web through at least one nip formed by a roll and a counterelement, whereafter the web is dried; b) next, directly applying coating mixture at surplus only on one side of the web, whereafter the surplus coating mixture is removed again by use of a doctor element, the web being dried again thereafter; and c) lastly, directly applying coating mixture at surplus only on the other web side, whereafter the surplus coating mixture is removed by use of a doctor, whereafter the web is dried again. In the indirect application of liquid in the nip, or in the nips, either coating mixture to produce so-called MWC papers or a sizing suspension to produce so-called LWC papers is selectively applied.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 1998Date of Patent: September 4, 2001Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbHInventors: Hans-Jürgen Wulz, Rüdiger Kurtz, Gerhard Kotitschke, Bernhard Kohl, Peter Petermann, Erhard Gruber