Patents by Inventor Ralph Steinmaier

Ralph Steinmaier 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).

  • Apparatus for feeding wire to wire processing machines
    Patent number: 9586249
    Abstract: An apparatus for feeding wire to wire-processing machines, in which the wire is drawn off from a pay-off reel holding a wire coil and rotatable about a spindle and fed to a wire feeder upstream of the wire-processing machine, wherein at least one wire-deflecting device, via which the wire drawn off from the pay-off reel is guided and released towards the wire feeder, is connected downstream of the pay-off reel in the wire draw-off direction, and wherein a wire-storage device is provided upstream of the wire feeder, this apparatus presents a guide path, forming a closed circuit, on which the wire runs and the diameter of which can be altered between a smaller value corresponding to an inner radial position of the guide path and a larger value corresponding to an outer radial position of the guide path, wherein the guide path is spring-pretensioned towards the outer radial position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Wafios Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jürgen Wolf, Uwe-Peter Weigmann, Ralph Steinmaier, Stefan Jetter
  • APPARATUS FOR FEEDING WIRE TO WIRE PROCESSING MACHINES
    Publication number: 20130270385
    Abstract: An apparatus for feeding wire to wire-processing machines, in which the wire is drawn off from a pay-off reel holding a wire coil and rotatable about a spindle and fed to a wire feeder upstream of the wire-processing machine, wherein at least one wire-deflecting device, via which the wire drawn off from the pay-off reel is guided and released towards the wire feeder, is connected downstream of the pay-off reel in the wire draw-off direction, and wherein a wire-storage device is provided upstream of the wire feeder, this apparatus presents a guide path, forming a closed circuit, on which the wire runs and the diameter of which can be altered between a smaller value corresponding to an inner radial position of the guide path and a larger value corresponding to an outer radial position of the guide path, wherein the guide path is spring-pretensioned towards the outer radial position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: WAFIOS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jürgen Wolf, Uwe-Peter Weigmann, Ralph Steinmaier, Stefan Jetter