Patents by Inventor Robert Linzberger

Robert Linzberger 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: 5368239
    Abstract: In an apparatus for producing milled grain products by means of repeated roll grinding and sifting of specific product fractions, the material to be milled is at least partially guided via double-grinding passes without intermediate sifting. An eight-roll mill is used for this purpose, which eight-roll mill is constructed as a double unit with two roll pairs arranged at a distance one above the other and can be used in quantity in a grain milling system or also in combination with single-grinding passes constructed as four-roll mills. Compared with the use of known four-roll mills, the economic efficiency of a mill is accordingly improved while completely retaining the adaptability of the mill to specific grinding tasks, the quality of the material to be milled and/or the ability to monitor the grinding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1994
    Assignee: Buehler AG
    Inventors: Werner Baltensperger, Robert Linzberger
  • Patent number: 5201470
    Abstract: In a method for producing milled grain products by means of repeated roll grinding and sifting of specific product fractions, the material to be milled is at least partially guided via double-grinding passes without intermediate sifting. An eight-roll mill is used for this purpose, which eight-roll mill is constructed as a double unit with two roll pairs arranged at a distance one above the other and can be used in quantity in a grain milling system or also in combination with single-grinding passes constructed as four-roll mills. Compared with the use of known four-roll mills, the economic efficiency of a mill is accordingly improved while completely retaining the adaptability of the mill to specific grinding tasks, the quality of the material to be milled and/or the ability to monitor the grinding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1993
    Assignee: Buehler AG
    Inventors: Werner Baltensperger, Robert Linzberger
  • Patent number: 4442980
    Abstract: The invention describes a new type of automation for a roller carriage. The amount of product conveyed to the roller carriage is constantly subject to fluctuations, and is determined by a mechanical probe. A corresponding signal directly activates a pneumatic valve, and control pressure adjusts the instantaneous performance of the grinding rolls. The pneumatic valve has a so-called zero position, and becomes a follower control device by means of servo-media and the adjusting mechanism of the performance-dependent elements in the roller carriage. At the same time, the control pressure in the pneumatic valve can start and stop the grinding rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1984
    Assignee: Bebruder Buhler AG.
    Inventors: Hans Oetiker, Robert Linzberger, Leendert Ketting, Werner Winteler
  • Patent number: 4434522
    Abstract: A knife scraper for rotating drums, particularly for the drums of a cylinder mill, which exhibits a knife beam (5) in which the knife (3) is mounted as well as a counterweight (12) for pressing the knife (3) on the associated drum (1, 1'). In order to make it especially simple and quick to adjust the knife (5) while simultaneously keeping the installation costs and manufacturing costs low and to make the knife (3) essentially self-adjusting in normal operation according to the invention, several mechanical tension elements (11-15) are provided along the length of the knife (3) by means of which by slightly elastically bending the knife surface (F) extending beyond the knife beam (5) the cutting edge (4) of the knife (3) can be pressed against the drum (1, 1').
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1984
    Assignee: Gebruder Buhler AG
    Inventor: Robert Linzberger
  • Patent number: 4339083
    Abstract: Apparatus for grinding cereal grain involving the controlling of grinding forces between a pair of cooperating grinding rolls, by determining the actual grain receiving gap between the rolls during rotation thereof and regulating the gap in accordance with a preset desired dimension. A pair of parallel grinding rolls are mounted for movement of one roll relative to the other in a generally radial direction. One of the rolls is yieldingly biased toward engagement with the other roll. Adjustment mechanism is operative to limit movement of the bias roll toward said other roll and to establish said preset dimension or gap between the rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1982
    Assignee: Gebrueder Buehler AG
    Inventors: Robert Linzberger, Leendert Ketting, Ernst M. Heer
  • Patent number: 4140285
    Abstract: Apparatus for grinding cereal grain involving means for controlling of grinding forces between a pair of cooperating grinding rolls, by regulating the actual grain receiving gap between the rolls during rotation thereof and in accordance with a preset desired dimension. A pair of parallel grinding rolls are mounted for movement of one roll relative to the other in a generally radial direction. One of the rolls is yieldingly biased toward engagement with the other roll. Adjustment mechanism is operative to limit movement of the bias roll toward said other roll and to establish said preset dimension or gap between the rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1979
    Assignee: Gebrueder Buehler AG
    Inventors: Robert Linzberger, Leendert Ketting, Ernst Maechler