Patents by Inventor Rudiger Heinrich Stenger

Rudiger Heinrich Stenger 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).

  • Size-reduction machines, feed units therefor, and methods of use
    Patent number: 10518431
    Abstract: Size-reduction machines, feed units, and methods capable of producing reduced-size products from a variety of solid and semisolid materials. Such machines have an impeller that rotates on an approximately horizontal axis and an opening at an axial end of the impeller. A feed unit includes a feed hopper for feeding products to an interior of the impeller through the opening of the machine, and a slicing knife is mounted to the impeller and radially protrudes across the opening of the machine to slice products into segments as they enter the interior of the impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Urschel Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Alan Klockow, Nicholas Alan Underwood, Rudiger Heinrich Stenger
  • SIZE-REDUCTION MACHINES, FEED UNITS THEREFOR, AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20180111283
    Abstract: Size-reduction machines, feed units, and methods capable of producing reduced-size products from a variety of solid and semisolid materials. Such machines have an impeller that rotates on an approximately horizontal axis and an opening at an axial end of the impeller. A feed unit includes a feed hopper for feeding products to an interior of the impeller through the opening of the machine, and a slicing knife is mounted to the impeller and radially protrudes across the opening of the machine to slice products into segments as they enter the interior of the impeller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Scott Alan Klockow, Nicholas Alan Underwood, Rudiger Heinrich Stenger