Patents by Inventor Stephan Wartmann

Stephan Wartmann 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: 9452467
    Abstract: A net is particularly suitable for a basket for pisciculture, which may be placed in sea or fresh water. The net is made of a wire material, producible from individual spiral or similarly bent longitudinal elements, wherein adjacent threads are woven together. The net is simple and economical to produce, for example, by threading each longitudinal element into engagement with another longitudinal element while it has a shape of a spiral or screw to thereby provide it with a cylindrical form, and compressing each longitudinal element, when having the cylindrical form and after being threaded into engagement with the another longitudinal element, to provide the longitudinal element with substantially straight wire sections. The threading and compression steps are repeated to form a net after compression of several longitudinal elements threaded to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Geobrugg AG
    Inventors: Jürg Atz, Stephan Wartmann
  • Patent number: 9333553
    Abstract: A net, in particular for protection, safety, water-rearing or architectural purposes, is braided together from individual helically curved longitudinal elements (3) to form a braided structure. Individual longitudinal elements (3) curved into a cylinder or screw shape are twisted one inside the other with adjacent ones and compressed such that the braided structure is in more or less planar sheet-like form and the longitudinal elements (3) here each form more or less rectilinear limbs (8a, 8b; 9a, 9b) and curves (10a, 10b; 11a, 11b) therebetween. The curves (10a, 10b; 11a, 1b) between elongate limbs (8a, 8b; 9a, 9b) are inflected in kink form. This gives a net design with unexpectedly high strength values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Geobrugg AG
    Inventor: Stephan Wartmann
  • Publication number: 20150041599
    Abstract: A net, in particular for protection, safety, water-rearing or architectural purposes, is braided together from individual helically curved longitudinal elements (3) to form a braided structure. Individual longitudinal elements (3) curved into a cylinder or screw shape are twisted one inside the other with adjacent ones and compressed such that the braided structure is in more or less planar sheet-like form and the longitudinal elements (3) here each form more or less rectilinear limbs (8a, 8b; 9a, 9b) and curves (10a, 10b; 11a, 11b) therebetween. The curves (10a, 10b; 11a, 1b) between elongate limbs (8a, 8b; 9a, 9b) are inflected in kink form. This gives a net design with unexpectedly high strength values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventor: Stephan Wartmann
  • Patent number: 8678709
    Abstract: According to the invention, a security net can be erected in or on water or on the ground and is provided with a net or net-like structure (1) manufactured substantially from wire material, rope material, strand material or plastics material (2). The net (1) is bent together and forms longitudinal flanks (3, 4) and at least one arched region (5). The overlapping longitudinal flanks (3, 4) can be connected together and several stabilizers (8) are associated with the net (1). In cross-section, the net (1) is constructed similarly to a teardrop, with the arched region (5) lying on or at least partially in the water. In this way, a largely double-walled security system is obtained, which is able to intercept impacting objects reliably and moreover gently, because the net and the three-dimensional protective net structure is deformable due to the relative flexibility thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Geobrugg AG
    Inventors: Peter Utz, Stephan Wartmann
  • Publication number: 20130299040
    Abstract: A net is particularly suitable for a basket for pisciculture, which may be placed in sea or fresh water. The net is made of a wire material, producible from individual spiral or similarly bent longitudinal elements, wherein adjacent threads are woven together. The net is simple and economical to produce, for example, by threading each longitudinal element into engagement with another longitudinal element while it has a shape of a spiral or screw to thereby provide it with a cylindrical form, and compressing each longitudinal element, when having the cylindrical form and after being threaded into engagement with the another longitudinal element, to provide the longitudinal element with substantially straight wire sections. The threading and compression steps are repeated to form a net after compression of several longitudinal elements threaded to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: Jürg Atz, Stephan Wartmann
  • Publication number: 20120121342
    Abstract: According to the invention, a security net can be erected in or on water or on the ground and is provided with a net or net-like structure (1) manufactured substantially from wire material, rope material, strand material or plastics material (2). The net (1) is bent together and forms longitudinal flanks (3, 4) and at least one arched region (5). The overlapping longitudinal flanks (3, 4) can be connected together and several stabilisers (8) are associated with the net (1). In cross-section, the net (1) is constructed similarly to a teardrop, with the arched region (5) lying on or at least partially in the water. In this way, a largely double-walled security system is obtained, which is able to intercept impacting objects reliably and moreover gently, because the net and the three-dimensional protective net structure is deformable due to the relative flexibility thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: GEOGRUGG AG
    Inventors: Peter Utz, Stephan Wartmann
  • Publication number: 20110265729
    Abstract: A net (11) is particularly suitable for a basket for pisciculture, which may be placed in sea or fresh water (16). The net (11) is made of a wire material (1), producible from individual spiral or similarly bent longitudinal elements, wherein adjacent threads (2, 3, 4, 5) are woven together. Said net is simple and economical to produce.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: GEOBRUGG AG
    Inventors: Jurg Atz, Stephan Wartmann
  • Publication number: 20090022549
    Abstract: The invention concerns an obstruction device for flowing waterways and rivulets of all kinds, in particular for torrents and similar river beds, with a flexible barrier element in the form of a catchment net (4), extending from one riverbank (2) to the other riverbank (3) transverse to the flow direction (7). The catchment net (4) is installed between a lower support rope (5) and an upper support rope (6). The support ropes (5, 6) are anchored in the riverbanks (2, 3) with rope anchors (8, 9) attached to their ends, whereby the rope anchors (9) of the upper support rope (6) are offset to the front relative to the rope anchors (8) of the lower support rope (5) in flow direction (7). In this way the catchment net (4) can deform itself when the barrier is filled in such a way that the water, rocks, flotsam etc. then overflowing the net will contact the same either not at all, or only briefly. In this way it is safely and permanently protected against the corrosion and abrasion effect of the overflowing water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: GEOBRUGG AG
    Inventor: Stephan Wartmann
  • Publication number: 20070210214
    Abstract: A protective net, especially for rockfall protection or for verge securing, with a diagonal weave (10), is formed by a three-dimensional mattress-like structure. The same is woven from individual spiral-shaped bent wire strands, wire bundles, wire cables (11, 12, 13, 14) or suchlike, which incorporate two or more wires (22) or wire strands made of steel. It is of great advantage if the wire strands, wire cables, or wire bundles or suchlike are made at least in part from high tensile steel, and if the protective nets can therefore be equipped with very great strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2005
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Inventor: Stephan Wartmann
  • Publication number: 20070131917
    Abstract: A protective mesh, especially for rockfall protection or to stabilise a layer of soil, is braided out of helically curved wires (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16). Rhomboidal meshes (17) are formed and in each case two adjacent helical wires (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) are flexibly held together. The protective mesh (10) has a thickness which amounts to a multiple of the thickness of the wire. In at least some of the braided pairs of wires (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16), an essentially straight longitudinal reinforcement element (31, 32, 33, 34, 35) is guided through the coupling area (A) of the two helical wires, causing the rhomboidal meshes (17) to be divided into triangular meshes (17a, 17b). In these crucial areas of force transmission of the protective mesh, there are now three instead of two wires meeting, as the result of which the force absorption capacity of the protective mesh is substantially increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Inventor: Stephan Wartmann
  • Publication number: 20060144640
    Abstract: In a method for the production of a safety net consisting of intermeshing rings (1), a wire (2) is inserted in approximately its axial direction and shaped by bending into a ring (1) with several windings. While being fed through, the wire (2) is passed through two elements (3, 4) each provided with a through-opening (4?) and fully enclosed, and bent more or less into a ring (1) and, with each winding, is fed through these elements (3, 4), until the through-opening (4?) of these elements (3, 4) is more or less filled with wires (2). This ring (1) withstands loads better, while at the same time being simple to produce and the wire loops are additionally more consistently held together in a ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2005
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Inventor: Stephan Wartmann