Patents by Inventor Thomas Elenz

Thomas Elenz 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: 7776185
    Abstract: The invention relates to a machine for producing and/or further processing a fibrous web, said machine comprising a press part and a drying part. The press part comprises only one press nip, and the first or second drying group of the dry part comprises an air-flow drying unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Elenz
  • Publication number: 20070251661
    Abstract: The invention relates to a machine for producing and/or further processing a fibrous web, said machine comprising a press part and a drying part. The press part comprises only one press nip, and the first or second drying group of the dry part comprises an air-flow drying unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2005
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Applicant: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Elenz
  • Publication number: 20060102310
    Abstract: Press arrangement for dewatering a paper, board, tissue or other fibrous web in a machine for producing and/or finishing the same. Arrangement includes only one elongated dewatering nip, through which the fibrous web, having at least one endlessly circulating water-absorbing dewatering belt arranged on each web surface, is led. After the dewatering nip, the fibrous web runs through a smoothing 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: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Applicant: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Elenz
  • Patent number: 6638395
    Abstract: Machine and process for at least one of producing and finishing a fibrous material web. The machine includes a press section, for dewatering the fibrous web, with a press nip, a former, located before, relative to a web travel direction, the press section for sheet formation, and a dryer section, located after the press section for drying the fibrous material web including a first dryer section having no more than three dryer cylinders. Two press rolls are arranged to form the press nip, and at least one press felt is located on each surface of the material web, such that the material web and the at least one press felt on each side of the material web are guided through the press nip. The fibrous material web is dewatered in the former to a dry content of at least approximately 18%, partially loops around the no more than three dryer cylinders, and is constantly supported from the former to an end of the first dryer group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Elenz
  • Patent number: 6475343
    Abstract: Process and apparatus for dewatering a fibrous material web. The process includes guiding the fibrous material web through a dewatering zone, and directing a plurality of gas pressure pulses of a pressurized displacement gas one after the other onto a surface of the fibrous material web within the dewatering zone. The apparatus includes a device for forming a plurality of gas pressure pulses which are arranged one after the other within the dewatering zone. The plurality of gas pressure pulses are directed onto a surface of the fibrous material web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Grabscheid, Karl Josef Böck, Ulrich Begemann, Thomas Elenz, Peter Mirsberger, Hans Dahl, Hannes Vomhoff, David Beck
  • Patent number: 6381868
    Abstract: Apparatus and process for dewatering a material web. The apparatus includes at least one pressure chamber formed by at least four substantially parallel rolls, a device arranged to introduce a pressurized gas into the at least one pressure chamber, and the at least four substantially parallel rolls being displaceable relative to one another to change an effective area of the at least one pressure chamber. The material web is guided through the at least one pressure chamber. The process includes pressurizing at least one pressure chamber with a gas medium, guiding the material web through the pressure chamber, driving water out of the material web using gas pressure within the at least one pressure chamber, and changing an effective area of the pressure chamber so as to adjust a dewatering capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Grabscheid, Karl Josef Böck, Ulrich Begemann, Thomas Elenz, Peter Mirsberger, Hans Dahl, Hannes Vomhoff, David Beck
  • Patent number: 6214167
    Abstract: Twin-wire former for producing a fibrous material web from a fibrous suspension and process for separating upper and lower wires of the twin-wire former. The twin-wire former includes a twin-wire zone composed of a lower wire and an upper wire and a plurality of rolls including an inlet roll and an outlet roll. The upper wire is guidable over the plurality of rolls, the inlet roll guides the upper wire to the twin-wire zone, and the outlet roll guides the upper wire toward the inlet roll. A wedge-shaped inlet zone is formed between the upper wire and the lower wire and has an adjustable inlet wedge angle. An upper wire subassembly includes a drainage box adapted to receive suspension water that flows upwardly through the upper wire, and further includes a pivotable common support device, to which the drainage box and the inlet roll are mounted. A stroke device is coupled to the pivotable common support device to lift the pivotable common support device around a first horizontal axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Günter Halmschlager, Franz Stelzhammer, Alexander Wassermann, Jürgen Banning, Werner Leitenberger, Thomas Elenz
  • Patent number: 5649371
    Abstract: A dry unit of a dry end of a machine for producing a material web and including at least one drying cylinder and a plurality of dry felts parsing around the dry cylinder one above another, with at least two of the dry felts being lifted off the dry cylinder at different circumferential positions of the two dry felts on the dry cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Loser, Thomas Elenz, Albrecht Meinecke, Helmut Konecsny