Patents by Inventor Thomas Gerhard

Thomas Gerhard 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).

  • Publication number: 20160305056
    Abstract: An apparatus to treat wound sheet forms, especially textile sheets, with fluids is provided. The treatment includes the bleaching, the dyeing, and the washing of knitted and woven textile and fleece. Such sheet forms may include any of cellulosic, animal, and synthetic fabric and their compositions. The sheet forms wound onto a perforated dyeing beam are treated with the fluids by means of centrifugal force in such a way that a regular treatment with the least use of water, chemicals, and energy is possible. A centrifugal dyeing apparatus includes a closable container, a pump to circulate a treating fluid, a driven dyeing beam, which is rotatably supported in the container, arranged to hold a lap made of a textile sheet form and having a tube with a perforation, wherein support sustainers are provided, wherein the support sustainers radially support the lap, and wherein the support sustainers (6) are attached to the dyeing beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: LAB-PRO GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Widmer, Thomas Gerhard
  • Patent number: 8849364
    Abstract: The invention relates to a high-temperature superconductor (HTS) magnet system, preferably for an insertion device for generation of high-intensity synchrotron radiation, consisting of the coil body (6), on the mantle surface of which poles with windings that lie between them are disposed, wherein at least one high-temperature superconductor strip (23) is wound onto the coil body (6) in one direction, and adjacent winding packages or sections are electrically connected with one another in such a manner that the current flow runs in opposite directions, in each instance. The solution according to the invention has the advantage of a simplified winding process, whereby individual coil pairs can be replaced, if necessary, by means of the modular arrangement. The scheme can be applied to every possible configuration of an insertion device, and is therefore also suitable for use in so-called free electron lasers and other light sources based on particle accelerators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Babcock Noell GmbH
    Inventors: Cristian Boffo, Thomas Gerhard
  • Publication number: 20130130914
    Abstract: The invention relates to a high-temperature superconductor (HTS) magnet system, preferably for an insertion device for generation of high-intensity synchrotron radiation, consisting of the coil body (6), on the mantle surface of which poles with windings that lie between them are disposed, wherein at least one high-temperature superconductor strip (23) is wound onto the coil body (6) in one direction, and adjacent winding packages or sections are electrically connected with one another in such a manner that the current flow runs in opposite directions, in each instance. The solution according to the invention has the advantage of a simplified winding process, whereby individual coil pairs can be replaced, if necessary, by means of the modular arrangement. The scheme can be applied to every possible configuration of an insertion device, and is therefore also suitable for use in so-called free electron lasers and other light sources based on particle accelerators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: BABCOCK NOELL GMBH
    Inventors: Cristian Boffo, Thomas Gerhard
  • Patent number: 6712000
    Abstract: A cylinder for a rotary printing press is supported by bearings that are situated outside of the spaced side frames of the press. Each bearing is arranged in a bearing bushing that is, in turn supported by the press lateral frame. All of the bearing is located away from the lateral frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Holm, Kurt Johannes Weschenfelder, Thomas Gerhard
  • Patent number: 4314512
    Abstract: A damped suspension system for conveyors which has a pair of shock absorbers each of which is associated with an initial stressed spring thereby exerting a balancing effect. In preferred embodiments the shock absorbers are provided with means comprising, for example, a casing and a sleeve wherein the cylinder is executing and up and down movement relative to the sleeve. Casing and sleeve each supporting one end of the spring during movement of the conveyer in a straight line. Since, during an inclination of the cabin of the conveyor, both ends of the spring located on the lower side of the cabin are supported only through the casing, there is no possibility of a releasing. Thereby at least the initial force of the spring located on the raised side of the cabin is effective for a reset of the cabin into its vertical position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1982
    Assignee: Waggonfabrik Uerdingen AG
    Inventors: Thomas Gerhard, Ulrich Giesen
  • Patent number: 4290367
    Abstract: The overhead conveyor comprises a main track and a branch track connected to the main track in a switch point, the tracks having a shape of a box-like beam with a longitudinal slit in its bottom flange for suspending a trolley carriage, the carriage supporting a rocking lever having at its ends guiding rollers, the operation of the switch point being safeguarded via tiltable tongues arranged on the lower flange of the track and cooperating with slide shoes provided on the ends of the rocking lever, and by means of locking rails attached to the side walls of the track to lock the rocking lever in the desired angular position; the ends of the rocking lever further support safety noses each having an inclined surface of a length sufficient for bridging the gap between the ends of the inclined tongues and the beginning of the locking rail when the slide shoe still engages the end portion of the safety tong.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1981
    Assignee: Waggonfabrik Uerdingen A.G.
    Inventors: Joachim Brause, Thomas Gerhard, Manfred Keller, Henry Olszok
  • Patent number: 4214535
    Abstract: A switch for a suspended railway vehicle having two elastic wheels, comprises four rails forming three paths one of which branches off into two other paths. A gap is bounded between the four rails. When the vehicle runs over the switch from one to another path one of its wheels enters the gap and runs without support, and after passing the gap this wheel engages with a portion of one rail of the other path. A plurality of ramps are provided each arranged on a respective one of the above-mentioned portions and so that after passing the gap the one wheel is raised by the ramp to a contact surface of the rail of the other path. At the same time, each ramp includes a transitional portion merging into the rails with a transverse inclination which decreases proceeding in the direction along which the transitional portion merges into the respective rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1980
    Assignee: Waggonfabrik Uerdingen A.G.
    Inventor: Thomas Gerhard