Patents by Inventor Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger

Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger 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: 8253791
    Abstract: A device for monitoring objects, in particular for monitoring industrial environments, such as paper mills and manufacturing and/or finishing processes of a paper, board or other fibrous web being carried out therein, includes a monitoring camera, the camera with its objective being arranged in a rotationally symmetrical protective housing rotating about an axis of rotation, and a protective housing to be mounted at its one end on a rigid hollow shaft and, at its coaxially opposite other end, to have a co-rotating blower pipe or merge into the latter, and for compressed air to be applied to the protective housing, including the blower pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger, Armin Bauer
  • Publication number: 20110098166
    Abstract: A roller for a web-processing machine, the roller having a support core, which is braced in the region of both its ends via a respective bearing arrangement, and an outer covering, which in its axially central region is mounted in a radially fixed manner in relation to the support core and in the region of its two ends is braced in a radially displaceable manner in relation to the support core by a respective additional bearing arrangement, whereby the outer covering is displaceable in the region of its two ends respectively by an actuator arranged within the outer covering, the actuator being adjustable and including two inter-mounted eccentrics to which is assigned respectively one pivoting device, whereby the two pivoting devices are controllable such that the size of the resulting eccentricity and the position of the resulting eccentricity are adjustable preferably separately from each other, the outer covering being non-rotatably connected to the support core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Inventors: Josef Kerschbaumer, Georg Gobec, Norbert Gamsjaeger, Benno Bader, Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger
  • Patent number: 7867155
    Abstract: A roller for a web-processing machine, the roller having a support core, which is braced in the region of both its ends via a respective bearing arrangement, and an outer covering, which in its axially central region is mounted in a radially fixed manner in relation to the support core and in the region of its two ends is braced in a radially displaceable manner in relation to the support core by a respective additional bearing arrangement, whereby the outer covering is displaceable in the region of its two ends respectively by an actuator arranged within the outer covering, the actuator being adjustable and including two inter-mounted eccentrics to which is assigned respectively one pivoting device, whereby the two pivoting devices are controllable such that the size of the resulting eccentricity and the position of the resulting eccentricity are adjustable preferably separately from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Kerschbaumer, Georg Gobec, Norbert Gamsjaeger, Benno Bader, Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger
  • Patent number: 7862492
    Abstract: A roller for a web-processing machine has a support core, which is braced in the region of both its ends via a respective bearing arrangement, and an outer covering, which in its axially central region is braced in a radially fixed manner in relation to the support core and in the region of its two ends is braced in a radially displaceable manner in relation to the support core by a respective additional bearing arrangement, whereby the radially extending center plane of both the support core bearing arrangement and the outer covering bearing arrangement lies axially within the outer covering, and the outer covering is displaceable in the region of its two ends respectively by an actuator arranged preferably within the outer covering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Kerschbaumer, Georg Gobec, Norbert Gamsjaeger, Benno Bader, Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger
  • Patent number: 7824320
    Abstract: A roller, in particular an expander roller, for a web-processing machine, has a support core, which is braced in the region of both its ends via a respective bearing arrangement, and an outer covering, which in its axially central region is braced in a radially fixed manner in relation to the support core and in the region of its two ends is braced in a radially displaceable manner in relation to the support core by a respective additional bearing arrangement, whereby the radially extending center plane of both the support core bearing arrangement and the outer covering bearing arrangement lies axially within the outer covering. Preferably the outer covering is displaceable in this case in the region of its two ends respectively by an actuator arranged within the outer covering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Kerschbaumer, Georg Gobec, Norbert Gamsjaeger, Benno Bader, Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger
  • Patent number: 7802377
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drying cylinder which is used to dry a paper, cardboard, tissue or other web of fibrous material in a machine for the production and/or for the transformation thereof. The drying cylinder includes a support body and an external cover layer which is heated by a hot fluid. The thermal flow passing through the external cover layer is increased such that at least one cavity is provided between the support body and the external cover layer through which the fluid flows. The external cover layer is predominately so thin that the ratio formed by the thermal conductivity of the material and the thickness of the external cover layer is greater than a threshold value of 3.2 kW/m2K for steel, 30 kW/m2K for aluminum, 18 kW/m2K for bronze alloys, 3.4 kW/m2K for copper and 6.1 kW/m2K for magnesium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Kloibhofer, Christoph Haase, Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger, Herbert Boden, Erich Rollenitz, Manfred Gloser
  • Patent number: 7789818
    Abstract: A rotary part, in particular a spreader roller for a web-processing machine has a supporting core with a longitudinal axis, said supporting core being mounted at its two longitudinal ends, and having an elastically flexible outer sleeve which surrounds the supporting core in its circumferential direction and extends, in at least some sections, between the two longitudinal ends of the supporting core. The outer sleeve on the supporting core is non-displaceably mounted on at least one bearing and that the outer sleeve is mounted on at least one displacing point at a distance from the bearing so as to be displaceable perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the supporting core in order for the curvature of the outer sleeve to be adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger, Benno Bader, Norbert Gamsjaeger, Georg Gobec, Herbert Schrefl
  • Publication number: 20090033743
    Abstract: A device for monitoring objects, in particular for monitoring industrial environments, such as paper mills and manufacturing and/or finishing processes of a paper, board or other fibrous web being carried out therein, includes a monitoring camera, the camera with its objective being arranged in a rotationally symmetrical protective housing rotating about an axis of rotation, and a protective housing to be mounted at its one end on a rigid hollow shaft and, at its coaxially opposite other end, to have a co-rotating blower pipe or merge into the latter, and for compressed air to be applied to the protective housing, including the blower pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger, Armin Bauer
  • Publication number: 20080276483
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drying roll for drying a fibrous material web, in particular a paper, cardboard or tissue web in a machine for producing and/or finishing said fibrous material web. The roll can be heated on the interior by a gaseous heat transfer medium and the internal surface of its jacket is provided with elevated sections that extend at least radially inwards, the height of said elevations being greater than the average radial thickness of the condensate layer that forms on the internal surface of the cylinder jacket during operation. The roll is equipped with elements that drain condensate from the condensate chamber that incorporates the areas lying between the elevations. The condensate chamber or at least one condensate sub-section is in hydraulic contact with at least one front-end region of the cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventors: Herbert Boden, Rainer Kloibhofer, Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger, Gunter Seitlhuber, Robert Bunzl
  • Publication number: 20080210733
    Abstract: A roller, in particular an expander roller, for a web-processing machine, has a support core, which is braced in the region of both its ends via a respective bearing arrangement, and an outer covering, which in its axially central region is braced in a radially fixed manner in relation to the support core and in the region of its two ends is braced in a radially displaceable manner in relation to the support core by a respective additional bearing arrangement, whereby the radially extending center plane of both the support core bearing arrangement and the outer covering bearing arrangement lies axially within the outer covering. Preferably the outer covering is displaceable in this case in the region of its two ends respectively by an actuator arranged within the outer covering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Inventors: Josef Kerschbaumer, Georg Gobec, Norbert Gamsjaeger, Benno Bader, Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger
  • Publication number: 20080207419
    Abstract: A roller for a web-processing machine has a support core, which is braced in the region of both its ends via a respective bearing arrangement, and an outer covering, which in its axially central region is braced in a radially fixed manner in relation to the support core and in the region of its two ends is braced in a radially displaceable manner in relation to the support core by a respective additional bearing arrangement, whereby the radially extending center plane of both the support core bearing arrangement and the outer covering bearing arrangement lies axially within the outer covering, and the outer covering is displaceable in the region of its two ends respectively by an actuator arranged preferably within the outer covering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Josef Kerschbaumer, Georg Gobec, Norbert Gamsjaeger, Benno Bader, Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger
  • Publication number: 20080203130
    Abstract: A roller for a web-processing machine, the roller having a support core, which is braced in the region of both its ends via a respective bearing arrangement, and an outer covering, which in its axially central region is mounted in a radially fixed manner in relation to the support core and in the region of its two ends is braced in a radially displaceable manner in relation to the support core by a respective additional bearing arrangement, whereby the outer covering is displaceable in the region of its two ends respectively by an actuator arranged within the outer covering, the actuator being adjustable and including two inter-mounted eccentrics to which is assigned respectively one pivoting device, whereby the two pivoting devices are controllable such that the size of the resulting eccentricity and the position of the resulting eccentricity are adjustable preferably separately from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Josef Kerschbaumer, Georg Gobec, Norbert Gamsjaeger, Benno Bader, Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger
  • Publication number: 20080205867
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotary part, in particular a spreader roller for a web-processing machine. The rotary part has a supporting core with a longitudinal axis, said supporting core being mounted at its two longitudinal ends, and having an elastically flexible outer sleeve which surrounds the supporting core in its circumferential direction and extends, in at least some sections, between the two longitudinal ends of the supporting core. The outer sleeve on the supporting core is non-displaceably mounted on at least one bearing and that the outer sleeve is mounted on at least one displacing point at a distance from the bearing so as to be displaceable perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the supporting core in order for the curvature of the outer sleeve to be adjustable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger, Benno Bader, Norbert Gamsjaeger, Georg Gobec, Herbert Schrefl
  • Publication number: 20080005921
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for producing and/or transforming a web of fibrous material, in particular a paper or cardboard web. Said device includes a heatable and rotatable cylinder, in particular a drying cylinder of a drying section, and a cylinder sleeve which can be impinged from the inside by a heating fluid. In order to improve the heating power below the external surface of the cylinder sleeve, at least one channel is provided in order to guide the heating fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Inventors: Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger, Gunter Halmschlager, Christoph Haase, Herbert Boden, Norbert Karner, Peter Kastner, Gunter Seitlhuber, Gerhard Holtmann, Andreas Figerl, Rainer Kloibhofer, Erich Rollenitz
  • Publication number: 20070294914
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drying cylinder which is used to dry a paper, cardboard, tissue or other web of fibrous material in a machine for the production and/or for the transformation thereof. The drying cylinder includes a support body and an external cover layer which is heated by a hot fluid. The thermal flow passing through the external cover layer is increased such that at least one cavity is provided between the support body and the external cover layer through which the fluid flows. The external cover layer is predominately so thin that the ratio formed by the thermal conductivity of the material and the thickness of the external cover layer is greater than a threshold value of 3.2 kW/m2K for steel, 30 kW/m2K for aluminum, 18 kW/m2K for bronze alloys, 3.4 kW/m2K for copper and 6.1 kW/m2K for magnesium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Rainer Kloibhofer, Christoph Haase, Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger, Herbert Boden, Erich Rollenitz, Manfred Gloser
  • Publication number: 20070289156
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for producing and/or transforming a web of fibrous material, in particular a paper cardboard web. Said device includes a heatable and rotatable cylinder, in particular a dry cylinder of a dry part, including a cylinder sleeve which can be impinged upon from the inside by a heating fluid. At least one channel is provided in order to guide the heating fluid such that the heating capacity can be improved and the production below the external surface of the cylinder cover can be simplified. The dry cylinder is at least partially modular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventors: Rainer Kloibhofer, Christoph Haase, Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger, Herbert Boden, Erich Rollenitz, Manfred Gloser
  • Publication number: 20070184955
    Abstract: Disclosed is a heated cylinder (1) for heating a paper web, cardboard web, tissue web, or another fiber web in a machine used for producing and/or refining the fiber web. Said heated cylinder (1) comprises a cylinder sleeve which is impinged upon at least in part from the inside by a hot fluid and is provided with at least one inner and an outer sleeve layer (5, 6). The inventive heated cylinder (1) is characterized in that the two sleeve layers (5, 6) are separated from each other by a hollow space into which the fluid can be introduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Applicant: VOITH PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger, Stevan Lomic, Guenter Halmschlager, Christoph Haase, Herbert Schrefl, Josef Kerschbaumer, Stefan Lehner-Dittenberger, Berkes Hermann, Erich Rollenitz