Patents by Inventor Thomas Thoröe Scherb
Thomas Thoröe Scherb 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).
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Publication number: 20100059192Abstract: Machine, in particular a tissue machine, for production of a web of tissue material. The web of tissue material is produced by supplying at least two stock grades to a multilayer flow box, winding up the tissue web on a reel of a reel-up, and maintaining a winding nip having a line pressure of less than or equal to 0.8 kN/m to influence the hardness of the reel produced, in a machine that includes a multilayer flow box structured and arranged to supply at least two stock grades, an endless supporting belt, a drying cylinder and an opposing unit arranged to form a press nip, wherein endless supporting belt guides the web through the press nip, a reel-up for reeling up the tissue web, and a device to influence, in a predefined way, a hardness of a reel produced as the tissue web is reeled. 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: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2009Publication date: March 11, 2010Applicant: VOITH PAPER PATENT GMBHInventor: Thomas THOROEE SCHERB
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Patent number: 7597778Abstract: Method and machine for production of a web of tissue material. The method includes supplying at least two stock grades to a multilayer flow box, winding up the tissue web on a reel of a reel-up, and influencing the hardness of the reel produced in a predefinable way. 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: GrantFiled: October 22, 2004Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbHInventor: Thomas Thoroee Scherb
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Patent number: 7585395Abstract: A fabric for use by a papermaking machine, the fabric including a plurality of weft yarns, a plurality of warp yarns, and a woven fabric resulting from a repeating pattern of the weft yarns and warp yarns. Each of the weft yarn in the repeating pattern having a sequence of starting at a starting point then sequentially going over three adjacent warp yarns, under one warp yarn, over one warp yarn, under three warp yarns, over one warp yarn and under one warp yarn, the sequence then repeating.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2007Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Assignee: Voith Patent GmbHInventors: Scott D. Quigley, Thomas Thoröe Scherb
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Publication number: 20090165979Abstract: System for drying a tissue or hygiene web. The system includes a permeable structured fabric carrying the web over a drying apparatus. A permeable dewatering fabric contacts the web and is guided over the drying apparatus. A mechanism is used to apply pressure to the permeable structured fabric, the web, and the permeable dewatering fabric at the drying apparatus. This Abstract is not intended to define the invention disclosed in the specification, nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2009Publication date: July 2, 2009Applicant: VOITH PATENT GmbHInventors: Thomas Thoroee Scherb, Jeffrey Herman, Luiz Carlos Silva, Hubert Walkenhaus
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Patent number: 7527709Abstract: A permeable belt, a belt press including a roll having an exterior surface and the permeable belt, and a method of drying or pressing a web with the permeable belt. The permeable belt has a paper web facing side and is guided over a support surface. The permeable belt can have a tension of between approximately 20 kN/m and approximately 100 KN/m, a permeability value of between approximately 100 cfm and approximately 1200 cfm, a surface contact area of the paper web side that being between approximately 0.5% and approximately 90% when not under tension, and an open area of between approximately 1.0% and approximately 85%. This Abstract is not intended to define the invention disclosed in the specification, nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2006Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbHInventors: Ademar Lippi Alves Fernandes, Martin Ringer, Carl Warren, Blake Hender, Daniel Sharkey, Thomas Thoroee Scherb
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Patent number: 7510631Abstract: System for drying a tissue or hygiene web. The system includes a permeable structured fabric carrying the web over a drying apparatus. A permeable dewatering fabric contacts the web and is guided over the drying apparatus. A mechanism is utilized for applying pressure to the permeable structured fabric, the web, and the permeable dewatering fabric at the drying apparatus. This Abstract is not intended to define the invention disclosed in the specification, nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2005Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignee: Voith Patent GmbHInventors: Thomas Thoroee Scherb, Jeffrey Herman, Luiz Carlos Silva, Hubert Walkenhaus
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Patent number: 7476293Abstract: System for drying a tissue or hygiene web. The system includes a permeable structured fabric carrying the web over a drying apparatus. A permeable dewatering fabric contacts the web and is guided over the drying apparatus. A mechanism is used to apply pressure to the permeable structured fabric, the web, and the permeable dewatering fabric at the drying apparatus. This Abstract is not intended to define the invention disclosed in the specification, nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2004Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: Voith Patent GmbHInventors: Jeffrey Herman, Thomas Thoroee Scherb, Luiz Carlos Silva, Hubert Walkenhaus
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Patent number: 7476294Abstract: A permeable belt, a belt press including a roll having an exterior surface and the permeable belt, and a method of drying or pressing a web with the permeable belt. The permeable belt can be tensioned to at least 30 KN/m. A side of the permeable belt has an open area of at least approximately 25% and a contact area of at least approximately 25%. This Abstract is not intended to define the invention disclosed in the specification, nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2004Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: Voith Patent GmbHInventors: Jeffrey Herman, Thomas Thoroee Scherb, Luiz Carlos Silva, Hubert Walkenhaus
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Publication number: 20080196855Abstract: A permeable belt, a belt press including a roll having an exterior surface and the permeable belt, and a method of drying or pressing a web with the permeable belt. The permeable belt can be tensioned to at least 30 KN/m. A side of the permeable belt has an open area of at least approximately 25% and a contact area of at least approximately 25%. This Abstract is not intended to define the invention disclosed in the specification, nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2008Publication date: August 21, 2008Applicant: VOITH PATENT GmbHInventors: Jeffrey HERMAN, Thomas Thoroee Scherb, Luiz Carlos Silva, Hubert Walkenhaus
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Patent number: 7351307Abstract: A method of dewatering a fibrous web in a paper machine including the steps of carrying the fibrous web on a side of a first fabric; contacting the fibrous web with a side of a second fabric, the fibrous web being between the first fabric and the second fabric; and passing air successively through the first fabric, the fibrous web and the second fabric.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2004Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbHInventors: Thomas Thoröe Scherb, Jeffrey Herman, Luiz Carlos Silva
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Patent number: 7331120Abstract: A throughflow cylinder made at least partly of fiber-reinforced plastic including glass fibers, aramide fibers, carbon fibers, and/or carbon-reinforced plastic (CRP). The matrix material of the fiber-reinforced plastic includes a material heat resistant at least up to 300° C. such as a resin. At least one fiber layer is provided such that the coefficient of thermal expansion ? of the fiber-reinforced plastic is lower than that of steel at approximately 300° C. and preferably lies in a region of 0??<9·10?6·1/Kelvin. The manufacture of the fiber-reinforced plastic, for example carbon fiber-reinforced plastic, is such that more than approximately 30%, in particular more than approximately 50% and preferably more than approximately 70% of the fibers are oriented at least substantially in the peripheral direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2003Date of Patent: February 19, 2008Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbHInventors: Thomas Thoröe Scherb, Harald Schmidt-Hebbel
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Patent number: 7297233Abstract: A dewatering system in a paper machine includes a dewatering fabric and a press. The dewatering fabric includes a woven permeable fabric and a polymeric layer having openings therethrough, the polymeric layer is connected to the permeable fabric. The press applying pressure to a portion of the dewatering fabric.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2004Date of Patent: November 20, 2007Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbHInventors: Jeffrey Herman, Thomas Thoröe Scherb, Luiz Carlos Silva
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Patent number: 7294237Abstract: A belt press including a roll having an exterior surface and a permeable belt having a side in pressing contact over a portion of the exterior surface of the roll. The permeable belt having a tension of at least 30 KN/m applied thereto. The side of the permeable belt having an open area of at least approximately 25%, and a contact area of at least approximately 25%.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2004Date of Patent: November 13, 2007Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbHInventors: Jeffrey Herman, Thomas Thoröe Scherb, Luiz Carlos Silva
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Patent number: 7294239Abstract: An apparatus for dewatering a fiber web in a paper machine includes a heated drying surface, a permeable fabric carrying the fiber web, and a condensing region adjacent a portion of the permeable fabric on a side opposite the fiber web. The fiber web is interposed between and contacts each of the heated drying surface and the permeable fabric. The condensation region has: a) a temperature which is less than a temperature of the permeable fabric; and/or b) a pressure which is greater than an ambient pressure.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2004Date of Patent: November 13, 2007Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbHInventors: Stefan Lomic, Jeffrey Herman, Thomas Thoröe Scherb
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Patent number: 7291249Abstract: An apparatus for the manufacture of a structured fiber web including an imprinting fabric, a first pressure field device, a second pressure field device and a drying cylinder. The fiber web is formed and carried on the imprinting fabric with an initial dry content of less than 35%. The first pressure field device applies a first pressure field to the imprinting fabric and the fiber web, thereby pressing the fiber web onto the imprinting fabric, thereby pre-imprinting the fiber web. The second pressure field device applies a second pressure field to the imprinting fabric in the fiber web, thereby again pressing the fiber web onto the imprinting fabric, drying the fiber web and fixing a three-dimensional surface structure in the fiber web. The drying cylinder has the fiber web delivered thereto by the imprinting fabric.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2003Date of Patent: November 6, 2007Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbHInventors: Thomas Thoröe-Scherb, Harald Schmidt-Hebbel, Jeffrey Herman
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Patent number: 7150110Abstract: A method an apparatus for manufacturing a fiber web, in particular a web of tissue or hygiene material, provided with a three-dimensional surface structure, whereby the fiber web is pressed at a dry content of <25% onto an imprinting fabric by way of a first pressure field and is thereby pre-imprinted and is subsequently once more pressed onto an imprinting fabric by way of a further pressure field for further dewatering and drying in order to fix the three-dimensional surface structure and strength. Moreover, the dry content is achieved by a favorably priced apparatus instead of by a TAD drying apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2002Date of Patent: December 19, 2006Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbHInventors: Jeffrey Herman, David A. Beck, Thomas Thoröe Scherb
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Patent number: 7008506Abstract: The present invention is directed to a machine and process for producing a tissue web. The machine includes a forming area including at least one rotating continuous dewatering wire with zonally varied wire permeability, and at least one shoe press. The process includes dewatering the tissue web with at least the at least one continuous dewatering wire with zonally varied wire permeability, and pressing the tissue web in the at least one shoe press.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2001Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbHInventors: Thomas Thoröe Scherb, Harald Schmidt-Hebbel
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Patent number: 6986830Abstract: A method and machine for the manufacture of a fiber web, in particular of a tissue web or of a hygienic web, in which the fiber web is formed on a soft clothing with fine pores and the clothing is guided over a surface subject to suction and in which the fiber web is transferred from a soft clothing with fine pores directly onto a TAD wire of a TAD drying apparatus. An optimum quality of the respective final product is achieved with an energy effort which is as low as possible, in particular, the energy effort required with vacuum generation in the dewatering of the fiber web is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2003Date of Patent: January 17, 2006Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbHInventors: Thomas Thoröe Scherb, Harald Schmidt-Hebbel, Jeffrey Herman
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Patent number: 6841037Abstract: A machine for producing a tissue web is provided, including a former having a forming region which includes at least one circulating, continuous dewatering wire having zonally variable wire permeability. Furthermore, a process for producing the tissue web in a tissue machine is provided. The process includes forming the tissue web in a forming region of a former, wherein the forming region includes at least one circulating, continuous dewatering wire having zonally variable wire permeability.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2001Date of Patent: January 11, 2005Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbHInventors: Thomas Thoröe Scherb, Harald Schmidt-Hebbel
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Patent number: 6821391Abstract: A former for producing a tissue web and a process of making a tissue web using the former. The former includes a forming element, an inner dewatering belt, and an outer dewatering belt. The inner and outer belts converge to form a stock inlet nip. The inner and outer belts are guided over the forming element and thereafter separating from one another in the area of a separation point. At least one suction element is positioned adjacent the inner belt on a side which is opposite the outer belt. Alternatively, a conditioning device is positioned adjacent the outer belt. The process includes forming the tissue web in the area of the forming element, guiding the inner and outer belts around the forming element, and separating the inner and outer belts in the area of the separation point. Alternatively, the process includes conditioning the outer belt.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2001Date of Patent: November 23, 2004Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbHInventors: Thomas Thoröe Scherb, Harald Schmidt-Hebbel