Patents by Inventor Thomas Thoroee Scherb

Thomas Thoroee 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).

  • Publication number: 20140298673
    Abstract: Method for manufacturing a fiber web, in which water is driven out of the fiber web. The method includes displacement dewatering using a clothing arrangement. The clothing arrangement, in the direction of a displacement fluid flow, includes: a membrane; an imprinting fabric, followed by the fiber web; and an anti-rewet fabric. The clothing arrangement is, in the direction of the displacement fluid flow, followed by a roll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: Jeffrey HERMAN, David A. BECK, Thomas Thoröe SCHERB
  • Patent number: 8789289
    Abstract: A method and 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 <35% onto an imprinting fabric by way of a first pressure field and is thereby pre-imprinted and the fiber web is guided through at least one other pressure field, and at least one of dewatering and drying the fiber web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Jeffrey Herman, David A. Beck, Thomas Thoröe Scherb
  • Patent number: 8608909
    Abstract: A permeable belt for use in a system for dewatering and/or drying a fibrous web. The permeable belt capable of being subjected to a tension of at least approximately 30 kN/m, the permeable belt having at least one side having an open area of at least approximately 25% and a contact area of at least approximately 10%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Thoröe Scherb, Hubert Walkenhaus, Jeffrey Herman, Luiz Carlos Silva
  • Patent number: 8440055
    Abstract: A pressing arrangement including at least one first fabric and second fabric both being permeable. A paper web is disposed between the first fabric and the second fabric. A pressure producing element is in contact with the first fabric. A support surface of a supporting structure is in contact with the second fabric. A differential pressure is provided between the first fabric and the support surface that acts on the first fabric, the paper web, and the second fabric, whereby the paper web is subjected to mechanical pressure and experiences a predetermined hydraulic pressure so as to cause water to be drained from the paper web. The pressing arrangement is structured and arranged to allow air to flow in a direction from the first fabric through the paper web and through the second fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Thoröe Scherb, Hubert Walkenhaus, Jeffrey Herman, Luiz Carlos Silva
  • Patent number: 8236140
    Abstract: A belt press for a paper machine, the belt press including a roll having an exterior surface and a permeable belt. The permeable belt including a first side being guided over a portion of the exterior surface of the roll. The permeable belt having a tension of at least approximately 30 kN/m. The first side of the belt having an open area of at least approximately 25% and a contact area of at least approximately 10%. A web travels between the permeable belt and the exterior surface of the roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Thoröe Scherb, Hubert Walkenhaus, Jeffrey Herman, Luiz Carlos Silva
  • Patent number: 8118979
    Abstract: Method of drying a paper web in a press arrangement. The method includes moving the paper web, disposed between at least one first fabric and at least one second fabric, between a support surface and a pressure producing element and moving a fluid through the paper web, the at least one first and second fabrics, and the support surface. 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: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Jeffrey Herman, Thomas Thoroee Scherb, Luis Carlos Silva, Hubert Walkenhaus
  • Patent number: 8092652
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Thoroee Scherb, Jeffrey Herman, Luiz Carlos Silva, Hubert Walkenhaus
  • Patent number: 8083897
    Abstract: Apparatus for producing a fibrous web that includes a smooth roll and at least one opposing element. The smooth roll and the at least one opposing element are arranged to form at least one press nip, a felt is structured and arranged to guide the fibrous web through the at least one press nip, and an embossing belt is structured and arranged to receive the fibrous web from the smooth roll. The smooth roll and the embossing belt are arranged such that the fibrous web passes in an unsupported manner over a free draw between said smooth roll and said embossing belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Thoroee Scherb, Luiz Carlos Da Silva
  • Patent number: 8075739
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: VOITH PATENT GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Thoroee Scherb, Jeffrey Herman, Luiz Carlos Silva, Hubert Walkenhaus
  • Publication number: 20110146932
    Abstract: Method of drying a paper web in a press arrangement. The method includes moving the paper web, disposed between at least one first fabric and at least one second fabric, between a support surface and a pressure producing element and moving a fluid through the paper web, the at least one first and second fabrics, and the support surface. 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: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: VOITH PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Jeffrey HERMAN, Thomas Thoroee SCHERB, Luiz Carlos SILVA, Hubert WALKENHAUS
  • Publication number: 20110126999
    Abstract: Apparatus for producing a fibrous web that includes a smooth roll and at least one opposing element. The smooth roll and the at least one opposing element are arranged to form at least one press nip, a felt is structured and arranged to guide the fibrous web through the at least one press nip, and an embossing belt is structured and arranged to receive the fibrous web from the smooth roll. The smooth roll and the embossing belt are arranged such that the fibrous web passes in an unsupported manner over a free draw between said smooth roll and said embossing belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: VOITH PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas THORÖE SCHERB, Luiz CARLOS DA SILVA
  • Patent number: 7951269
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Jeffrey Herman, Thomas Thoroee Scherb, Luiz Carlos Silva, Hubert Walkenhaus
  • Patent number: 7931781
    Abstract: A system for drying one of a tissue and a hygiene web including a drying apparatus, a permeable structured fabric, a permeable dewatering fabric and a mechanism for applying pressure. The permeable structured fabric carries the web over the drying apparatus. The permeable dewatering fabric contacts the web and is guided over the drying apparatus. The mechanism for applying pressure, applies pressure to the permeable structured fabric, the web, and the permeable dewatering fabric at the drying apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Thoröe Scherb, Hubert Walkenhaus, Jeffrey Herman, Luiz Carlos Silva
  • Patent number: 7927462
    Abstract: A belt press for a paper machine, the belt press including a roll having an exterior surface and a permeable belt. The permeable belt has a first side and is guided over a portion of the exterior surface of the roll. The permeable belt has a tension of at least approximately 30 KN/m, the first side has an open area of at least approximately 25% and a contact area of at least approximately 10%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Thoröe Scherb, Hubert Walkenhaus, Jeffrey Herman, Luiz Carlos Silva
  • Patent number: 7905988
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Thoroee Scherb
  • Patent number: 7905984
    Abstract: Process and apparatus for producing a fibrous web in an apparatus that includes at least one nip formed between a smooth roll and at least one opposing element, a felt and an embossing belt. The process includes guiding the fibrous web and the felt through the at least one press nip formed between the smooth roll and the at least one opposing element, and passing the fiber web, in an unsupported manner, over a free draw from the smooth roll onto an embossing belt. 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: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Thoröe Scherb, Liuz Carlos Da Silva
  • Patent number: 7842166
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Jeffrey Herman, Thomas Thoroee Scherb, Luiz Carlos Silva, Hubert Walkenhaus
  • Publication number: 20100243190
    Abstract: A belt press for a paper machine, the belt press including a roll having an exterior surface and a permeable belt. The permeable belt including a first side being guided over a portion of the exterior surface of the roll. The permeable belt having a tension of at least approximately 30 kN/m. The first side of the belt having an open area of at least approximately 25% and a contact area of at least approximately 10%. A web travels between the permeable belt and the exterior surface of the roll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Inventors: Thomas Thoröe Scherb, Hubert Walkenhaus, Jeffrey Herman, Luiz Carlos Silva
  • Publication number: 20100170651
    Abstract: A pressing arrangement including at least one first fabric and second fabric both being permeable. A paper web is disposed between the first fabric and the second fabric. A pressure producing element is in contact with the first fabric. A support surface of a supporting structure is in contact with the second fabric. A differential pressure is provided between the first fabric and the support surface that acts on the first fabric, the paper web, and the second fabric, whereby the paper web is subjected to mechanical pressure and experiences a predetermined hydraulic pressure so as to cause water to be drained from the paper web. The pressing arrangement is structured and arranged to allow air to flow in a direction from the first fabric through the paper web and through the second fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Inventors: Thomas Thoröe Scherb, Hubert Walkenhaus, Jeffrey Herman, Luiz Carlos Silva
  • Patent number: 7686923
    Abstract: A paper machine dewatering system includes a first fabric, a second fabric, and an airflow device. The first fabric carries a fibrous web on a side thereof. The second fabric is in at least partial contact with the fibrous web, the fibrous web being between the first fabric and the second fabric. The airflow device moves air successively through the first fabric, the fibrous web, and the second fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Thoröe Scherb, Jeffrey Herman, Luiz Carlos Silva