Patents by Inventor Udo Schütz

Udo Schütz 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: 7690525
    Abstract: The screw cap of plastic for closing a filling and/or removal opening of a container for the transport and storage of liquids is equipped with a plug, in which a venting and aerating device is integrated. The screw cap has a sealing cap; and a protective cover, which completely covers the screw cap and protects the screw cap against contamination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Schütz GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Publication number: 20100055380
    Abstract: A labeling plate, which is to be fastened to the outside surface of the outer cage of a shipping and storage tank for liquids, has an upper and lower frame section and two lateral frame sections, which project outwardly beyond the labeling area of the labeling plate and frame the labeling surface. The labeling areas of the labeling plates of two storage tanks standing side by side on a loading surface are kept spaced apart by the frame sections, so that damage to the labels pasted on the labeling areas of the labeling plates is avoided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Publication number: 20100044612
    Abstract: A tapping valve with a plastic valve housing for shipping and storage tanks for liquids, which are equipped with an inner tank with a filling socket and a drain socket for connecting the tapping valve, an outer jacket of a metal cage or sheet metal, and a pallet-like metal support frame. The tapping valve is screwed by means of the inlet socket of the valve housing onto a connecting flange, which is designed as a threaded flange, is made of an electrically conductive plastic material, and is welded onto the drain socket of the inner tank. The connecting flange of the valve housing is connected with the support frame or the outer jacket of the shipping and storage tank by an electric grounding conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 7655177
    Abstract: A wide mouth plastic barrel with a removable lid and a clamping ring closure is manufactured by extruding a plastic tube into a blow mold and by producing a closed preform. The preform is finish-blown to a barrel body, wherein the blowing air for finish-blowing a barrel body with a closed lid is introduced through a blow nozzle inserted into an intermediate ring of the barrel body and the blowing air for finish-blowing a barrel body with a bung lid is introduced through a bung hole by a blow nozzle and optionally through a blow nozzle in the intermediate ring. After removal from the blow mold, the lid is separated from the barrel body by cutting out the intermediate ring. A seal is inserted into the barrel lid, and the barrel lid is fastened by the clamping ring on a projection of the basic barrel member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Schütz GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Publication number: 20100000998
    Abstract: A screw cap of plastic material has a cap disk and an outer cap rim located adjacent at a right angle to a circumference of the cap disk. The cap rim has an internal thread for closing a filling and/or removal socket of a container for transporting and storing liquid, and a central bung socket arranged retracted in the cap disk, wherein the bung socket has an internal thread for screwing in a bung plug. The bung plug has a cylindrical threaded sleeve with an external thread for screwing in a threaded bore of the bung plug of the cap, and a sealing end provided with a conical multiple seal of sealing rings which, when the bung plug is screwed in, are pressed against a conical inner sealing surface of a sealing projection located adjacent the threaded bore of the bung socket of the screw cap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 7575128
    Abstract: A carrying handle mount on a plastic container has a mounting plate of plastic material. A carrying handle is connected to the mounting plate. A securing plate of plastic material is connected to the plastic container, wherein the mounting plate is connected by screwing to the securing plate. An overtightening protection device for the mounting plate is provided to protect the mounting plate from overtightening when screwing the mounting plate onto the securing plate. An anti-rotation device for the mounting plate is provided for protecting the mounting plate from becoming detached from the securing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Schütz GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 7559431
    Abstract: A transport and storage container for liquids has a pallet-shaped support frame of metal or of an electrically conducting plastic material. An exchangeable inner container of plastic material is supported on the support frame and has four sidewalls, a bottom, and a top. The inner container further has an upper closable fill socket and a lower outlet socket with a tapping fixture or an upper closable tapping socket. An outer jacket surrounds the inner container and is made of grade bars of metal or sheet metal. The inner container has a single-layer or multi-layer body. The inner container has integral electrically conducting sections comprised of an electrically conducting plastic material, wherein the electrically conducting sections form electrical connections between an inner surface and an outer surface of the inner container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Protechna S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 7556709
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a plastic container for liquids, the container is blow-molded to have a securing segment on an outer side of the recess of the front wall for centering and securing the finish-blowmolded container in a welding machine and to have a round depression in the outer side of the recess that has a diameter matching a nominal width of the dispensing valve. The bottom of the round depression is cut by a cutting tool that is centered in the round depression for producing the discharge opening of the container. A fastening flange of the intake socket of the dispensing valve is fused to an outer edge of the discharge opening. Alternatively, a dispensing socket of plastic material having an outer thread is fused to the outer edge of the discharge opening and the dispensing valve is secured on the dispensing socket by a union nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Schütz GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 7490621
    Abstract: A method for producing a tapping valve formed as a plastic injection-molded part for plastic or metal shipping and storage tanks for liquids, wherein, in a first process step, the screw cap for screwing the valve onto the outlet connection of a liquid tank is produced in a first injection mold, the screw cap is then placed in a second injection mold, and in a second process step, the valve body is produced in the second injection mold in such a way that the inlet connection of the valve body passes through the opening of the ring shoulder and the threaded hole of the screw cap with clearance, and the collar of the inlet connection of the valve body is located inside the screw cap. In a second method, the valve body and its inlet connection are injection-molded as separate parts in a first process step, and in a second process step, the inlet connection, with a screw cap slipped onto it, is welded onto the valve body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Protechna S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 7210594
    Abstract: A transport and storage container for liquids has a support frame of electrically conducting metal or plastic material. An inner plastic container is positioned on the support frame and has an electrically conducting exterior layer for electrically grounding the outer surface of the inner container. The inner container has an outlet socket with an electrically conducting outer layer arranged near the bottom. The outlet socket is formed as a unitary part of the inner container and has an outer cylindrical end drawn inwardly to form an inner ring with an annular electrically conducting inner layer that is in contact with liquid in the inner container for electrically grounding the interior of the inner container. The electrically conducting inner and outer layers of the outlet socket and the external container layer form a homogenous electrically conducting layer providing inner and outer electric grounding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Protechna S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 7180721
    Abstract: A plastic barrel, embodied as a bung barrel or a lid barrel, is manufactured as a single-layer container or multi-layer container by extrusion blow molding. The plastic barrel has a barrel body having an inner surface and an outer surface. The barrel body has sections integrated into the barrel body, wherein the sections are made of electrically conducting plastic material and form electric connections between the inner surface and the outer surface of the barrel body so that electric charges of the interior of the barrel can be dissipated to the outer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Schütz GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 7165694
    Abstract: A transport and storage container for liquids includes a pallet-like underframe of electrically conductive material for supporting an exchangeable inner container of plastics material with four side walls, a lower and an upper bottom, a closeable fill socket integrally formed with the upper bottom and an outlet socket with a removal fitting integrally formed at a lower portion of a side wall, an outer casing formed of vertically and horizontally extending metal crate rods, and a single-piece or multi-piece support insert with four side walls of an electrically conductive material arranged between the inner container and the outer casing. Wall elements of the support insert are provided with a structure having a plurality of adjacent structure elements, such as hexagons, circles, honeycombs, trapezoids, lozenges, squares and rectangles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Protechna S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 7163189
    Abstract: A tapping valve of plastics material for transport and storage containers for liquids, which is constructed as a flap valve or ball valve, includes a valve housing with an inlet connection connectable to an outlet connection of the liquid container and an outlet connection, wherein the outlet connection of the valve body is welded to the male part of a Kamlok coupling for connecting a discharge hose. The valve housing is of a polyethylene of high density and the male part of the Kamlok coupling is of a glass fiber-reinforced polyethylene of high density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: Protechna S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 7151657
    Abstract: A transport and storage container for liquids has a pallet-shaped support frame made of metal or an electrically conducting plastic material and an exchangeable inner container made of plastic material, supported on the support frame and being of a multi-layer or single-layer configuration provided with a permanently antistatic outer layer. The inner container is a cubic or a parallelepipedal container with four sidewalls, a top and a bottom, an upper closable fill socket, and a tapping fixture. An outer jacket surrounds the inner container and is made of grade bars of metal or sheet metal. An outlet socket, for receiving the tapping fixture, is made of electrically conducting plastic material and connected to the permanently antistatic outer layer of the inner plastic container. In another configuration, the tapping fixture is made of electrically conducting plastic material and has an intake socket connected to the permanently antistatic outer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: Protechna S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 7107912
    Abstract: A pallet-type support frame for transport and storage containers for liquids having an inner plastic container and an outer metal jacket has a sheet metal bottom for supporting the inner container. The bottom has a shape matched to the drainage bottom or the flat bottom of the inner container. Anti-slip support elements are arranged on the underside of the bottom such that the support frame rests with the support elements on gripping arms of a transport device. Alternatively, an anti-slip coating is provided on the underside of the bottom. The coating is engaged by gripping arms of the transport device when the support frame is transported. The support elements or anti-slip coatings are made of a material that is matched to a material of the gripping arms such that a friction coefficient as great as possible is provided between the support elements or anti-slip coatings and the gripping arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Protechna S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 7036662
    Abstract: A transport and storage container for liquids has a pallet bottom frame, a latticework enclosure connected to the bottom frame, and an inner container received in the enclosure. The vertical rods of the latticework enclosure are connected to upper and lower peripheral profiled edge sections. The vertical rods are hollow and have flattened upper ends shaped to a wave profile with welding projections. The upper profiled edge section is a hollow profiled section formed to a double bar that extends peripherally and transversely to the vertical rods and is shaped to have inner and outer wave profiles engaging one another. The outer wave profile has grooves, and the inner wave profile forms welding projections. The upper ends of the vertical rods and the double bar are connected by projection welding. The upper profiled edge section has a flat upper rim for supporting legs of a container stacked on top.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Protechna S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 7017499
    Abstract: A reinforcement plate for the bottom of a pallet-like support base supported on corner and center feet and on a base frame, especially for pallet containers, is provided with a stacking aid for stacking several reinforcement plates for shipping and storage purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Protechna S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 6832693
    Abstract: A transport and storage container for liquids has an inner plastic container having an upper bottom with a fill socket, two sidewalls, a front wall with an outlet socket at the lower edge, a back wall, and a lower drainage bottom slanted toward the outlet socket. A pallet-shaped underframe has a support bottom for receiving the lower bottom of the inner container. The front wall of the inner container has a dome-shaped bulge where the outlet socket is arranged. Two bottom portions are arranged on opposed sides of the bulge and ascend from the lower bottom toward the front wall and the corner areas adjoining the front wall or toward the front wall and the sidewalls and the corner areas adjoining the front wall and the sidewalls. They form drainage surfaces for residual liquid to be drained from the forward bottom area into the outlet socket when removing residual liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: Protechna S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 6793475
    Abstract: Disclosed is a nozzle arrangement for the coextrusion of a product with at least two layers, whereby a distributor portion 14 adjacent to the extruder is provided through which an extruding mass is delivered to the extruder and whereby a nozzle portion 12 for the extrusion of the extrusion mass is connected to the distributor portion, whereby in accordance with the invention a mounting and connecting base is provided between the distributor portion and the nozzle portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Assignee: Frankische Rohrwerke Gebr. Kirchner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hans-Ullrich Schmidt, Udo Schütz, Jürgen Schulz
  • Patent number: D568025
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Schütz GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Udo Schütz