Patents by Inventor Udo Schutz

Udo Schutz 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: 20210269233
    Abstract: The invention relates to an inner container (15) made of plastic for transporting and storing liquids, the inner container (15) having an outlet socket (18) for connecting an outlet fitting (17) on a front side, a bottom wall (20) connecting two side walls (23, 24), a rear wall (22) and a front wall (16) of the inner container (15) and serving to support the inner container (15) on a pallet floor (21) of a transport pallet (11) provided with an outer jacket (14) for receiving the inner container (15), and a top wall (25) located opposite the bottom wall (20) and provided with a filling opening, wherein the side walls (23, 24) each have a horizontal corrugation (47, 48), the horizontal corrugations (47, 48) being disposed in a shared central horizontal plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 10875696
    Abstract: A transportation and storage container (20) for fluids having an inner container (22) made of plastic, an outer jacket (31) preferably realized as a lattice made of metal as well as a pallet-like base frame (24) formed for being handled by means of forklifts or similar modes of transportation, and comprising a support base (23) made of sheet metal for supporting the inner container (22) provided with at least one filling neck (45) at an upper side (47) of the inner container (22), wherein an intermediary container (21) receiving the inner container from all sides and made of sheet metal is arranged between the inner container (22) and the outer jacket, said intermediary container (21) comprising a jacket case (25), a container lid (26) connected to the jacket case (25) and a container bottom connected to the jacket case (25), the container bottom being formed by the support base (23) of the base frame (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: PROTECHNA S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 10773871
    Abstract: An inner plastic liquid container (25) includes a filling neck (41) in an upper wall (33) for filling the inner container and a front side outlet neck (40) for an outlet armature. A lower wall (28) interconnecting two side walls (30, 31), a rear wall (32) and a front wall (29) supports the container on a transport pallet (21) pallet base (26), which has an outer mantle (24) for receiving the container. The outlet neck is at a hopper bottom (39) of an outlet hopper (34) in the lower bottom wall. The outlet hopper has a front hopper wall (35) and inclined lateral hopper walls (36, 37) that are arranged at a hopper angle and each extend from a keel-shaped hopper base (38) to a lower edge (46, 47) of a side wall. A keel line (63) rises at another hopper angle from an outlet neck toward the rear wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: PROTECHNA S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 10676266
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: PROTECHNA S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Publication number: 20180362237
    Abstract: A transportation and storage container (20) for fluids having an inner container (22) made of plastic, an outer jacket (31) preferably realized as a lattice made of metal as well as a pallet-like base frame (24) formed for being handled by means of forklifts or similar modes of transportation, and comprising a support base (23) made of sheet metal for supporting the inner container (22) provided with at least one filling neck (45) at an upper side (47) of the inner container (22), wherein an intermediary container (21) receiving the inner container from all sides and made of sheet metal is arranged between the inner container (22) and the outer jacket, said intermediary container (21) comprising a jacket case (25), a container lid (26) connected to the jacket case (25) and a container bottom connected to the jacket case (25), the container bottom being formed by the support base (23) of the base frame (24).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 9718581
    Abstract: A pallet-like underframe has a base for supporting an inner container and corner feet mounted on a base frame on which the base of the underframe is mounted. The corner feet include a cup-shaped corner foot body having a front wall and cup parts formed to the side of a central axis of the front wall. The cup parts each include an inwardly bent edge web. The edge web includes an upper edge web section, a lower edge web section, and a lateral edge web section formed between the upper and the lower edge web section on a side edge of the front wall. The upper edge web section, the lateral edge web section, and the lower edge web section are configured to go over into one another continuously in edge web forming regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: PROTECHNA S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 9527719
    Abstract: A tapping fitting, particularly a flap or ball cock, with a fitting housing made from plastic for connection to a drain spigot of a plastic container for liquids, particularly an interior container of a transport and storage container. The fitting housing is provided with a conductive device at least part of which is made from electrically conductive plastic for dissipating an electrostatic charge. The conductive device is the conductive device has an integrally conformed earthing conductor for the electrically conductive connection of the conductive device to a ground potential and is also connected integrally with the fitting housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: PROTECHNA S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Publication number: 20160368684
    Abstract: An inner plastic liquid container (25) includes a filling neck (41) in an upper wall (33) for filling the inner container and a front side outlet neck (40) for an outlet armature. A lower wall (28) interconnecting two side walls (30, 31), a rear wall (32) and a front wall (29) supports the container on a transport pallet (21) pallet base (26), which has an outer mantle (24) for receiving the container. The outlet neck is at a hopper bottom (39) of an outlet hopper (34) in the lower bottom wall. The outlet hopper has a front hopper wall (35) and inclined lateral hopper walls (36, 37) that are arranged at a hopper angle and each extend from a keel-shaped hopper base (38) to a lower edge (46, 47) of a side wall. A keel line (63) rises at another hopper angle from an outlet neck toward the rear wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventor: Udo SCHÜTZ
  • Patent number: 9422092
    Abstract: An inner container for transporting and storing liquids includes an outlet neck and a bottom wall. The bottom wall connects two side walls, one rear wall and one front wall of the inner container to one another. The outlet neck is arranged in a funnel bottom of an outlet funnel embodied in the bottom wall, and includes one front funnel wall, two lateral funnel walls and one rear funnel wall, wherein the lateral funnel walls are inclined from a lower edge of a side wall towards the funnel bottom in each case, in such a way that the outlet funnel has the shape of a truncated pyramid above the funnel bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: PROTECHNA S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Publication number: 20150175402
    Abstract: A tapping fitting, particularly a flap or ball cock, with a fitting housing made from plastic for connection to a drain spigot of a plastic container for liquids, particularly an interior container of a transport and storage container. The fitting housing is provided with a conductive device at least part of which is made from electrically conductive plastic for dissipating an electrostatic charge. The conductive device is the conductive device has an integrally conformed earthing conductor for the electrically conductive connection of the conductive device to a ground potential and is also connected integrally with the fitting housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventor: Udo SCHÜTZ
  • Patent number: 9045267
    Abstract: A skid pallet comprising an inner container made of plastic, comprising a lockable filler neck and a discharge nozzle for connecting a removal fitting as well as an outer jacket made of a metal lattice or metal plate. The skid pallet is equipped to be handled by forklifts, a storage and retrieval machine or similar transport equipment and is equipped with a pallet floor, which is supported on support feet of a central skid and two outer skids. The central skid and the outer skids are connected to one another by a skid bridge forming a pallet base, which can be handled independent from the pallet floor, and that, for establishing a non-positive plug-in connection with the pallet base, the pallet floor furthermore encompasses engagement devices, which are assigned to the support feet and which interact with assigned engagement devices of the support feet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: PROTECHNA S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 9036321
    Abstract: A transport and storage container for liquids, having an inner container, an outer casing and an underframe with a bottom for supporting the inner container, and electrically non-conductive support legs. At least one support leg has a shaped sheet metal part to dissipate an electrostatic charge from the inner container. The end of the shaped part closest to the inner container has a container contact section for conductive connection with the bottom or the outer casing, and a standing contact section for conductive connection with the standing surface. The contact conductor section of the shaped part extends inside a cavity in the support leg and the standing contact section has a ground contact surface and a stack contact surface. These contact surfaces are connected by an offset element in the standing contact section and the stack contact surface is arranged above the ground contact surface in a vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: PROTECHNA S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 9004453
    Abstract: A tapping fitting, particularly a flap or ball cock, with a fitting housing made from plastic for connection to a drain spigot of a plastic container for liquids, particularly an interior container of a transport and storage container, wherein the fitting housing is provided with a conductive device at least part of which is made from electrically conductive plastic for dissipating an electrostatic charge, wherein the conductive device is the conductive device has an integrally conformed earthing conductor for the electrically conductive connection of the conductive device to a ground potential and is also connected integrally with the fitting housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Protechna S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 9004310
    Abstract: A transport and storing container for liquids includes a pallet-type base frame for an inner container made of plastic with side walls, a lower wall and an upper wall. A closable filler neck is formed on the upper wall. A draining neck with a tapping armature is formed on a lower section of a side wall. A cage mantle with horizontal and vertical bars made of metal receives the inner container, wherein the vertical bars comprise between a connection section and a linear longitudinal section with a tubular cross section a bent section, and at least the upper ends of the vertical bars comprise a convex cross section outline on their inner side facing the inner container in the transition of the connection section to the bent section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Protechna S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 8973779
    Abstract: Drums of thermoplastic synthetic material include a circumferentially extending carrying and transport ring arranged on the drum wall in the vicinity of the upper bottom, and at least one bunghole connection sleeve arranged in a trough-shaped indentation of the upper head of the drum in the area of the rim thereof. An integrally formed stiffening bead is arranged on the inner side of the carrying and transport ring of a drum of the above-described type in the vicinity of a bunghole connection sleeve. A stiffening hump is formed in the upper head of the drum between the stiffening bead of the carrying and transport ring and the bunghole connection sleeves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Schütz GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 8919562
    Abstract: A pallet-like base frame includes corner feet and a floor for supporting an inner container. Central feet made of metal are arranged between the corner feet, and which are attached to a foot frame, to which the floor of the base frame as well as an outer jacket of the inner container are fastened. At least one central foot of the base frame encompasses a profile body, which encompasses a U-shaped cross section, comprising a base wall, an outer journal wall and an inner journal wall, wherein the base wall and the journal walls embody an axial edge web at axial end areas of the profile body in a plane at right angles to a longitudinal axis of the profile body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Protechna S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 8863972
    Abstract: A transport and storage container for liquids includes an inner container of plastic material, an outer casing of a metal mesh or sheet metal, and a pallet-like underframe. The container is configured for manipulation by a transport means. A bottom of sheet metal rests on corner and middle legs for supporting the inner container equipped with a closable filling socket and a drain socket for connection to a removal fitting, wherein the inner container has a drain bottom with a middle draining groove which extends with a slight downward inclination from the rear wall of the container to the drain socket arranged at the end wall of the container for connection of the removal fitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Protechna S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Publication number: 20140291356
    Abstract: An inner container for transporting and storing liquids includes an outlet neck and a bottom wall. The bottom wall connects two side walls, one rear wall and one front wall of the inner container to one another. The outlet neck is arranged in a funnel bottom of an outlet funnel embodied in the bottom wall, and includes one front funnel wall, two lateral funnel walls and one rear funnel wall, wherein the lateral funnel walls are inclined from a lower edge of a side wall towards the funnel bottom in each case, in such a way that the outlet funnel has the shape of a truncated pyramid above the funnel bottom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Protechna S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 8727175
    Abstract: A wide-neck drum of thermoplastic material has a removable cover and a clamping ring closure. The drum is provided with an arrangement of a bung socket of a filling and discharge bung of the cover which is outwardly offset relative to the center point of the bung cover. The bung is provided at a flat or slightly curved bottom which has an upwardly protruding cover rim for fastening the bung cover on the drum opening rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Schütz GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 8708150
    Abstract: A pallet-like base frame-includes a floor for supporting the inner container. Corner feet and central feet are mounted on a foot frame attached to the floor of the base frame. At least one of the corner feet includes a corner foot body with a front wall and partial bodies formed laterally of a center axis of the front wall. The partial bodies respectively include an upper supporting surface formed on the circumferential rim of the front wall for connecting the corner foot with the floor and a lower supporting surface with a connecting region for connecting the corner foot with the foot frame. The lower supporting surface of at least one partial body has a stop body arranged between a circumferential rim of the front wall and the connecting region, which stop body, due to its distance from the circumferential rim, defines a bearing rim for supporting the base frame on an outer casing of a transport and storage container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Protechna S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz