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: 20030230580
    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: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2003
    Publication date: December 18, 2003
    Inventor: Udo Schutz
  • Patent number: 6655541
    Abstract: A sectioned storage container for liquids has an inner plastic container to be filled with a liquid and a plastic receptacle that surrounds the inner container so that an intermediate space is formed between the inner container and the receptacle. The inner container is made of at least two blow-molded monolithic parts connected with one another by a groove-shaped vertical recess extending in the sidewalls, the container bottom, and the top of the inner container. The receptacle has an insertion opening for the inner container so that the inner container projects with top portions thereof upwardly from the receptacle through the insertion opening. The sidewalls and the receptacle bottom of the receptacle have a groove-shaped vertical recess which is matched to the recess of the sidewalls and the container bottom of the inner container. A peripheral vertical reinforcement strap engages the vertical recesses and reinforces the storage container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Schütz GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 6598601
    Abstract: A solar collector has a distribution and collecting unit having a housing and a distribution channel and a connecting channel arranged in the housing. Collector tubes for heating a fluid medium are connected to the housing. The collector tubes have an adaptor, respectively, with a rotary closure for connecting the collector tubes to the distribution channel and the collecting channel of the housing. The adaptor is rotatably adjustable for aligning the collector tubes relative to the solar radiation in order to improve thermal output of the solar collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Schütz GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Publication number: 20030111466
    Abstract: A sectioned storage container for liquids has an inner plastic container to be filled with a liquid and a plastic receptacle that surrounds the inner container so that an intermediate space is formed between the inner container and the receptacle. The inner container is made of at least two blow-molded monolithic parts connected with one another by a groove-shaped vertical recess extending in the sidewalls, the container bottom, and the top of the inner container. The receptacle has an insertion opening for the inner container so that the inner container projects with top portions thereof upwardly from the receptacle through the insertion opening. The sidewalls and the receptacle bottom of the receptacle have a groove-shaped vertical recess which is matched to the recess of the sidewalls and the container bottom of the inner container. A peripheral vertical reinforcement strap engages the vertical recesses and reinforces the storage container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Inventor: Udo Schutz
  • Publication number: 20030010335
    Abstract: A solar collector has a distribution and collecting unit having a housing and a distribution channel and a connecting channel arranged in the housing. Collector tubes for heating a fluid medium are connected to the housing. The collector tubes have an adaptor, respectively, with a rotary closure for connecting the collector tubes to the distribution channel and the collecting channel of the housing. The adaptor is rotatably adjustable for aligning the collector tubes relative to the solar radiation in order to improve thermal output of the solar collector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2002
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Applicant: Schutz GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Udo Schutz
  • Publication number: 20020178974
    Abstract: A pallet includes a base plate of cantilever construction and legs of metal, particularly as an underframe for pallet containers for transporting and for storing liquids in an inner container of synthetic material standing on the base plate of the pallet, and an outer casing composed of a grid structure or sheet metal material attached to the base plate. The base plate and the legs of the pallet are manufactured as a single piece from a sheet metal plate as the initial material by deformation, particularly by deep-drawing and/or pressing or by hydroforming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventor: Udo Schutz
  • Publication number: 20020134780
    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: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2001
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Inventor: Udo Schutz
  • Patent number: 6454113
    Abstract: A transport and storage container for liquids has a pallet underframe to be handled by various transport devices. A parallelepipedal or cubic inner container of plastic material with a closeable fill and outlet opening or a closeable fill and removal opening is provided. A metal cage rests against the inner container and is formed of crossing horizontal and vertical cage rods of metal. The flexible inner container has an inner envelope of a plastic foil and an outer envelope of a woven material. The inner container is fastened to at least one of an upper frame of the metal cage and a protective cover of the metal cage. The inner envelope is positioned in the outer envelope of the inner container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: Protechna S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 6453533
    Abstract: In a method for reconditioning a returnable barrel of sheet metal, that is used initially as a bung barrel having a barrel wall and a top cover with a fill and discharge bung and fixedly connected to the barrel wall, and is to be reused as a lid barrel with a bung lid or bung-free lid connected to an outwardly rolled opening rim of the barrel wall via a clamping ring closure after removal of the top cover, wherein the barrel wall has an upper portion forming a barrel neck recessed or tapered relative to the outwardly rolled opening rim of the barrel wall, wherein the top cover of the initial bung barrel has a rolled outer rim placed on the outwardly rolled opening rim of the barrel wall and connected to the outwardly rolled opening rim by lock-seaming and welding, the top cover of the bung barrel is circularly cut concentrically to a longitudinal center axis of the barrel at a transition between a plate of the top cover and an upwardly extending inner rim of the top cover to separate the plate of the top cove
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: Schütz-Werke GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 6450549
    Abstract: A press-fitting connector for plastic composite pipes, comprised of an inner plastic layer, an outer plastic layer, and a middle metal layer, has a support member receiving the end of a plastic composite pipe. The support member has an outer collar having a first end face facing the plastic composite pipe and a second end face facing away from the plastic composite pipe. An insulating plastic ring is positioned at the first end face. A press-fit sleeve secures the pipe end on the support member. The outer collar has two diametrically opposed cutouts. The insulating plastic ring is a curved spring washer with two convexly curved and two concavely curved portions, wherein the convexly curved portions have monolithic, axis-parallel tongues engaging the cutouts of the circumferential rib. The axis-parallel tongues in the end position of the plastic composite pipe project partially from the cutouts past the second end face of the outer collar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: Schütz-Werke GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Publication number: 20020076461
    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: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Inventors: Hans-Ullrich Schmidt, Udo Schutz, Jurgen Schulz
  • Publication number: 20020069795
    Abstract: A pallet includes a base plate of cantilever construction and legs of metal, particularly as an underframe for pallet containers for transporting and for storing liquids in an inner container of synthetic material standing on the base plate of the pallet, and an outer casing composed of a grid structure or sheet metal material attached to the base plate. The base plate and the legs of the pallet are manufactured as a single piece from a sheet metal plate as the initial material by deformation, particularly by deep-drawing and/or pressing or by hydroforming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Inventor: Udo Schutz
  • Patent number: 6390331
    Abstract: A transport and storage container for liquids has a flexible inner container of an inner envelope of plastic material and an outer envelope of a woven material. The container also has a cage of crossing horizontal and vertical cage rods of metal as well as a pallet underframe of metal. The flexible inner container is suspended from cover rods connected at the upper frame of the cage of the transport container. The outflow socket of the inner container is detachably connectable with a holding device on the cage of the transport container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Protechna S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 6379034
    Abstract: A device for emptying a storage and transport container for liquids has a base frame, a pivot frame pivotably connected to the base frame, and a pivot drive connected to the pivot frame. The pivot frame has an initial low position and an upper pivot end position. The pivot drive can pivot the pivot frame from the initial low position into the upper pivot end position and from the upper pivot end position into the initial low position. The pivot frame receives the storage and transport container in the initial low position and secures the storage and transport container in the upper pivot end position. The upper pivot end position is the emptying position of the storage and transport container received on the pivot frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Protechna S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Publication number: 20010017362
    Abstract: A flap valve for liquid containers and liquid conduits has a valve housing having a cylindrical through bore extending in a longitudinal direction of the valve housing. A circular flap is positioned in the through bore and arranged in the valve housing rotatably about an axis extending perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction. A grip is located external to the housing and connected to the circular flap, wherein the grip is configured to turn the circular flap for opening and closing the through bore depending on a position of the circular flap. The throughbore has a seat having a spherical geometry for receiving the circular flap in a closed position of the circular flap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Publication date: August 30, 2001
    Inventor: Udo Schutz
  • Publication number: 20010011655
    Abstract: A transport and storage container for liquids has a flexible inner container of an inner envelope of plastic material and an outer envelope of a woven material. The container also has a cage of crossing horizontal and vertical cage rods of metal as well as a pallet underframe of metal. The flexible inner container is suspended from cover rods connected at the upper frame of the cage of the transport container. The outflow socket of the inner container is detachably connectable with a holding device on the cage of the transport container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Publication date: August 9, 2001
    Inventor: Udo Schutz
  • Patent number: 6156969
    Abstract: A transport and storage container for liquids with a pallet-like underframe of an electrically conductive material, an exchangeable inner container of synthetic material with four side walls, a bottom wall and a top wall, a closable inlet opening at the top and a lower outlet opening with a draining device, and an outer casing formed of grating or sheet metal. The transport and storage container for liquids further includes a grounding member of an electrically conductive material, preferably metal, arranged in the passage opening of the discharge device between the discharge valve of the discharge device and the inner container, wherein the grounding member is connected to an electrically conductive connecting element, preferably a screw of metal with a grounding connection to the underframe of the container, wherein the connecting element is introduced from the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Protechna S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schutz
  • Patent number: 6058966
    Abstract: A plastic safety valve for containers, especially pallet containers with an internal container of plastic and an external jacket of metal for the transport and storage of liquids, is constructed as an automatic aerating and venting valve and is integrated into a lid or plug for sealing the filling and/or emptying opening or the aerating and/or venting opening of a container. The valve housing, which is constructed as a threaded plug and can be screwed into a corresponding threaded hole in a threaded cover or threaded plug, has a central hub supported by ribs, wherein the hub has a through-hole. The ribs extend outwardly in a star-like manner from the hub toward a ring-shaped shoulder. Air passage holes are formed between the ribs. An elastically constructed valve membrane of an aerating unit for opening and closing the air passage holes between the ribs is pushed from the inside onto the hub up to a shoulder of the hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Protechna S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schutz
  • Patent number: 6050437
    Abstract: A transport and storage container for liquids includes a pallet-like underframe, an exchangeable inner container of synthetic material with four side walls, a bottom wall and a top wall, a closeable inlet opening at the top and a lower outlet opening with a draining device, and an outer casing surrounding the inner container, wherein the outer casing is formed of vertically and horizontally extending grate rods of metal. The transport and storage container for liquids further includes a fabric-like, net-like or lattice-like sheathing of an electrically conductive material which is applied onto the inner container and surrounds the inner container completely or partially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: Protechna S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schutz
  • Patent number: 5984133
    Abstract: Tighthead barrel (1) is blow molded from thermoplastic. Top (4) which is arched to the outside has dome shape (9) and with its outside edge (10) at distance (a) under bearing surface (7) of carrying and rolling ring (5) which is pointed perpendicularly or obliquely to barrel axis (6--6) at a steep slant angle runs into top end section (11) of barrel jacket (2). Carrying and rolling ring (5) projects upward in the direction of barrel axis (6--6) above crown (16) of top (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Schutz-Werke GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Udo Schutz