Patents by Inventor Volker Mehlan

Volker Mehlan 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: 20090126874
    Abstract: A supply device for a tire-building drum, in particular for a tire-belt drum for building a multilayer tire-belt package for a pneumatic tire, where a plurality of layers of different or differently treated, substantially strip-like pieces of material web are, in succession, placed on, rolled onto, and bonded to one another on the tire-building drum. The supply device has cutting devices in which cut-to-length pieces of material web are formed and then transported to the tire-building drum by a drum supply device, which has two drum feed belts. Two pairs of cutting devices are disposed mutually above one another and assigned to the drum feed belts. The cutting devices are displaceable relative to the drum feed belts such that, in the backward receptive position, the drum feed belts can be brought into active contact in alternation with one of the pairs of cutting devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: Continental Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Volker Mehlan, Martin Gerighausen