Patents by Inventor Werner Gawlitta

Werner Gawlitta 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: 7096778
    Abstract: The roller bar chains of a continuous press for producing pressed board provided sufficient play for the roller bars relative to the link chains by having the journaling pins for the link chains extending through bushings which articulate the overlapping link plates together, so that the outer diameters of the pins within these bushings are less than the inner diameters of the bushings. The result is that the roller bar chain has only a single guide plane in the press region between the two press plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Siempelkamp Maschinen-Und Anlagenbau GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Lothar Sebastian, Klaus Schürmann, Werner Gawlitta, Klaus Gerhardt
  • Patent number: 6865984
    Abstract: A single-level or multilevel or continuous board press is composed of a succession of press frames which are subdivided horizontally at their vertical limbs for transport and when then welded together at the erection site. Leveling strips are provided along mounted surfaces of the frame to support the plates, piston-and-cylinder units and the like serving to press the mats of wood material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Siempelkamp Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Klaus Schürmann, Lothar Sebastian, Horst Weiss, Werner Gawlitta
  • Publication number: 20050039616
    Abstract: The roller bar chains of a continuous press for producing pressed board provided sufficient play for the roller bars relative to the link chains by having the journaling pins for the link chains extending through bushings which articulate the overlapping link plates together, so that the outer diameters of the pins within these bushings are less than the inner diameters of the bushings. The result is that the roller bar chain has only a single guide plane in the press region between the two press plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Inventors: Lothar Sebastian, Klaus Schurmann, Werner Gawlitta, Klaus Gerhardt
  • Publication number: 20050035155
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dispersion system for dispersing material, especially wood chips, wood fibres or similar, on a dispersing conveyor belt (1) in such a manner that groups of material (M) are formed during the production of chipboard, fibre-board or similar wood material boards. Said system comprises a dispersion material bunker (2) with a dosing unit (3) made from at least one dosing strip (4) and optionally, one or more dosing and/or disintegrating cylinders (5) for dispersing the material on one dispersion head (7) arranged on the end of the dosing unit and above the dispersing conveyor belt. The dispersion head is embodied in the form of a perforated dispersion head with a perforated base (8) and a plurality of agitating elements (9) are disposed at a predetermined distance above said base (8) and form a predetermined agitating width (B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Publication date: February 17, 2005
    Inventors: Werner Gawlitta, Klaus Gerhardt
  • Patent number: 6851358
    Abstract: A panel press has horizontally spaced and vertically oriented window-type tension frames each in turn having an upper beam having opposite ends each formed with an upwardly directed seat, a lower beam beneath the upper beam and having opposite ends each formed with a downwardly directed seat, and respective vertical side elements extending between the ends of the upper and lower beams and each unitarily formed with a laterally projecting upper end having a downwardly directed surface bearing downward on the respective upper-beam seat and with a laterally projecting lower end having an upwardly directed surface bearing upward on the respective lower-beam seat. Vertical bolts secure the laterally projecting ends to the respective beam ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignee: Siempelkamp Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Werner Gawlitta, Klaus Schürmann, Lothar Sebastian, Horst Weiss, Christoph Schmitz, Klaus Wollny
  • Patent number: 6829987
    Abstract: A continuous belt press has upper and lower platens defining a horizontal gap. Upper and lower upstream drums and downstream are rotatable on the frame about respective horizontal drum axes at the upstream and downstream ends of the gap. Upper and lower endless steel belts spanned over the respective upper and lower drums each have a working stretch supported by respective upper and lower sets of rollers on the respective platens. Each belt has a pair of edges projecting transversely past the respective rollers and at least one of the drums of each of the belts has a substantially cylindrical central region of a predetermined central diameter bearing through the respective rollers on the working stretch of the respective belt and a pair of edge formations of smaller diameter than the central-region diameter lying outside the central region and in engagement with the edges of the respective belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Siempelkamp Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Werner Gawlitta, Lothar Sebastian, Klaus Schürmann, Horst Weiss
  • Publication number: 20030110960
    Abstract: A single-level or multilevel or continuous board press is composed of a succession of press frames which are subdivided horizontally at their vertical limbs for transport and when then welded together at the erection site. Leveling strips are provided along mounted surfaces of the frame to support the plates, piston-and-cylinder units and the like serving to press the mats of wood material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Applicant: Siempelkamp Maschinen-und Anlagnbau GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Klaus Schurmann, Lothar Sebastian, Horst Weiss, Werner Gawlitta
  • Publication number: 20030084795
    Abstract: A panel press has horizontally spaced and vertically oriented window-type tension frames each in turn having an upper beam having opposite ends each formed with an upwardly directed seat, a lower beam beneath the upper beam and having opposite ends each formed with a downwardly directed seat, and respective vertical side elements extending between the ends of the upper and lower beams and each unitarily formed with a laterally projecting upper end having a downwardly directed surface bearing downward on the respective upper-beam seat and with a laterally projecting lower end having an upwardly directed surface bearing upward on the respective lower-beam seat. Vertical bolts secure the laterally projecting ends to the respective beam ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2002
    Publication date: May 8, 2003
    Applicant: SIEMPELKAMP MASCHINEN- UND ANLAGENBAU GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Werner Gawlitta, Klaus Schurmann, Lothar Sebastian, Horst Weiss, Christoph Schmitz, Klaus Wollny
  • Publication number: 20030066441
    Abstract: A continuous belt press has upper and lower platens defining a horizontal gap. Upper and lower upstream drums and downstream are rotatable on the frame about respective horizontal drum axes at the upstream and downstream ends of the gap. Upper and lower endless steel belts spanned over the respective upper and lower drums each have a working stretch supported by respective upper and lower sets of rollers on the respective platens. Each belt has a pair of edges projecting transversely past the respective rollers and at least one of the drums of each of the belts has a substantially cylindrical central region of a predetermined central diameter bearing through the respective rollers on the working stretch of the respective belt and a pair of edge formations of smaller diameter than the central-region diameter lying outside the central region and in engagement with the edges of the respective belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Applicant: Siempelkamp Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Werner Gawlitta, Lothar Sebastian, Klaus Schurmann, Horst Weiss
  • Patent number: 6439113
    Abstract: A method for producing pressed board deforms the mat with compression and decompression between heated plates upstream of the platens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: G. Siempelkamp GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Gawlitta, Lothar Sebastian, Klaus Schürmann, Horst Weiss
  • Patent number: 6257414
    Abstract: A roller sifting or dispersing machine for the classification or dispersing of wood chips, fibers, or similar materials and to the utilization of an above-described roller sifting or dispersing machine. The roller sifting machine includes annular grooves and annular crosspieces. An outer sheathing surface of each annular crosspiece is provided with adjoining teeth in the circumference direction. The front tooth-side in the direction of rotation is steeper than the adjoining tooth back-side. The crosspiece and teeth of a roller also form a gradient that is opposed to the adjacent roller but has the same gradient height. The leading tooth sides of the circulating teeth create a pitching effect on the particles of the material to be sifted so that clogging of the roller set are avoided and an accelerated movement towards the exit end is achieved. By the continuous opposing movement of the teeth, clogging of these openings for the passage of chips is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: G. Siempelkamp GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Klaus Gerhardt, Werner Gawlitta
  • Patent number: 6142068
    Abstract: A press for pressing a mat into a thin panel has a press frame, upper and lower press plates on the frame, upper and lower press belts having confronting lower and upper stretches defining a press gap extending in a horizontal and longitudinal transport direction and respectively running below and above the upper and lower press plates, respective arrays of rollers between each press plate and the respective stretch, and upper and lower flexible intake plates juxtaposed respectively above and below upstream ends of the lower and upper stretches of the belts and defining therewith an intake mouth flaring upstream. An array of spaced differential hydraulic actuators is braced between at least one of the intake plates and the frame and is operable to deform the one intake plate and thereby change the spacings of the belts at the mouth. A controller connected to the actuators can therefore steplessly change the shape and position of the belts at the mouth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: G. Siempelkamp GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Lothar Sebastian, Klaus Schurmann, Horst Weiss, Werner Gawlitta
  • Patent number: 6098532
    Abstract: A continuous press for pressing a thick mat into a thin panel has a press frame, upper and lower press belts having confronting lower and upper stretches defining a press gap extending in a horizontal transport direction, upper and lower flexible intake plates juxtaposed respectively above and below upstream ends of the lower and upper stretches of the belts and defining therewith an intake mouth flaring upstream, and a plurality of hydraulic actuators braced between at least one of the intake plates and the frame and operable to deform the one intake plate and thereby change the spacing of the belts at the mouth. A desired shape of the one intake plate at the mouth is established in accordance with the thickness of the mat, the density of the mat, and the thickness of the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: G. Siempelkamp GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Lothar Sebastian, Klaus Schurmann, Horst Weiss, Werner Gawlitta
  • Patent number: 5195428
    Abstract: A press for the production of pressed board with injection of steam utilizes press platens to which the steam is fed to the steam-feed channels from opposite sides in a collision flow, the channels communicating with steam-nozzle bores opening at the pressing surface and such that the cross section of each channel is equal to at least 60% of the total flow cross sections of the boards communicating with that channel. Before the pressing commences, the channels are through-flushed with steam to flush air from the channels and bores and to evacuate air from the pressed mat by a venturi effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1993
    Assignee: G. Siempelkamp GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Werner Gawlitta, Karl Walter, Stephan Schulz
  • Patent number: 5158012
    Abstract: A press for the production of pressed board with injection of steam utilizes press platens to which the steam is fed to the steam-feed channels from opposite sides in a collision flow, the chanels communicating with steam-nozzle bores opening at the pressing surface and such that the cross section of each channel is equal to at least 60% of the total flow cross sections of the boards communicating with that channel. Before the pressing commences, the channels are through-flushed with steam to flush air from the channels and bores and to evacuate air from the pressed mat by a venturi effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1992
    Assignee: G. Siempelkamp GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Werner Gawlitta, Karl Walter, Stephan Schulz