Patents by Inventor Wilhelm Ostkamp

Wilhelm Ostkamp 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: 10639648
    Abstract: A rolling bearing-cooling device for a bearing arrangement is provided. The bearing arrangement includes at least one rolling bearing for mounting a drum of a decanter centrifuge or solid bowl centrifuge. The rolling bearing-cooling device includes a lubricant supply line, a lubricant discharge line, a cooling air supply line, and a cooling air discharge line. The lubricant supply line is spaced from the cooling air supply line and is opposite the cooling air discharge line, and the cooling air supply line is opposite the lubricant discharge line with regard to the rolling bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: GEA MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT GmbH
    Inventor: Wilhelm Ostkamp
  • Publication number: 20160310969
    Abstract: A rolling bearing-cooling device for a bearing arrangement is provided. The bearing arrangement includes at least one rolling bearing for mounting a drum of a decanter centrifuge or solid bowl centrifuge. The rolling bearing-cooling device includes a lubricant supply line, a lubricant discharge line, a cooling air supply line, and a cooling air discharge line. The lubricant supply line is spaced from the cooling air supply line and is opposite the cooling air discharge line, and the cooling air supply line is opposite the lubricant discharge line with regard to the rolling bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventor: Wilhelm OSTKAMP
  • Patent number: 8444542
    Abstract: A gear apparatus for a solid-bowl screw centrifuge. The gear apparatus includes a shaft, a gear, and a bearing. The centrifuge includies a drum and a screw, both of which are configured to be driven. The screw is further configured to be driven at a different rotational speed relative to the drum. The gear apparatus is connected between one or more drive motors and the screw and the drum. The gear apparatus is continuously filled with a lubricant and includes a hollow drive shaft having two hollow longitudinal channels extending in an axial direction. Also included is a lubricant compensating system having a lubricant compensating container connected via a line and a rotary lead-through for lubricating the bearing through the two hollow longitudinal channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Gea Westfalia Separator GmbH
    Inventors: Wilhelm Ostkamp, Richard Neubauer
  • Publication number: 20110034312
    Abstract: A gear apparatus for a solid-bowl screw centrifuge. The centrifuge includes a drum and a screw, both of which drum and screw are configured to be driven and the screw is further configured to be driven at a different rotational speed relative to the drum. The gear apparatus is connected between one or more drive motors and the screw and the drum. The gear apparatus is continuously filled with a lubricant and includes a hollow drive shaft having at least one hollow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: GEA WESTFALIA SEPARATOR GMBH
    Inventors: Wilhelm Ostkamp, Richard Bauer
  • Patent number: 7311654
    Abstract: A solid bowl helical conveyor centrifuge, including a rotatable drum having a horizontally-oriented axis of rotation and a rotatable screw arranged in the rotatable drum. Also included is at least one discharge opening oriented at an angle with respect to the horizontally-oriented axis of rotation. The at least one discharge opening is configured to discharge solids from the rotatable drum. An adjusting device is assigned to the at least one discharge opening and by which adjusting device an outlet cross-section of the at least one discharge opening is changeable. The adjusting device includes a movable adjusting disk arranged in the rotatable drum as an extension of the rotatable screw, and which movable adjusting disk is non-rotatably connected with one or more of the following: a) the rotatable drum, b) the rotatable screw, and c) a screw body. At least one connecting rod is fastened to the movable adjusting disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Westfalia Separator AG
    Inventor: Wilhelm Ostkamp
  • Patent number: 7056273
    Abstract: A solid bowl screw centrifuge includes a centrifuging chamber and a rotatable drum having a horizontal axis of rotation. The rotatable drum surrounds the centrifuging chamber. Also included is a rotatable screw arranged in the rotatable drum, at least one solids discharge, at least one liquid discharge duct and a peeling disk via which liquids are discharged through the liquid discharge duct. Further included is a blocking chamber connected to an output side of the peeling disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Westfalia Separator AG
    Inventors: Wilhelm Ostkamp, Franz Kramer, Wolf-Dietrich Herberg
  • Publication number: 20060089247
    Abstract: A solid bowl helical conveyor centrifuge, including a rotatable drum having a horizontally-oriented axis of rotation and a rotatable screw arranged in the rotatable drum. Also included is at least one discharge opening oriented at an angle with respect to the horizontally-oriented axis of rotation. The at least one discharge opening is configured to discharge solids from the rotatable drum. An adjusting device is assigned to the at least one discharge opening and by which adjusting device an outlet cross-section of the at least one discharge opening is changeable. The adjusting device includes a movable adjusting disk arranged in the rotatable drum as an extension of the rotatable screw, and which movable adjusting disk is non-rotatably connected with one or more of the following: a) the rotatable drum, b) the rotatable screw, and c) a screw body. At least one connecting rod is fastened to the movable adjusting disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Publication date: April 27, 2006
    Inventor: Wilhelm Ostkamp
  • Publication number: 20050227848
    Abstract: A solid bowl screw centrifuge includes a centrifuging chamber and a rotatable drum having a horizontal axis of rotation. The rotatable drum surrounds the centrifuging chamber. Also included is a rotatable screw arranged in the rotatable drum, at least one solids discharge, at least one liquid discharge duct and a peeling disk via which liquids are discharged through the liquid discharge duct. Further included is a blocking chamber connected to an output side of the peeling disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Inventors: Wilhelm Ostkamp, Franz Kramer, Wolf-Dietrich Herberg
  • Patent number: 6248055
    Abstract: A housing structure adapted for use in a horizontal solid-bowl screw decanter centrifuge, includes an outer housing body having a bottom area formed with an assembly opening which extends over a substantial length of the housing body and is destined for insertion of a tubular inner bowl. The inner bowl is secured to the housing body at opposite end faces of the housing body and is formed for discharge of solids and liquids with connection ports which extend radially with respect to an axis of rotation of the centrifuge. The outer housing body has opposite axial ends formed with access openings for insertion of a rotor and a transmission into the interior space of the inner bowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: Westfalia Separator AG
    Inventor: Wilhelm Ostkamp