Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Essig

Wolfgang Essig 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: 11576303
    Abstract: The invention relates to a shear bar (20), in particular for a forage harvester or another agricultural or silvicultural machine, having a carrier (21) that comprises a cutting region (30); a plurality of cutting elements (31) being set alongside one another in the cutting region (30); the cutting elements (31) comprising a partial edge and at least some of the partial edges forming a cutting edge (32) that is embodied to form, with a knife bar, a cutting engagement for the material to be shredded; the cutting edge (32) forming a transition between a cutting surface (32.1) that is constituted by the cutting elements (31) and extends transversely to the cutting direction, and an exposed surface (32.2) that extends substantially in a cutting direction and indirectly or directly adjoins the cutting edge (32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Inventors: Wolfgang Essig, Uwe Schneider, Fabian Seifried, Julian Roming
  • Patent number: 11234352
    Abstract: A blade tip, and a tool combination having a blade tip, for an agricultural soil cultivation machine. The blade tip has a base part including a cutter, a cutter carrier, a guiding element and a receptacle for fastening the blade tip to a tine of the agricultural soil cultivation machine. The base part has a receptacle covered by covering portion. The guiding element has a plug attachment held in the receptacle, and a form-fitting connection preventing movement of the guiding element out of the receptacle, provided between the blade tip and the guiding element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Inventors: Wolfgang Essig, Ulrich Kraemer, Florian Smeets, Fabian Seifried, Ruth Huber
  • Publication number: 20200396898
    Abstract: The invention relates to a shear bar (20), in particular for a forage harvester or another agricultural or silvicultural machine, having a carrier (21) that comprises a cutting region (30); a plurality of cutting elements (31) being set alongside one another in the cutting region (30); the cutting elements (31) comprising a partial edge and at least some of the partial edges forming a cutting edge (32) that is embodied to form, with a knife bar, a cutting engagement for the material to be shredded; the cutting edge (32) forming a transition between a cutting surface (32.1) that is constituted by the cutting elements (31) and extends transversely to the cutting direction, and an exposed surface (32.2) that extends substantially in a cutting direction and indirectly or directly adjoins the cutting edge (32).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Wolfgang Essig, Uwe Schneider, Fabian Seifried, Julian Roming
  • Patent number: 10721852
    Abstract: A cultivator for an agricultural soil processing machine, which includes a base part which has a cutting element on a cutter support. The base part has at least one screw receiving area for securing to a support, in particular a tine of the agricultural soil processing machine. The screw receiving area is designed as a blind hole with an inner thread and is recessed into a cultivator support surface aligned opposite the tool advancing direction of the cultivator, or the screw receiving area is designed as a through-bore with an inner thread and is covered by at least one wear protection element in the tool advancing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Betek GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Fabian Seifried, Uwe Schneider, Stefan Ruggaber, Wolfgang Essig
  • Publication number: 20180235137
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cultivator for an agricultural soil processing machine, which includes a base part which has a cutting element on a cutter support. The base part has at least one screw receiving area for securing to a support, in particular a tine of the agricultural soil processing machine. The screw receiving area is designed as a blind hole with an inner thread and is recessed into a cultivator support surface aligned opposite the tool advancing direction of the cultivator, or the screw receiving area is designed as a through-bore with an inner thread and is covered by at least one wear protection element in the tool advancing direction. The cultivator is characterized by reduced wear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: Betek GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Fabian SEIFRIED, Uwe Schneider, Stefan Ruggaber, Wolfgang Essig
  • Publication number: 20170367248
    Abstract: The invention relates to a guide element for an agricultural soil-cultivation machine comprising a connection region for arranging the guide element on a share tip, and comprising a first screw connection for attaching the guide element on a holder, in particular on a tine of the soil-cultivation machine. The guide element has varying thickness, at least in regions along the longitudinal extension thereof running from the connection region to a turned-away end region. The invention further relates to a corresponding tool combination comprising capacity of the guide element to be conformed to the loads in the tool insert, and thus conforming of the maintenance interval to that of the share tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: Betek GmbH & Co.KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang ESSIG, Ulrich Kraemer, Fabian Seifried, Florian Smeets
  • Publication number: 20170325392
    Abstract: The invention relates to a blade tip and to a tool combination having a blade tip for an agricultural soil cultivation machine, wherein the blade tip has a base part which has a cutter and a cutter carrier, and a guiding element attached to the blade tip, wherein the blade tip has a screw receptacle for fastening to a tine of the agricultural soil cultivation machine. Here, provision is made for the base part to have a receptacle which is covered by means of a covering portion in the tool feeding direction, for the guiding element to have a plug attachment which is held in the receptacle, and for a form-fitting connection, which prevents any movement of the guiding element out of the receptacle, to act in the region of the receptacle between the blade tip and the guide element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: Betek GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang ESSIG, Ulrich KRAEMER, Florian SMEETS, Fabian SEIFRIED, Ruth HUBER
  • Publication number: 20140216824
    Abstract: A drill head including a tool holder, chisel supports mounted thereon and drill bits. According to this invention, the chisel supports can be separated from the tool holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Inventors: Karl Kammerer, Wolfgang Essig
  • Publication number: 20080283150
    Abstract: A cutter insert for a tree stump milling cutter or the like with a milling tooth having a milling tooth head and a shaft. The shaft has two lateral faces extending in an advancement direction of the milling tooth, and the milling tooth head has a protrusion, which projects past the shaft in the advancement direction and has a support face. A high degree of operational dependability and service life result with such a cutter insert if the shaft has a neck projecting opposite the advancement direction, which is arranged at a distance from the support face of the protrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Wolfgang Essig, Thomas Wohrstein