Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Nieuwkamp
Wolfgang Nieuwkamp 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).
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Patent number: 6779380Abstract: A safety vacuum cleaner including a measuring system for residual dust monitoring, including a housing having an air passage with an inlet, an outlet, and a flow cross section. A turbine is disposed within the air passage and is rotatable to move an air stream through the air passage, the air stream containing dust particles. The turbine is electrically grounded such that electrical charges associated with the particles are removed upon contact of the particles with the turbine. A filter element is disposed within the air passage, and at least one electrode is disposed within the air passage downstream of the turbine, the electrode shaped as a grid covering the flow cross section of the air passage. The electrode conducts an electrical current responsive to contact with uncharged particles and emits a measurement signal indicative of the amount of the particles in the air stream.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2001Date of Patent: August 24, 2004Assignee: WAP Reinigungssysteme GmbH & Co.Inventor: Wolfgang Nieuwkamp
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Patent number: 5395052Abstract: A high-pressure cleaning device is provided. The device includes a housing enclosing a liquid pump and motor for driving the pump. A spray gun consisting of a jet pipe and an actuating handle is connected to the liquid pump via a hose. The spray gun is releasably attached to the housing such that the cleaning device can be operated by manually gripping the actuating handle of the gun regardless of whether the gun is attached to the housing or not.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 1994Date of Patent: March 7, 1995Assignee: Alfred Karcher GmbH & Co.Inventors: Josef Schneider, Robert Nathan, Wolfgang Nieuwkamp
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Patent number: 5174730Abstract: In a high-pressure cleaning apparatus with a high-pressure pump for a cleaning liquid connected on the suction side to a preliminary tank with a feed pipe for cleaning liquid and having in the pressure pipe a bypass pipe branching off from this pressure pipe and leading to the preliminary tank, and with an electromotor driving the high-pressure pump and having a coolant pipe through which cleaning liquid flows, in order to also ensure effective cooling of the electromotor in the recirculation mode without loss of coolant, it is proposed that the feed pipe to the preliminary tank have a greater conveying capacity than the coolant pipe and that the coolant pipe lead into the preliminary tank in which there is a means for limiting the filling level.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 1990Date of Patent: December 29, 1992Assignee: Alfred Karcher GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Nieuwkamp, Horst Bauer
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Patent number: 4625916Abstract: A cylindrical inset forming a mixing chamber in a binary atomizing nozzle is mounted in a housing ahead of the nozzle discharge and is provided with radial boreholes. The liquid to be atomized, for instance water, and the atomizing gas, for instance air, are fed to the cylindrical inset, with the liquid arriving axially and the gas passing radially from an annular spacing surrounding the inset within the nozzle housing through the radial boreholes into the inset. The radial boreholes are located in several consecutive transverse plans when viewed in the direction of flow and are arrayed in mutually offset manner in the circumferential direction of the cylindrical inset.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 1984Date of Patent: December 2, 1986Assignee: Lechler GmbH & Co., KGInventors: Wolfgang Nieuwkamp, Martin Junger, Helmut Wenzel
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Patent number: 4558822Abstract: A binary atomizing nozzle includes a housing having a liquid insert and a gas insert. The liquid insert has an interior chamber and a liquid inlet and a liquid discharge communicate with the chamber. A spin insert is positioned in the chamber so that liquid flowing from the chamber is given a rotational spin and exits the liquid discharge as a hollow cone. The spin insert is threadedly engaged with the wall of the chamber so that the liquid discharge constantly wets the wall portion of the flaring discharge. The liquid insert has an outer portion spaced from the gas insert and provides an axially extending annular chamber having a gas discharge. The liquid discharge is axially spaced a preselected distance from the gas discharge so that gas exiting the gas discharge flows along the outer portion of the liquid insert according to the Coanda effect and thereby atomizes the liquid exiting the liquid discharge.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 1983Date of Patent: December 17, 1985Assignee: Lechler GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Wolfgang Nieuwkamp, Sepp Mezger
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Patent number: 4483482Abstract: A dual-material atomizing nozzle comprises a housing (10) with a gas intake (13), a liquid intake (14) and with a mixing chamber (11) for the gaseous and liquid components; a rod-like insert (16) flaring into a saucer-shape opposite the nozzle exit extends through the mixing chamber (11) along its longitudinal axis (15); the end of the housing (10) which is at the nozzle exit side is thus covered while forming an approximately radial, annular-gap shaped nozzle exit slot (23).At least one convergent/divergent tube-path (28, 29; 25, 24) based on the Laval principle is provided within the mixing chamber (11) no farther than the nozzle exit (12). Thereby, and especially when a second convergent/divergent tube path (25, 24) is present behind the liquid intake (14), first the gas and also the mixture of gas and liquid will be accelerated within the nozzle housing (10) to supersonic speed.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 1982Date of Patent: November 20, 1984Assignee: Lechler GmbH & Co., KGInventors: Martin Junger, Wolfgang Nieuwkamp
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Patent number: 4426041Abstract: A solid-cone jet nozzle for spraying liquids has a cylindrical turbulence chamber, a liquid feed bore that tangentially enters the chamber, a flaring discharge opening that forms an axial extension of the chamber, and recesses and elevations made in the bottom of the chamber. The liquid exits the discharge opening in a direction which is perpendicular to the liquid feed bore. The recesses and elevations control the liquid flow.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 1981Date of Patent: January 17, 1984Assignee: Lechler GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Wolfgang Nieuwkamp, Dieter Kroger, Werner Raissle
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Patent number: 4125226Abstract: A hollow cone nozzle for atomizing liquids, which is provided with a housing having a tangential inlet and a mouthpiece containing the nozzle discharge which is to be detachably fastened in the housing; a ring-shaped swirl insert with an opening disposed coaxial to the nozzle discharge and with several inlet channels directed transversely to the axis of the opening is thereby arranged in the nozzle housing between the inlet and the mouthpiece whereby the inlet channels of the swirl insert have cross sections that decrease in the flow direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 1976Date of Patent: November 14, 1978Assignee: Lechler Apparatebau KGInventor: Wolfgang Nieuwkamp