Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Pfender

Wolfgang Pfender 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).

  • Brake ring
    Patent number: 9185917
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for the manufacture of sausages. In one example, a method for manufacturing sausages with a filling machine comprises ejecting a mass through a filling tube into a sausage casing ruffled on the filling tube, and exerting a brake force on the sausage casing via a sausage casing brake on a braking area of a brake ring pressing onto the sausage casing, wherein the braking area extends around a longitudinal axis of the filling tube such that the braking area presses onto a part, and not the entirety, of a circumference of the sausage casing in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, and wherein the brake force is distributed in a direction along the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Manfred Baechtle, Juergen Flach, Michael Hammerer, Wolfgang Pfender, Gerhard Schliesser, Siegfried Reutter, Juergen Rechsteiner
  • BRAKE RING
    Publication number: 20150208675
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for the manufacture of sausages. In one example, a method for manufacturing sausages with a filling machine comprises ejecting a mass through a filling tube into a sausage casing ruffled on the filling tube, and exerting a brake force on the sausage casing via a sausage casing brake on a braking area of a brake ring pressing onto the sausage casing, wherein the braking area extends around a longitudinal axis of the filling tube such that the braking area presses onto a part, and not the entirety, of a circumference of the sausage casing in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, and wherein the brake force is distributed in a direction along the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Manfred Baechtle, Juergen Flach, Michael Hammerer, Wolfgang Pfender, Gerhard Schliesser, Siegfried Reutter, Juergen Rechsteiner