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Xaver Lipp – An Inventor from Eastern Württemberg

That Xaver Lipp, an inventor and tinkerer from Eastern Württemberg, has been developing numerous new ideas and pioneering inventions for many years is confirmed by the long list of matches in the German Patent Office’s patent search.

Xaver Lipp has received important innovation prizes for his patents – such as the Rudolf Diesel Medal – as well as numerous awards and he is still actively developing new technologies.

For more than 60 years, partners and customers have benefited from his inventive spirit and his extensive experience in sheet metal processing and mechanical engineering.

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since 2016

Worldwide innovative technology for container production

Container welding technology – Patents and know-how.

The container welding technology invented by Xaver Lipp sets new standards in the field of container production.

The tank is created – on site – by the automatic welding of a steel sheet that continuously enters the machine and is simultaneously turned upwards in a helical manner from the special machine. The welding technology is the innovative further development of the Xaver Lipp double seam system. It expands the range of substrates that could previously be stored, so that drinking water, crude oil and various other substances can now be stored there.

The container welding technology is so unique and ingenious that Xaver Lipp has been awarded several patents for it.

since 2012

Realizing ideas

Invention and development of tank welding technology

Since 2012 Xaver Lipp has created a unique and at the same time genially simple principle of vessel production in several technical steps. In an automated process, a steel strip runs into the special machine and is first pre-formed to then be welded in a subsequent step. The resulting container rotates in a spiral at the same time and forms an absolutely tight and at the same time very stable welded tank.

For his new ideas on the subject of container welding technology, the inventor in 2017 granted several patents.

since 2010

Silo machine ‘double fold’

for sheets up to 6 mm thickness

Xaver Lipp invented the double folding technique already in 1967 and since then sheets with a thickness of up to 4 mm have been used for the production of containers.

Between 2010 and 2012, the inventor developed a new machine unit to enable sheet metal with material thicknesses of up to 6 mm to be formed on site.
With the so-called SM 60 (silo machine 60), containers with considerably larger volumes can now be produced.

since 1995

Agitators for biogas plants

the shaft agitator

Since the early seventies, Xaver Lipp has been engaged in the design and construction of biogas plants and their technical equipment. Parallel to the design of the fermenter, this also includes agitators, overpressure protection devices, pumps, etc.

His patented shaft agitator, which guarantees optimal mixing of the pumpable biomass, is one of these important equipment and is nowadays very successfully installed in biogas plants worldwide.

since 1994

LIPP-INOX stainless steel

award-winning special steel composite material

With the development of the new combination material LIPP-INOX – Xaver Lipp had created another revolutionary invention for tank construction.

Thin high quality stainless steel sheet is joined to galvanized sheet using a special adhesive material and this new material is used to produce containers with the double seam technique. Water or aggressive materials can now be stored inside the tanks and the galvanized sheet metal on the outside creates a cost-effective end product. Quality and stability remain the same.

Xaver Lipp was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Innovation Prize in 2005 for this invention.

The 90s

Container – double folding technology

Xaver Lipp invented and developed the double seam technique back in the early seventies. This construction technology enables an efficient and cost-effective production of containers on location.

Steel strips are rolled from the coil into the forming machine, endlessly spirally turned upwards and simultaneously bent twice at their edges. In the next process, they are tightly connected by the double fold invented by Xaver Lipp.

80s

Special Equipment for field silage

Xaver Lipp developed the idea of field silage for agriculture in the early 1980s and consequently designed the so-called field silage wagon.

The freshly harvested substrate could be prepared directly on the field for storage and pressed into the large reusable stainless steel cans. The airtight closure guarantees a long saturability and freshness of the contents.

This environmentally friendly field silage vehicle is therefore exhibited in original size at the Museum für Landwirtschaft in Stuttgart/Germany.

since1986

Bridge cables – covering with double fold technology

At the beginning of the eighties Xaver Lipp developed a special device that could be used to coat the cables on bridges using the double seam technique. Thus, for example, cable bridges could be protected against weather influences. The machine trolley moves upwards and simultaneously wraps the cable to be protected with a double-folded sheet metal.

1982

Award of the Rudolf Diesel Medal

In December 1982 Xaver Lipp was honored with the Rudolf Diesel Medal. The Swabian inventor received this extraordinary tribute above all for his invention and development of the double fold system. This genius technology for the production of large tanks has already been licensed by the inventor numerous times to partners all over the world.

since 1975

Double fold system with horizontal winding process

This special machine was invented and developed by Xaver Lipp to be able to produce smaller silos and tanks with diameters up to 3 metres. The machine was positioned in the production hall in such a way that the created container rotated out in a horizontal spiral. This endlessly produced large pipe could be cut to any length and transported to the construction site, where it then served as a storage container, for example.

since 1970

Biogas Plants – Double Fold Technology

Together with the Universities of Munich and Hohenheim, Xaver Lipp started designing and constructing agricultural biogas plants at the beginning of the 1970s.

This was followed by decades in which the biogas fermenters and the plant concepts were further developed to increase the gas yield and the economic yield of the plants.

since 1968

Manufacture of folded tubes

To produce pipes of any diameter and without restriction in length from one strip material was another great challenge that Xaver Lipp took up early on.

He had found and developed a very good solution for small diameters.

The result: A square machine box that almost magically produces a tube in its interior that endlessly turns out from the inside.

since 1967

First silos – double folding technology

Since 1967 Xaver Lipp has invented and developed the double seam technique.

This patented system is based on a worldwide unique and at the same time genially simple technique of tank production. This construction technology enables an efficient and cost-effective production of containers directly on site.

since 1965

Rectangular tubes, ventilation pipes

In 1969 Xaver Lipp was granted a patent for the technology of producing rectangular tubes with a special folding technique. The so-called channel folding machine is used for the production of longitudinal folds in rectangular pipes and is – even today – mainly used for ventilation shafts and air conditioning systems.

since 1959

Longitudinal folding machine

With this compact machine, sheets can be rounded and folded lengthwise. The end products with variable diameters are used for instance as gutter drains, as oven pipes or as blower pipes for hay in agriculture.

Xaver Lipp still sells the know-how of the longitudinal tube folding machine to various countries around the world.

since 1958

Oil tanks and oil pans

Xaver Lipp invented and developed the necessary machines for the production of the oil tanks and oil collection trays in the 1960s, with the focus on forming and fast and practical folding of the sheets. Hundreds of tubs and tanks were sold monthly until the early 1970s.

since 1957

Profile Sheets

The special talent of the inventor Xaver Lipp is to process sheet metal and in particular to form metal plates. In his special machines, the inventor can smoothly and precisely shape sheet metal sheets into specific shapes by positioning pairs of rollers one behind the other, thus producing almost any desired profile.

since 1957

LIPP Rain gutter – end placket

One of Xaver Lipp’s first and most important patents was the rain gutter end part in 1957.

Thanks to the innovative and brilliantly simple way of using the LIPP gutter end piece, the inventor sold more than 30 million pieces at that time.

since 1955

Pipes and elbows

The production of bent pipes, which were needed in agriculture, for example together with blower tubes for the storage of crop, was a challenge for Xaver Lipp.

The invention of the segment curve machine made it possible to make pipe bends to measure.