Patents by Inventor Erich Kannenberg

Erich Kannenberg 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: 6209152
    Abstract: In the case of a health-and-fitness-brush shower installation with a brush-roller element which is arranged in the region of a wall of a sanitary unit or the like, is assigned rotatably to a drive head and, if appropriate, can have water acting on it. A drive device of the drive head is designed for rechargeable battery operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Inventor: Erich Kannenberg
  • Patent number: 5870782
    Abstract: A fitness-brush shower installation has a head rod (5) including a drive head (6). The head rod is pivotable in a horizontal plane and can be secured at a selected position. A vertical, rotatable brush roller (7) is interchangeably suspended on a drive head (6) under the head rod. A gear (21) is coupled to at least one drive (23, 32) comprising conical gear-wheel shafts (20) which set the brush roller (7) in rotation. The gear (21) is coupled to a brush-roller driver. The brush roller (7) telescopically extendable in the vertical direction. Its extension is a function of water flowing into a hollow brush core (8) of the brush roller, resisted by a restoring spring (45).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Inventor: Erich Kannenberg
  • Patent number: 5675846
    Abstract: The devices of the brush-massage shower installation described in detail above do not pose any problems in practical application, while a person lets his body be massaged with the skin-friendly bristles, which he has selected himself, of a dry or water-spraying and wet-cleaning rotating massage roller (8).The brush-massage shower installation contains the advantages of freedom in the selection of the driving elements.a.) The water turbine gear (14), which is responsible for the infinitely variable drive of the water-spraying rotating massage roller (8), obtains its rotational force from the water supply provided, which is under pressure.b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1997
    Inventor: Erich Kannenberg