Patents by Inventor Gunter Sachs

Gunter Sachs 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).

  • Slide projector
    Patent number: 5237354
    Abstract: A slide projector which is adapted for the use of circular trays (10, 12) having different numbers of slide compartments and which includes a pulse-controlled electronic switch unit for controlling a transport motor selectively moving one of the trays (10, 12) forwardly or backwardly comprises a slider (30) for fixing the trays (10, 12) in position, which slider can be actuated by the electronic switch unit following each indexing of the tray and which can be brought into engagement with both transport pins (15) associated with the compartments of the first circular tray (10) and serving as transport and fixing means and with a toothing (17) associated with the compartments of the second circular tray (12) and serving as transport and fixing means, following each indexing of the tray such engagement being achieved by fixing means (34, 35) associated with the transport and fixing means (15, 17) of the trays and adapted to the shape and size thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Gunter Sachs, deceased
  • Sheet-removal device
    Patent number: 5087024
    Abstract: Apparatus for removing a sheet from a container such as a sheet film from a cassette, by a suction device mounted for movement rectilinearly at an angle to the plane of the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1992
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Gunter Sachs, Bernd Mirlieb
  • Camera bellows
    Patent number: 3955207
    Abstract: In a photographic camera of the type having a box-like camera housing and a cover door having a main cover portion which is hinged at one end to the camera housing and a lens support portion on the other end of the main cover portion, a two-part light-tight bellows is provided which couples the cover door with the camera housing in a manner permitting movement of the cover door between a closed position wherein the main cover portion is substantially parallel to one wall of the camera housing and an open position wherein the main cover portion is extended outwardly from the housing at an oblique angle and the lens support portion is substantially parallel to the one wall of the camera housing. When the door is closed, the two-part bellows is collapsed with one part folded flat against the main cover portion of the door and the other part folded flat against the lens support portion of the cover door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1976
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ort, Heinz Streicher, Gerhard Brauning, Gunter Sachs