Patents by Inventor Hans-Eberhard Siebert

Hans-Eberhard Siebert 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).

  • Method of signaling menu components which are to be served out from supply containers of supply carriages associated with supply stations
    Patent number: 4069896
    Abstract: Each supply station has an assigned station number, and the respective carriages are positioned along both sides of an endless delivery belt for menu-component-receiving trays, and an electronic food service control is provided. Each carriage is divided into three sections with each section having three container areas therein with a respective signal lamp associated with each container area and mounted on a respective lamp arm, each lamp arm being associated with the respective section. Each section is arranged to receive either one full-size supply container, two half-size supply containers or three one-third size supply containers. A tray dispenser, responsive to a signal from the service control, delivers successive trays to the endless delivery belt. In a first step, the position of each tray is determined and stored and a menu request is read-in to the service control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1978
    Assignee: Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-G.m.b.H.
    Inventors: Werner Rottmann, Reinhard Seyer, Hans-Eberhard Siebert