Patents by Inventor Hans Votteler

Hans Votteler 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: 4388961
    Abstract: A strip-type door having a plurality of individual strips arranged in overlapped relationship one to another comprises a series of swingable supports on which the individual strips are vertically suspended when the latter take a vertical position. A mounting element connected to a lintel over the door opening has a mounting portion, a supporting bar and an arcuate wall defining an arcuate channel. Each of the supports is formed with a curved portion insertable into the channel in the mounting element to form with this wall a hinge about which the supports carrying the individual strips can swing relative to the mounting element between a plurality of positions. The curved end portion may be inserted into said channel in only one of these positions so that the inadvertent falling or removal of the supports out of the channel when the strips are in their working swingable positions is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1983
    Assignee: Albert Reiff KG
    Inventors: Horst Schaefer, Hans Votteler
  • Patent number: 4359846
    Abstract: A sealing arrangement for a loading door has three flexible sealing elements extending along two lateral edges and one upper edge of a door opening and movable between an inoperative position in which the flexible sealing elements are located in the plane of the door opening, and an operative position in which they are withdrawn from this plane and extend into the interior of a container or the like so as to abut against the inner walls of the latter. The proximal end portions of the sealing elements overlap one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1982
    Assignee: Reiff GmbH
    Inventor: Hans Votteler