Patents by Inventor Joachim Rossbach

Joachim Rossbach 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: 8469436
    Abstract: A clamping device for sliding roofs is provided in the region of the guidance and runner rail. An actuation lever is pivotable between locking and release positions. A clamping element is modifiable in its position by means of the actuation lever, which coacts with a countermember of the end carriage and moves the end carriage to the end of the guidance and runner rail. The clamping element is aligned with the guidance and runner rail, and is shiftable in a longitudinal direction, between a locking position retaining the end carriage, and a release position. The guide comprises in a subregion on the underside an open space such that upon shifting of the actuation lever into the release position, the clamping element is at least partly lowerable sufficiently that the end carriage can be displaced away from the end of the guidance and runner rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: VBG Group Truck Equipment GmbH
    Inventors: Udo Wensing, Hans Boris Hahnen, Frank Neumeyer, Frank Frentzen, Rolf Birkenbach, Joachim Rossbach, Karl Kemmerling, Axel Scholz, Tim Lauterbach, Rolf Weigelt, Ragnvald Andersson
  • Patent number: 8403396
    Abstract: The invention relates to a roller carriage for a sliding bow roof for a truck or truck trailer. The roof encompasses guidance and runner rails, extending on the cargo surface of the truck along the longitudinal sides of the cargo surface. Roller carriages, which comprise rollers and on which retaining bows, embodied in gantry fashion and having a roof tarpaulin mounted thereon, are displaceably guided. At least one roller carriage is equipped with a securing device for preventing inadvertent shifting of the roller carriage along the rails. The securing device encompasses a wedge element associated with a roller, which element is shiftable between a release position and a secured position. In its release position it has no contact with the roller. In its secured position a portion of the wedge element is between the roller and the corresponding guidance and runner rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: VBG Group Truck Equipment GmbH
    Inventors: Udo Wensing, Hans Boris Hahnen, Frank Neumeyer, Frank Frentzen, Rolf Birkenbach, Joachim Rossbach, Karl Kemmerling, Axel Scholz, Tim Lauterbach, Rolf Weigelt
  • Publication number: 20110049926
    Abstract: The invention relates to a roller carriage for a sliding bow roof for a truck or truck trailer. The roof encompasses guidance and runner rails, extending on the cargo surface of the truck along the longitudinal sides of the cargo surface. Roller carriages, which comprise rollers and on which retaining bows, embodied in gantry fashion and having a roof tarpaulin mounted thereon, are displaceably guided. At least one roller carriage is equipped with a securing device for preventing inadvertent shifting of the roller carriage along the rails. The securing device encompasses a wedge element associated with a roller, which element is shiftable between a release position and a secured position. In its release position it has no contact with the roller. In its secured position a portion of the wedge element is between the roller and the corresponding guidance and runner rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Udo WENSING, Hans Boris Hahnen, Frank Neumeyer, Frank Frentzen, Rolf Birkenbach, Joachim Rossbach, Karl Kemmerling, Axel Scholz, Tim Lauterbach, Rolf Weigelt
  • Publication number: 20110047760
    Abstract: A clamping device for sliding roofs is provided in the region of the guidance and runner rail. An actuation lever is pivotable between locking and release positions. A clamping element is modifiable in its position by means of the actuation lever, which coacts with a countermember of the end carriage and moves the end carriage to the end of the guidance and runner rail. The clamping element is aligned with the guidance and runner rail, and is shiftable in a longitudinal direction, between a locking position retaining the end carriage, and a release position. The guide comprises in a subregion on the underside an open space such that upon shifting of the actuation lever into the release position, the clamping element is at least partly lowerable sufficiently that the end carriage can be displaced away from the end of the guidance and runner rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Udo Wensing, Hans Boris Hahnen, Frank Neumeyer, Frank Frentzen, Rolf Birkenbach, Joachim Rossbach, Karl Kemmerling, Axel Scholz, Tim Lauterbach, Rolf Weigelt, Ragnvald Andersson