Patents by Inventor Joris Kniep

Joris Kniep 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 and device for intermittently exerting forces on soil
    Patent number: 4375927
    Abstract: A method and a device for consolidating soil or driving a pile into the gnd by thrusting forces transferred to the soil or the pile through a transmission ground foot, the forces being derived from at least two sources, viz. a mass load and a vibratory member, the latter of which is adapted to produce a varying vertical thrusting force and is adapted to be brought successively out of and, in a shock-like manner, into engagement with the transmission ground foot, with no buffering springs being disposed between the vibratory member and the ground foot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1983
    Assignee: International Technische Handelsonderneming en Adviesbureau Itha B.V.
    Inventor: Joris Kniep
  • Device for vibrating the soil
    Patent number: 4126999
    Abstract: The ground vibrator comprises a rod to be inserted into the ground and having at its end axial resonance plates, which are brought into vibration by means of a vibration source arranged at the top end of the rod.The vibration effect of the resonance plates is improved, when the direction of vibration of the vibration source exhibits a departure from the longitudinal axis of the rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1978
    Inventor: Joris Kniep