Patents by Inventor Martin Dieckmann
Martin Dieckmann 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).
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Patent number: 8490672Abstract: A device for fastening an awning fabric to a winding roller with a welt rail comprises two claw elements swingable against each other, which are transferable into a beyond-dead-center position for the fastening device to snap into and become jammed in the welt rail.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2010Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Schmitz-Werke GmbH + Co. KGInventor: Martin Dieckmann
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Publication number: 20100307694Abstract: A device for fastening an awning fabric to a winding roller with a welt rail comprises two claw elements swingable against each other, which are transferable into a beyond-dead-centre position for the fastening device to snap into and become jammed in the welt rail.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2010Publication date: December 9, 2010Applicant: Schmitz-Werke GmbH + Co. KGInventor: Martin DIECKMANN
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Patent number: 6684928Abstract: In an awning, in particular a sun room awning, comprising a fabric-roll shaft for retracting and extending an awning fabric; wherein the inward end of the awning fabric is joined to the fabric-roll shaft and the outward end of the awning fabric to a drop-out bar, and the drop-out bar is run in lateral guide rails; wherein elastic pull straps act on the drop-out bar on the side opposite the awning fabric, the pull straps being deviated by a deflection pulley in the vicinity of the end of the guide rail, and reversed towards the fabric-roll shaft and wound on the fabric-roll shaft upon extension and unwinding of the awning fabric and exercising tensile stress on the drop-out bar and thus on the awning fabric; wherein unwinding the awning fabric and winding up the pull straps take place by an electric motor drive of the fabric-roll shaft, and switchgear is provided for switching off the drive of the fabric-roll shaft upon complete extension; it is provided that the switchgear acts on the drive of the fabric-rollType: GrantFiled: April 28, 2003Date of Patent: February 3, 2004Assignee: Schmitz-Werke GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Martin Dieckmann
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Publication number: 20030201073Abstract: In an awning, in particular a sun room awning, comprising a fabric-roll shaft for retracting and extending an awning fabric; wherein the inward end of the awning fabric is joined to the fabric-roll shaft and the outward end of the awning fabric to a drop-out bar, and the drop-out bar is run in lateral guide rails; wherein elastic pull straps act on the drop-out bar on the side opposite the awning fabric, the pull straps being deviated by a deflection pulley in the vicinity of the end of the guide rail, and reversed towards the fabric-roll shaft and wound on the fabric-roll shaft upon extension and unwinding of the awning fabric and exercising tensile stress on the drop-out bar and thus on the awning fabric; wherein unwinding the awning fabric and winding up the pull straps take place by an electric motor drive of the fabric-roll shaft, and switchgear is provided for switching off the drive of the fabric-roll shaft upon complete extension; it is provided that the switchgear acts on the drive of the fabric-rollType: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2003Publication date: October 30, 2003Applicant: Achmitz-Werke GmbH & Co., KGInventor: Martin Dieckmann
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Patent number: 6484785Abstract: In an awning having a substantially triangular awning fabric that can be wound onto a roller tube, provision is made for the roller tube to be actuated in the winding direction by a torsion spring that is disposed in a housing together with the roller tube; for the roller tube to be actuated in the pull-out direction by an electric motor that is disposed in the same housing; for a guide rail to be disposed on one end of the housing and a spacer rail to be disposed on the other end of the housing, said guide rail and spacer rail being connected in the region of their free outer ends to one another or to a window frame; for a deflection roller to be disposed in the connecting region of the spacer rail and guide rail; and for a rope or the like to be attached in the region of the triangular cloth tip and deflected via the deflection roller and guided along the guide rail to a rope sheave on the motor.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2001Date of Patent: November 26, 2002Assignee: Chmitz-Werke GmbH + Co.Inventor: Martin Dieckmann
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Patent number: 6446917Abstract: A bracket for fastening the support pipe of a joint arm awning on a wall comprises two flanges which are perpendicular to the wall and mounted thereon at a distance from, and parallel to, each other, wherein each flange has a support pipe bearing section in the shape of a segment of a circle and corresponding to the radius of curvature of the support pipe; wherein a first lower holding element in the shape of a segment of a circle is disposed between the flanges for pivotability relative to the flanges around the central longitudinal axis of the support pipe; and wherein a second holding element in the shape of a segment of a circle is mountable on the first holding element by screwing for the support pipe to be fixed.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2001Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: Schmitz-Werke GmbH & Co.Inventors: Martin Dieckmann, Sven Kröner, Bernhard Wessels
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Publication number: 20020011262Abstract: In an awning comprising a roller tube for winding up an awning fabric, wherein the roller tube is actuated in the winding direction by a torsion spring, provision is made for the roller tube to be disposed in a housing and supported with its one end in a first face-end cover of the housing, and for the torsion spring to be disposed in the interior of this first end of the roller tube, and for the roller tube to be supported in the region of its opposite second end via a bearing journal extending away from a face-end cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2001Publication date: January 31, 2002Inventor: Martin Dieckmann
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Publication number: 20020007921Abstract: In an awning having a substantially triangular awning fabric that can be wound onto a roller tube, provision is made for the roller tube to be actuated in the winding direction by a torsion spring that is disposed in a housing together with the roller tube; for the roller tube to be actuated in the pull-out direction by an electric motor that is disposed in the same housing; for a guide rail to be disposed on one end of the housing and a spacer rail to be disposed on the other end of the housing, said guide rail and spacer rail being connected in the region of their free outer ends to one another or to a window frame; for a deflection roller to be disposed in the connecting region of the spacer rail and guide rail; and for a rope or the like to be attached in the region of the triangular cloth tip and deflected via the deflection roller and guided along the guide rail to a rope sheave on the motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2001Publication date: January 24, 2002Inventor: Martin Dieckmann
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Publication number: 20010008175Abstract: In a joint arm awning comprising joint arms disposed on a support pipe, with an awning fabric extending between a drop-out pipe and a fabric roll which is disposed on a fabric roll shaft and with the portion of the fabric roll and the drop-out pipe being covered by a cover when the drop-out pipe is retracted, it is provided that the cover is corrugated or ribbed or serrated cross-sectionally and longitudinal grooves thus formed are substantially parallel to the support pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventors: Martin Dieckmann, Sven Kroner, Bernhard Wessels
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Publication number: 20010008264Abstract: A bracket for fastening the support pipe of a joint arm awning on a wall comprises two flanges which are perpendicular to the wall and mounted thereon at a distance from, and parallel to, each other, wherein each flange has a support pipe bearing section in the shape of a segment of a circle and corresponding to the radius of curvature of the support pipe; wherein a first lower holding element in the shape of a segment of a circle is disposed between the flanges for pivotability relative to the flanges around the central longitudinal axis of the support pipe; and wherein a second holding element in the shape of a segment of a circle is mountable on the first holding element by screwing for the support pipe to be fixed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventors: Martin Dieckmann, Sven Kroner, Bernhard Wessels
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Patent number: 6098692Abstract: In an awning, such as a joint-arm awning or winter-garden awning, including an awning fabric to be furled which is fixed in at least one piping groove on a drop-out pipe with a view to obtaining balanced stretching and avoiding the lateral seams from sagging, a deflection arrangement is disposed in vicinity to where the awning fabric is fixed, increasing or reducing the free length of the fabric.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1999Date of Patent: August 8, 2000Assignee: Schmitz-Werke GmbH & Co.Inventor: Martin Dieckmann