Patents by Inventor Otto P. Graf

Otto P. Graf 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: 9896832
    Abstract: A percolation block element having a base wall and hollow columns. With two identical percolation block elements that are aligned in the same direction, a stack of the two identical percolation block elements can be formed. The percolation block element has an axial symmetry of 180° or less. With two identical percolation block elements arranged rotated by 90° relative to one another about a rotational axis, the column tips of the first percolation block element can be introduced into the column tip receptacles of the second percolation block element, and an operating distance can be formed between a first base wall and a second base wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Otta Graf GMBH Kunststofferzeugnisse
    Inventor: Otto P. Graf
  • Publication number: 20160265209
    Abstract: The invention relates to a percolation block element (1, 26, 41, 45) having a base wall (2, 31, 42, 46) to which hollow columns (3, 28, 36, 37, 38, 39, 43, 47, 50, 51, 52) are connected. With two identical percolation block elements that are aligned in the same direction, the first columns of the first percolation block element can be introduced into the second columns of the second percolation block element, and a stack of the two identical percolation block elements that are aligned in the same direction can be formed. The percolation block element has an axial symmetry of 180° or less when rotated about an axis of rotational symmetry (A1, A2, A4, A5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventor: Otto P. GRAF
  • Patent number: 8741132
    Abstract: Device (V) for catching rainwater from a downpipe (F) comprising an opening (11), a branch pipe (5) with a sickle-shaped water-catching blade (12) comprising two halves at the end, a support member (1) traversed by the branch pipe (5) and a retainer. The branch pipe (5) engaging into the opening (11) with the water-catching blade (12) placed in the downpipe, and wherein the downpipe (F) can be fixed in the area of the support member (1) covering the opening (11) by means of the retainer (H). The retainer (H) comprises at least one undercut engagement hook (17) that can be passed through the opening (11), and an engagement hook tensioning system (S) interconnected between the support member (1) and the engagement hook (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Otto Graf GmbH
    Inventor: Otto P. Graf
  • Publication number: 20110315610
    Abstract: In a device (V) for catching rainwater from a downpipe (F) comprising an opening (11), wherein the device (V) comprises a branch pipe (5) with a water-catching blade (12) at the end, a support member (1) traversed by the branch pipe (5) and a retaining means, and comprising a branch pipe (5) engaging into the opening (11), a catching blade (12) placed in the downpipe, and wherein the downpipe (F) can be fixed in the area of the support member (1) covering the opening (11) by means of the retaining means (H) at the downpipe (F), the retaining means (H) comprises at least one undercut engagement hook (17) that can be passed through the opening (11), and an engagement hook tensioning system (S) is functionally interconnected between the support member (1) and the engagement hook (17).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventor: Otto P. Graf
  • Patent number: 7854338
    Abstract: A water tank T of plastic material which is joined by using at least two open and identical tank parts 1 and a joining plane 2, the tank parts having respective opening structures R with a flattened inner opening edge, a sealing channel 26 being open towards the joining plane, and an outer flattened opening edge, the inner and outer opening edges within the opening edge structure are situated in each tank part 1, 35 in the joining plane 2, the opening edge at the same time defining inner and outer fitting surfaces 16, 17, respectively with a width exceeding the thickness X of the tank part wall 30 and the sealing channel wall 34 by at least about the half, such that the water tank T selectively can be manufactured from the same tank parts 1, 35 either monolithically by welding the fitting surfaces 16, 17 without sealing means in-between to each other or separable by clamping the opening edge structures R from the outer side with sealing means 33 provided between both tank parts 1, 35.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Graf Plastics GmbH
    Inventor: Otto P. Graf
  • Patent number: 7572372
    Abstract: In a tank B for water treatment, consisting of at least two plastic material tank parts 1, 2 produced by injection moulding or by injection moulding and embossing a separately produced separation wall T is mounted with the edge at the walls of the tank parts such that the mounting regions at least partly are watertight. The separation wall T extends in the tank B crosswise to the joining plane E. The tank parts have opening edge structures R which fit on each other and which are joined in the joining plane E in watertight fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Graf Plastics GmbH
    Inventor: Otto P. Graf