Patents by Inventor Rainer Panhorst

Rainer Panhorst 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).

  • Eye-type buttonhole sewing machine
    Patent number: 6772703
    Abstract: An eye-type buttonhole sewing machine comprises an x-y table with an x carriage which is guided on the sewing machine and on which a y carriage is displaceably guided, having a bearing plate. Actuation of the x carriage is effected by an x motor which is mounted on the sewing machine and directly coupled with the x carriage via a cam drive. Actuation of the y carriage is equally effected via an electric motor which is directly connected to the y carriage via a threaded spindle with a spindle nut and a sliding coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Dürkopp Adler Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karsten Filges, Horst Bohl, Samuel Römich, Rainer Panhorst
  • Eye-type buttonhole sewing machine
    Publication number: 20040011263
    Abstract: An eye-type buttonhole sewing machine comprises an x-y table with an x carriage which is guided on the sewing machine and on which a y carriage is displaceably guided, having a bearing plate. Actuation of the x carriage is effected by an x motor which is mounted on the sewing machine and directly coupled with the x carriage via a cam drive. Actuation of the y carriage is equally effected via an electric motor which is directly connected to the y carriage via a threaded spindle with a spindle nut and a sliding coupling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventors: Karsten Filges, Horst Bohl, Samuel Romich, Rainer Panhorst
  • Method and apparatus for the production of a seam in a workplace
    Patent number: 5887537
    Abstract: A sewing machine comprises a holding device, by means of which the front end of the needle thread can be clamped and held. Further, a cutter is available, by means of which the front end of the needle thread can be cut off directly over the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Durkopp Adler Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rainer Panhorst, Peter Cygon, Manfred Klopper