Patents by Inventor Walter Hornbacher

Walter Hornbacher 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: 4261626
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a hanger strip attachable to a document for vertically suspending the document from a plurality of bars in a filing cabinet. The elongate strip is of a thin, flexible polyester material and has a plurality of groups of coplanar oval orifices therein equal in number and spaced so as to be mountable on the plurality of bars. Each orifice has a length that is larger than the diameter of the bars and has an upper perimeter that extends longitudinally as a substantially straight edge, and all of the orifices are aligned such that all of the upper orifice perimeters are substantially colinear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1981
    Inventor: Walter Hornbacher
  • Patent number: 4139248
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a filing system for vertically suspending large documents. The filing system comprises in combination the filing cabinet and a strip attachable to the document and mountable within the filing cabinet. The filing cabinet in a preferred embodiment is comprised of a main frame mounted on four supporting casters, a pull-out unit having two casters mounted at one end and a bearing support assembly for telescopically mounting the other end of the pull-out unit to the base of the main frame, and a plurality of laterally spaced apart groups of horizontally extending cantilever bars with first ones of each group of bars being rigidly mounted to the top of the main frame and second ones of said bars of said groups being mounted at the top of the pull-out unit. The bars are substantially coplanar and conjointly support the documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1979
    Inventor: Walter Hornbacher