Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Steven M. Koehler, Esq.
  • Patent number: 6647698
    Abstract: A system for conveying sheet-like objects, in particular banknotes, comprises a cash dispensing unit, a number of cash dispensing stations and a control unit. A conveying channel having an inlet side and an outlet side is disposed between the cash dispensing unit and each cash dispensing station, with elements for generating an air flow being present in each conveying channel. An enveloping device for enveloping the objects to be conveyed is disposed between the cash dispensing unit and the conveying channel(s). The cash dispensing unit delivers banknotes requested by a cash dispensing station to the enveloping device under the control of the control unit, which enveloping device envelopes the banknotes by a cash dispensing station and delivers the envelope to a unit for delivering the envelope containing banknotes to a conveying channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Ergoflow B.V.
    Inventor: Jacobus Rijken
  • Patent number: 6397921
    Abstract: What is disclosed is a roller screen intended for being mounted on the frame of a window opening, a door opening or the like, which roller screen comprises a gauze screen, a roll-up mechanism for said gauze screen, which is accommodated in a housing, a pull beam connected to the free end of said gauze screen, and guides for guiding said pull beam and the side edges of said gauze screen. The guides each consist of a substantially cylindrical outer housing, which can be fixed to the frame, and a likewise substantially cylindrical inner housing, which is accommodated in said outer housing in such manner as to be concentrically rotatable therein. The outer housing and the inner housing are each provided with a longitudinal slot which extends substantially along their entire length, wherein the longitudinal slots of the outer housing and that of the inner housing overlap, seen in their circumferential direction, in an operative position of the roller screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: Hamstra International B.V.
    Inventor: Leonardus Hendrikus Wartenbergh