Patents by Inventor August A. Deis

August A. Deis 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).

  • Read apparatus having vertical turret magazine for information discs
    Patent number: 5027335
    Abstract: Read apparatus for optical discs has a turret magazine rotatable in a vertical plane, and a disc-drive arrangement surrounded by the turret magazine so that a disc received from the magazine is rotatable in a vertical plane which extends substantially parallel to the supporting plane of storage compartments situated underneath and above the plane of rotation. A feed-in device includes a loading funnel and an unloading funnel arranged respectively above and underneath a receiving compartment of the disc-drive arrangement, each storage compartment has an associated releasable holding device for the discs, and the receiving compartment of the disc-drive arrangement has an associated releasable holding device for a disc received from the magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1991
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventor: August A. Deis