Patents by Inventor Dieter Ramsauer

Dieter Ramsauer 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: 7600794
    Abstract: The description relates to a snap fastening for fixing a thin wall, such as a housing wall, door leaf, or shutter, which is provided with an opening, to a wall support such as a housing frame, door frame, or wall opening edge, which is likewise provided with an opening, with a base part that can be arranged at the wall support in its opening, with a head part which extends away from this base part and which has a diameter that initially increases and then decreases again in its longitudinal section from the end of the head part in direction of the base part, which head part is a male plug-in part which, by overcoming a spring force acting radially outward in direction of the diameter, can be received by an undercut female plug-in part that is formed or carried by the opening of the thin wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Inventor: Dieter Ramsauer
  • Publication number: 20090179439
    Abstract: The invention relates to a handle (e.g., a fixed handle, rotary handle, or swivel lever handle) particularly with a lock insert or the like or escutcheon for mounting in a preferably thin wall (e.g., a sheet metal cabinet door leaf, sheet metal drawer front, or sheet metal box lid). Wherein the handle has a longitudinal extension at whose ends is arranged at least one fastening means (e.g., a screw, nut, hook fastening or clip-in fastening). The lock insert includes a housing with a collar in the vicinity of its front end, and a receiving space for the front end of the housing with the collar is provided at this end of the handle in the vicinity of the fastening means proceeding from the contact surface contacting the thin wall, this receiving space passing through the handle to the front side of the handle while changing in cross section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Inventors: Dieter Ramsauer, Klaus Bergmann, Frank Noethe, Thorsten Kuester
  • Publication number: 20090160199
    Abstract: A clampable fastening device for mounting fittings or other objects in an opening having opposite edges, such as a rectangular opening in a wall, including a head part which is arranged on the outer side of the thin wall and which covers the outer rim of the opening, and from which there proceeds in the mounted position a foot part which penetrates through the opening, holding elements which are displaceable relative to one another in a channel formed in the foot part project from the foot part in direction of its outer surface. The free end of the holding elements having an inclined surface or obliquely arranged points. Wherein the foot part (24) and the holding element (30) are separate parts. Wherein the holding elements are displaceable along the channel by means of a screw preferably having a conically shaped region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventor: Dieter Ramsauer
  • Publication number: 20090151136
    Abstract: The description relates to a clip fastening for fastening fitting parts such as locks, hinges, grips and/or for fastening thin-walled structural component parts provided with an opening to a thin wall, such as a sheet-metal cabinet door, provided with an opening or openings, comprising a head part with a flange which overlaps the outer rim or edge of the opening after assembly, and a body part which proceeds from the head part and extends through the opening after assembly, a substantially U-shaped spring being held at the end of the body part and supported by its leg ends on the inner edge of the opening. According to the invention, the spring is a flat structural component part with U-legs that are cut off or shaped at the free end substantially at right angles to the running direction of the U-leg in such a way that they are supported on the rim or edge of the opening after assembly at a slight inclination to the plane of the thin wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2006
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventor: Dieter Ramsauer
  • Publication number: 20090144939
    Abstract: The invention relates to a handle (e.g., a fixed handle, rotary handle, or swivel lever handle) particularly with a lock insert or the like or escutcheon for mounting in a preferably thin wall (e.g., a sheet metal cabinet door leaf, sheet metal drawer front, or sheet metal box lid). Wherein the handle has a longitudinal extension at whose ends is arranged at least one fastening means (e.g., a screw, nut, hook fastening or clip-in fastening). The lock insert includes a housing with a collar in the vicinity of its front end, and a receiving space for the front end of the housing with the collar is provided at this end of the handle in the vicinity of the fastening means proceeding from the contact surface contacting the thin wall, this receiving space passing through the handle to the front side of the handle while changing in cross section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Inventors: Dieter Ramsauer, Klaus Bergmann, Frank Noethe
  • Publication number: 20090134639
    Abstract: A snap closure suitable for a thin-walled cabinet such as a sheet-metal cabinet, particularly for drawers, plug-ins, doors, or the like which can be pushed into or swiveled into a sheet-metal cabinet, comprises a housing which can be mounted in an opening of the cabinet sheet metal. One side (the outer side) of the housing has a handle and a closure actuating element, while a closure hook proceeds from its other side (inner side) so as to be swivelable against spring force. The closure hook is connected to the actuating element by a freewheeling coupling. According to the invention, the actuating element is formed by the handle which is mounted in the housing so as to be swivelable around an axis, and this axis is parallel to or coaxial to the axis of the closure hook.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Inventor: Dieter Ramsauer
  • Publication number: 20090084916
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a fastening device for a fitting or housing of plastic such as a swivel lever control, socket wrench control, or sash closure which can be fixed in at least one preferably rectangular opening in a thin wall such as a sheet metal cabinet door and with tongues which project from the fitting or housing so as to be integral therewith, the free ends of the tongues being supported on the rear rim area or the edge of the opening. According to the invention, a supporting spring which is made of spring metal and which is bent to form a profile that is U-shaped in cross section encloses the free end of the tongue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Inventor: Dieter Ramsauer
  • Publication number: 20090033103
    Abstract: A closure for multi-point locking of doors or wall parts in housings or cabinets by a—preferably securable—actuating element such as a handle lever comprises a coupling element which is connected with the actuating element mounted in the door or wall so as to be rigid against rotation relative to it and which transforms a rotational movement into a substantially translational movement and which is coupled with a rod that is mounted near the edge of the door or wall so as to be displaceable, one or more locking elements being coupled with the rod by a coupling element, respectively, in such a way that they move from a locked position into an unlocked position (or vice versa) by the displacement of the rod from a first position into a second position, wherein the locking elements and the coupling elements are formed in each instance by a two-armed, one-piece lever, one of whose lever arms is a locking tongue and whose other lever arm is articulated by its end at the rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2006
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventors: Samuel Klassen, Markus Franz, Dennis Cappel, Sebastian Koch, Peter Hoeschler, Dieter Ramsauer
  • Publication number: 20080216284
    Abstract: The description relates to a grip trough to be installed in a rectangular opening of a thin wall such as a sheet-metal wall or door leaf of a sheet-metal cabinet. The trough has a base and four side walls proceeding therefrom, which four side walls run into a rectangular flange-like rim which surrounds the bearing surface of the opening in the thin wall in the installed state. Two shorter, oppositely located side walls extend substantially parallel to one another and extend perpendicular to the thin wall, while the two other, longer side walls are oriented diagonally at an acute angle and obtuse angle, respectively, relative to the thin wall. Wall webs project in direction of the thin wall from the side wall extending at an obtuse angle to the thin wall. According to the invention, at least one receptacle for a closure device, such as a closing cylinder with a sash fastener, is provided in the area of the side wall that extends at an acute angle to the thin wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2005
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventor: Dieter Ramsauer
  • Publication number: 20080203736
    Abstract: A pull-turn bolt latch for mounting in an opening in a thin wall, particularly for securing plug-ins, doors or flaps in switch cabinets, comprises a housing that can be secured in a non-round opening in a thin wall, a shaft which is provided with an external thread and which is mounted in the housing so as to be rotatable but fixed with respect to axial displacement, on which external thread a bolt provided with a matching threaded bore hole is guided in the housing so as to be acted upon by pressure by a spring engaging around the shaft such that when the shaft is rotated by hand or by a tool into the stop position at the outer end of the shaft or when the pressure is relaxed the bolt carries out a rotational movement with the shaft covering at least 90°, and in the position remote of the stop position accompanied by axial guidance, such as in an axial slot formed for the bolt in the housing carries out a translational movement in axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2005
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventor: Dieter Ramsauer
  • Publication number: 20080127458
    Abstract: A handle has at least one holding plate which can be mounted in an opening in a thin wall such as a sheet-metal cabinet door, a head part, such as a flange or turning handle, which covers the rim of the opening of the thin wall on its (outer) side, and a body part which proceeds from the head part and can be pushed through the opening in the thin wall, and a holding part which is carried by the body part, supported on the other (rear) side of the thin wall, and is separate from the body part. According to the invention, the holding part is formed by holding elements which project in a flexible manner from the body part in the direction of its outer surface and whose free end has an inclined surface for supporting the body part on the rim or edge of the opening without play.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2005
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventor: Dieter Ramsauer
  • Publication number: 20080112774
    Abstract: The description relates to an adjusting device for hook spindle rotating bolts, sash fastener rotating bolts, pull-turn bolts, swiveling bolts and the like of closures, particularly of closures for mounting in thin walls, such as sheet-metal cabinets with a frame (62) and door (12), in which the closures (10) have a closure driveshaft (24) which is provided with an external thread (22) and which holds a bolt (26) so as to be axially adjustable, and/or a bolt which is provided with an internal thread or bore hole near its free end and which holds a back-engaging device (34) so as to be adjustable perpendicular to the back-engagement plane (36). According to the invention, the rotating bolt (26) carries or forms an internal thread (38) for screwing in the closure driveshaft (24) and one side of a coupling (40), such as a claw coupling, which acts by positive engagement, whose other side (42) is held by the closure driveshaft (24) so as to be rigid against rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Inventor: Dieter Ramsauer
  • Publication number: 20080060401
    Abstract: The description relates to a latch such as a socket wrench latch, swivel lever latch (10), folding lever latch, sash latch for mounting in openings (12, 14) in a thin wall (16, 50), comprising a head part (24) which is to be arranged on one, outer side (18) of the thin wall (16) and which overlaps the outer rim (20) of the opening, and a body part (26, 28, 30, 32) which proceeds from the head part (24) and projects through the opening in the mounted position, and holding elements (36) which project from the body part (26, 28, 30, 32) and are flexible in direction of its outer surface, the free end of these holding elements (36) being provided with an inclined surface (38) for supporting the body part without play on the rim or edge (40) of the opening of the other, inner side (42) of the thin wall (16), characterized in that the body part (26, 28, 30, 32) and holding element (36) are two separate parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Inventor: Dieter Ramsauer
  • Publication number: 20080036221
    Abstract: The description relates to a tolerance compensating device for rotating bolts and swiveling bolts, in particular a tolerance compensating device for non-engaging tongues, that is, for example, for pull-turn bolts or swiveling bolts of closures for mounting in thin walls such as sheet-metal cabinets with a frame and door. The closure has a housing which holds a pull-turn bolt so as to be axially displaceable and rotatable or a housing which supports a swiveling bolt, which bolt is provided near its free end with a bore hole in which a back-engaging device is held to as to be displaceable perpendicular to the back-engagement plane. According to the invention, the back-engaging device has a spring which forces the back-engaging device in direction of the back-engagement surface in the closed position of the closure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventor: Dieter Ramsauer
  • Publication number: 20070271735
    Abstract: The description relates to a snap fastening for mounting fittings such as socket wrench latches, swivel lever latches, hinge parts, handles, fixing brackets for door stops or flap supports in openings in a thin wall, comprising a head part which is to be arranged on one, outer side of the thin wall and which overlaps the outer rim of the opening, and a body part which proceeds from the head part and projects through the opening in the mounted position, and holding elements which project from the body part and are flexible in direction of its outer surface against spring force, the free end of these holding elements being provided with an inclined surface for supporting the body part without play on the rim or edge of the opening of the other, inner side of the thin wall, wherein the body part and holding element and the spring generating the spring force are separate parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2005
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Dieter Ramsauer
  • Patent number: 7261343
    Abstract: A rod closure for locking sheet-metal cabinet doors or doors or flaps, having a rod, which is profiled in an elongated manner, extends substantially edgewise parallel to the door edge and is preferably arranged in the bevel space, and a holding element which is arranged at the door frame for holding the rod so as to lock the door in the closed position, and an actuating device for the rod, which actuating device is connected to the door leaf. The rod or a complicated profiled rod is mounted so as to be swivelable between a locked position and an unlocked position around a longitudinal axis arranged close to the side directed away from the door leaf plane, and the holding element forms a contact surface for the other side of the rod facing the door leaf plane, and the actuation device engages the rod close to this side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Inventor: Dieter Ramsauer
  • Publication number: 20070175252
    Abstract: The description is directed to a snap fastening for fast mounting of fittings such as socket wrench latches, swivel lever latches, hinge parts in openings in a thin wall, comprising a head part which is to be arranged on one, outer side of the thin wall and which overlaps the outer rim of the opening, and a body part which proceeds from the head part and projects through the opening in the mounted position, and holding elements which project from the body part and are flexible in direction of its outer surface, the free end of these holding elements being provided with a first inclined surface (run-in bevel) such that the holding element is pushed back in a spring-loaded manner by the opening edge and with a second inclined surface (stop bevel) for supporting the body part without play on the rim or edge of the opening of the other, inner side of the thin wall, which second inclined surface is substantially perpendicular to the first inclined surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2005
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventor: Dieter Ramsauer
  • Publication number: 20070157435
    Abstract: A hinge has at least one hinge part which can be mounted in an opening in a thin wall such as a sheet-metal cabinet door, a head part, such as a flange or hinge leaf, which overlaps the rim of the opening of the thin wall on its (outer) side, and a body part which proceeds from the head part and can be pushed through the opening in the thin wall, and a holding part which is carried by the body part, supported on the other (rear) side of the thin wall, and is separate from the body part. The holding part is formed by holding elements which project in a flexible manner from the body part in the direction of its outer surface and whose free end has an inclined surface for supporting the body part on the rim or edge of the opening without play.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2005
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Dieter Ramsauer
  • Publication number: 20070158951
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a fastener for multiple locking of doors or wall portions in housings or cabinets, particularly for outdoor use, by means of a lockable actuation member such as a handle lever, comprising a drive toothed wheel which is connected to the actuation member supported in the door so as to be rigid against rotation and which engages with a lock rod which is supported in the door so as to be displaceable axially and which has teeth on at least one side, and with lock elements which are held in the door so as to be rotatable or swivelable and which are coupled with the lock rod. According to the invention, for each lock element, a driven toothed wheel which is connected to the lock elements so as to be rigid against rotation and which engages with the teeth of the lock rod is held on the door in a rotatable manner in order to couple the lock rod with the lock elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2004
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Dieter Ramsauer, Rainer Bretschneider, Lars Gallasch
  • Publication number: 20070062004
    Abstract: A handle has at least one holding plate which can be mounted in an opening in a thin wall such as a sheet-metal cabinet door, a head part, such as a flange or olive-shaped handle, which overlaps the rim of the opening of the thin wall on its (outer) side, and a body part which proceeds from the head part and can be pushed through the opening in the thin wall, and a holding part which is carried by the body part, supported on the other (rear) side of the thin wall, and is separate from the body part, wherein the holding part is formed by holding elements which project in a flexible manner from the body part in the direction of its outer surface and whose free end has an inclined surface for supporting the body part on the rim or edge of the opening without play.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Inventor: Dieter Ramsauer