Patents by Inventor Francisco Enrique Viegener

Francisco Enrique Viegener 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: 6234209
    Abstract: The characterization of this spout is that its body has a support and fixing base connected to the appliance with a spindle connected to the fluid power supply that ends in the interior of a top cap that rests on this base and provides the sleeve of the said spout, delimiting between both pieces an intercommunication chamber of the spindle with this sleeve that enables the incorporation of an assembly-head of an obturator of fluid passage control, including retention elements of both pieces between them with respective hermetic means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Inventor: Francisco Enrique Viegener
  • Patent number: 6119719
    Abstract: A general purpose valve in which liquid flow is conrolled through rotating a handle or lever arm. The valve includes a valve body with a fluid inlet placed at the bottom of a head housing chamber as a removable cartridge of an assembly of a corresponding shutter operatively related to an intercommunicating duct from the inlet to the outlet of the chamber. The cartridge head being removable fitted into the chamber. A fitting is established through the use of a complementary cap attached to the base with a central hole that matches both the inlet and the outlet hole of the intercommunicating duct formed on the shutter body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Inventor: Francisco Enrique Viegener
  • Patent number: 5906401
    Abstract: A clamp assembly for firmly connecting a tap in a sanitary or kitchen appliance without consuming a large space, the assembly comprising a compact clamp and a short screw, the clamp having a large orifice to be passed along a pipe portion of the tap and a small orifice receiving the screw, the clamp operating like a lever around the pipe portion of the tap and being retained against an outer surface of the pipe portion by screwing the screw in the small orifice and making a distal tip of the screw engaging a wall of the device so as to cause the clamp move like a lever and make the large orifice to wedge against the pipe portion of the tap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Inventor: Francisco Enrique Viegener