Patents by Inventor Franz J. Lang

Franz J. Lang 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: 4961506
    Abstract: A multi-tier tower has at least two successive tier trays and at least one spacing support connecting the tier trays, the spacing support being coupled with the respective tier tray at each of its two ends. The coupling is formed so that uncoupling of the tier tray from the support is possible in a horizontal direction, i.e. transverse to the direction of the height of the multi-tier tower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 9, 1990
    Assignee: Display-Design GmbH fur moderne Verkaufsforderungsmittel und Raumausstattung
    Inventor: Franz J. Lang
  • Patent number: 4901872
    Abstract: In a multi-tier tower for goods display, at least two platforms (10) arranged one above the other are detachably connected with one another by a plurality of spacing supports (12). Along a forward edge (16) of a base plate (14) of the respective platforms there is provided a first wall (18) directed substantially downwards therefrom and along a second edge (21) of the base plate (14) there is provided a second wall (22) directed substantially upwards. The base plate (14) is inclined downwards from the first edge to the second edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1990
    Assignee: Display-Design GmbH fur moderne Verkaufsforderungsmittel and Raumausstattung
    Inventor: Franz J. Lang
  • Patent number: 4678089
    Abstract: In a display stand comprising a pedestal, a carrier column and a goods carrier secured to the carrier column, it is proposed that the goods carrier is fixed to the carrier column in that a wedge engagement sleeve engages from beneath in a wedge engagement tube of the goods carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1987
    Assignee: Display-Design GmbH fur moderne Verkaufsforderungsmittel und Raumausstattung
    Inventor: Franz J. Lang
  • Patent number: 4621740
    Abstract: In a multi-story tower for goods display with rectangular platforms and spacer supports extending between successive platforms, the reception sockets for the spacer supports are arranged in the region of the short side of the rectangle of the platform outline and offset away from the corners in the direction towards the middle of the short side of the rectangle, so that the observer looking in the direction of the long side of the rectangle can better recognize and gain access to the goods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1986
    Assignee: Display-Design GmbH fur moderne Verkaufsforderungsmittel und Raumausstattung
    Inventor: Franz J. Lang
  • Patent number: 4442778
    Abstract: In a multiple-story tower for the display of merchandise with a plurality of story decks and with between the story decks, spacing supports which can be stuck detachably with their ends into upper and lower receiving shafts at the story decks, it is suggested that with a substantially rectangular outline of the story decks, there be arranged at two opposite sides of the rectangle approximately in the middle thereof respectively one spacing support. It is preferred thereat that the spacing supports be constructed with a groove profile, whereat the concave groove side of spacing supports arranged at opposite rectangular sides of a story deck face one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1984
    Inventor: Franz J. Lang