Patents by Inventor Gunter Lenz

Gunter Lenz 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: 6401298
    Abstract: A furniture hinge comprises a hinge casing and a hinge arm, each adapted to be mounted on different furniture parts and connected by means of hinge links, and a pressure spring acting on one hinge link. The pressure spring is a leg spring which is mounted on a hinge axle connecting a hinge link to the hinge arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Günter Lenz
  • Patent number: 6205617
    Abstract: A hinge with an adjusting device for adjusting the position of an elongated hinge arm which is mounted on a base plate and is connected to a hinge cup by means of articulated hinge links. The base plate has a mounting plane for abutting a furniture side wall in the mounted position and the position of the hinge arm is adjustable by the adjusting device in a plane perpendicular to said mounting plane. The adjusting device comprises two screws spaced from each other in the longitudinal direction of the hinge arm and being perpendicular to the mounting plane of the base plate. The screws are coupled to each other so that rotation of one screw will result in rotation of the other screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Held, Günter Lenz
  • Patent number: 5791016
    Abstract: A hinge has a base plate which may be secured to a furniture side wall and on which is anchored a hinge arm. The hinge arm is connected by way of articulated levers to an anchoring device to be connected to a glass door. The anchoring device includes a holding plate which may be joined by adhesion to the glass door and in which a coupling part articulated to the articulated levers may be suspended. Mounted on the coupling part is a spring-loaded tilting lever which, in the assembled position, latches behind a hook-like projection on the holding plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1998
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Gunter Lenz
  • Patent number: 4031022
    Abstract: Builders for detergent and cleaning compositions. The builders comprise copolymers made from .alpha.-hydroxyacrylic acid and acrylic acid. The copolymers contain between 9 and 85 mol % of acrylic acid and have a relative viscosity within the range 0.05 and 1.0, determined on a 1 weight % solution of the copolymers in aqueous 2N-sodium hydroxide solution, at 20.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1977
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wilhelm Vogt, Eberhard Auer, Gunter Lenz, Karl Merkenich, Klaus Henning, Joachim Kandler