Patents by Inventor Gerhard Gonser

Gerhard Gonser 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: 6138485
    Abstract: A safety lock, particularly a self-locking lock, including at least one l catch and a bolt operable by a lock cylinder and a split latch nut. For creating a particularly inexpensively manufacturable and relatively narrow safety lock, a coupling device of the lock is provided with two congruent racks which have a panic or freewheel function. The racks are superimposed and mesh with the teeth of the inner and outer nut. An electromagnetic coupling is achieved with the aid of a coupling lever, which is fixable to each rack directly or indirectly subjects to the function of the particular rack and engageable with a detent of the racks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: eff-eff Fritz Fuss GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Fritz Helmut Fuss, Gerhard Gonser
  • Patent number: 6125670
    Abstract: A self-locking lock with a bolt, a lock swing catch and an auxiliary swing atch, in which the bolt and lock swing catch move out in a locking position in spring-loaded manner with the door closed and move out in a locking position are lockable by a slide plate, while the auxiliary swing catch pressed on a locking plate and in which the bolt, with the door open, is held back in the lock housing and is arrestable by the auxiliary swing catch by means of the slide plate. In order to provide a lock secure against manipulation and reliable in operation, where an uncontrollable extension of the bolt is particularly effectively prevented even in intermediate states of the opening and closing process, on opening the bolt leads compared with the lock swing catch and is arrestable completely retracted in the lock and the lock swing catch is provided with a widening, e.g., with a pivotable, springloaded swing catch part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: eff-eff Fritz Fuss GmbH & Co., Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Fritz Helmut Fuss, Gerhard Gonser
  • Patent number: 5511839
    Abstract: A door opener with a pivotable latch for fitting in a door frame, where a door engages in its closed position with a bolt on a locking surface of the latch for fixing the door position in the door frame and which is characterized in that the latch has a latch base and at least one adapting element, the locking surface is formed on the adapting element, the adapting element is connectable to the latch base and the adapting element has a predeterminable thickness for the adjustment of the door in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1996
    Assignee: Fritz Fuss GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Fritz H. Fuss, John S. Rutherford, Gerhard Gonser