Patents by Inventor Hans-Helmut Reichmann

Hans-Helmut Reichmann 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: 6820775
    Abstract: A beverage container has a cylindrical lower side wall and floor defining a lower beverage chamber and centered on an axis, a cylindrical upper side wall and upper wall centered on the axis and defining an upper pressurized-gas chamber, and an annular partition having an outer edge welded to an upper edge of the lower side wall and a lower edge of the upper side wall and a center part closely juxtaposed with the upper wall of the upper chamber. A tap assembly mounted on the upper-chamber upper wall has a riser tube projecting through the partition center part into a lower region of the lower chamber. An upper protective ring is fitted to the upper part and to the valve assembly and a lower protective ring is fitted to the lower part. The rings and side walls have the same diameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Schafer Werke GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Meike, Hans Helmut Reichmann
  • Publication number: 20030062383
    Abstract: A beverage container has a cylindrical lower side wall and floor defining a lower beverage chamber and centered on an axis, a cylindrical upper side wall and upper wall centered on the axis and defining an upper pressurized-gas chamber, and an annular partition having an outer edge welded to an upper edge of the lower side wall and a lower edge of the upper side wall and a center part closely juxtaposed with the upper wall of the upper chamber. A tap assembly mounted on the upper-chamber upper wall has a riser tube projecting through the partition center part into a lower region of the lower chamber. An upper protective ring is fitted to the upper part and to the valve assembly and a lower protective ring is fitted to the lower part. The rings and side walls have the same diameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: SCHAFER WERKE GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus Meike, Hans Helmut Reichmann
  • Patent number: 6241116
    Abstract: A container of metal capable of withstanding an internal overpressure includes a hollow vessel for containing contents having an essentially cylindrical side wall and two outwardly curved end walls formed as partial spherical surfaces. At least one of the curved end walls has a central bulge protruding as a cup-shaped bottom from the curved end wall. A container connecting pipe is mounted on the central bulge of the at least one curved end wall. An intended breaking point is integrated in at least one of the partial spherical surfaces formed by one of the end walls, wherein the intended breaking point is a notch formed in an outer side of the end wall, and wherein the notch has varying depths with a maximum depth and a minimum depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Schäfer Werke GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Schrepfer, Hans-Helmut Reichmann
  • Patent number: 5617969
    Abstract: In a safety lock for a container connection (3), at least two cams (9, 10) are arranged at the contacting surfaces of the container connection part (4) and lock part (5) and cooperate with a radially open groove (7) extending in the circumferential direction and with at least two axially parallel grooves (6 and 8) at the counterpart (5 or 4) in the manner of a bayonet catch. In order to obtain a safety lock system having a plurality of safe combination pairs which are absolutely safeguarded against interchanging, it is suggested that the combination pairs having a plurality of cams (9 and 10) and axially parallel grooves (6 and 8) at the container connection part (4) and at the lock part (5) have different circumferential (angular) distances (X1) from one another in the circumferential direction in a plurality of container connections of the same type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1997
    Assignee: Schafer Werke GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Helmut Reichmann
  • Patent number: D486347
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Schafer Werke GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Meike, Hans Helmut Reichmann