Patents by Inventor Hans Quiring

Hans Quiring 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: 6146058
    Abstract: A seal processing station for gathering loose and transmitting properly oriented seals to an insertion station where the seals are to be placed on a wire, the seal processing station having a seal sorting unit and a seal feeding unit that has a feed track going between the seal sorting unit and the insertion station where the seal sorting unit has a container where the loose seals are placed and a seal propulsion device with a seal feed channel extending from a lower end of the container to an upper end where the channel includes an air inlet for blowing air up the channel to feed seals from the lower end to the upper end and unto the feed track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Gerst, Jorg Herzog, Hans-Peter Hoffmann, Horst Knapp, Hans Quiring, Wolfgang Zimmer