Patents by Inventor Helmut Wanek

Helmut Wanek 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).

  • Publication number: 20020179310
    Abstract: A tool holder for a power tool formed as a hammer selected from the group consisting of a drill hammer, a chisel hammer and both, the tool holder has a striking mechanism for strikingly driving a tool, a base body, a drive part on which the base body is releasably mounted, at least one locking body for releasably mounting the base body on the drive part, a component having a throughgoing passage in which the at least one locking body is arranged, a securing body which radially fixes the at least one locking body in its engaging position, an actuating element for unlocking the securing body from its locking position to an unlocking position which radially releases the at least one locking body, at least one holding element which holds the at least one locking body in the unlocking position of the securing body in the throughgoing passage, the holding element is lowered or lowerable into the component having the throughgoing passage and is overrun by the securing body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventors: Axel Kuhnle, Helmut Wanek, Richard Engel
  • Publication number: 20020159847
    Abstract: A manual machine tool (10) with a housing (12) that carries an adjustable bit stop (32), particularly on a supplemental handle (28), becomes more convenient and safer to operate because the bit stop (32) can be fixed in positive fashion, particularly in latching fashion, next to the manual machine tool (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Helmut Wanek, Markus Heckmann