Patents by Inventor Herbert Gries

Herbert Gries 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).

  • Device for holding lenses, especially for eye glasses to be coated in a vacuum coating or sputtering machine
    Patent number: 6171462
    Abstract: In a device for holding lenses for eye glasses to be coated (3,3′, . . . ) with a substrate holder (4) consisting of cap-like sheet-metal blanks (4a,b,c,d) forming a dish in the form of a spherical segment and having several drill-holes (5,5′, . . . ), rotating on a vertical axis (R) in the vacuum chamber (2) above a coating source (Q), the coating source (Q) being mounted to the side of the axis of rotation (R) and the lenses (3,3′, . . . ) being placed and held in the drill-holes (5,5′, . . .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Balzer und Leybold Deutschland Holding AG
    Inventors: Herbert Gries, Stefan Locher