Patents by Inventor Herman Held

Herman Held 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: 4255038
    Abstract: A photographic processing machine has a plurality of rollers for transporting the photographic materials through a processing bath. According to this invention, alternate ones of adjacent rollers are provided with a flexible casing subject to internal hydraulic pressure. The flexible casing is formed of a textile fabric. The fabric encased rollers each have openings through their walls, the film treating bath liquid fed under pressure to the interior of each roller and then through the wall openings. The flexible textile casing thereby expands, to produce squeezing force on the photographic material being processed as the material passes between a rigid roller and its associated textile encased roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1981
    Inventors: Joachim Simon, Herman Held, Wilhelm Stoye