Patents by Inventor Horst Pfuderer

Horst Pfuderer 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: 4968104
    Abstract: A caterpillar track comprising chain links hinged to one another by bolts, each bolt traversing boreholes of adjacent chain links and being directly supported in the borehole of one chain link while being supported in the other chain link by resilient annular elements made of polymeric material cross-linked with the bolt and frictionally engaging the borehole walls, the improvement comprising supporting the bolt (1) in the boreholes (4) of the other chain link (2) also by at least one rolling bearing (9,16) arranged between adjacent resilient annular elements (5,6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1990
    Assignee: INA Walzlager Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Rolf Bender, Horst Pfuderer
  • Patent number: 4524671
    Abstract: A rolling bearing arrangement for guidance of a gun barrel during longitudinal displacement comprising a gun barrel having at least three circumferential axis-parallel strips projecting radially outward, each strip having two bearing surfaces parallel to each other and to a radial plane, which in turn are associated with directly opposite bearing surfaces extending parallel thereto in a housing surrounding the gun barrel, and a flat cage containing a set of cylindrical rollers arranged between the directly opposite bearing surfaces, the two sets of rollers cooperating with a common strip being under tension by the arrangement, displaceable in a parallel manner, by at least one element carrying a bearing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1985
    Assignee: INA Walzlager Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Rolf Bender, Werner Jacob, Horst Pfuderer