Patents by Inventor Jan Harlegard

Jan Harlegard 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: 5240686
    Abstract: An arrangement for the emptying and cleaning, and when required, for the disinfecting of hygienic vessels which are employed in the health care or nursing sector, without contamination of the external portions of the arrangement. The arrangement for the emptying and cleaning of hygienic vessels, consists of a rinsing chamber with a conical lower portion, with an odor trap, as well as with cleaning nozzles in the rinsing chamber and with a horizontal or vertical trap door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1993
    Assignee: S I C AG
    Inventor: Jan Harlegard
  • Patent number: 5190429
    Abstract: An arrangement for the opening of rigid, collapsible enclosures or of flexible bags, characterized in that this arrangement consists of a housing having a receiving container arranged therein which is adapted to be opening and closed by an opening lid, in which there are arranged scissors-like knives which are openable and closeable along a rotary axis such that a plurality, parallel-horizontally arranged, fixed knives are in operative connection with parallel, at an angle upwardly and inwardly arranged knives, whereby the movable knives are opened to such an extent and closed through pull rods by use of a motor that, through this movement, the liquid which is contained in the enclosures or bags can flow off into a discharge and thereafter the receiving container arranged on the rotary axle is enabled, by use of a motor, to be rotated so far downwardly until the enclosures can without external contact be expelled from the housing through a rinsing cone and thereafter the receiving container can be turned back
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1993
    Assignee: S I C AG
    Inventor: Jan Harlegard
  • Patent number: 4670061
    Abstract: A process and for improving the automatic emptying and cleaning of hygienic vessels or receptacle under conditions providing for the optimum infeed of rinsing water and for a minimal water usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1987
    Assignee: SIC AG
    Inventor: Jan Harlegard