Patents by Inventor John W. Herrmann

John W. Herrmann 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).

  • Game utilizing magnetic forces
    Patent number: 10967247
    Abstract: The present invention is a game that relies on the interactions of magnetic fields to test the skills of a player or players, and more specifically a game device which relies upon the characteristic of magnets in which like poles between two magnets form a mutual field of repulsion whereas opposing poles of the same magnets form a field of attraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Kluster LLC
    Inventors: Robert Lee Henning, Paula L. Henning, Charles Elliot Flower, John W. Herrmann
  • Apparatus for spraying at a spraying station aligned with a continuously moving conveyor belt
    Patent number: 5518543
    Abstract: A spraying apparatus having a continuously moving conveyor belt which brings a vessel rim down to a spraying station, arrests movement of the vessel and aligns it with a vacuum gripping head, grips the vessel bottom and lifts and presents the vessel to a sprayer, rotates the vacuum gripped vessel rapidly to apply a plurality of thin layers of coating, and returns the coated vessel to the conveyor and releases the grip on the vessel so that the continuously moving conveyor can discharge the coated vessel from the spraying station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: Anchor Hocking Corporation
    Inventors: Michael L. Pietrowski, Gordon D. Norlin, Thomas J. Mohr, Charles R. Williams, Thomas J. Haug, John W. Herrmann