Patents by Inventor Josef Lier

Josef Lier 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: 5657768
    Abstract: The cigarette tube filling device (100) comprises a housing bottom part (1), consisting of a base part (2) and of a cover part (3), as well as a housing top part (6). There is formed a press chamber (8), the lower half of which is formed by a tongue (12) and the upper half (11) of which is formed by a part-cylindrical recess (11) of the top part (6). The housing top part (6) is mounted on the housing bottom part (1) pivotably about an axis (7) extending parallel to the press chamber (8). In the housing bottom part (1), a straight guide (27, 28) parallel to the press chamber (8) is provided for the slide (20) comprising the tongue (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignee: Gizeh-Werk GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Neumann, Josef Lier
  • Patent number: 5398701
    Abstract: A device for filling prefabricated cigarette tubes, having a housing (1), a tobacco chamber (17), a trough-shaped tobacco holder (7), a compression bar (23), a stop (31) for one end of the plug of tobacco, a finger or bushing (14) on which one end of a cigarette tube can be placed and a sliding cover (11). The length of the plug of tobacco formed can be adjusted to fit cigarette tubes of different lengths by adjusting the length of the tobacco chamber (17) and the length of the compression bar (23). The invention does this by virtue of the fact that the stop (31) defining one end of the tobacco chamber is adjustable in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the tobacco holder (7) and that at least two movable sections (41, 42, 43) of the compression bar, each of different length and each capable of acting as an extension to a stationary part (30) of the bar, are mounted on a rotatable component (40) whose axis of rotation (45) is parallel to the surface (44) of the compression bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1995
    Assignee: Gizeh-Werk GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Neumann, Josef Lier, Wolfgang Rosner
  • Patent number: D366053
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1996
    Assignee: Gizeh-Werk GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Neumann, Josef Lier