Patents by Inventor Karl Lieser

Karl Lieser 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: 6749790
    Abstract: The invention relates to a handle for a hand tool and a method for the manufacture of the handle. The problem of the invention is to provide a handle for a hand tool, whose surface is formed from areas of distinguishable materials and which simultaneously has a good and pleasant grippability. A handle according to the invention for a hand tool, particularly a turning tool, is made from plastic. It has a surface from flush-connected areas of distinguishable materials. The two materials can be distinguished from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Adolf Wurth GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Karl Lieser, Andreas Dierolf
  • Patent number: 6640911
    Abstract: A device for connecting a tool to a mechanical drive contains as the coupling element a spring washer coupling or clutch, which is made in one piece from metal and at least in the rotation direction has a limited resilience. Use is made thereof for preventing torque peaks in the case of a sudden deceleration of the tool, e.g. if a screw strikes a wood surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Adolf Wuerth GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Karl Lieser, Andreas Dierolf, Frank Kollmar
  • Patent number: 6629338
    Abstract: The invention proposes a handle for a screwdriver or a similar tool, which over a significant part of its length has a cross-section in the form of an approximately regular pentagon. The corner or angle sections are rounded with a radius of curvature, whose centre is in the longitudinal axis of the tool handle. The corner sections formed by the curved part of the cross-section have a different width over the handle length. The shape of the flattenings does not follow the shape of the handle contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignee: Adolf Wuerth GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Dierolf, Karl Lieser
  • Publication number: 20030136236
    Abstract: Pliers contain on both pliers limbs a pliers handle, which is injection moulded round the corresponding metal pliers limbs. Injection moulding on takes place at a point located at the handle end facing the pliers joint. As a result the entire surface of the handle, which can be gripped by a user, remains free from surface disturbances and interference. A raised marking can be applied to the mould-on point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2002
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Inventors: Andreas Dierolf, Karl Lieser
  • Publication number: 20020133911
    Abstract: The invention proposes a handle for a screwdriver or a similar tool, which over a significant part of its length has a cross-section in the form of an approximately regular pentagon. The corner or angle sections are rounded with a radius of curvature, whose centre is in the longitudinal axis of the tool handle. The corner sections formed by the curved part of the cross-section have a different width over the handle length. The shape of the flattenings does not follow the shape of the handle contour.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2001
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Inventors: Andreas Dierolf, Karl Lieser
  • Publication number: 20020000334
    Abstract: A device for connecting a tool to a mechanical drive contains as the coupling element a spring washer coupling or clutch, which is made in one piece from metal and at least in the rotation direction has a limited resilience. Use is made thereof for preventing torque peaks in the case of a sudden deceleration of the tool, e.g. if a screw strikes a wood surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2001
    Publication date: January 3, 2002
    Inventors: Karl Lieser, Andreas Dierolf, Frank Kollmar
  • Publication number: 20010025714
    Abstract: A tool, which can be used in the manner of a pinion, contains two parts, whereof one serves as the drive and the other as the driven part. The two parts form a cavity in which is inserted a torque-limiting clutch. The latter is positioned in axially floating manner, so that the once set clutch release torque can be maintained independently of external influences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2001
    Publication date: October 4, 2001
    Inventor: Karl Lieser
  • Patent number: 4884478
    Abstract: A screw tool has a direction-reversible catch including clamping members disposed within wedge-shaped clamping spaces between an outer drive ring part (5) and an inner driven core part (8) of approximately triangular shape in cross section, the clamping members are displaceable by a rotatable switch member which is lockable in its switch positions into release with respect to the wedge walls of the corresponding clamping space by drivers acting on the clamping members and blocking the passage of the clamping members into, in each case one of their two clamping positions, and it proposes, in provide for a structurally simple friction-minimized construction wherein each clamping member lies loosely in a clamping space and is displaceable into its clamping position by the rotation of the drive ring part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1989
    Assignee: Wera Werk Hermann Werner GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Karl Lieser
  • Patent number: 4883392
    Abstract: A fly-cutter milling machine for the simultaneous milling of a plurality of profiled structures developed in the form of grooves, surfaces or the like in rotating workpieces by means of a fly cutter which protrudes radially outward on a rotating tool holder and which plunges through the cross section of the workpiece with a speed corresponding to the conditions of the fly-cutting, the speeds of rotation of tool holder and workpiece being in a ratio determined by the desired profiled structure, and in order to increase the range of use of the fly-cutter milling machine, the speed of rotation of the fly cutter over the emerged path differs from that over the plunge path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1989
    Assignee: Wera Werk Hermann Werner GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Karl Lieser
  • Patent number: 4863321
    Abstract: A fly-cutter milling machine for the simultaneous milling of a plurality of grooves (12) in rotating workpieces (2) by means of a fly cutter (3) which protrudes radially outwards on a rotating tool holder, the speed of revolution of the tool holder and the speed of revolution of the workpiece being in a ratio which is determined by the number of grooves of the workpiece. In order to obtain optimum operation with the groove profile precisely adapted to the tool cutting edge, the rotation of the workpiece (2) is briefly interrupted at the moment of the maximum depth of plunge of the fly cutter (3) by a phase of reduced speed of the workpiece (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1989
    Assignee: Wera Werk Hermann Werner GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Karl Lieser
  • Patent number: 4739536
    Abstract: A handle for tools, specifically for screwdrivers, is disclosed. The handle consists of two materials of different hardness, of which the harder material supporting the tool is incompressible under the forces occurring at operational load, whereas the other material permits slight elastic deformations under forces of load. In order to obtain a hand-sympathetic design which nevertheless transmits high torques, the two gripping zones of softer material are situated adjacent to a gripping zone of harder material located between them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1988
    Assignee: Wera Werk Hermann Werner GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Jan-Eric Bandera, Peter Kern, Roland Schindhelm, Johannes Solf, Karl Lieser
  • Patent number: 4726720
    Abstract: A method of milling, with at least one milling cutter, teeth surfaces at an axial free end of a continuously rotatably driven workpiece comprising the steps of cutting the teeth on the continuously driven workpiece with axial relative movement between the workpiece and the milling cutter by rotating the milling cutter with constant speed relative to the rpm pf the workpiece and in the direction of an axial face of the free end of the workpiece, by the rotating milling cutter milling a roof-like surface on one side of the teeth of the workpiece always starting from an axially inwardly located basde of the teeth in a direction toward a ridge of the teeth in every milling, the roof-like surfaces of each tooth tapering toward each other away from the base of said each tooth toward the ridge adjacent the axial face of the free end of the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1988
    Assignee: Wera Werk Hermann Werner GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Karl Lieser
  • Patent number: 4629375
    Abstract: A chuck for non-circular ends of tool shanks having a bushing forming a chamber corresponding in cross-section to the tool shank and a ball which acts on the shank and is clamped by a spring biased sleeve which forms a wedge against the ball. The ball is mounted in a separate wing which is engaged by the sleeve and is displaceable relative to the bushing so that the ball engages a clamping surface formed by an end ring and the tool shank in a clamping position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1986
    Assignee: Wera Werk Hermann Werner GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Karl Lieser
  • Patent number: 4404874
    Abstract: A screwdriver with replaceable blade is inserted in the longitudinal direction of the handle from one end in non-rotatable complementary manner into an opening having a non-round cross section with which there is associated a spring for holding the blade by friction. The opening is formed from a socket which is of polygonal shape on an inside and an outside thereof and a part (x) of the length thereof is held in non-rotatable complementary manner within the handle while the remaining length (y) thereof projects beyond an end surface of the handle said socket being formed on an inner wall thereof with an annular groove, and a spring of ring shape is disposed partly in the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1983
    Assignee: Firma Hermann Werner GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Karl Lieser
  • Patent number: 4164891
    Abstract: A machine for simultaneously milling several grooves in rotating workpieces by means of a rotating one-toothed milling tool, whereby the rotational speeds of the milling tool and workpiece stand in a ratio determined by the number of grooves, and whereby the milling tool in the longitudinal direction from the free end of the workpiece--freely-cutting--is plunged in the workpiece which is advanced in the longitudinal movement. The tool carrier is pivotable about an axis lying perpendicularly to the rotational axis of the workpiece such that the rotational plane of the cutter tool is able to be brought in an acute angle relative to the rotational axis of the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1979
    Assignee: Hermann Werner GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Karl Lieser
  • Patent number: 4141278
    Abstract: A polygonal turning machine with a rotating knife head, and a workpiece carrier rotating synchronously to the knife head, the carrier being arranged on a support, characterized in that, the axis of the workpiece carrier is able to be brought into a coaxial position to the axis of rotation of the knife head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1979
    Assignee: Hermann Werner
    Inventor: Karl Lieser
  • Patent number: 4024615
    Abstract: A knife head, particularly for multi-edge lathes having knives held in plates and braceable in their operating position, which plates are adjustable, in order to obtain a radial adjustability of the knives, by means of an eccentric tool which is insertable in a bore in the knife head. There is coordinated to the eccentric tool-insertion bore which is directed onto the rear surface of the plate, a recess laterally offset thereto which is formed in the rear wall of the plate for the insertion therein of an eccentrically offset end of the eccentric tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1977
    Assignee: Hermann Werner
    Inventor: Karl Lieser
  • Patent number: 4015370
    Abstract: A machine for grinding of peripheral surfaces on workpieces, particularly, screw driver blades, comprising at least one grinding disc or abrasive belt contact disc, respectively, arranged on a rotating carrier which is driven in a predetermined transmission ratio synchronously to the likewise rotating workpiece such that the grinding disc or abrasive belt contact disc, respectively, steps forward into the grinding position in periodic rotation synchronized with the turning of the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1977
    Assignee: Hermann Werner, a Kommanditgesellschaft
    Inventor: Karl Lieser
  • Patent number: RE34680
    Abstract: A screw tool has a direction-reversible catch including clamping members disposed within wedge-shaped clamping spaces between an outer drive ring part (5) and an inner driven core part (8) of approximately triangular shape in cross section, the clamping members are displaceable by a rotatable switch member which is lockable in its switch positions into release with respect to the wedge walls of the corresponding clamping space by drivers acting on the clamping members and blocking the passage of the clamping members into, in each case one of their two clamping positions, and it proposes, in provide for a structurally simple friction-minimized construction wherein each clamping member lies loosely in a clamping space and is displaceable into its clamping position by the rotation of the drive ring part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1994
    Assignee: Wera Werk Hermann Werner GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Karl Lieser