Patents by Inventor Karl Sommer

Karl Sommer 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: 10398206
    Abstract: A container for storing cosmetics or cosmetics accessories includes a main body having an inner storage compartment. An upper cap portion is removably attached to an upper end of the main body and includes a plurality of shelves. Each of the shelves is rotatable to the left or right of a central axis of the container, independently of remaining ones of the shelves, between a closed position and a respective open position. When each of the shelves is in the closed position, shelves are substantially concentric with each other and with a first opening in the upper end of the main body. When the shelves are in the respective open positions, the shelves are not concentric with each other or with the first opening. When the shelves are in the respective open positions, the first opening is revealed to provide access to the inner storage compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Make-Cup, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Christina Bellas, Karl Sommer, Richard Alan Knill
  • Patent number: 9434917
    Abstract: An energy-saving method and apparatus for boiling wort in a beer brewing process is easily implemented and managed. The wort (W) to be boiled is supplied to a wort kettle (2) in a batchwise and discontinuous manner, and each batch (C) of wort (W) supplied to the wort kettle (2) is boiled during a boiling phase, whereby the wort vapor (D) escaping during the boiling phase is supplied to a vertical column (10) connected on the steam side to the wort kettle (2), and is rectified in the vertical column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Inventors: Marcus Hertel, Karl Sommer
  • Publication number: 20160198826
    Abstract: A container for storing cosmetics or cosmetics accessories includes a main body having an inner storage compartment. An upper cap portion is removably attached to an upper end of the main body and includes a plurality of shelves. Each of the shelves is rotatable to the left or right of a central axis of the container, independently of remaining ones of the shelves, between a closed position and a respective open position. When each of the shelves is in the closed position, shelves are substantially concentric with each other and with a first opening in the upper end of the main body. When the shelves are in the respective open positions, the shelves are not concentric with each other or with the first opening. When the shelves are in the respective open positions, the first opening is revealed to provide access to the inner storage compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Christina BELLAS, Karl SOMMER, Richard Alan KNILL
  • Patent number: 9388834
    Abstract: The present teachings relate to an improved rotating connector portion and clip portion for attachment to a secondary item. More specifically, the present teachings relate to a connector portion and clip portion that can be attached to a secondary item, such that the clip portion may be rotated about the secondary item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: VISOR FRAMES, LLC
    Inventors: Salvatore Joseph Franco DiNello, Michael John Abraham, Karl Sommer
  • Patent number: 9289042
    Abstract: A container for storing cosmetics or cosmetics accessories includes a main body having an inner storage compartment. An upper cap portion is removably attached to an upper end of the main body and includes a plurality of shelves. Each of the shelves is rotatable to the left or right of a central axis of the container, independently of remaining ones of the shelves, between a closed position and a respective open position. When each of the shelves is in the closed position, shelves are substantially concentric with each other and with a first opening in the upper end of the main body. When the shelves are in the respective open positions, the shelves are not concentric with each other or with the first opening. When the shelves are in the respective open positions, the first opening is revealed to provide access to the inner storage compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: MAKE-CUP, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Christina Bellas, Karl Sommer, Richard Alan Knill
  • Publication number: 20140021089
    Abstract: A container for storing cosmetics or cosmetics accessories includes a main body having an inner storage compartment. An upper cap portion is removably attached to an upper end of the main body and includes a plurality of shelves. Each of the shelves is rotatable to the left or right of a central axis of the container, independently of remaining ones of the shelves, between a closed position and a respective open position. When each of the shelves is in the closed position, shelves are substantially concentric with each other and with a first opening in the upper end of the main body. When the shelves are in the respective open positions, the shelves are not concentric with each other or with the first opening. When the shelves are in the respective open positions, the first opening is revealed to provide access to the inner storage compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Christina Bellas, Karl Sommer, Richard Alan Knill
  • Publication number: 20130062489
    Abstract: The present teachings relate to an improved rotating connector portion and clip portion for attachment to a secondary item. More specifically, the present teachings relate to a connector portion and clip portion that can be attached to a secondary item, such that the clip portion may be rotated about the secondary item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Visor Frames, LLC
    Inventors: Salvatore Joseph Franco DiNello, Michael John Abraham, Karl Sommer
  • Publication number: 20070154616
    Abstract: An energy-saving method and apparatus for boiling wort in a beer brewing process is easily implemented and managed. The wort (W) to be boiled is supplied to a wort kettle (2) in a batchwise and discontinuous manner, and each batch (C) of wort (W) supplied to the wort kettle (2) is boiled during a boiling phase, whereby the wort vapor (D) escaping during the boiling phase is supplied to a vertical column (10) connected on the steam side to the wort kettle (2), and is rectified in the vertical column.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Inventors: Marcus Hertel, Karl Sommer
  • Patent number: 6890017
    Abstract: A family of visors for automotive vehicles includes a plurality of members. Each member of the family includes at least some degree of commonality and preferably some degree of difference with one or more members of the family.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Llink Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Bradley Herbst, Jon Theodore Riley, Alan Dean Picken, Karl Sommer
  • Publication number: 20020185884
    Abstract: A family of visors for automotive vehicles is disclosed. Each member of the family includes at least some degree of commonality and preferably some degree of difference with one or more members of the family.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Applicant: Llink Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Bradley Herbst, Jon Theodore Riley, Alan Dean Picken, Karl Sommer
  • Patent number: 4868128
    Abstract: A process of dry dispersal of fine-grained particles on a specimen slide for the purpose of macroscopic or microscopic analysis, and a corresponding instrument for carrying out this process are described. The process permits random, homogeneous distribution of dry particles on a specimen slide in a unilayered, planar distribution, the particles not touching one another at all or only doing so to a negligible extent, i.e. being positioned on the speciment slide without agglomeration. The process steps are: metered input of the fine-grained substance into a sample container; aspiration of the substance by means of a defined partial vacuum, produced in a turbulence chamber, the substance reaching the turbulence chamber via an accelerator tube and then via a distributor tube, and deposition of the accelerated particles on a transparent speciment slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1989
    Assignee: Ernst Leitz Wetzlar GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Sommer, Rolf Fath, Walter Peschke, Ulrich Bohnaus
  • Patent number: 4695397
    Abstract: A granular bleaching activator for use in a detergent or bleach, which has particles which have a size of from 0.5 to 3 mm and are composed of(a) from 70 to 99.5% by weight of one or more bleaching activators for per-compounds and(b) from 0.5 to 30% by weight of one or more water-swellable assistantsand which have been prepared, without use of water, by compacting the components (a) and (b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1987
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl Sommer, Robert Heinz, Albert Hettche, Johannes Perner, Werner Schuster, Wolfgang Trieselt
  • Patent number: 4540816
    Abstract: Process for preparing ring-substituted N-alkylanilines of the formula (1) ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each denote methyl or ethyl, in a single vessel, which comprises acylating m-nitroaniline in an excess of an aliphatic carbonyl compound of the formula (2) ##STR2## in which R.sub.1 is as defined above, with an acylating agent which contains the --CO--R.sub.2 acyl radical--which is transferred-- and reductively alkylating the resulting compound of the formula (3) ##STR3## in which R.sub.2 is as defined above, at temperatures of 120.degree.-160.degree. C. under a hydrogen pressure of 20-150 bar without intermediate isolation through the presence of an acid reaction promoter and of a nickel catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1985
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl Sommer, Rudolf Schickfluss
  • Patent number: 4492653
    Abstract: Water soluble trisazo dyestuffs of the formula ##STR1## in which A is 1-amino-8-naphthol-3,6-disulfonic acid or 1-amino-8-naphthol-4,6-disulfonic acid, or a mixture of these two compounds, and B is 1-(3'- or 4'-aminophenyl)-3-methyl-5-pyrazolone, a process for their manufacture by diazotizing component A and coupling it with 3,3'-dihydroxy-diphenylamine to give a monoazo dyestuff, reacting this dyestuff with diazotized component B to give a disazo dyestuff, and converting this dyestuff to the trisazo dyestuff by uniting it with diazotized 4-nitro-4'-amino-diphenylamine-2-sulfonic acid, or by operating as described while, however, changing the sequence of reaction of component B and 4-nitro-4'-amino-diphenylamine-2-sulfonic acid, and use of these dyestuffs for the dyeing of leather and fur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1985
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl Sommer, Norbert Armbrecht
  • Patent number: 4484879
    Abstract: A roller press comprising a drivable pair of rollers with a defined nip between these, one or more stuffing screws, associated with the nip, for feeding the material to be granulated to the nip, and a plate, movable in the direction of the screw axis, on which plate the screw and drive are fixed and a pin which can be brought up against a stationary load cell is held.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 27, 1984
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Robert Heinz, Karl Sommer
  • Patent number: 4460375
    Abstract: A dyeing-stable modification (.beta.-modification) of the dyestuff of the formula (I) ##STR1## which has the X-ray diffraction diagram shown in FIG. 1 and having the characteristic reflections at the following glancing angles and relative intensities:______________________________________ [.theta.] 2.74 4.27 4.70 5.50 8.74 11.24 12.44 relative 100 72 40 23 27 32 26 intensity ______________________________________a process for its preparation by heating the dyestuff of said formula (I) of the dyeing-unstable .alpha.-modification, characterized by an X-ray diffraction diagram having the characteristic reflections at the following glancing angles and relative intensities ______________________________________ [.theta.] 3.55 4.15 5.35 9.45 10.41 12.71 13.89 relative 42 100 35 24 34 94 48 intensity ______________________________________at temperatures of 60.degree. to 120.degree. C. in an organic solvent, and its use for dyeing fiber materials made of cellulose esters or synthetic linear polyesters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1984
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl Sommer, Manfred Schneider, Rudolf Schickfluss
  • Patent number: 4297247
    Abstract: A coated catalyst comprising (a) an inert carrier having a particle diameter of not less than 100 .mu.m and a surface area of up to 20 m.sup.2 /g and (b) a coating which firmly adheres to the outer surface and in the edge zone, near the surface, of the carrier particles, and which contains the catalytic material, can be prepared by applying the catalytic material in the form of a powder of particle size not more than 300 .mu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1981
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Richard Krabetz, Walter Herrmann, Heinz Engelbach, Peter Palm, Karl Sommer, Heinrich Spahn
  • Patent number: 4255285
    Abstract: Novel coated catalysts and a process for their preparation by atomizing a mixture of water and a vanadium-V compound, with or without other metal compounds, and applying this mixture to carrier particles which are themselves in motion, drying the coating and subjecting the catalyst particles, which are themselves in motion, to repeated brief treatment with a flame or plasma, followed by rapid cooling, defined temperatures and rates of coating being employed. The catalysts may be used with advantage for the preparation of anthraquinones by oxidation of indans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1981
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heinz Engelbach, Harry Hoffmann, Peter Palm, Karl Sommer, Michael J. Sprague
  • Patent number: D720224
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Make-Cup LLC.
    Inventors: Christina Bellas, Karl Sommer, Richard Alan Knill
  • Patent number: D735823
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Inventors: Cori Malaby, Karl Sommer