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).
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Patent number: 10398206Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 21, 2016Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Make-Cup, L.L.C.Inventors: Christina Bellas, Karl Sommer, Richard Alan Knill
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Patent number: 9434917Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 9, 2007Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Inventors: Marcus Hertel, Karl Sommer
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Publication number: 20160198826Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2016Publication date: July 14, 2016Inventors: Christina BELLAS, Karl SOMMER, Richard Alan KNILL
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Patent number: 9388834Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 10, 2012Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: VISOR FRAMES, LLCInventors: Salvatore Joseph Franco DiNello, Michael John Abraham, Karl Sommer
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Patent number: 9289042Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 23, 2013Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: MAKE-CUP, L.L.C.Inventors: Christina Bellas, Karl Sommer, Richard Alan Knill
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Publication number: 20140021089Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Inventors: Christina Bellas, Karl Sommer, Richard Alan Knill
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Publication number: 20130062489Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2012Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: Visor Frames, LLCInventors: Salvatore Joseph Franco DiNello, Michael John Abraham, Karl Sommer
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Publication number: 20070154616Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2007Publication date: July 5, 2007Inventors: Marcus Hertel, Karl Sommer
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Patent number: 6890017Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 28, 2002Date of Patent: May 10, 2005Assignee: Llink Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Steven Bradley Herbst, Jon Theodore Riley, Alan Dean Picken, Karl Sommer
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Publication number: 20020185884Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2002Publication date: December 12, 2002Applicant: Llink Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Steven Bradley Herbst, Jon Theodore Riley, Alan Dean Picken, Karl Sommer
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Patent number: 4868128Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 20, 1987Date of Patent: September 19, 1989Assignee: Ernst Leitz Wetzlar GmbHInventors: Karl Sommer, Rolf Fath, Walter Peschke, Ulrich Bohnaus
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Patent number: 4695397Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 15, 1986Date of Patent: September 22, 1987Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Karl Sommer, Robert Heinz, Albert Hettche, Johannes Perner, Werner Schuster, Wolfgang Trieselt
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Patent number: 4540816Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 10, 1984Date of Patent: September 10, 1985Assignee: Hoechst AktiengesellschaftInventors: Karl Sommer, Rudolf Schickfluss
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Patent number: 4492653Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 23, 1982Date of Patent: January 8, 1985Assignee: Hoechst AktiengesellschaftInventors: Karl Sommer, Norbert Armbrecht
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Patent number: 4484879Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 21, 1983Date of Patent: November 27, 1984Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Robert Heinz, Karl Sommer
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Patent number: 4460375Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 14, 1983Date of Patent: July 17, 1984Assignee: Hoechst AktiengesellschaftInventors: Karl Sommer, Manfred Schneider, Rudolf Schickfluss
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Patent number: 4297247Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 3, 1980Date of Patent: October 27, 1981Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Richard Krabetz, Walter Herrmann, Heinz Engelbach, Peter Palm, Karl Sommer, Heinrich Spahn
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Patent number: 4255285Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 23, 1979Date of Patent: March 10, 1981Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Heinz Engelbach, Harry Hoffmann, Peter Palm, Karl Sommer, Michael J. Sprague
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Patent number: D720224Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Make-Cup LLC.Inventors: Christina Bellas, Karl Sommer, Richard Alan Knill
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Patent number: D735823Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2014Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Inventors: Cori Malaby, Karl Sommer