Patents by Inventor Kenneth E. Hanke

Kenneth E. Hanke 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: 4302646
    Abstract: An electric switch of the snap-action type includes a pair of relatively movable contacts, an operating linkage interconnected with a movable one of the contacts for imparting operating movement thereto, a hollow tubular rotatable member interconnected with the operating linkage and operable to impart switch operating movement thereto, a latching part secured to the rotatable member and engageable with abutment means so as to secure the rotatable member against rotation, spring means in the form of a torsion bar disposed within the rotatable member and effective to impart rotation thereto upon disengagement of the latching part from the abutment means, movable motive means in the form of a rotatable tube interconnected with the torsion bar for imparting twisting moment thereto together with latch releasing means mounted on and movable with the movable motive means for engaging the latching part and for moving such part out of engagement with the associated fixed abutment means after a predetermined degree of
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1981
    Assignee: Kearney-National Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Osborne, Kenneth E. Hanke
  • Patent number: 4250357
    Abstract: A fuse mounting arranged to isolate live electric parts and provided with grounded exposed parts comprises a housing structure, a hingedly mounted fuse panel disposed within said housing structure and normally forming a part of a fuse isolating wall within said housing structure, fuse mounting means secured to the interior of said fuse panel so as to isolate a fuse mounted on said fuse mounting means, conducting means in the form of an electric bushing and its associated bushing well mounted on and projecting through said fuse panel and forming a connection between one terminal of the fuse, disjointable connecting means in the form of an elbow connector engageable with said bushing on the exterior of said fuse panel and outside said isolating wall to form a disjointable electric connection with said bushing, and latch means movably mounted on said fuse panel and engageable with a locking slot formed in said isolating wall for removably securing said fuse panel in its normal position in said isolating wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1981
    Assignee: Kearney-National, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth E. Hanke