Patents by Inventor Kurt F. Hanke

Kurt F. 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).

  • User friendly cigarette manufacturing machine
    Patent number: 9232818
    Abstract: A cigarette assembly machine that accepts loose tobacco and cigarette blanks that include a filter and an empty tobacco holding portion and produces cigarettes. The machine includes a tobacco plug forming mechanism, adapted to accept loose tobacco and form it into a plug of tobacco in the shape of the tobacco holding portion; a cigarette blank accepting and holding mechanism, adapted to hold the cigarette blank, so that the empty tobacco holding portion is facing the tobacco plug forming mechanism; a shaft aligned to the accepting and holding mechanism; and a two-stroke shaft moving assembly, adapted to move the shaft through a first stroke, which pushes the tobacco plug into the tobacco holding portion to create a cigarette, and through a second stroke that moves the cigarette out of the cigarette blank accepting and holding mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Inventors: Sajid Munawar, Kurt F. Hanke
  • Process for consolidation of composite materials
    Patent number: 5530228
    Abstract: A process for consolidating a composite material comprising the steps of forming a workpiece including a matrix interspersed with fibers, supporting the workpiece by an electrically conductive support, inductively heating the support and thereby conductively heating the workpiece, and applying pressure to the heated workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Alvin C. Burnett, Kurt F. Hanke, Susan V. Laurenti, Marc R. Matsen, Donald M. Montgomery
  • Process for consolidation of composite materials
    Patent number: 5229562
    Abstract: A process for consolidating a composite material comprising the steps of forming a workpiece including a matrix interspersed with fibers, supporting the workpiece by an electrically conductive support, inductively heating the support and thereby conductively heating the workpiece, and applying pressure to the heated workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1993
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Alvin C. Burnett, Kurt F. Hanke, Susan V. Laurenti, Marc R. Matsen, Donald M. Montgomery
  • Vacuum pickup tool with integrally heated soldering tip
    Patent number: 4965433
    Abstract: A vacuum pickup tool (10) having a handle (16) and a barrel (22) mounted thereto with a tip (24) that is heated by a temperature control unit (114). The barrel (22) and tip (24) include a longitudinal axial bore (41) attached to an air source through connector (116) to provide vacuum through an axial opening (62) and the tip (24) to hold a Z-clip (74) to the barrel (22). Actuation of a trigger (28) deactivates the vacuum and simultaneously heats the tip (24) to solder the clip (74) onto a wire wrapped pin (64) inserted through a circuit board (66). A thermocouple (54) and controller 114 monitor and control the temperature of the tip (24) as preset by the temperature control (114) on an instrument assembly (96).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1990
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Kurt F. Hanke, Wesley C. Lund, David F. Feider