Patents by Inventor Manfred Engler

Manfred Engler 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).

  • Publication number: 20050223537
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for making an emblem (10) for motor vehicles, said method comprising in the order given, the steps of: providing a sheet of metal (5) having opposite first (15) and second (16) major surface; applying a desired graphics design (2) on a first major surface of said sheet; cutting and forming from said metal sheet (5) an emblem (10) having a three dimensional shape; and applying a protective coating (1) on said emblem over said graphics design (2) by spray coating or powder coating whereby said protective coating (1) extends over the edge between said first and second major surface. Further provided are an emblem obtained with the method, a method of affixing the emblem to a motor vehicle and a motor vehicle having affixed to it the emblem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Inventors: Leslie Hamilton, Helmut Hoppe, Manfred Engler
  • Patent number: 4559763
    Abstract: This relates to an apparatus for forcing fill-goods into a container immediately before the lid is applied to the container. There is provided a tamper head which engages the product to force the solids into the container. Associated with the tamper head is a separately axially moved spring-loaded hood having a tapered lower surface which serves first to align a container with the tamper head, then squeeze off any fill-goods which overlies the rim of the container, and then forms a seal with the container rim to prevent liquid fill-goods from overflowing the container as the projecting fill-goods is pressed into the container. The tamper head has a liquid cavity which opens through the lower part of the tamper head and which is controllably opened to the exterior of the tamper head to receive excess liquid during the pressing in of the fill-goods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1985
    Inventors: Gunter Bode, Horst Meier, Manfred Engler