Patents by Inventor Norbert Hofler

Norbert Hofler 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).

  • Embossing apparatus
    Patent number: 7913619
    Abstract: There is described an apparatus for embossing a decorative layer of an embossing film (12) which is of a strip form, on to a small-radiused corner of a surface element, wherein a high cycle speed and high cycle rates are achieved in that the embossing apparatus (10) has a revolver head (16) which is rotatable stepwise about an axis (18) and which at its periphery (26) has a number of elastic pressing members (28) with which a heating device (30) is associated, wherein the revolver head (16) is reciprocatingly movable on a linear drive device (20) between an embossing position and an inactive position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG
    Inventors: Helmut Hogl, Norbert Hofler
  • Embossing apparatus
    Publication number: 20080173192
    Abstract: There is described an apparatus for embossing a decorative layer of an embossing film (12) which is of a strip form, on to a small-radiused corner of a surface element, wherein a high cycle speed and high cycle rates are achieved in that the embossing apparatus (10) has a revolver head (16) which is rotatable stepwise about an axis (18) and which at its periphery (26) has a number of elastic pressing members (28) with which a heating device (30) is associated, wherein the revolver head (16) is reciprocatingly movable on a linear drive device (20) between an embossing position and an inactive position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventors: Helmut Hogl, Norbert Hofler