Patents by Inventor Norbert Knauer

Norbert Knauer 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: 4911420
    Abstract: An arrangement is presented which permits a record chart bundle to be deflected into a recording position at a relatively short distance from an input slot of a respective recording device at an angle of approximately 90.degree.. For this purpose, a resilient, continuous transporting belt or a transporting belt pair driven by a motor is provided, deflecting rollers being assigned on the one hand and contact pressure rollers which are supported in a springing manner and engage in a working connection with a belt roller being assigned on the other hand to the transporting belt or transporting belt pair in such a way that a transfer gap between the belt rollers or between the transporting belts engaging around the belt rollers respectively, and the contact pressure rollers is located in the recording plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1990
    Assignee: Mannesmann Kienzle GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Knauer, Norbert Helmschrott
  • Patent number: 4903044
    Abstract: The arrangement, according to the invention, includes a positioning drive with which a record chart bundle is drivable in a recording movement direction when it is received on a centering pin which can be raised and lowered, an adjustable stop which rotates at the recording speed and compensates for an angular difference between the recording angle per record chart and a complete revolution of this record chart, a catch arm, which is formed on at the stop, cooperating in turn with a radial edge of a sector-shaped cut-out portion of the uppermost record chart in the bundle during the positioning, the sector shape being conventional in record chart bundles, and driving means which are active when a record chart bundle is positioned and which couple the record chart bundle with the recording drive, the driving means being rotatably supported at a web which is movable vertically at the centering pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1990
    Assignee: Mannesmann Kienzle GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Knauer, Benjamin Saeger, Josef Wangler, Norbert Helmschrott