Patents by Inventor Peter Ackeret

Peter Ackeret 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).

  • Container for photographic prints
    Patent number: 4473154
    Abstract: The container for photographs of the same size comprises a housing from which a slide can be pulled out. In the housing there is a spring arrangement which presses the photographs against a viewing window of the housing. The spring arrangement comprises leaf springs which, when the slide is pulled out, are pressed away from the viewing window by control edges moulded to the slide, directly at the start of pulling out of the viewing window, and remain pressed away during further pulling out of the slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1984
    Assignee: Licinvest AG
    Inventor: Peter Ackeret
  • Container for pictures having similar formats
    Patent number: 4458434
    Abstract: Container for pictures, especially for photopositives, which is constructed to be at the same time a stand-up or hanging frame or a component of an archive. The container has centering elements by means of which the uppermost picture of a stored pile is completely visible in the viewing window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1984
    Assignee: Licinvest AG
    Inventor: Peter Ackeret
  • Stackable photograph holders
    Patent number: 4443959
    Abstract: Stackable storage holders for photographs are provided with a viewing window in a first side and a projecting land on the opposite side, the land being configured to fit within the window region of an adjacent holder when a plurality of the holders are stacked. A base member, provided with regions having a high coefficient of friction, is provided with a recess in its upper surface which receives a land on a holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1984
    Assignee: Licinvest AG
    Inventor: Peter Ackeret
  • Container for tape cassettes
    Patent number: 4428480
    Abstract: A container in which standard magnetic tape cassettes may be stored includes a drawer which is releaseably locked in a housing against a pre-tensioned ejection spring. The container may, at least in part, be comprised of transparent material and will accommodate a label which is located to one side of the cassette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1984
    Inventor: Peter Ackeret
  • Holder for photographic prints
    Patent number: 4415079
    Abstract: A holder for accommodating a variable number of photographic prints comprises a housing having a viewing window against which the uppermost print is resiliently biased. The holder includes a slide which may be partially withdrawn therefrom to gain access to the prints, the resilient bias being suppressed during withdrawal of the slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1983
    Assignee: Licinvest AG
    Inventor: Peter Ackeret
  • Picture viewer
    Patent number: 4376348
    Abstract: A picture viewer has a housing for a pile of pictures, a window for viewing the pictures, and a slider which is used to transport a picture from one side of the pile and guided to the other side of the pile again as the slider is operated. A retaining device selectively operates to prevent the remainder of the pile from being transported out of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1983
    Assignee: Licinvest AG
    Inventor: Peter Ackeret
  • Episcope
    Patent number: 4313675
    Abstract: A device for displaying sheet opaque pictures in which images of scenes thereon are transmitted from a housing onto an exterior display. A picture exchange magazine has a display window at the picture scene such that the top of a stack of pictures is confined at the window and the remainder are confined behind it. The magazine includes first and second frame members, the latter being relatively reciprocable parallel to the window and picture scence for cyclic exchange of the top picture in the magazine. A release holder retains the magazine on the housing while allowing the frame members to remain relatively movable to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1982
    Assignee: Licinvest AG
    Inventor: Peter Ackeret
  • Filing arrangement
    Patent number: 4266834
    Abstract: The invention relates to a filing arrangement for cassettes which are intended and designed to store photographic prints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1981
    Assignee: Licinvest AG
    Inventor: Peter Ackeret
  • Container for tape cassettes
    Patent number: D259303
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1981
    Assignee: IDN Inventions and Development of Novelties AG
    Inventor: Peter Ackeret
  • Container for tape cassettes
    Patent number: D259676
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1981
    Assignee: IDN Inventions and Development of Novelties AG
    Inventor: Peter Ackeret
  • Container for tape cassettes
    Patent number: D260051
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1981
    Assignee: IDN Inventions and Development of Novelties AG
    Inventor: Peter Ackeret
  • Portable box for storing tape cassette containers
    Patent number: D266883
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1982
    Inventor: Peter Ackeret
  • Picture viewer
    Patent number: D270061
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1983
    Assignee: Licinvest AG
    Inventor: Peter Ackeret
  • Picture viewer
    Patent number: D270062
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1983
    Assignee: Licinvest AG
    Inventor: Peter Ackeret
  • Picture viewer
    Patent number: D270063
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1983
    Assignee: Licinvest AG
    Inventor: Peter Ackeret
  • Picture viewer
    Patent number: D270064
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1983
    Assignee: Licinvest AG
    Inventor: Peter Ackeret
  • Picture viewer
    Patent number: D270065
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1983
    Assignee: Licinvest AG
    Inventor: Peter Ackeret
  • Picture viewer
    Patent number: D270066
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1983
    Assignee: Licinvest AG
    Inventor: Peter Ackeret
  • Picture viewer
    Patent number: D270067
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1983
    Assignee: Licinvest AG
    Inventor: Peter Ackeret
  • Picture viewer
    Patent number: D270068
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1983
    Assignee: Licinvest AG
    Inventor: Peter Ackeret