Patents by Inventor Peter J. Loeber

Peter J. Loeber 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: 5544020
    Abstract: A chart recorder or other instrument has a window 10 within which is a key panel 1 composed of materials which are transparent in normal conditions. Incorporated in or associated with the individual elements of the key panel are display elements 22 applied to the transparent window material 20. The display elements are normally transparent but become visible, for example by fluorescence, when illuminated by radiation transmitted through the body of the transparent window material 20, rendering the key panel visible when needed for use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1996
    Assignee: Eurotherm Recorders Limited
    Inventors: Peter J. Loeber, Peter W. Hurst, deceased, George R. Hurst, legal representative
  • Patent number: 5046378
    Abstract: A gear arrangement includes a first gear wheel 10 having a section 12 with missing teeth. A second gear wheel 14 is arranged to mesh with the first gear wheel 10. The first tooth 16 on the first gear wheel 10 to engage with the second gear wheel 14 (following the missing teeth section 12) is resiliently movable inwardly within a radial slot 18 to withdraw when engaging an opposing tooth 22. A spring 20 urges the tooth 16 outwardly to one side of the opposing tooth 22 and into a gap on that side of the opposing tooth 22, so as to align the first and second gear wheels. Such a gear arrangement has particular use in a geared value setting mechanism provided on a print drum shaft of a postage meter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1991
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: Ray L. Bannister, Frederick C. Close, Peter J. Loeber
  • Patent number: 5024153
    Abstract: A print drum for a postage meter has a drum structure provided with a plurality of recesses in its periphery. One of these recesses accommodates a print wheel assembly and at least some of the other recesses are provided with axially extending means whereby imprinting dies can be slid in and out. The movement in and out of the recesses is in a direction substantially parallel to the rotation axis of the print drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1991
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond L. Bannister, Frederick C. Close, Peter J. Loeber
  • Patent number: 4985613
    Abstract: A locking arrangement is disclosed for a machine, such as a postage meter, which includes a rotatable member (12) which rotates when the machine performs an operating cycle and a mechanical or electromechanical register (22; 20) for being incremented or decremented in response to operation of the machine. The arrangement includes a clutch (24) arranged between a fixed structure or member (28) and the rotatable member (12) the clutch being operable to engage or release said fixed structure or member. Means (60; 78) are associated with the registers (22; 20) for actuating the clutch to prevent rotation of the rotatable member (12) when the register displays a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1991
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Lytra, Peter J. Loeber, Barry Simkins
  • Patent number: 4910392
    Abstract: A counter mechanism for a postage meter includes a number of sections each having a number wheel (14) repesenting the respective order of accounted value, transfer mechanisms in the form of Geneva gears connecting the number wheels (14) to provide carry-over movements between adjacent sections. A ratchet mechanism is provided in the number wheel (14) to allow rotation of the number drum (16) as a result of an account input from the postage meter, even when a carry movement gear (18) of the number wheel (14) is locked by the Geneva gear. The ratchet mechanism includes an internally-profiled surface on one part (16) having ratchet steps (70) separated by portions (76) of relatively low gradient. Projections (74) are provided on a central member (72) of another part (18), the projections extending substantially tangential to the internally-profiled surface so as to engage in the ratchet steps (70) in the event of attempted rotation in one direction and to stop such rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1990
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes plc
    Inventors: Ray L. Bannister, Frederick C. Close, Peter J. Loeber
  • Patent number: 4841858
    Abstract: An impression roller assembly including an ejector roller for a postage meter or like machine includes a first member pivotable about a substantially horizontal axis, an impression roller carried at or towards the free end of the first member, a second member pivotable relative to the first member about an axis co-incident with the rotation axis of the first impression roller, an ejector roller mounted at or towards the free end of the second member, and means for driving the ejector roller. In use, rotation of the impression roller by the drive of the machine directly or indirectly causes rotation of an ejector roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1989
    Inventors: Ray L. Bannister, Frederick C. Close, Peter J. Loeber