Patents by Inventor Robert Butzen

Robert Butzen 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: 20060249554
    Abstract: Power tools, nailers and strips of fasteners. In some aspects and in some constructions, the invention may provide a power tool including a housing, a deflector selectively movable relative to the housing between a first position, in which the deflector deflects fluid in a first direction, and a second position, in which the deflector deflects fluid in a second direction. In some aspects and in some constructions, the invention may provide a nailer including a magazine operable to support a strip of fasteners in an orientation therein, the magazine defining an insertion opening therein through which the strip of fasteners is insertable into the magazine, the insertion opening having a configuration, the strip of fasteners having a configuration complementary to the configuration of the insertion opening, the strip of fasteners insertable into the magazine only when the strip of fasteners is in the orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert Butzen, Gary Meyer, Richard Jungmann, Melissa Ottens-Rendon, Roger Neitzell
  • Publication number: 20050001007
    Abstract: Power tools, nailers and strips of fasteners. In some aspects and in some constructions, the invention may provide a power tool including a housing, a deflector selectively movable relative to the housing between a first position, in which the deflector deflects fluid in a first direction, and a second position, in which the deflector deflects fluid in a second direction. In some aspects and in some constructions, the invention may provide a nailer including a magazine operable to support a strip of fasteners in an orientation therein, the magazine defining an insertion opening therein through which the strip of fasteners is insertable into the magazine, the insertion opening having a configuration, the strip of fasteners having a configuration complementary to the configuration of the insertion opening, the strip of fasteners insertable into the magazine only when the strip of fasteners is in the orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2004
    Publication date: January 6, 2005
    Inventors: Robert Butzen, Gary Meyer, Richard Jungmann, Melissa Ottens-Rendon, Roger Neitzell