Patents by Inventor Siegfried Gerber

Siegfried Gerber 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).

  • Specimen holder for microscopes
    Patent number: 4490025
    Abstract: Two embodiments of a holder for standard specimen slides are disclosed which permit the use of only one hand when changing specimens and are characterized by simplicity in construction.In the first embodiment, the holder has a spring band (7) which is bent convexly towards the specimen slide (5) and clamps the slide against front-edge stops (2, 3, 4).In the second embodiment, the holder has a resiliently supported turnable disc (20) against the outer circumference of which the narrow side of the specimen slide (15) strikes tangentially upon the insertion. The disc (20) clamps the specimen slide (15) against the front-edge stop (12, 13, 14) after passing by it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1984
    Assignee: Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung, Heidenheim
    Inventors: Klaus Weber, Siegfried Gerber, Horst Fischer