Patents by Inventor Ulrich Ratsch

Ulrich Ratsch 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: 11470964
    Abstract: A piece of furniture or domestic appliance includes a body, a drawer element slidably arranged in the body and having two side walls. Respective pull-out guides are arranged between the side panels and side walls of the body. Each of the pull-out guides has at least one body rail fastenable to a side wall of the body and one running rail fastenable to the side panel. The piece of furniture or domestic appliance also includes at least one functional unit, which is coupled to one of the pull-out guides. A functional unit is detachably arranged in at least one of the side walls at distance from the pull-out guide, which functional unit, in a predefined position of the drawer element relative to the body, is operatively connected to a counter-element stationarily mounted on the body or on the body rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: PAUL HETTICH GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Timo Szlapka, Sebastian Bastkowski, Thorsten Hötger, Gerrit Staufenberg, Ulrich Ratsch, Stefan Klaus
  • Patent number: 10959519
    Abstract: A method for installing a drawer and a construction kit for the displaceable mounting of a drawer element having a first and a second pullout guide, which are installable on opposing side walls, and a preinstalled device for synchronizing the movement of the movable rails of the two pullout guides using a cable pull. The side walls are preferably the side walls of furniture bodies or household appliances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thorsten Kloth, Ulrich Ratsch, Michael Lehmkuhl, Eduard Arnst, Peter Jaehrling, Sebastian Bastkowski
  • Publication number: 20210000256
    Abstract: A piece of furniture or domestic appliance includes a body, a drawer element slidably arranged in the body and having two side walls. Respective pull-out guides are arranged between the side panels and side walls of the body. Each of the pull-out guides has at least one body rail fastenable to a side wall of the body and one running rail fastenable to the side panel. The piece of furniture or domestic appliance also includes at least one functional unit, which is coupled to one of the pull-out guides. A functional unit is detachably arranged in at least one of the side walls at distance from the pull-out guide, which functional unit, in a predefined position of the drawer element relative to the body, is operatively connected to a counter-element stationarily mounted on the body or on the body rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Timo SZLAPKA, Sebastian BASTKOWSKI, Thorsten HÖTGER, Gerrit STAUFENBERG, Ulrich RATSCH
  • Publication number: 20190223594
    Abstract: A method for installing a drawer and a construction kit for the displaceable mounting of a drawer element having a first and a second pullout guide, which are installable on opposing side walls, and a preinstalled device for synchronizing the movement of the movable rails of the two pullout guides using a cable pull. The side walls are preferably the side walls of furniture bodies or household appliances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: THORSTEN KLOTH, ULRICH RATSCH, MICHAEL LEHMKUHL, EDUARD ARNST, PETER JAEHRLING, SEBASTIAN BASTKOWSKI
  • Publication number: 20110080081
    Abstract: Locking configuration of an adapter (9) or a thrust element having a pullout guide (4), which is fastened on a furniture body (2) of a piece of furniture (1) in a household appliance, the pullout guide (4) having at least one guide rail (5), which is fastened on the furniture body (2) or in the household appliance, and a slide rail (7), which is movable in the guide rail (5), and the adapter (9), the thrust element, or the slide rail (7) having at least one receptacle opening (13), and the slide rail (7), the thrust element, or the adapter (9) having a hook (18), which is insertable in the receptacle opening (13), for locking the adapter (9) or the thrust element with the slide rail (7), the receptacle opening (13) being shaped so that the hook (18) is insertable transversely to the movement direction (X) of the slide rail (7) and is subsequently displaceable in the movement direction (X) of the slide rail (7) and at least one recess (15) being provided on the adapter (9), the thrust element, or the slide rai
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: PAUL HETTICH GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Matthias KLAUSING, Ulrich Ratsch