Patents by Inventor Werner Muhlich

Werner Muhlich 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).

  • C-axle gearing
    Patent number: 5048360
    Abstract: A gearing system for a lathe is shiftable from a first position, in which conical gear wheels (16, 25, 26, 36) engage each other with play, to a second position, in which the wheels engage each other without play. Reduced wear is achieved in the first position. High precision is achieved in the second position. Preferably, the system also has parallel-toothed gear wheels (15, 24, 35) which are engaged when the conical gear wheels are disengaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: Boehringer Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Siegfried Kuhn, Werner Muhlich, Robert Rader, Otmar Ritz, Hermann Schulten, Manfred Unruh
  • Machine bed
    Patent number: 4662253
    Abstract: A machine bed for machine tools having two guides lying in separate planes each having two guide ways, namely an approximately horizontal main guide and an additional guide at an angle thereto, in which at least the guide ways of the main guide lie on intersecting tangents or parallels thereof, of a circle whose center is the same as the workpiece and/or tool center of rotation of the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1987
    Assignee: Oerlikon-Boehringer GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Gloser, Siegfried Kuhn, Robert Rader, Friedhelm Setzer, Hermann Kienhofer, Werner Muhlich