Patents by Inventor Wilhelm Junker

Wilhelm Junker 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: 6022168
    Abstract: An apparatus permits guiding barriers resting on a street surface in the form of a track to be laterally shifted. The apparatus is fastened to a vehicle, and is moved along, together with the vehicle, in the longitudinal direction of the guiding barriers. The apparatus includes a guideway which has a curved portion extending behind the vehicle, such that a front portion of the guideway is laterally offset from a trailing portion thereof. The guideway has a generally U-shaped cross-section, upright legs of which guide the sides of the guiding barriers passing therethrough. A blade, disposed at the front end of the guideway, initially moves under the first guiding barrier. The first guiding barrier and the subsequent barriers constituting the track are pushed over the guideway, into a position which is offset laterally to the original position, and placed down again on the surface of the street.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Inventor: Wilhelm Junker
  • Patent number: 6019543
    Abstract: A foot for a traffic beacon, serving as routing device for road traffic, is proposed. At its lower end, the traffic beacon is coupled detachably with the foot. The traffic beacon, at least in its lower part, consists of a soft, elastic material and, at its lower edge, has a laterally protruding flange, which engages appropriately shaped recesses in the foot. These recesses are formed by clamping jaws, which can be bolted to a foot plate and, in each case, have a horizontal, inwardly protruding cross member. Nubs, protruding at the underside of the clamping jaws, press into the soft elastic material of the flange when the screws are tightened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Inventor: Wilhelm Junker
  • Patent number: 5933095
    Abstract: A traffic beacon, which can be used as a guiding device, particularly for street traffic, has a top member which is provided with warning or informative signs. The top member flips over when a vehicle drives over it. The lower end of the top member is connected via a tilting joint to a foot plate or directly to the street surface. Each tilting joint is provided with a spring-loaded locking device, a first stop holding the top member in the vertical position and a second stop serving as a locking device for the top member in a prone position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Inventor: Wilhelm Junker
  • Patent number: 5678950
    Abstract: The invention is concerned with producing a visual guiding effect for guide walls which are difficult to see particularly at dusk and in the dark. According to the invention, the guide arrangement comprises a holder which is to be mounted on the guide wall and is provided with a retaining arm, which is elastically resilient at least in the horizontal direction, and a guide member which is mounted on the retaining arm by a coupling device and is provided on at least one side with a guide face which is clearly visible even in conditions of poor visibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1997
    Inventor: Wilhelm Junker
  • Patent number: 5670954
    Abstract: A traffic beacon apparatus has an upper portion comprising a panel member which is attached in an upright position by coupling member to base pedestal. The coupling member is a hollow shell structure formed of an elastic material. The panel member attaches to a top of the coupling member by bolts and barbed projections which are inserted into slots in the top of the coupling member. The coupling member has a flange along a lower perimeter thereof which couples with the base pedestal. The elastic material of the coupling member is more flexible than the panel member which is formed from a relatively stiff material. Apertures are formed in opposing sides of the coupling member to define a bending portion. Sides of the coupling member disposed between the apertures flex and bend when the traffic beacon is struck by a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1997
    Inventor: Wilhelm Junker
  • Patent number: 5630676
    Abstract: A marker bump for placement on a traffic lane, particularly for marking a traffic lane when the course of traffic is changed at construction sites or the like, comprises links, joined in an articulated manner with one another to form a link chain and preferably having a warning color on their upper side. The links are connected with one another over a connecting link, which in each case is hinged on its own pin to the adjacent link. The two links, which are to be joined to one another, in each case having a recess for accommodating the connecting link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1997
    Inventor: Wilhelm Junker
  • Patent number: 5527127
    Abstract: The traffic barrier used in guidance installations has a longitudinal shape and on its upper surface a first part of a coupling device. A second part is provided on a guide body coupling the same to the traffic barrier. On each end the traffic barrier is provided with parts divided from a further coupling device so that the traffic barrier can be coupled to a neighboring traffic barrier in a longitudinal direction. The traffic barrier has a cross-section wherein the outline of the side walls and the upper wall is contiguous with a circumferential curve being at least almost constant in its outline and being substantially convex in its outline but can extend linearly in a side wall area which is adjacent an under side of the barrier until encountering a point of contact of a tangent in the convex area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Inventor: Wilhelm Junker
  • Patent number: 5168827
    Abstract: The signaling device (20) has a signaling body (21) and a holding device (22). The signaling body (21) is designed as a cornet-like hollow body which has four wall regions (24; 27) adjoining one another in the circumferential direction, of which two diametrically opposite wall regions (24) form the wide sides of the signaling body (21) and of which the other two likewise diametrically opposite wall regions (27) form the narrow sides of the signaling body (21). The wall regions (27) on the narrow side have the form of a conical shell. The wall regions (24) on the wide side are preferably flat. Between the signaling body (21) and the holding device (22) there is a coupling device (23). The wall regions (27) on the narrow side have above the foot (28) of the signaling body (21) in each case a recess (33; 34), which has a certain height and which extends in the circumferential direction up to the transitional point with the neighboring wall region (24) on the wide side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1992
    Inventor: Wilhelm Junker
  • Patent number: 4799448
    Abstract: In a portable traffic marker, the footplate has on its upper side a recess of rectangular or square outline in which the post is inserted. On the post either a portable traffic marker plate is fixed or a portable traffic marker body is fitted. The post has an M profile, the two mutually parallel side segments of which have the same length as each other, which is at least approximately the same as the inside diameter of the recess in the footplate. The two middle segments of the M profile are likewise of the same length and extend from the point of connection with the respective neighboring side segment at least approximately up to the middle of the line joining the free ends of the two side segments of the M profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1989
    Inventor: Wilhelm Junker