First Slovene inventors with Patents - Feliks Lobe
Date of issue: 29.03.2023
Author: villa creativa
Motive: Feliks Lobe
Printed by: Agencija za komercijalnu djelatnost d.o.o., Zagreb, Croatia
Printing Process and Layout: 4-colour offset in miniature sheet of 1 stamp
Paper: Tullis Russell Chancellor Litho PVA RMS GUM, 102 g/m2
Size: Stamp 29.82 x 42.60 mm; miniature sheet 70 x 60 mm
Perforation: Harrow 14 : 14
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First Slovene Inventors with Patents
Feliks Lobe – Mechanical grab for lifting devices
Creativity, like innovation, is an important driver of economic and social development. For this reason, Slovenia’s Intellectual Property Office combines its core mission of protecting intellectual property rights with efforts to preserve and disseminate knowledge of Slovenia’s technical heritage. It has therefore decided to highlight the achievements of a number of Slovene inventors who obtained patents for their inventions and left a profound mark on Slovene science, helping to create Slovenia’s technical heritage with inventions that are known around theworld.
FELIKS LOBE (1894–1970) may be regarded as one of the founders of modern mechanical engineering. He invented numerous mechanisms and mechanical components while still a student, so distinguishing himself that, after graduation, he took up a post as chief design engineer at an important industrial plant in Vienna, where he designed steam, electric and diesel locomotives and trams. He obtained his first patent in 1916 for a mechanical grab for lifting devices and later obtained seven more, most of them for original solutions related to suspension and drive assemblies on electric locomotives. Before the Second World War he designed and built trams for Ljubljana’s public transport system. These continued to run until the tramway was abolished in 1958. He also did much to develop Slovene technical terminology.
Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Slovenia
Patent: Mechanical grab for lifting devices (1916)