Patents by Inventor Karl Leitner

Karl Leitner 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: 12290843
    Abstract: Method and sorting system for sorting out waste glass cullet with a higher content of iron oxide from a single-layer material stream of waste glass cullet. The material stream contains waste glass cullet with a higher and a lower content of iron oxide. The material stream is irradiated with visible light and the visible transmission light passing through the waste glass cullet is detected, the material stream is irradiated with infrared light in a frequency range of at least 1100-1200 nm and the infrared transmission light passing through the waste glass cullet is detected, a waste glass cullet is classified as having a higher content of iron oxide if the ratio of the intensity of the infrared transmission light to the intensity of the visible transmission light exceeds or falls below a predetermined threshold value, and the cullet classified in this way is separated from other waste glass cullet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: BINDER + CO AG
    Inventor: Karl Leitner
  • Publication number: 20250083192
    Abstract: Method and sorting system for sorting out waste glass cullet with a higher content of iron oxide from a single-layer material stream of waste glass cullet. The material stream contains waste glass cullet with a higher and a lower content of iron oxide. The material stream is irradiated with visible light and the visible transmission light passing through the waste glass cullet is detected, the material stream is irradiated with infrared light in a frequency range of at least 1100-1200 nm and the infrared transmission light passing through the waste glass cullet is detected, a waste glass cullet is classified as having a higher content of iron oxide if the ratio of the intensity of the infrared transmission light to the intensity of the visible transmission light exceeds or falls below a predetermined threshold value, and the cullet classified in this way is separated from other waste glass cullet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: BINDER + CO AG
    Inventor: Karl LEITNER
  • Publication number: 20210001934
    Abstract: Crawled vehicle for the preparation of ski pistes; the crawled vehicle comprising a frame; two wheels assemblies displaced at opposite side with respect to the frame; two crawls, each of them wounded respectively around to one of the two wheels assemblies; and at least one supporting device, for each wheels assemblies, coupled to at least two wheels of the wheel assembly and connected in an articulated jointed manner to the frame for coupling the at least two wheels of the wheels assembly to the frame; wherein the supporting device has a first supporting element, which supports one of the at least two wheels of the wheels assembly; and a second supporting element, which supports another of the two wheels of the wheels assembly; and wherein the first supporting element and the second supporting element are connected to one another through a first articulated joint in a first point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Karl Leitner, Gregor Maurer
  • Patent number: 8803020
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for detecting leaded pieces of glass in a single-layer material flow of objects composed predominantly of waste glass, with the objects being irradiated with substantially monochromatic UV light (3) and the fluorescent light resulting therefrom being detected. It is provided therein that the object is additionally irradiated with visible or infrared light (4); the transmission light of the visible or infrared light (4) is detected after the passage through the object; and an object is defined as containing lead if both the fluorescent light for at least one predetermined wavelength range corresponding to the fluorescence of leaded glasses is present in a predetermined intensity range and also transmission light in a predetermined intensity range with an intensity of larger zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Binder + Co AG
    Inventors: Reinhold Huber, Karl Leitner
  • Publication number: 20120145607
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for detecting leaded pieces of glass in a single-layer material flow of objects composed predominantly of waste glass, with the objects being irradiated with substantially monochromatic UV light (3) and the fluorescent light resulting therefrom being detected. It is provided therein that the object is additionally irradiated with visible or infrared light (4); the transmission light of the visible or infrared light (4) is detected after the passage through the object; and an object is defined as containing lead if both the fluorescent light for at least one predetermined wavelength range corresponding to the fluorescence of leaded glasses is present in a predetermined intensity range and also transmission light in a predetermined intensity range with an intensity of larger zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: BINDER + CO AG
    Inventors: Reinhold Huber, Karl Leitner
  • Patent number: 7530547
    Abstract: A cable winch arrangement for a vehicle (1), particularly for a piste preparation vehicle (1), includes a cable winch (2) and a cable (3), and includes a coupling device (4), disposed on the cable (3), for coupling to and decoupling from an external anchorage point (5), with the arrangement having a means for remote-controlled coupling and/or decoupling of the coupling device (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Prinoth A.G.
    Inventors: Karl Leitner, Martin Runggaldier
  • Publication number: 20050279980
    Abstract: Cable winch arrangement for a vehicle (1), particularly for a piste preparation vehicle (1), said cable winch arrangement comprising a cable winch (2) and a cable (3), and comprising a coupling device (4), disposed on the cable (3), for coupling to and decoupling from an external anchorage point (5), the arrangement having a means for remote-controlled coupling and/or decoupling of the coupling device (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Inventors: Karl Leitner, Martin Runggaldier