Patents by Inventor Leo Pongratz

Leo Pongratz 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).

  • Round-handling system for a mobile weapon
    Patent number: 4448107
    Abstract: A tank turret has a forward crew compartment separated by an armored partition from a rear munitions compartment. The rounds are stored in a nonrotatable sector and are turned toward a space at the centrum of the sector at which a loading device is rotatable to extract rounds from the magazine and feed them through a hole in the partition into the breach opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1984
    Assignee: Krauss-Maffei Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ferenc Kotai, Markus Spotzl, Erich Drosen, Leo Pongratz