Patents by Inventor Donald W. Schaper

Donald W. Schaper 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: 4747745
    Abstract: A self-mobile gantry frame has disposed thereon a trolley suspending a load lifting frame. The load lifting frame is stabilized against sway in a direction perpendicular to the gantry beam by a stabilizing beam selectively engageable with the load lifting frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1988
    Assignee: Marathon LeTourneau Company
    Inventors: Harvey J. Pippen, Donald W. Schaper
  • Patent number: 4273242
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for stabilizing against sway a body suspended by cables from an overhead support. The apparatus includes first and second opposed rigid stabilizing members pivotally connected at their lower ends to the body, guides carried by the overhead support for guiding the upper ends of the stabilizing members for pivotal and longitudinal movement relative to the overhead support and force transmission means interconnecting the stabilizing members for transmitting forces therebetween so as to generate substantially equal and opposed forces for stabilizing the body against sway, without interfering with the raising and lowering of the body by the suspension cables. This abstract is not to be construed in any way to define or limit the invention set forth below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Marathon LeTourneau Company
    Inventor: Donald W. Schaper