Patents by Inventor Steve BOUCHARD

Steve BOUCHARD 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).

  • Shoe derailment device for bridge crane and method of use
    Patent number: 10471832
    Abstract: The shoe derailment device for use in derailing a conductor shoe assembly of a bridge crane from a conductor rail assembly generally has a wedge head provided at a longitudinal end of a body made of an electrically insulating material, the shoe derailment device being securable to the conductor rail assembly in a derailment position in which the shoe derailment device is positioned outside an operating zone of the bridge crane, with the wedge head facing the operating zone in a manner that if the conductor shoe assembly is moved outside the operating zone, into the area occupied by the shoe derailment device, the conductor shoe assembly is derailed from the conductor rail assembly as the conductor shoe assembly engages the wedge head and is maintained in a derailed state by the electrically insulating material when the conductor shoe assembly is engaged with the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: FIVES SERVICES INC.
    Inventors: Steve Bouchard, Yan St-Pierre, Martin Bordeleau
  • SHOE DERAILMENT DEVICE FOR BRIDGE CRANEAND METHOD OF USE
    Publication number: 20180029476
    Abstract: The shoe derailment device for use in derailing a conductor shoe assembly of a bridge crane from a conductor rail assembly generally has a wedge head provided at a longitudinal end of a body made of an electrically insulating material, the shoe derailment device being securable to the conductor rail assembly in a derailment position in which the shoe derailment device is positioned outside an operating zone of the bridge crane, with the wedge head facing the operating zone in a manner that if the conductor shoe assembly is moved outside the operating zone, into the area occupied by the shoe derailment device, the conductor shoe assembly is derailed from the conductor rail assembly as the conductor shoe assembly engages the wedge head and is maintained in a derailed state by the electrically insulating material when the conductor shoe assembly is engaged with the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Steve BOUCHARD, Yan ST-PIERRE, Martin BORDELEAU