Patents by Inventor Steven A. Wheeler

Steven A. Wheeler 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: 6742787
    Abstract: This device is a trailer hitched to an atv or off road vehicle to haul cargo over an uneven or rough terrain. The trailer has a frame of steel tubing, a main axle, low pressure tires, trailer cargo box. The axle is comprised of a plurality of wheels rotatable about an axes that are fixed with respect to a cluster arm where cluster arm itself is rotated about an axis so that the wheels will rotate or climb over uneven terrain. The cargo box is constructed of a plastic composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Inventor: Steven A. Wheeler
  • Patent number: 4793418
    Abstract: An offshore marine structure and method, which structure includes a leg supported deck which holds hydrocarbon fluid processing equipment above the water's surface, and includes vertically aligned conductor guides. A self supporting fluid separator is positioned in said marine structure to receive a multi-phase stream of a hydrocarbon fluid from one or more wells. An upper segment of the fluid separator is slidably registered in vertically aligned conductor guides. A lower segment of the separator is embedded in the sea floor and operably engaged with said upper segment. A conductor riser is adjacently positioned by conductor guides in the marine structure to receive hydrocarbon liquid from the fluid separator. Discrete liquid, and combined vaporous flows are then conducted to the processing equipment for further handling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1988
    Assignee: Texaco Limited
    Inventors: Steven A. Wheeler, Mark E. Taylor
  • Patent number: 4519727
    Abstract: A well head protector for a well which is located at the floor of an offshore body of water. The protector includes a plurality of discrete sub-assemblies which, for installation purposes, are initially transported to a drilling vessel and positioned above the well head. The sub-assemblies are sequentially lowered from the vessel deck and assembled above the water surface into a composite unit. The completed unit is guidably lowered by the vessel's drilling derrick to its position surrounding the well head. The deflecting elements are then lowered into place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1985
    Assignee: Texaco Limited
    Inventors: Stewart D. Mitchell, Steven A. Wheeler
  • Patent number: 4519726
    Abstract: Riser for an offshore marine platform which includes facilities to receive, treat, and/or store hydrocarbon fluid from a plurality of dispersed submerged wells. The riser includes means to accommodate a plurality of conduits between the platform deck and the floor of the body of water. As a rigid, or non-rigid conduit is pulled downwardly through the riser, it engages a deflecting shoe. The latter deflects the pulled conduit into a direction away from the platform and along the ocean floor, whereby it can readily engage a pipeline, or attach to one of the dispersed wells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1985
    Assignee: Texaco Limited
    Inventors: John P. Knowles, Steven A. Wheeler, Stewart D. Mitchell