Patents by Inventor Walter Babler

Walter Babler 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: 6585099
    Abstract: A lubricating device incorporated in an escalator step of an escalator or in a moving walkway plate of a moving walkway, has lubrication points formed by lubricating siding pads or brushes which are arranged at the escalator step or the moving walkway plate and which project slightly beyond the side edges of the escalator step or the moving walkway plate. The pads or brushes have a bore through which the lubricant is transferred to base plates forming lateral boundaries for the steps or plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Walter Babler, Michael Matheisl
  • Patent number: 6405848
    Abstract: In an escalator step having respective supports at each side of its underside, a first fastening is provided at an upper support end for a transport chain and a second fastening is provided at the lower support end for a guide roller. The second fastening consists of a cantilever arm and a bearing pin with a bore, which are integrated components of the escalator step, wherein the escalator step, cantilever arm, bearing pin and bore are produced as a single unitary casting. A countersunk self-tapping screw is used for fixing a guide roller bearing on the bearing pin. A washer lying under the screw presses on an outer ring of the bearing, whereby the bearing is exactly positioned against a shoulder of the bearing pin and held by the washer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventor: Walter Babler
  • Publication number: 20010045340
    Abstract: A lubricating device incorporated in an escalator step of an escalator or in a moving walkway plate of a moving walkway, has lubrication points formed by lubricating siding pads or brushes which are arranged at the escalator step or the moving walkway plate and which project slightly beyond the side edges of the escalator step or the moving walkway plate. The pads or brushes have a bore through which the lubricant is transferred to base plates forming lateral boundaries for the steps or plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2001
    Publication date: November 29, 2001
    Inventors: Walter Babler, Michael Matheisl
  • Patent number: 4726463
    Abstract: In transport installations, particularly escalators, a latent danger of jamming exists between a moving step and the stationary skirt panels mounted laterally near the steps, above all for flimsy footwear. In the escalator step according to the invention, throughout a danger zone coinciding with the precursive level run of an escalator step run, a tread edge member laterally adjacent each step is positively shifted upwards by a certain amount. In a return run of the escalator step run, this tread edge member is held by a spring force in a position lying flush with a tread surface of the step. The relative motion occurring between each step and a traction member for forming a constantly horizontally running tread surface of the step in the precursive level run of the escalator step run, results also in an angular displacement between an escalator step body of the escalator step and a cam or crank arm connected with a pivot axis of the traction member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1988
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventor: Walter Babler