Patent ID: 7311213

Claim:
A crane comprising: a lower traveling body; an upper rotating body mounted on the lower traveling body, the upper rotating body having a rotating frame; a cabin provided on a left or right side of the rotating frame; a boom having a base supported in a front part of the rotating frame, the boom being raised and lowered around a pair of boom feet provided on left and right sides of the base of the boom; a gantry provided behind the boom; a plurality of spreaders disposed between the gantry and the boom, each of the spreaders having a sheave; and a winch for driving a rope extended between the sheaves, wherein the boom foot on the side of the cabin is located in a position which is a function of the width of the crane and the width of the cabin; and a center line of the boom base is located on the opposite side of a center line of the gantry from the cabin so that the distance between the boom foot on the opposite side from the cabin and the center line of the gantry is greater than the distance between the boom foot on the side of the cabin and the center line of the gantry.