Portable wildlife observation and hunting tower
OwnerKelvin McKayinventor
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Abstract
A portable tower apparatus, convertible between a lowered transport configuration and a raised observation configuration, useful for observing wildlife and hunting, comprising an elongate main member that functions as the main structural element of a trailer assembly when the apparatus in deployed in the lowered transport configuration, and the main structural element of a freestanding tower, when the apparatus is deployed in the raised observation configuration. The apparatus is deployed in the raised tower configuration by tipping the main member up, so that the base members, attached to one end thereof, rest on the ground, attaching the platform to the other end of the main member, and attaching the brace, which is also a ladder, to the platform.
Claims16
A portable tower apparatus, convertible between a lowered transport configuration and a raised observation configuration, said apparatus comprising:
- (a) an elongate main member:
- (i) oriented substantially vertically when the apparatus is in the raised observation configuration;
- and
- (ii) oriented substantially horizontally when the apparatus is in the lowered transport configuration;
- (b) a plurality of base members attached at proximal ends thereof to a first end of the main member, said base members extending outward from a longitudinal axis of the main member;
- (c) a platform:
- (i) attached, when the apparatus is in the raised observation configuration, to a second end of the main member such that a top surface of the platform is oriented substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the main member;
- and
- (ii) attached, when the apparatus is in the lowered transport configuration, to the main member;
- (d) a brace:
- (i) attached, when the apparatus is in the raised observation configuration, to the platform such that the brace extends from the platform downward and away from the main member to the ground and such that a lower end of the brace rests on the ground;
- and
- (ii) attached, when the apparatus is in the lowered transport configuration, to the main member;
- (e) at least one wheel attached to the apparatus, when the apparatus is in the lower transport configuration, so as to support the apparatus for movement along the ground.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.