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US 2014/0174016 A1Published application
Telescoping tower and legs
OwnerRonald Liborio Diniz, Jill Louise Dinizinventors
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Abstract
A telescoping tower includes a plurality of nested tower sections extendable in a telescoping direction, each of the plurality of nested tower sections having a plurality of legs that define respective heights of the plurality of nested tower sections in the telescoping direction, each of the plurality of legs slidably engaging at least one leg of at least one adjacent one of the plurality of nested tower sections along an overlap in the respective heights thereof.
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A telescoping tower comprising:
- a first tower section having a first leg extending in a telescoping direction, the first leg including first leg female and male sides extending in parallel in the telescoping direction and connected therealong by a first leg web;
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- a second tower section having a second leg extending in the telescoping direction, the second leg including a second leg female side extending in the telescoping direction, a second leg slot extending in the telescoping direction being defined in the second leg female side;
- wherein the first leg male side is slidably retained in the second leg female side with the first leg web extending through the second leg slot to support telescopic movement of the first tower section relative to the second tower section in the telescoping direction.
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A leg for a telescoping assembly, the leg comprising:
- a female side having a hollow interior extending in a telescoping direction, a leg slot extending in the telescoping direction being defined in the second leg female side and communicating with the hollow interior;
- a first male side extending in the telescoping direction in parallel with the female side;
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- a first web extending in the telescoping direction and connecting the female side and the male side.
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20-21. (canceled)
A telescoping tower comprising:
- a plurality of nested tower sections extendable in a telescoping direction, each of the plurality of nested tower sections having a plurality of legs that define respective heights of the plurality of nested tower sections in the telescoping direction, each of the plurality of legs slidably engaging at least one leg of at least one adjacent one of the plurality of nested tower sections along all of an overlap in the respective heights thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.