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US 2021/0010461 A1Published application
Movement and positioning adaptor for handling root-ring of wind turbine blade
AssigneeTPI Composites, Inc.
InventorsÖzer Onurlu, Furkan Ünal
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Abstract
A method of handling a wind turbine blade comprising: providing a forklift adaptor, the forklift adaptor including a base and an endwall, coupling the base of the forklift adaptor to at least one tine of a forklift placing a root handling apparatus within a root ring of a wind turbine blade, the root handling apparatus including a plurality of struts and at least one tension rod, and actuating the at least one tension rod to engage a surface of the root ring.
Claims20
A wind turbine blade handling system comprising:
- a forklift adaptor, the forklift adaptor including a base and an endwall, the base configured to engage at least one tine of a forklift;
- a root handling apparatus, the root handling apparatus including a plurality of struts;
- at least one tension rod, the at least one tension rod coupled to the at least one strut;
- wherein at least a portion of the root handling apparatus and at least one tension rod is configured to be disposed within a root ring.
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A method of handling a wind turbine blade comprising:
- providing a forklift adaptor, the forklift adaptor including a base and an endwall,
- coupling the base of the forklift adaptor to at least one tine of a forklift;
- placing a root handling apparatus within a root ring of a wind turbine blade, the root handling apparatus including a plurality of struts and at least one tension rod, and
- actuating the at least one tension rod to engage a surface of the root ring.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.