Modular antenna pole

A modular antenna pole comprising:

• a series of aligned cylindrical sections of upwardly decreasing diameters, each of said sections including a top portion and a bottom portion;
• a top circular flange and a bottom circular flange attached to said top portion and said bottom portion, respectively, of each of said sections, said top and bottom flanges including a plurality of complementally spaced mating bores to permit a top flange of a lower section to be bolted to a bottom flange of a higher adjacent section so that said bottom flange rests on said top flange;
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• a plurality of stop members disposed within said top portion of each of said sections adjacent said mating bores, said stop members constituting means for preventing rotation of attachment bolts positioned upwardly in said mating bores for securing adjacent sections to each other, so that a nut can be threaded onto each of the attachment bolts and tightened without rotating the attachment bolts.

A modular antenna pole comprising:

• a series of aligned cylindrical sections of upwardly decreasing diameters, adjacent sections of said series each including a top circular flange and a bottom circular flange, each of said sections including an outer circumferential surface and top and bottom transverse surfaces, said top flange being secured to the top transverse surfaces of each section, said bottom flange being secured to the bottom transverse surfaces of each section and extending radially outwardly from said outer circumferential surface so that a bottom flange of a higher section rests on a top flange of a lower section, said top and bottom flanges including a plurality of complementally spaced mating bores so that adjacent sections can be bolted together;
• a retention member for securing a bolt in each of said mating bores, each of the bolts being disposed so that the heads of the bolts are disposed inside the upper portion of each of said sections, and wherein each of said mating bores in said top flanges includes a downwardly facing counterbore sized to receive said retention member so that each of said bottom flanges rests flush on the top flange of an adjacent section;
• each of said top flanges including one or more secondary bores adjacent said mating bores;
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• stop pins frictionally disposed within said secondary bores so that a portion of said stop pins protrudes through said top flanges adjacent the heads of the bolts in a position to contact the heads of the bolts to thereby prevent rotation of the bolts upon application of a nut to each of the bolts.

A modular antenna pole comprising:

• a series of aligned cylindrical sections of upwardly decreasing diameters;
• a top circular flange and a bottom circular flange attached to the top portion and bottom portion, respectively, of each of said sections, said top and bottom flanges including a plurality of complementally spaced mating bores to permit a top flange of a lower section to be bolted to a bottom flange of a higher adjacent section;
• each of said top flanges including one or more secondary bores adjacent said mating bores;
• and
• a plurality of stop pins frictionally disposed within said secondary bores and protruding from the downwardly facing portion of said top flanges, said stop pins for preventing rotation of attachment bolts positioned in said mating bores for securing adjacent sections to each other, a portion of said stop pin protruding through said top flanges in a position to contact the head of the attachment bolt, so that a nut can be threaded onto each of the attachment bolts and tightened without rotating the attachment bolts.