Transporting tool for tower sections of a wind turbine
AssigneeGamesa Innovation & Technolgy, S.L.
InventorsCristina Delgado Matarranz, Diego Rueda Alzugaray, Jesús Urbiola Martínez
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Abstract
A transporting tool for tower transporting sections of wind turbine tower by railway, road and sea transport vehicles that includes a lower module, with bottom clamps and an upper module, with upper clamps, chocks mounted to the tower module, and fastening elements that combined allow anchoring the tower section, for transport.
Claims9
A transporting tool for tower sections of a wind turbine tower, for road, railway and sea transport means, the transporting tool including modular parts made up by modules with upper clamps and bottom clamps to be fixed to a flange of a tower section to be transported, chocks, and fastening elements that combined allow anchoring the tower section to a transport means,
- the modules comprising a lower module and an upper module, the bottom clamps and the chocks being mounted to the lower module, the upper module comprising the fastening elements for fastening the upper module to a further lower module to be placed on the upper module for anchoring a further tower section in a lifted position, the lower module and the further lower module being identical, wherein
- the upper clamps are mounted to the upper module;
- the lower module is made up of a plate with inner structural profiles and outer structural profiles welded to the plate and joined together by transport profiles;
- a height adjustment system is positioned between the inner structural profiles and comprises a height adjustable clamp;
- the bottom clamps are mounted to the height adjustable clamp;
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- said plate of the lower module has parts for incorporating the fastening elements of the upper module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.