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US 8,684,854 B2Granted
Suspended flying rig system
AssigneeTait Towers Manufacturing, LLC
InventorScott Fisher
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Abstract
A flying rig system includes a load guidance apparatus and at least two first positioning devices operatively connected to the load guidance apparatus to control the areal position of the load guidance apparatus within an upper portion of a working space. A second positioning device is operatively connected to the load guidance apparatus to permit selective vertical positioning of a load suspended from the load guidance apparatus substantially beneath the upper portion of the working space.
Claims21
A flying rig system comprising:
- a load guidance apparatus;
- at least two first positioning devices operatively connected to the load guidance apparatus to control the areal position of the load guidance apparatus within an upper portion of a working space;
- a second positioning device operatively connected to the load guidance apparatus to permit selective vertical positioning of a load suspended from the load guidance apparatus substantially beneath the upper portion of the working space.
A method for positioning and orienting a load within a working space comprising:
- providing a load guidance apparatus;
- connecting at least two first positioning devices to the load guidance apparatus to control the areal position of the load guidance apparatus within an upper portion of a working space;
- connecting a second positioning device to the load guidance apparatus to permit selective vertical positioning of a load suspended from the load guidance apparatus beneath the upper portion of the working space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.