Deployable Mobile Tower With Telescopic Outriggers for Wind Stability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mobile towers are bulky, heavy, and difficult to transport to remote locations, requiring extensive time for deployment and often cannot support payloads or withstand wind loads, with internal components lacking protection from environmental factors.
Innovation Solution
A mobile tower system featuring an extendable and retractable design secured to a trailer with rapidly deployable outriggers and a rigging apparatus, including guy wires for stabilization, allowing for rapid deployment and stabilization at remote sites, with telescopically expandable outriggers and a compact transportation configuration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If existing mobile towers are designed to be stable and support payloads, then they can withstand wind loads and support equipment, but they become bulky, heavy and challenging to transport
Solution Approach 1:
The tower is divided into multiple telescopic sections that can be nested within each other during transport, reducing the overall size and weight for mobility while maintaining full structural strength when deployed. The outriggers are also segmented into telescopic sections that can be compacted for transport and extended for stabilization.
Solution Approach 2:
The tower sections are designed to nest within each other like dolls, with smaller sections fitting inside larger ones. This nesting arrangement dramatically reduces the transport footprint and effective weight during mobility while preserving the complete tower structure's load-bearing capacity when assembled.
2Strength
If existing mobile towers are designed to be stable, then they can support payloads and withstand wind loads, but they require extensive time for deployment (1-2 hours or longer)
Solution Approach 1:
The tower and outriggers are pre-assembled into integrated units with all components in their operational positions before transport. The outriggers are pre-positioned in a compact configuration that allows for rapid deployment without requiring complex assembly steps, enabling quick transition from transport to operational state.
Solution Approach 2:
The tower incorporates dynamic telescopic mechanisms that allow sections to extend and retract smoothly and quickly. The outriggers feature telescopic sections that can be rapidly extended and locked into position, dramatically reducing the time required to achieve a stable, payload-supporting configuration compared to traditional static tower designs.
3Ease of operation
If existing mobile towers are designed for remote deployment, then they can reach remote locations, but they lack protection for internal mechanical and electrical components from environmental factors
Solution Approach 1:
The tower incorporates protective enclosures and weather-resistant coverings that shield internal mechanical and electrical components from environmental factors such as moisture, dust, and extreme temperatures. These protective elements are designed to be integrated into the telescopic structure, maintaining compactness during transport while providing comprehensive protection when deployed in remote locations.
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AI summary
A mobile tower for transportation to and rapid deployment at remote sites where the mobile tower can be engaged with the ground, the mobile tower including an extendable and retractable tower secured to a mobile support structure including a frame having a plurality of rapidly deployable outriggers, wherein the tower includes three series of pivotally interconnected tower sections or segments, sections or segments of which engage with segments of each of the other series when the tower is assembled; the mobile tower including a plurality of guy wires secured between the extendable and retractable tower and the respective outriggers to stabilize the tower after the tower is assembled. The guy wires are preferably secured to the extendable and retractable tower at first and second connecting positions that are displaced from one another about an outer perimeter. Methods of deploying the mobile tower are also disclosed.