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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2016
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, Inc., Orlando, FL (US);
Wind Tower Technologies, Llc, Boulder, CO (US);
Matthew J. Chase, Windsor, CO (US);
WIND TOWER TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Boulder, CO (US);
SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY, INC., Orlando, FL (US);
Abstract
A concrete wind turbine tower segment is provided with a bearing plate formed by a plurality of individual smaller plates secured within the concrete body of the tower segment. The tower segment may include an anchor bar cage assembly made of an embedded plate with a plurality of anchor bars extending there through and through the plates. A protective sleeve may be positioned over the anchor bars. A method of forming the tower segment includes attaching the plate segments to a precision formed template ring as part of the cage assembly, pouring concrete/grout around the cage assembly against the plates, and removing the template ring to reveal a precision mate face of the bearing plate. The single large, expensive ring may be reused to form multiple tower segments.