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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 1989
Filed:
Apr. 07, 1988
Henry J McGinnis, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Rapid Deployment Towers, Inc., Azle, TX (US);
Abstract
An extensible mast is shown which is erected from a portable base having a plurality of tape reels mounted thereon. The tape reels are angularly oriented on the base with respect to a common, vertical axis, and each of the tape reels is adapted to receive a resilient metal tape having longitudinal edges for winding and unwinding the tape. A plurality of guide rollers on the base receive the respective longitudinal edges of the metal tapes and orient the tapes whereby the tapes are fed upwardly in plane parallel to the vertical axis and at an angle to each other to form a rigid structure. A geared winding mechanism is located above the guide rollers and includes a plurality of rotatable windings which rotate about the vertical axis and wrap and wrap material about the rigid structure to reinforce the structure as it is being erected.
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