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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 11, 1999
Frank Vernon Gates, Succasunna, NJ (US);
Daniella Ruth Rubinovitz, New York, NY (US);
Lucent Technologies, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A microcell having a plurality of antennas attached to an upper portion thereof is arranged to move along an interior of a guyed latticework tower. As the microcell is being raised, the antennas are in a stowed position within the confines of the tower structure. When the microcell reaches the top of the tower, the antennas are deployed by deploying mechanisms which utilize the vertical upward motion of the microcell to produce outwardly directed movement of the antennas to a deployed position. In the deployed position, the spacing between the antennas is greater than the distance between adjacent stanchions of the tower structure. The deploying motion is accomplished without additional driving motors, but is instead produced by the upward movement of the microcell driven by a winch and cable arrangement.