Title:
WIND TURBINE ELEVATOR
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2012/155073
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A method for assembling a wind turbine includes: unloading a nacelle and hub from a truck; connecting the nacelle and hub to a carriage of an elevator in a vertical position; connecting blades to the hub, thereby forming a rotor; raising the carriage, nacelle, and rotor along a tower to a top of the tower; and pivoting the carriage, nacelle, and rotor to a horizontal position at the top of the tower.
Inventors:
DAVIS DANIEL E (US)
Application Number:
PCT/US2012/037587
Publication Date:
January 17, 2013
Filing Date:
May 11, 2012
Export Citation:
Assignee:
DAVIS DANIEL E (US)
International Classes:
F03D11/00; B66C23/18; E04H12/00; E04H12/34; F03D11/04
Domestic Patent References:
| WO2010120712A1 | 2010-10-21 |
Foreign References:
| US6888264B1 | 2005-05-03 | |||
| US20020084142A1 | 2002-07-04 | |||
| US4311434A | 1982-01-19 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
PATTERSON, William B. et al. (LLP3040 Post Oak Blvd., Suite 150, Houston Texas, US)
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