US 12,006,647 B2
High stiffness relocatable tower
Terrence K. Jones, Sharon, MA (US); Ethan Bushberg Skutt, Ithaca, NY (US); and Shea Thomas Nelson, Somerville, MA (US)
Assigned to MultiSensor Scientific, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US)
Filed by MultiSensor Scientific, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US)
Filed on Apr. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/733,004.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/313,173, filed on Feb. 23, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0265636 A1, Aug. 24, 2023
Int. Cl. E02D 27/42 (2006.01); E04H 12/10 (2006.01); E04H 12/20 (2006.01); E04H 12/34 (2006.01)
CPC E02D 27/42 (2013.01) [E04H 12/20 (2013.01); E04H 12/345 (2013.01); E02D 2220/00 (2013.01); E04H 12/10 (2013.01)] 28 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A relocatable and ballast-agnostic tower base for providing a foundation to raise and support a vertical mast, the tower base comprising:
a base plate for connecting to the vertical mast;
a plurality of legs, each leg of the plurality of legs connected to and extending outward from the base plate, toward a corresponding ballast location; and
a plurality of ballast adaptors, each particular ballast adaptor of the plurality of ballast adaptors (i) associated with and connected to a particular leg of the plurality of legs at the corresponding ballast location and (ii) securable to a ballast weight, wherein each particular ballast adaptor of the plurality of ballast adaptors comprises:
a ballast rail connectable to a ballast weight;
a ballast mount; and
a leg mount,
wherein:
the ballast mount is secured to the leg mount and comprises a first passage oriented along a first axis, through which the ballast rail passes, and
the leg mount comprises a second passage oriented along a second axis, through which the particular leg with which the particular ballast adaptor is associated passes,
thereby securing the ballast rail of the particular ballast adaptor to the particular leg with which it is associated, with the ballast rail aligned along the first axis and the particular leg aligned along the second axis.