Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Transport frame for a wind turbine blade
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Application No.: US16067200Application Date: 2016-12-28
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Publication No.: US10954920B2Publication Date: 2021-03-23
- Inventor: Adrian Botwright , Michael Kastrup , Troels Vahle , Jacob Antonsen , Kristoffer Lolk Fredriksen
- Applicant: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- Applicant Address: DK Aarhus N.
- Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- Current Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- Current Assignee Address: DK Aarhus N.
- Agency: Wood Herron & Evans LLP
- Priority: GB1523125 20151230
- International Application: PCT/DK2016/050472 WO 20161228
- International Announcement: WO2017/114536 WO 20170706
- Main IPC: F03D13/40
- IPC: F03D13/40 ; B65D85/64 ; B60P3/40 ; B65D88/12 ; B65D85/62 ; B61D3/16

Abstract:
Transport frame and method; the transport frame having a longitudinal, lateral and upright extent, and configured for transporting a root end or tip portion of a longitudinally extending wind turbine blade, the frame being stackable with similar frames, the frame having four top shoulders and four feet, the feet of the frame being conformed to be stackable on corresponding shoulders of another similar frame, wherein each shoulder is provided with a locating finger, each finger having a height above the shoulder, and wherein each foot is provided with a recess conformed to receive a locating finger, and wherein a first locating finger has a height greater than each of the three remaining locating fingers.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190024636A1 TRANSPORT FRAME FOR A WIND TURBINE BLADE Public/Granted day:2019-01-24
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