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Telescoping mast with integral payload

  • US 5,615,855 A
  • Filed: 12/09/1994
  • Issued: 04/01/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/07/1991
  • Status: Expired
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1. In a telescoping mast assembly, including:

  • a plurality of nesting, telescoping mast sections, including a top section and at least one lower section, each of said sections having upper and lower ends, andmeans for extending and retracting each of said sections relative to the next-lower section,the improvement comprising;

    a payload, located only in said top section,said top section, including said payload, being dimensioned to be received and nest within the next-lower section,at least a portion of said payload being received within said next-lower section when said top section is fully retracted,such that said next-lower section provides protection for said payload when said top section is fully retracted,said payload being a member of the group consisting of radio antennas, lights, instrumentation and telemetry packages for robotic vehicles, television cameras, antenna rotators, preamplifiers, radiation sensors and electronic and electro-mechanical instrument packages.

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