Device for fixing antenna

• US 6,273,377 B1
• Filed: 05/26/1999
• Issued: 08/14/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Archer, Bernard
• Primary Examiner(s): Ramirez, Ramon O.
• Application Number:
  US09/320,619
• Time in Patent Office: 811 Days
• Field of Search: 248/218.4, 248/219.1, 248/219.3, 248/219.4, 248/300, 248/211, 248/220.21, 248/225.21, 343/888, 411/400
• US Class Current: 248/218.4
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 2/065 using screw-thread elements F16B2/08 - F16B2/12 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/12 Supports; Mounting means
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/1228 on a boom

Abstract

A support device for anchoring an antenna on a pylon rafter. The device includes an anchoring base to be applied to the outside of a first wing of an angle bar rafter. The anchoring base having a first hooking element for engaging the edge of the wing. The device has at least one shank hook for hooking to the edge of the second wing of the rafter. Each shank passing into a hole of the anchoring base and receiving at an extremity a tightening nut. The device also includes an interposition element provided to come under the nut and consisting of a rounded profile segment as regards its portion in contact against the anchoring base. This allows a variable slanting of the shank hook so as to obtain an anchoring also effective on different profile rafters.

Claims

1. A support device for anchoring an item of equipment, such as an antenna, on an angle bar rafter comprising:

an anchoring base having;

an extremity return that forms an acute rectilinear angle with the anchoring base at one extremity of the anchoring base, the extremity return for hooking onto an edge of a first wing of the rafter; and

at least one first hole at a distance from the extremity return;

at least one shank hook for hooking onto an edge of a second wing of the rafter, each shank passing through one of the at least one first holes and having its extremity portion threaded to receive a tightening nut;

the first hole having a diameter larger than the diameter of the shank hook; and

an interposition element positioned between the tightening nut and the anchoring base for ensuring an adequate bearing of the tightening nut on the anchoring base, the interposition element being a segment with a rounded section as regards its portion that comes into contact with the anchoring base.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the first hole is an elongated slit oriented in a direction corresponding to a transverse direction of the rafter.

3. The device according to claim 2, wherein there is a set of first holes in the anchoring base, each set of first holes being aligned in a direction corresponding to the transverse direction of the rafter.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one shank hook comprises two shank hooks spaced from each other in a direction corresponding to a length of the rafter.

5. The device according to claim 4, wherein the interposition element is a small bar common to the two shank hooks.

6. The device according to claim 1, further comprising at least one U-shaped fastening element for traversing the anchoring base via its extremities to allow anchoring on round section rafters.

7. The device according to claim 6, wherein the at least one U-shaped fastining element comprises two U-shaped fastining elements.

8. The device according to claim 6, wherein there are at least two first holes for each U-shaped fastening element, and extremities of the U-shaped fasteners pass through the first holes.

9. The device according to claim 8,

wherein the extremities of each U-shaped fastener are threaded to receive a tightening nut; and

further comprising an interposition element having two opening, each having one extremity of one of the U-shaped fastening elements passing through it, the interposition element positioned between the tightening nut and the anchoring base for ensuring an adequate bearing of the tightening nut on the anchoring base.

10. The device according to claim 1, wherein the anchoring base comprises stiffening returns on two opposing sides whose direction corresponds approximately to a transverse direction of the rafter.

11. The device according to claim 10, wherein the returns comprise scallopings opposite one another, the scallopings located in the median portion of the anchoring base.

12. The device according to claim 11, wherein the scallopings are cut into steps.

13. The device according to claim 1, wherein the anchoring base is a first zone on a plate extended by a second zone.