Tower for supporting a windmill propeller.

摘要

A tower for supporting a windmill propeller (14) for rotating in a plane forward of the tower, comprising a pair of fixed fore legs (32) spaced apart at their bottoms and converging upwardly toward a first apex (34), and a fixed diagonal bracing strut (40) having a bottom spaced aft of the bottoms of the fore legs, with respect to the plane of rotation (38) of propeller (14), and extending diagonally upwardly toward said apex, the fore legs and the diagonal bracing strut having top portions in the vicinity of said apex spaced aft of the plane of propeller rotation; a pair of fixed aft legs (44) having top portions spaced aft of said first apex (34), with respect to the plane of rotation (38) of propeller (14), and extending downwardly adjacent opposite sides of the diagonal bracing strut (40), the aft (44) legs being braced in a fixed position relative to the fore legs (32); load support means (12) secured to the top portions of the fore legs (32) and the diagonal bracing strut (40) and the aft legs (44) for supporting a load from the propeller (14); and means (42) rigidly enterconnecting the bottoms of the fore legs (32) and the bottom of the diagonal bracing strut (40) at a base (33) of the tower.