ES2390304A1 - Vertical structure of support for electrical, antenna or similar lines, hueca and compartment for fauna refuge. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Vertical support structure for telecommunications elements, supports for power lines, wind measuring towers for wind farms or poles in general, specially designed for wildlife species to take advantage of as a place to rest or breed, especially birds, bats and terrestrial mammals, reptiles or amphibians. These structures, being hollow, would be made of resistant materials and would be compartmentalized inside creating habitats of different shapes and sizes, which would be accessed through windows in one of its walls that would facilitate the entry of species for which they have been built. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

VERTICAL SUPPORT STRUCTURE FOR ELECTRICAL LINES, ANTENNAS OR SIMILAR, HOLLOW AND COMPARTMENTED FOR THE FAUNA REFUGE

Technical sector

The invention is applicable within the industry dedicated to the manufacture of supports for power lines in general, wind measurement towers for wind farms, supports of elements for telecommunications, etc.

Background of the invention and state of the art Currently, the number of infrastructures installed in nature increases every day.

These infrastructures always have several impacts on the environment, such as the visual impact and the impact on the fauna of the area, in which it can cause discomfort and sometimes collisions of birds can occur with them, which makes that the installation of these devices can cause a negative effect on certain species But the installation of the new structure that will be defined below can reverse your effect on the environment, having a less negative impact or even becoming positive about the environment of the area, introducing in it, a new resource that in a multitude of occasions is limiting for the proliferation of some bird species and Bats

These tubular, hollow and compartmentalized structures are ideal for nesting small birds of prey (such as the kestrel, Falco tinnunculus, the owl common Athene noctua, the common tawny Strix aluco, the barn owl Tyto alba or the Kestrel Primal Falco naumanm) or other birds of medium and small size (such as the Corvus jackdaw monedula, the hoopoe Upupa epops or the European ratchet Coracias garrulus, among others), species, all of them, increasingly scarce and most within some of the categories of protection of the National Catalog of Endangered Fauna, so in specific cases could be used to increase the supply of openings available in areas where they exist Few natural holes. In this sense, several invention patents are known as ES 2 302 585 and the ES 2 068 747 where a "metallic tubular support for power lines or the like" is described. These patents describe hollow sheet metal plate supports with large windows lateral that serve as steps for the ascent to the towers.

Description of the invention

Most bird species need structures of a certain height to nest nests safely away from their nests from land predators, but in many cases, finding a high hole is not easy, as in steppe ecosystems, where Finding a tree to nest can be very difficult. This difficulty in finding an ideal location to make their nests, means that the breeding area is very far from the feeding area, with the consequent disregard of the food resource for the cost of travel, or that the reproductive success of the Bird is reduced. This ecosystem that is usually very rich in insects, a fundamental diet of European bats, also presents this problem, having to travel great distances from shelters to these feeding areas. The same happens in areas where the predominant vegetation is of little size or in areas where the repopulations of pine, eucalyptus, etc. dominate, since these trees never reach the bearing or the adequate longevity so that hollows inside originate as a result of wood rot. The gaps that we raise in these structures would therefore serve to increase the supply of suitable holes for bird nesting and the chiroptera shelter, fundamentally allowing them to increase their chances of reproductive success in areas with adequate food conditions and therefore growing populations of bats and wild birds to which the adaptations of these supports are directed. Therefore, in addition to the cases discussed above, they would be ideal supports for the construction of power lines in Protected Natural Areas or cataloged in the Natura 2000 Network, ideal supports as a compensatory measure for wind farm evacuation lines or recommended structures to place in places where organic crops are developed (since they are ideal for the nesting of insectivorous birds or the bat shelter). As mentioned above, these supports can be constructed of different high strength materials, such as concrete; the realization of these supports, the "! this case, can be based on the alternation, as a puzzle, of molds in which holes are alternated for the different species that they want to favor. If they are metallic, they can be built a hollow tube in which the relevant adaptations are then made or that these adaptations are developed during the structure construction process.

Description of the drawings

To complement the description that is being made and in order to help a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention, according to a preferred example of practical implementation thereof, a set of drawings is attached as an integral part of said description. For illustrative and non-limiting purposes, the following has been represented: Figure 1.-Elevation or front view of a vertical support structure of square section, with the corresponding front cover.

Figure 2. - Perspective of the same vertical support structure of Figure 1 without the front cover, being able to appreciate the internal compartmentation. Figure 3.-Enlarged detail of the upper part of a square section support Figure 4.-Enlarged detail of the central part of a square section support Figure 5.-Enlarged detail of the lower part of a square section support Figure 6 .-Shows a drawing made by the Spanish biologist José Antonio Valverde that has served as the basis for the design of this invention. It is shown by symbols the holes of a large cork oak, which can be used by each of the different symbolized species.

Preferred embodiment

The present invention relates to a vertical support structure, such as electrical supports, wind measurement towers for wind farms or the like, whose improvements affect the internal structure of the tubular supports. These structures can be of rectangular, oval or triangular section and of a resistant material (metal, centrifuged concrete, etc., as we can see in figure 1. In figure 2 the internal compartmentation of the tube can be seen in interiors. of the tube creating "2" compartments of different volumes adapted to the species to be favored. Internal compartmentalisation is carried out in a simplified way by means of separation structures in some cases or by prefabricated habitats included inside the poles. These cavities can be adapted for the bat shelter, making narrow cabins inside the structure "3" or birdhouses that could take a cubic shape "5." In Figures 3 and 4 we see the small side windows with the appropriate perimeter for la: entry and exit of the species for which the internal holes of the tube have been adapted "1 Pe Open windows along the walls of the structure, for access to these cavities of the different species, would be of different shapes and sizes, depending on the species to which it is desired to favor. A narrow and elongated entry referenced with the number "4", indicated horizontally in the lower part of the wide side of the niismo has been indicated so that the different species of the faunal group of bats can access (see figure 3). In the figure 4 and referenced with the number "6" the square or circular entrances located in the superior part of one of the lateral ones of the posts are indicated. As a measure of evacuation of rainwater that could have accessed the inside of the tube through the upper windows, or that could have been accumulated by condensation and at the same time as a special adaptation for terrestrial species, an opening "7" to the height of the ground that gives access to a cabin in the lower part of the support (see figure 1). In this cavity, it is planned to install a small internal platform "8" as a pedestal with a ramp "9" and a perimeter groove "10" so that the water that flows down the walls of the tube is collected and directed until the entrance and exit of fauna and so on, in addition to

5.: Avoid possible corrosion if the support was metallic, that way the animal can be kept dry inside (see figure 5). Finally, the external and internal finish of the structure can be smooth, to prevent the rise of predators (usually the external finish) or rough to allow the subjection of the animals (normally the internal finish of the holes) and of suitable colors that can

10 make the structure more attractive to birds and make the internal temperature less extreme.

Claims (1)

Claim 1. Hollow vertical support structure for antennas, power lines or similar, oval or polygonal section and made of a resistant material (metal, concrete 5 centrifuged, etc.), characterized by having an internal tubular space that is divided into different compartments that can be of various shapes and volumes. The internal compartmentalization is carried out by means of separation structures in some cases or by prefabricated cabinets included inside the posts. It has small open windows along its walls to allow access to the cavities. 10 In the lower part of the post there can be a passenger compartment with a ground-level entrance that can have a ramp that accesses a pedestal, as a platform and that has a perimeter groove that allows drainage and directs liquids to the exit. Claim 2. Hollow vertical support structure for antennas, power lines or 15 similar, oval or polygonal section and made of a resistant material (metal, centrifuged concrete, etc.), according to claim 18, characterized in that the windows may be of different shapes and sizes depending on the type of species that nests. Claim 3. Hollow vertical support structure for antennas, power lines or 20 similar, oval or polygonal section and made of a resistant material (metal, centrifuged concrete, etc.), according to claim 18, characterized in that the finish of the external and mainly internal surfaces of the cabin can be of different textures and colors that facilitate the subjection of the animals and the decrease of the interior heat. 25 Reivin ~; trust 4. Hollow vertical support structure for antennas, power lines or similar, of oval or polygonal section and made of a resistant material (metal, centrifuged concrete, etc.), according to claim 38, characterized in that the finish of the internal part of the holes or cavities is rough, as well as of other parts that require this type of sanding. Claim 5. Hollow vertical support structure for antennas, power lines or similar, oval or polygonal section and made of a resistant material (metal, centrifuged concrete, etc.), according to the first claim, characterized in that the external finish of the part The bottom of the pole is smooth, as well as other areas that require this type of 35 finished.