Patent Application
20220069431
A satellite dish is a dish-shaped type of parabolic antenna designed to receive or transmit information by radio waves to or from a communication satellite. The term most commonly means a dish used by consumers to receive direct-broadcast satellite television from a direct broadcast satellite in geostationary orbit. There have been no products available as original equipment or as an aftermarket to address this problem.
Direct-To-Home can either refer to the communications satellites themselves that deliver service or the actual television service. Most satellite television customers in developed television markets get their programming through a direct broadcast satellite provider. Signals are transmitted using Ku band and are completely digital which means it has high picture and stereo sound quality. Programming for satellite television channels comes from multiple sources and may include live studio feeds. The broadcast center assembles and packages programming into channels for transmission and, where necessary, encrypts the channels. The signal is then sent to the uplink where it is transmitted to the satellite. There have been no products available as original equipment or as an aftermarket to address this problem either.
There exists a need for a satellite dish baseplate that is not being met by any known or disclosed device or system of present.
The satellite dish mounting plate serves as a support panel integrated into plywood and installed on the roof of a home to provide simpler stationing of a direct-to-home satellite. Particularly when new houses are being built, the mounting plate, also known as a baseplate, can be utilized for either eastern or western satellites. Such satellites can be attached or detached from the baseplate. The plate comes with all the necessary threaded holes and additionally has a cover for when the baseplate is not in use by a satellite dish.
Throughout the description, similar reference numbers may be used to identify similar elements depicted in multiple embodiments. Although specific embodiments of the invention have been described and illustrated, the invention is not to be limited to the specific forms or arrangements of parts so described and illustrated. The scope of the invention is to be defined by the claims appended hereto and their equivalents.
Reference will now be made to exemplary embodiments illustrated in the drawings and specific language will be used herein to describe the same. It will nevertheless be understood that no limitation of the scope of the disclosure is thereby intended. Alterations and further modifications of the inventive features illustrated herein and additional applications of the principles of the inventions as illustrated herein, which would occur to one skilled in the relevant art and having possession of this disclosure, are to be considered within the scope of the invention.
Throughout the present disclosure the terms mounting plate, baseplate and rigid plate are used synonymously to refer to the hardware used to mount a satellite dish foot plate onto a roof of a structure. The term lag refers to a lag screw used for securing the rigid plate onto a roof and the term stud refers to a stud bolt used for installing the satellite foot plate onto the rigid plate.
Further embodiments of the method include installing the rigid plate into a complementary opening defined in a backside of a sheet of roofing plywood against a flange of the rigid plate, storing an excess of the plurality of fasteners in the compartment and sealing the rigid plate flush with a sheet of roofing plywood. The method yet includes sealing a cover over the compartment during an installation and a use of the rigid plate.
Although the operations of the method(s) herein are shown and described in a particular order, the order of the operations of each method may be altered so that certain operations may be performed in an inverse order or so that certain operations may be performed, at least in part, concurrently with other operations. In another embodiment, instructions or sub-operations of distinct operations may be implemented in an intermittent and/or alternating manner.
While the forgoing examples are illustrative of the principles of the present disclosure in one or more particular applications, it will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that numerous modifications in form, usage and details of implementation can be made without the exercise of inventive faculty, and without departing from the principles and concepts of the invention.
Accordingly, it is not intended that the disclosure be limited, except as by the specification and claims set forth herein.
