POST MOUNT ASSEMBLY

• US 20030121223A1
• Filed: 02/11/2003
• Published: 07/03/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Caminoverde II LP
• Original Assignee: Caminoverde II LP
• Inventors: Riker, Ronald D.
• Granted Patent: US 7,003,919 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 52/296
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 12/2269 in a socket
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 1/24 the conductive material comprising carbon-silicon compounds, carbon or silicon
• CPC Class Codes: H01C 17/06586 composed of organic material

Abstract

Abstract of Disclosure

A post and post mount assembly in a hole in the ground has a socket in the hole, concrete in the annular space between the interior walls of the hole and the exterior of the socket, a post in the socket, a wedge member having a tapered portion filling a gap between the socket and the post.

Claims

1. 1.

2. The assembly of Claim 1 with the socket being formed of a thermoplastic material.

3. The assembly of Claim 2 with the socket thermoplastic material selected from the group consisting of polyethylene and polypropylene.

4. The assembly of Claim 1 with the socket being a cylindrical tube with coaxial, parallel inner and outer walls.

5. The assembly of Claim 4 with the socket having a lower end at an oblique angle to the inner and outer walls.

6. The assembly of Claim 5 with the lower end of the socket having inner and outer elliptical edges.

7. The assembly of Claim 5 with the oblique angle of the socket lower end being about thirty degrees from perpendicular to the inner and outer walls.

8. The assembly of Claim 1 with the socket having walls defining a locking port.

9. The assembly of Claim 8 with the lower end of the socket having cylindrical, horizontal walls defining the locking port.

10. The assembly of Claim 6 with the socket having walls defining a locking port, and with the uppermost portion of the locking port being about level with the uppermost portion of the inner elliptical edge, with concrete forming a floor within the socket lower end about level with the uppermost portion of the locking port and extending through the locking port.

11. The assembly of Claim 10 with concrete in the annular space between the interior walls of the hole and the exterior of the socket forming a contiguous mass with the concrete in the locking port.

12. The assembly of Claim 1 with the wedge member being formed of a thermoplastic material.

13. The assembly of Claim 12 with the wedge member thermoplastic material selected from the group consisting of polyethylene and polypropylene.

14. The assembly of Claim 1 with the post being cylindrical, having an exterior wall sized with a diameter smaller than the inner wall of the socket, and the wedge member having a bottom with a half frustro-conical outer wall and a half-cylindrical inner wall, the half frusto-conical wall being tightly engaged with a socket upper end inner circular edge and the post exterior wall.

15. The assembly of Claim 14 with the wedge member having a half-cylindrical, tubular top with coaxial, parallel inner and outer walls.

16. The assembly of Claim 15 with the wedge member top inner wall being contiguous with the bottom inner wall.

17. The assembly of Claim 14 with the wedge member bottom half frustro-conical wall being tapered inwardly from the wedge member top to a bottom end of the wedge member.

18. A post mount socket, comprising:

the socket being a cylindrical tube with coaxial, parallel inner and outer walls;

the socket having a lower end at an oblique angle to the inner and outer walls; and

with the lower end of the socket having inner and outer elliptical edges.

19. The socket of Claim 18 with the lower end of the socket having cylindrical, horizontal walls defining a locking port.

20. The socket of Claim 18 with the oblique angle of the socket lower end being about thirty degrees from perpendicular to the inner and outer walls.

21. A post mount wedge member, comprising:

a bottom with a half frustro-conical outer wall and a half-cylindrical inner wall; and

a half-cylindrical, tubular top with coaxial, parallel inner and outer walls.

22. A post mount wedge member of Claim 21 with the wedge member top inner wall being contiguous with the bottom inner wall.

23. A post and post mount assembly fixed in a cylindrical, vertical hole in the ground having interior walls, comprising:

a socket in the hole;

the socket being formed of a thermoplastic material;

the socket thermoplastic material selected from the group consisting of polyethylene and polypropylene;

the socket being a cylindrical tube with coaxial, parallel inner and outer walls;

the socket having an upper end perpendicular to the inner and outer walls;

the upper end of the socket having inner and outer circular edges;

the socket having a lower end at an oblique angle to the inner and outer walls;

the lower end of the socket having inner and outer elliptical edges;

the oblique angle of the socket lower end being about thirty degrees from perpendicular to the inner and outer walls;

the lower end of the socket having cylindrical, horizontal walls defining a locking port;

the uppermost portion of the locking port being about level with the uppermost portion of the inner elliptical edge, with concrete forming a floor within the socket lower end about level with the uppermost portion of the locking port and extending through the locking port;

concrete in the annular space between the interior walls of the hole and the exterior of the socket forming a contiguous mass with the concrete in the locking port;

a cylindrical post in the socket having an exterior wall sized with a diameter smaller than the inner wall of the socket;

a wedge member having a tapered portion filling a gap between the socket and the post;

the wedge member being formed of a thermoplastic material;

the wedge member thermoplastic material selected from the group consisting of polyethylene and polypropylene;

the wedge member having a half-cylindrical, tubular top with coaxial, parallel inner and outer walls;

the wedge member having a bottom with a half frustro-conical outer wall and a half-cylindrical inner wall;

the wedge member top inner wall being contiguous with the bottom inner wall;

the wedge member bottom half frustro-conical wall being tapered inwardly from the wedge member top to a bottom end of the wedge member;

the half frusto-conical wall being tightly engaged with the socket upper end inner circular edge and the post exterior wall.