Protective sleeve for posts
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1. A protective sleeve for a post, the post having a cross sectional shape, comprising:
- a) an elongate body with a cross sectional shape similar to the cross sectional shape of the post, the elongate body having two substantially open ends, an outer surface and an inner surface, and b) a plurality of axial protrusions emanating into the elongate body from said inner surface, such that said protective sleeve is capable of accepting the post within the elongate body inside of the axial protrusions.
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Abstract
The invention of this application is a protective sleeve for posts, such as fence posts, which are placed in the ground and cemented in place. The use of the protective sleeve increases the useful life of the post and makes it easy to replace a broken post without removing the concrete.
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20 Claims
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1. A protective sleeve for a post, the post having a cross sectional shape, comprising:
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a) an elongate body with a cross sectional shape similar to the cross sectional shape of the post, the elongate body having two substantially open ends, an outer surface and an inner surface, and b) a plurality of axial protrusions emanating into the elongate body from said inner surface, such that said protective sleeve is capable of accepting the post within the elongate body inside of the axial protrusions. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method of placing a post in the ground, comprising the acts of:
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a) providing a hole in the ground;
b) placing an end of a post in a protective sleeve, wherein the protective sleeve comprises an elongate body with a cross sectional shape similar to the shape of the cross sectional shape of the post having two open ends, an outer surface and an inner surface, and a plurality of axial protrusions emanating into the elongate body from said inner surface, such that said protective sleeve is capable of accepting the post within the body inside of the axial protrusions;
c) placing the protective sleeve into the ground, and d) filling the hole around the protective sleeve. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method of building a removable fence section comprising the acts of:
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a) providing three fence sections, the removable fence section and two adjacent fence sections, each fence section being between two fence posts, b) providing two holes in the ground each hole being located to accept one fence post from the removable fence section and one fence post from one of the adjacent fence sections;
c) placing a protective sleeve in each of the two holes, wherein the protective sleeve comprises an elongate body with a cross sectional shape suitable for holding two fence posts, having two open ends, an outer surface and an inner surface, and a plurality of axial protrusions emanating into the body from said inner surface, such that said protective sleeve is capable of accepting two fence posts within the body inside of the axial protrusions, and wherein each protective sleeve extends above its hole;
d) filling the holes around each the two protective sleeves;
e) placing a pair of fence posts in each of the two protective sleeves, where a pair of fence posts consists of one fence post from the removable fence section and one fence post from one of the adjacent fence posts in each of the protective sleeves;
f) placing at least one shim between each pair of fence posts in a protective sleeve; and
g) placing at least one screw into each fence post in a protective sleeve, whereby the removable section may be removed by removing the at least one screw though each of its fence post and removing each of the at least one shims adjacent to each of its fence posts. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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