Ground anchor with yielding means

• US 3,328,928 A
• Filed: 09/30/1965
• Issued: 07/04/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Norman V. Frye
• Original Assignee: Norman V. Frye
• Inventors: Frye, Norman V.
• Application Number:
  US04/491,756
• Time in Patent Office: 642 Days
• US Class Current: 52/157
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/024 with screws or pins in the earth
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/023 Supports, e.g. poles
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 12/2215 driven into the ground ground anchors E02D5/80
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 12/2223 by screwing

Claims

1. A GROUND ANCHOR ERECTING A SUPPORT OF THE TYPE HAVING A LOWER END PROVIDED WITH A DOWNWARDLY OPENING SOCKET, COMPRISING:

A FIRST, GROUND-PENETRATING PART, AND A SECOND PART CONNECTED TO SAID FIRST PART TO PROJECT UPWARDLY FOR RECEIPT WITHIN THE SOCKET, SAID SECOND PART INCLUDING A PORTION OF INVERTED U SHAPE HAVING AN UPPERMOST BIGHT AND FIRST AND SECOND LEGS INTEGRAL WITH AND DEPENDING FROM SAID BIGHT, SAID FIRST LEG BEING AFFIXED AT ITS LOWER END TO SAID FIRST PART AND SAID SECOND LEG LYING ALONGSIDE AND IN CLOSELY SPACED RELATION TO SAID FIRST LEG AND HAVING A LOWER, FREE TERMINAL END, SAID BIGHT BEING DIMENSIONED TO FIT THE SOCKET AND SAID LEGS DIVERGING FROM THE BIGHT TO A LARGER DIMENSION, SAID SECOND PART BEING OF SPRINGY MATERIAL ENABLING SAID SECOND LEG TO BE DEFLECTED YIELDINGLY TOWARD SAID FIRST LEG BELOW THE BIGHT UPON INSERTION THEREOF INTO THE SOCKET WHEREBY TO FRICTIONALLY GRIP SAID SOCKET, THE SPACING BETWEEN THE LOWER ENDS OF THE LEGS WHEN DEFLECTED RELATIVELY BY RECEIPT INTO THE SOCKET BEING SUCH THAT SAID LOWER ENDS ARE OUT OF CONTACT WITH EACH OTHER SO AS TO ENABLE FURTHER DEFLECTION OF SAID SECOND LEG TOWARD THE OTHER IN RESPONSE TO A BENDING FORCE APPLIED TO THE SUPPORT IN A VERTICAL PLANE BISECTING BOTH LEGS.