Post mount assembly
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1. A post and post mount assembly in a hole in the ground having interior walls, comprising:
- 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;
with the socket being a cylindrical tube with coaxial, parallel inner and outer walls; and
with the socket having a lower end at an oblique angle to the inner and outer walls.
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Abstract
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.
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10 Claims
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1. A post and post mount assembly in a hole in the ground having interior walls, comprising:
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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;
with the socket being a cylindrical tube with coaxial, parallel inner and outer walls; and
with the socket having a lower end at an oblique angle to the inner and outer walls. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A post and post mount assembly in a hole in the ground having interior walls, comprising:
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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; and
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 frustro-conical wall being tightly engaged with a socket upper end inner circular edge and the post exterior wall. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9)
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10. A post and post mount assembly fixed in a cylindrical, vertical hole in the ground having interior walls, comprising:
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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 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.
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