Post support

• US 7,134,636 B2
• Filed: 07/06/2005
• Issued: 11/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MiTek Holdings, Inc. (Berkshire Hathaway Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: United Steel Products Company
• Inventors: Callies, Gerald E.
• Primary Examiner(s): CHAN, KO HUNG
• Application Number:
  US11/175,542
• Publication Number:
  US 20050279897A1
• Time in Patent Office: 496 Days
• Field of Search: 248/530, 248/156, 248/545, 248/218.4, 248/300, 256/DIG.5, 256/65.14, 521/53, 521/65, 522/98, 522/97.X, 522/96, 527/363, 527/374, 527/375, 403/361
• US Class Current: 248/530
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 1/00 Wash-stands; Appurtenances therefor devices for washing the hair or scalp A45D19/00; basins used in manual washing or cleaning of crockery, table-ware, cooking-ware, or the like A47L17/02; with appurtenances for curative purposes A61H
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 12/2215 driven into the ground ground anchors E02D5/80
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 12/2269 in a socket
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 256/05 Metal post

Abstract

A post support having a post receiving box. The box includes a pair of adjacent sides having internally raised portions and a pair of opposite sides being free of such raised portions and being substantially open along one edge.

Claims

1. A post support assembly comprising:

first, second, third and fourth substantially planar sides, each having an inner surface, an outer surface, a top edge, a bottom edge and a pair of side edges, said first second, third and fourth sides forming a rigid, rectangular post receiving box with corners defined by side edges of adjacent sides;

wherein each side of said one pair of said adjacent sides comprises a portion of their respective adjacent side edges permanently connected to one another to form a connected portion near their respective bottom edges while the remaining portion of their respective adjacent side edges being unconnected between said connected portion and the top edges of said first and second sides;

a first lag bolt receiving opening through each of said sides of said one pair of adjacent sides, each of said first lag bolt receiving openings being above the centerline of its respective side; and

a second lag bolt receiving opening through at least one of said sides of said one pair of adjacent sides, said second lag bolt opening being below the centerline of its respective side, wherein each of said first lag bolt receiving openings and said second lag bolt receiving openings is positioned in its respective side;

a post having an end inserted into said post receiving box; and

a lag bolt extending through each of said first and second lag bolt receiving openings and into said post.

2. The post support assembly of claim 1 including at least one raised portion on the sides opposite to said one pair of adjacent sides.