Electrical equipment cluster mount

• US 4,896,856 A
• Filed: 09/29/1988
• Issued: 01/30/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Aluma-Form Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Aluma-Form Incorporated
• Inventors: Farmer, Marion R., Hook, Randall L.
• Primary Examiner(s): FOSS, J
• Application Number:
  US07/251,125
• Time in Patent Office: 488 Days
• Field of Search: 248/219.4, 248/218.4, 248/219.3, 248/172, 52/697, 52/40, 211/107, 211/26
• US Class Current: 248/219.4
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/06 Mounting, supporting or suspending transformers, reactors or choke coils not being of the signal type
• CPC Class Codes: H02B 5/02 mounted on pole, e.g. pole transformer substation

Abstract

An electrical equipment cluster mount for use upon a utility pole or the like is disclosed. The mount includes an elongated bearing plate adapted to be mounted to the utility pole and a hollow polygonal structural member, preferably trapezoidal-shaped, including a plurality of sides, at least one of which is attached to the elongated bearing plate. Individual brackets extend from other sides of the hollow structural member and are interlocked with at least one other adjacent bracket on the hollow structural member. The brackets may be inclined downwardly towards or upwardly away from one another to facilitate mounting of the equipment thereto on different spacings, as well as being positioned at least partially forwardly or rearwardly of the hollow structural member to mount the electrical equipment in a circumferentially disposed array or all on one side of the utility pole.

Claims

1. An electrical equipment cluster mount for use upon a utility pole or the like comprising:

an elongated bearing plate adapted to be mounted to the utility pole;

a hollow polygonal structural member having a plurality of sides and being attached to said elongated bearing plate along one side thereof; and

individual electrical equipment holding bracket means mounted to said hollow structural member and extending from other sides of said hollow polygonal structural member and contiguously interlocked with at least one other adjacent electrical equipment holding bracket means on said hollow polygonal structural member for mounting electrical equipment in a predetermined clustered array relative to said utility pole.

2. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 1 wherein at least one of said bracket means is also interlocked relative to said elongated bearing plate.

3. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 1 including fasteners extending through said interlocked bracket means and said hollow polygonal structural member.

4. Electrical equipment cluster as defined in claim 2 including fasteners also extending through said interlocked bracket means and the elongated bearing plate, and said hollow polygonal structural member.

5. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 4 wherein the said interlocked and adjacent bracket means includes complementary interfitting and overlapping portions.

6. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 5 wherein said hollow polygonal structural member includes opposed sides which are angularly offset relative to one another, each of said opposed angularly offset sides having connected thereto one of said other adjacent bracket means, which bracket means also being angularly offset relative to one another.

7. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 6 wherein said opposed angularly offset sides are angularly directed to cause said electrical equipment to be mounted in circumferential disposed array on said bracket means about said utility pole.

8. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 6 wherein said opposed angularly offset sides are angularly directed to cause said electrical equipment to be mounted on said bracket means all on one side of said utility pole.

9. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 6 wherein said hollow polygonal structural member has a trapezoidal cross-sectional shape including opposed parallel elongated sides, one of which is attached to said elongated bearing plate and the other opposed parallel elongated side having one of said bracket means attached thereto, said trapezoidal-shaped hollow structural member having top and bottom walls connecting said opposed parallel elongated sides and also having opposed angularly offset open sides with individual bracket means extending therefrom.

10. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 9 wherein each bracket means extending from one of said opposed angularly offset open sides includes a pair of bracket arms which extend angularly outwardly from an associated angularly offset open side, each of said bracket arms terminating at a free end thereof, a U-shaped bracket having free ends for complementary interfitting engagement with the free ends of said bracket arms, and fasteners for interconnecting the complementary interfitting free ends of said bracket arms and said U-shaped bracket.

11. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 10 wherein the complementary interfitting free ends of each said bracket arm and said U-shaped bracket include a complementary C-shaped recess and boss portion.

12. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 10 including a brace extending between the free ends of said bracket arms and U-shaped bracket when interconnected together.

13. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 10 wherein each bracket arm adjacent its associated angularly offset open side includes an interfitting inner finger portion received with said open side and hollow structural member engaging an inner surface of an associated opposed parallel elongated side while a cooperating parallel outer finger portion of each bracket arm is in complementary and interfitting engagement with an adjacent bracket means or elongated bearing plate for operative engagement with an outer surface of said associated opposed parallel elongated side.

14. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 13 wherein a threaded fastener extends through said opposed parallel elongated sides including the inner and outer finger portions of a bracket arm extending from one of said angularly offset open sides and an adjacent bracket means or elongated bearing plate.

15. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 14 wherein said elongated bearing plate includes spaced distal supporting bases for overlapping and interlocking engagement relative to the outer leg portions of bracket arms extending from said opposed angularly offset open side.

16. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 15 including said individual bracket means also mounted on one of said opposed parallel elongated sides opposite from said elongated bearing plate.

17. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 16 wherein said bracket means mounted on said one opposed parallel elongated side includes spaced supporting leg bases for overlapping and interlocking engagement relative to the outer finger portions of said bracket arms extending from said angularly offset open sides.

18. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 17 wherein the spaced supporting leg bases have free ends which are in complementary interfitting engagement relative to free ends of said shaped U-shaped bracket and being attached thereto by fasteners.

19. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 18 wherein the complementary interfitting free ends of said supporting leg bases and U-shaped bracket include a complementary C-shaped recess and boss portion.

20. The electrical equipment mount as defined in claim 10 wherein the U-shaped bracket attached to said bracket arms as extending from each of said opposed angular offset open sides includes an integral outer wall for mounting electrical equipment thereto, the outer wall of each said U-shaped bracket being generally parallel to a plane that is parallel to a plane that is aligned with the angularly offset open side of said trapezoidal-shaped hollow structural member.

21. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 20 wherein said cooperating and vertically aligned pairs of upper and lower bracket means are also shiftable vertically toward and away from one another to provide additional different mounting spacings of said electrical equipment thereto.

22. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 21 wherein the upper and lower U-shaped brackets extending from opposed angularly offset open sides have an outer wall for mounting electrical equipment, the outer wall of said upper and lower U-shaped brackets lying generally in the same plane and being generally parallel to a plane passing through an associated angular offset open side of said trapezoidal-shaped hollow structural member.

30. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 10 and including a pair of trapezoidial shaped hollow structural members mounted to said elongated bearing plate, said pair of hollow structural members aligned vertically to comprise upper and lower disposed hollow structural members, there being bracket means extending from each of said angularly offset open sides and from the other side of said hollow structural members, the bracket means connecting with each of the hollow structural members being vertically aligned as pairs of upper and lower bracket means, and each bracket means incorporating its respective U-shaped bracket of each cooperating and vertically aligned pair of upper and lower bracket means and being arranged inclined downwardly towards or upwardly away from one another to facilitate mounting of said electrical equipment thereto at differing spacings.

23. An electrical equipment cluster mount for use upon a utility pole or the like comprising:

an elongated bearing plate adapted to be mounted to the utility pole;

a trapezoidal-shaped hollow structural member having generally elongated parallel sides, opposed angularly offset interconnected top and bottom walls and open ends, said hollow structural member being attached to said elongated bearing plate along one of said generally parallel elongated sides; and

individual electrical equipment holding bracket means mounted to said hollow structural member and extending from said other generally parallel elongated side and opposed angularly offset open ends of said hollow structural member and for mounting of electrical equipment in a predetermined clustered array relative to said utility pole, adjacent electrical equipment holding bracket means on said hollow structural member being contiguously interlocked relative to one another and also to said hollow structural member.

24. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 23 wherein the individual bracket means extending from said angularly offset open ends includes a pair of bracket arms having inner and outer finger portions interfitting over an associated opposed parallel elongated side and each bracket arm terminating in a free end portion, fasteners extending through the inner and outer finger portions and associated opposed parallel elongated side, a U-shaped bracket having free ends for complementary interfitting engagement with the free ends of said bracket arms, and fasteners for interconnecting the complementary interfitting free ends of said bracket arms and U-shaped bracket.

25. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 24 wherein the bracket means mounted on said opposed parallel elongated side includes spaced supporting leg bases for overlapping and interlocking engagement relative to the outer finger portions of said bracket arms extending from said angularly offset open sides and also receiving said fasteners therethrough, said spaced supporting leg bases having free ends which are in complementary interfitting engagement relative to free ends of a U-shaped bracket attacked thereto by fasteners.

26. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 25 wherein said elongated bearing plate includes spaced distal supporting bases for overlapping an interlocking engagement relative to the outer leg portions of bracket arms extending from said opposed angularly offset open sides, and said fasteners which extend through inner and outer finger portions of each bracket arm and associated opposed elongated parallel side also extend through the spaced supporting leg bases on one of said opposed elongated parallel side.

27. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 26 including cooperating and vertically aligned pairs of upper and lower bracket means each mounted to upper and lower trapezoidal-shaped hollow structural members attached to said elongated bearing plate, the U-shaped brackets of each cooperating and vertically aligned pair of upper and lower bracket means being inclined downwardly towards or upwardly away from one another to facilitate mounting of said electrical equipment thereto on different spacings.

28. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 27 wherein the opposed angularly offset open sides are angularly directed to cause said electrical equipment to be mounted in circumferential disposed array around or all on one side of said utility pole.

29. The electrical equipment cluster mount as defined in claim 27 wherein the upper and lower U-shaped brackets extending from opposed angularly offset open sides have an outer wall on said U-shaped brackets lying generally in the same plane and being generally parallel to a plane passing through an associated angularly offset open side of said trapezoidal-shaped hollow structural member.