Ground anchor rod stabilizer

• US 6,370,827 B2
• Filed: 12/10/1999
• Issued: 04/16/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Watertite Products Incorporated (Milliken & Company)
• Original Assignee: Watertite Products Incorporated (Milliken & Company)
• Inventors: Chalich, Dan
• Primary Examiner(s): Friedman, Carl D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): A, PHI DIEU TRAN
• Application Number:
  US09/459,043
• Publication Number:
  US 20010045068A1
• Time in Patent Office: 858 Days
• Field of Search: 521/57, 521/58, 521/59, 521/254, 521/252, 521/55, 521/66, 135/118, 135/88.06
• US Class Current: 52/155
• CPC Class Codes: E02D 5/801 driven by screwing

Abstract

A ground anchor rod drilled into soil is held in place by a generally rectangular stabilizer having various side thicknesses of about 2-1 cm from a top to a bottom portion and a front and backside having a width of about 20 cm. The front face contains multiple depressions over its entire surface for receiving soil. The backside has two parallel spaced. apart vertical protrusions for enclosing a portion of the ground anchor rod when the stabilizer is hammered into the ground juxtaposed to the ground anchor rod. The stabilizer is made from a high strength plastic such as ABS and can withstand loads in excess of four thousand pounds.

Claims

1. A method of stabilizing a ground anchor structure in soil comprising:

providing a substantially rectangular stabilizer having a front face and back side, a right and left side portion having a thickness separating the front face and back side, a flat top portion and a tapered inwardly inclined bottom portion, multiple depressions covering substantially all of the front face and a pair of parallel spaced apart vertical rails in the back side;

providing a ground anchor structure vertically affixed in soil; and

pounding the stabilizer into the soil adjacent the ground anchor structure, a top portion of the stabilizer remaining above the soil, with the stabilizer back side juxtaposed to the anchor structure and the anchor structure positioned between the vertical rails of the stabilizer so that a force upwardly below 4000 pounds will not cause the ground anchor structure to be removed from the soil.

2. The method of stabilizing a ground anchor structure in soil according to claim 1, wherein the rectangular stabilizer is provided in four portions from a bottom to a top, a bottom portion having a first thickness, a second higher portion having a second greater thickness, a third higher portion having a third greater thickness than the second lighter portion, and a fourth highest portion having a fourth greater thickness than the third higher portion.

3. The method of stabilizing a ground anchor structure in soil according to claim 2, wherein the rectangular stabilizer length from the first portion to the fourth portion about 60 cm.

4. The method of stabilizing a ground anchor structure in soil according to claim 1 wherein the rectangular stabilizer flat top portion receives multiple downwardly directed forces to position the rectangular stabilizer adjacent the ground anchor structure.

5. The method of stabiling a ground anchor structure in soil according to claim 4 wherein the ground anchor structure is provided with an auger at a bottom portion.

6. The method of stabilizing a ground anchor structure in soil according to claim 1 wherein the rectangular stabilizer is provided as ABS plastic.