Post mount assembly

• US 7,003,919 B2
• Filed: 02/11/2003
• Issued: 02/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Caminoverde II LP
• Original Assignee: Caminoverde II LP
• Inventors: Riker, Ronald D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Glessner, Brian E.
• Application Number:
  US10/248,703
• Publication Number:
  US 20030121223A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,113 Days
• Field of Search: 522/96, 522/92, 522/98, 521/691.3, 521/70, 248/159, 248/548, 405/231, 405/244, 405/256, 405/232, 405/249, 254/104, 285/339, 285/342
• US Class Current: 52/170
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 12/2269 in a socket
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 1/24 the conductive material comprising carbon-silicon compounds, carbon or silicon
• CPC Class Codes: H01C 17/06586 composed of organic material

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.

Claims

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.

2. The assembly of claim 1 with the lower end of the socket having inner and outer elliptical edges.

3. The assembly of claim 1 with the oblique angle of the socket lower end being about thirty degrees from perpendicular to the inner and outer walls.

4. The assembly of claim 2, with the socket having walls defining a locking port, and with 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.

5. The assembly of claim 4 with 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.

6. 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; 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.

7. The assembly of claim 6 with the wedge member having a half-cylindrical, tubular top with coaxial, parallel inner and outer walls.

8. The assembly of claim 7 with the wedge member top inner wall being contiguous with the bottom inner wall.

9. The assembly of claim 6 with the wedge member bottom half frustro-conical wall being tapered inwardly from the wedge member top to a bottom end of the wedge member.

10. A post and post mount assembly fixed in a cylindrical, vertical hole in the ground having interior walls, comprising:

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.