US319558A - Fence-post anchor - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J; CARPENTER. FENCE POST ANCHOR.

Patented'June 9,!1885.

NVENTR- ATTEST anni triton,

FENCEnPOST ANCHR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 319,558, dated June 9, 21885.

' Application filed March I, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom t may concer-nf:

Be it known that I, .IAMEs CARPENTER, of

Moravia, in the county of Cayuga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fence-Post Anchors, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the class of fencepost anchors which are applied to the feet of slender metallic posts for the purpose of securely holding them in the ground and sustaining them in an erect position.

AMy invention consists in a novelA and simple post-anchor, which is comparatively in expensive to manufacture, readily applied to the post, and capable of resisting all ordinary strains which the post is subjected to.

The invention is fully illustrated in the aunexed drawings, wherein Figure l is a face view of the anchor; Fig. 2, a plan view of the same, Fig. 3, a vertical transverse section on line w no, Fig. l; Fig. 4, an isometric View of the post-anchor, and Fig. 5, a View illustrating the utility of my invention in maintaining in the ground the posts of a fence extended across a ravine.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Said post-anchor is composed, essentially, of a horizontal base-plate, A, from which rises a vertical wall, B, provided on its side or face with a socket or postgripping devices, C G, into which the foot of the fence-post is inserted, as represented by dotted lines in the drawings. Said anchor is more particularly designed for posts of T shape in cross-section, and therefore the gripping devices C C are made in the form of lips, which project from the wall B a proper distance apart to receive between them the cross-bar or web of the T- shaped post and are made to overlap and em- C, so as to dispense with the use of a core for forming the aforesaid socket, andwhen formed of wrought-iron I strike the lips or grips C C up from the plate B, which may be readily accomplished by means of suitable dies.

To re-enforce the plate B, and compensate for the displacement of a portion thereof by the opening a, I provide the top edge of said Vplate with a rib or ange, o, extended the length thereof. The plate B is also stiffened by corner -braces Z b, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4 of the drawings.

In setting a post with my improved anchor said parts are first united, in the manner hereinbefore described, and then set into a hole sunk in the ground to the requisite depth, said hole being subsequently filled and the earth thoroughly tamped therein; and when this is done in a workinanlike manner my improved anchor is capable of maintaining the post in an erect position and resisting all ordinary strain it may be subjected to, and is also capable of preventing the post from being drawn out of the ground when situated in a ravine, and subjected to the strain from fence-wires stretched from post to post at relatively higher points, as represented in Fig. 5 v

of the drawings.

Having described my invention ,what I claim 1. rIhe within-describcd fencepost anchor, consisting of a base-plate, a wall rising from said base, post-gripping projections on the side of the wall, an opening in the wall back of the grips, and a relenforcing rib along the top edge of the wall, all formed in one piece of metal, substantially as described and shown.

2. The anchor consisting of the base A and ICC

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