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US 10,767,337 B2Granted
Anchor pier for manufactured building
AssigneeOliver Technologies, Inc.
InventorsScott Oliver, John Oliver, Daniel Oliver, James Oliver
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Abstract
An anchor pier for supporting a manufactured building, in which the anchor pier includes having a shaft with a connector and a helical flight proximate a driving tip, with a brace member attached to the connector and to the manufactured building with a connector, to transfer loading between the manufactured building and the ground. A method of supporting a manufactured building is disclosed.
Claims17
An anchor pier for supporting a manufactured building, comprising:
- a shaft having a connector at a first end and a driving tip at an opposing end with at least one helical flight positioned proximate the driving tip, for driving through a surface of ground vertically beneath an elongated longitudinally extending support beam of a manufactured building to position the connector proximate the surface, for interaction of the shaft and the helical flight with the ground to communicate vertical loading between the manufactured building and the ground;
- a brace member for attaching at a first end to the connector, a portion of the brace member proximate the first end defining a pair of opposing openings therethrough, the brace member extending vertically for engaging the support beam;
- a receiver that engages the longitudinally extending support beam of the manufactured building and engagingly receives an opposing second end of the brace member for vertically supporting the manufactured building relative to the ground;
- the connector comprises:
- a U-shaped member with a base and two opposed upstanding side walls, each side wall defining an opening aligned with the opening in the opposing side wall;
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- a fastener extending through the aligned openings of the side walls and the brace member received thereon for attaching the first end of the brace member to the connector,
- whereby vertical loading on the manufactured building transfers through the receiver, the brace member and the connector to the shaft and the helical flight driven into the ground below the manufactured building.
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A method of supporting a manufactured building, comprising the steps of:
- (a) driving a shaft of an anchor into a ground surface vertically beneath a longitudinally extending support beam of a manufactured building, the shaft having a connector at a first end and having a driving tip at an opposing end with a helical flight positioned proximate the driving tip, the connector comprising a U-shaped member having a base and opposing side walls that define aligned openings therein;
- (b) attaching with a fastener a respective first end of a brace member to the connector, a portion of the brace member proximate the first end of the brace member defining opposing openings through the first end for alignment with the openings in the side wall, the brace member extending vertically therefrom;
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- (c) positioning a respective second end of the brace member into a receiver attached to the support beam of the manufactured building,
- whereby the brace member being connected to the support beam transfers loading on the manufactured building to the ground through the anchor in the ground below the manufactured building.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.