Bail-actuated multi-faceted staking system and method
AssigneePrest-O-Fit Manufacturing, Inc.
InventorJ. David Prest
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Abstract
A staking system includes a multifaceted support, each of the faces including a separate aperture to allow a stake to mount therethrough at varying angles. The support may be made of two separable elements. A bail is hingedly mounted in the support and set between various positions over the top of the support. A puller can be used to cause lever-action removal of the stake from the ground, and the pullet may be adjected to various distances. The support may be rotated along the ground surface to provide better attack angles for the lever-actuated removal.
Claims22
A method for mounting a structure to a ground surface via a stake, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) setting a support onto the ground surface at a first staking location, the support having a base bottom facing the ground surface, while aligning a first aperture through the support over the ground surface at a first angle defining a first axis;
- (b) applying a stake through the first aperture;
- (c) driving a tip of the stake on a distal end of the stake into the ground surface through the first aperture to cause mating a head of the stake on an opposing proximal end of the stake with a top surface of the support, the head sized larger than the aperture;
- (d) hingedly mounting a bail to the support above the ground;
- (e) drawing a puller partially through the bail as between the bail and the support;
- (f) fixing a far end of the puller against the ground surface at a first distant point;
- (g) lifting a near end of the puller, the bail meeting the puller at a first fulcrum point between the near end and the far end;
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- (h) lifting the near end while simultaneously pushing the far end down utilizing the bail as a lever fulcrum, causing the support to rise with the stake rising out of the ground surface;
- wherein the support has an at least first top face, said at least first top face defining a first plane;
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- wherein said support further comprising an at least second top face, said at least second top face defining a second plane offset by at least five degrees from said first plane, said second top face further comprising a second aperture through said at least second face perpendicular to said second plane.
A method for mounting a structure to a ground surface via a stake, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) setting a multi-faceted support onto a ground surface by setting a base bottom onto the ground surface at a first staking location, and sliding an upper portion onto the base bottom to mount the upper portion onto the base bottom;
- (b) aligning a first aperture through the multi-faceted support over the ground surface at a first angle defining a first axis;
- (c) aligning a second aperture through the multi-faceted support over the ground surface at a second angle defining a second axis, the first axis offset the second axis by at least five degrees;
- (d) applying the stake through the first aperture;
- (e) driving a tip of the stake into the ground surface through the first aperture;
- (f) hingedly mounting a bail to the multi-faceted support above the ground;
- (g) drawing a puller partially through the bail as between the bail and the multi-faceted support;
- (h) fixing a far end of the puller against the ground surface at a first distant point;
- (i) lifting a near end of the puller, the bail meeting the puller at a first fulcrum point between the near end and the far end;
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- (j) lifting the near end while simultaneously pushing the far end down utilizing the bail as a lever fulcrum, causing the support to rise and thereby lifting the stake out of the ground surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.