Fence post repair support bracket
OwnerAlan D. Coxinventor
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Abstract
A wooden post repair support bracket meant to repair, reinforce or straighten existing standing or leaning wooden posts. A single-piece steel bracket is formed by cutting plate steel and bending it. The post engaging portion has a flat plate and orthogonal flange which is bolted to two sides of a wooden post bottom. A cement imbedding portion has an arm extending outwardly and downwardly from the flange so that the arm is positioned below ground level and embedded in new cement. Slots or staggered holes in the bracket enable finding solid wood to bolt into. In an alternate version, a flush mount plate with a flange and embedding arm extending orthogonally away from the post is mounted through a rail and into the post.
Claims8
A one-piece post support for repairing and supporting existing wooden posts, the bracket comprising:
- a bracket formed by cutting and bending a sheet of metal into a post engaging portion and a cement imbedding portion, the post engaging portion having at least one flat plate having at least one bolt opening therethrough, the post engaging portion capable of engaging a bottom portion of an existing wooden post and the at least one bolt opening positioned away from a bottom of the existing wooden post in a solid portion of the wooden post, and the cement imbedding portion having at least one arm extending outwardly and downwardly of the post engaging portion so that the cement imbedding portion is positioned below ground level away from the wooden post with the post engaging portion in contact with the bottom of the wooden post, the cement imbedding portion capable of being imbedded in cement poured into a hole adjacent to the wooden post.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.