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US 2010/0058680 A1Published application
Ground anchors
AssigneePlatipus Anchors Limited
InventorCharles Simon James AGG
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Abstract
The ground anchors of the type which are attached to cables, rods and the like, which are driven into the ground and tilted transversely of the hole by tensioning the cable are provided. A ground anchor including a central hollow tubular body portion extending substantially along the length of the anchor and a pair of laterally projecting wings extending from opposing sides of the body portion, wherein the wings are bent at an angle to the horizontal plane, and a portion of an edge of each wing is bent at an angle to the plane of the wing.
Claims24
A ground anchor comprising:
- a central hollow tubular body portion extending substantially along a length of the anchor;
- and
- a pair of laterally projecting wings extending from opposing sides of the body portion, wherein the wings have a first portion extending at angle with respect to a horizontal plane, and a second portion extending at an angle with respect to the first portion.
A ground anchor comprising:
- a central body portion having a leading end, a trailing end, a pair of opposing sides, and a horizontal plane defined through the opposing sides;
- a blind bore defined in the central body portion at the trailing end;
- a pair of wings extending from the opposing sides at a negative angle to the horizontal plane, the pair of wings extending along the central body portion towards the leading end and meeting at a flattened driving edge;
- a pair of winglets depending from side edges of each wing in the pair of wings at a first positive angle to each wing in the pair of wings;
- and
- an anchor keel extending from the central body portion at a second positive angle to the horizontal plane.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.