Utility land anchor
OwnerScott E. Bullochinventor
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Abstract
A utility land anchor for mooring a water craft to a shore or beach or to act as a ground anchor to pull an object, such as an ATV, thereto, that includes a straight shaft that is pointed on one end and is arranged for connecting to a torque producing device, such as a handle or sided driver, on its other end. The shaft includes an auger secured adjacent to the pointed end, and is to loosely fitted into a cylindrical tube wherefrom blades or fins are attached to extend oppositely outwardly from the cylindrical tube sides that are sloped outwardly to facilitate travel into the shore, beach or ground, and a mooring line connector is secured to the cylindrical tube, adjacent to a lower end thereof.
Claims12
A utility land anchor comprising, a vertical shaft having a first lower end and a second upper end, where said vertical shaft first lower end is shaped to have a pointed tip, and said vertical shaft first lower end includes an auger secured to an exterior surface of said shaft, adjacent to said pointed end, and said vertical shaft second upper end includes a center longitudinal cavity formed to receive a driver fitted therein;
- a cylindrical tube is provided to loosely fit over said vertical shaft between said first lower and second upper vertical shaft ends, in sliding relationship, and the interior diameter of said cylindrical tube is greater than the outside diameter of said vertical shaft, providing a space or gap between said cylindrical tube and said vertical shaft that is large enough to accommodate passage of debris, including small pebbles, from between opposing outer and inner surfaces of said vertical shaft and cylindrical tube;
- at least a pair of blades or fins that are spaced apart and are individually attached to extend outwardly from opposite sides of the exterior surface of said cylindrical tube, from a lower end thereof, and a mooring line attachment device is fixed to said cylindrical tube, adjacent to said blades or fins lower ends;
- and a torque producing device is arranged for connection to said vertical shaft second upper end, coupling into said center longitudinal cavity to provide a rotational torque to said vertical shaft.
A utility land anchor comprising, a vertical shaft having a first lower end and a second upper end, where said vertical shaft first lower end is shaped to have a pointed tip, and said vertical shaft first lower end includes an auger located on an exterior surface of said shaft, adjacent to said pointed end, and said vertical shaft second upper end includes a center longitudinal cavity formed to receive a driver fitted therein;
- a cylindrical tube is provided to loosely fit over said vertical shaft between said first lower and second upper vertical shaft ends in sliding relationship;
- at least a pair of blades or fins that are spaced equidistantly apart and are individually attached to extend outwardly from said exterior surface of said cylindrical tube, and a mooring line attachment device is fixed to said cylindrical tube exterior surface to extend outwardly from the cylindrical tube outer surface lower end;
- a rectangular plate is secured onto said cylindrical tube outer surface, adjacent to a second upper end of said vertical shaft;
- a guide pulley is pivotally mounted onto said rectangular body and a pawl, that has spaced teeth formed along a side thereof is pivot mounted onto said rectangular body to pivot towards a sheave of said guide pulley and move said teeth formed along a side of said pawl into engagement with a mooring line that has traveled through a mounting ring that is secured across said cylindrical tube, adjacent to said blades or fins lower ends, and is passed around said guide pulley sheave;
- and a torque producing device is arranged for connection to said vertical shaft second upper end, coupling into said center longitudinal cavity of said vertical shaft second upper end to provide a rotational torque to said vertical shaft.
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