Low-profile, after-aligned, universal point mount
AssigneeLightning Protection System, LLC
InventorsKirk Partridge, Todd Vought, Travis Vought
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Abstract
An anchor for lightning protection systems includes a base and pad that extend over a sufficient area and a sufficient bearing length to hold in shear and in tension against the weight, shear force, and moment of cables, points, and other components of a lightning protection systems. A universal point mount may be forged to optimize cross sectional area and contact surface area throughout the mounting system. Drilled and tapped to receive a point oriented arbitrarily, the head mounts easily on a horizontal or vertical mounting surface. Apertures and fasteners provide arbitrary positioning of a point at any necessary orientation.
Claims12
An apparatus to mount, to a structure to be protected, a point capable of conducting lightning, the apparatus comprising:
- an anchor securable to the structure without penetration thereof;
- a head, positionable on the anchor in any of a plurality of head positions;
- the head, provided with apertures capable of securing thereto the point, the apertures being mutually orthogonal;
- the anchor and head sized and shaped to capture therebetween and connect to the point a conductor capable of conducting lightning away from the point;
- a mandible between the anchor and the head, wherein the head has a head yield stress at which the head will yield, and the anchor has an anchor stress at which the anchor will yield, and the anchor and head are capable of orienting the point vertically without reaching the anchor yield stress in the anchor nor the head yield stress in the head;
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- the anchor and head configured to secure to one another to be capable of orienting the point vertically, whether the anchor is secured to a horizontal surface or a vertical surface of the structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.