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AssigneeInterpace Corporation
InventorHarold V. Swanson
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This disclosure teaches a connector for use in a method for replacing an existing utility pole (usually wood), without disturbing hardware mounted thereon. As taught in U.S. Pat. No. 3,911,548, the utility pole includes a proximal section having a bottom end attached to the earth and a distal section having hardware mounted thereon. A new pole section (preferably of prestressed concrete) is attached to the earth and has the connector mounted thereon. The distal section (with its hardware intact thereon) is severed from the proximal section. The distal section is then connected to project from the new pole section by inserting and securing the distal section in the connector. The connector includes an annular sleeve engageable about the outside of the new pole section. The sleeve projects beyond the new pole section and has push plates positioned within the sleeve to embrace the distal section to hold it socketed therein. The push plates are engaged by means of bolts anchored in the sleeve. A suitable sealant, such as grout, is also employed.
In combination a connector fixedly mounted on a cylindrical new prestressed concrete utility pole section, the connector and new pole section being joinable to a severed distal section of an erected generally cylindrical wooden utility pole, without disturbing hardware mounted on the erected pole section, with a lower end of the distal pole section positionable in axially aligned abutment on an upper end of the new pole section, the connector comprising:
In combination, a connector and a cylindrical new utility pole section for being joined to a severed distal section of an old cylindrical utility pole, without disturbing hardware mounted on the old distal pole section, with a lower end of the distal pole section in axially aligned abutment on an upper end of the new pole section, the connector comprising:
In combination, a connector and a cylindrical new utility pole section for being joined to a severed distal section of an old cylindrical utility pole, without disturbing hardware mounted on the old distal pole section, with a lower end of the distal pole section in axially aligned abutment on an upper end of the new pole section, the connector comprising:
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