Anchoring base for road sign posts and the like
OwnerTivadar Bitvaiinventor
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Abstract
The invention relates to an anchoring base for road sign posts and the like, its object being to provide a post of such kind, which is easy to mount, and which easily can be re-mounted after the post has been prostrated, by way of example having been run into by a vehicle. The anchoring base comprises an upwardly open, cup-shaped bottom component (1, 21) and a weight (2, 22), which in mounted condition of the post (3, 23) is placed in the cavity of the bottom component, the weight in its turn supporting the post in question. The weight and the bottom component are held together by means of a vertical breakable connecting pin (10, 30) inserted into coaxially located cavities of the two components.
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In combination:
- a base having a first cavity open at the top, a weight received in said first cavity and having an essentially flat top, a post supported by said weight, first breakable means interconnecting said base and said weight, said first interconnecting means including a pin inserted into coaxially arranged second cavities in said weight and in said base, and second breakable means interconnecting said weight and said post, said first cavity being defined in part by a substantially vertically extending portion adjacent the top of said cavity and adapted to cooperate with said flat top of said base in such a way that when said first connecting means is broken and said post is brought from an upstanding to a prostrate position said flat top engages and is held to said base by said substantially vertically extending portion, and that said second connecting means breaks before said weight becomes disengaged from said base.
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