Apparatus for anchoring a traction member in the ground

In an apparatus for anchoring a traction member comprising an elongated anchoring body which is shaped with a plurality of transverse cross sections each of which is small compared to the longitudinal cross section of said body and an insertable guiding rod couplable detachably with said anchoring body and alignable longitudinally with said anchoring body, wherein an attaching piece for said traction member is mounted laterally on said anchoring body with spacing from both ends of said anchoring body, the improvement wherein said anchoring body is provided with a cutter like tapered front end and simultaneously on a rear end with a sectioning for nonrotatable engagement with said insertable guiding rod, said sectioning being shaped to be flush with said rod upon the insertion thereon of said anchoring body, and said attaching piece for said traction member is mounted between the center of gravity of said anchoring body and said cutter like tapered front end and said attaching piece comprises a shackle engaged pivotally in a passage through said anchoring body, said front end of said anchoring body having an aproximately semicircular grooved shaped one of said transverse cross sections, said transverse cross section being reduced in a direction along said anchoring body toward said attaching piece, said anchoring body being provided adjacent said attaching piece of said traction member with a peripheral bulge lying substantially in the plane of symmetry of said groove shaped transverse cross section whose smallest transverse cross sectional dimension is directed along the longitudinal axis of said passage, while the largest cross sectional dimension of said peripheral bulge extends in said plane of symmetry of said grooved shaped cross section of said anchoring body.