US 5,404,682 AGranted

Adjustable mounting for a post system

OwnerRonald R. Westinventor

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Abstract

An adjustable mounting for a post system for use in aligning and maintaining a post attached thereto to a desired vertical attitude to a ground surface. The adjustable mounting includes, as embodiments, a ball segment and seat combination that are movable with respect to one another, and in another embodiment involves a pair of interactive tapered washers, with the embodiments all including arrangements for clamping together the components that is a single bolt type fastener that is for maintaining the components of the adjustable mounting between a ground stake top surface, or ground surface, and a post bottom end or post insert base. The relative positioning of the seat to the ball segment and the tapered washers tapered surfaces to one another is to provide an off-set from a straight line axially through which adjustable mounting, that is transferred directly into a post, or a post insert with a post telescoped thereon, as an angle of that post to the vertical, which post can be used as a fences post, sign post, or the like, and may include an arrangement for mounting a container, such as a box or tube, cantilevered thereto that is intended for receiving delivered items, such as mail and/or newspapers.

Claims11

Dependent claims

An adjustable mounting for a post system comprising, a ball segment and seat therefore, where said ball segment includes a body that is formed to have a hemispherical outer surface, has a center hole formed therethrough, and includes a means for mounting a bottom surface of said ball segment body onto a rigid surface;

a bolt, as said means for mounting, that has a threaded top end and a means for mounting a lower end of said bolt to a rigid surface, which said means for mounting said bolt lower end provides a loose coupling to allow said bolt to pivot across said bolt lower end mounting;
said seat includes a body wherein is formed a concave recess having a surface that is complementary to said ball segment surface, and includes a center hole, which said ball segment body and said seat center holes are counter sunk from a top surface of said seat through said ball segment body forming an inverted cone shaped opening with a flattened apex, to provide up to a twenty degree (20.degree.) change in angle from a longitudinal center axis of said inverted cone shaped opening to accommodate said bolt threaded end fitted therethrough and through a washer means and is to receive a nut means turned thereover for clamping said ball segment and seat together;
and means for mounting said seat body in a straight post.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/190,385Filed 1 Feb 1994 · division
Priority: 24 Mar 1992
Granted: 11 Apr 1995
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

A47G 29/1216
Rural letter-boxes: supports
E01F 9/61
For guiding, warning or controlling traffic, e.g. delineator posts or milestones: special features of delineator posts, e.g. with parts…
E01F 9/642
Specially adapted for breaking, disengaging, collapsing or permanently deforming when deflected or displaced, e.g. by vehicle impact: friction-coupled
E01F 9/685
For holding sign posts or the like: subsoil means, e.g. foundations