Sign post stabilizer

A Sign Post Stabilizer for stabilizing a sign post having a lower section driven into the ground, said sign post being of a channel type having an elongate planar web portion, a pair of laterally spaced angled portions each being joined to an edge of said web portion at a corner such that each said angled portion forms an obtuse angle with the plane of said web portion, and a flange portion extending out from each said angled portion in a direction substantially parallel to said web portion, said sign post stabilizer comprising:

• a post sleeve having an inner channel wall and an outer channel wall collectively defining a passage for receiving a sign post therethrough such that said post sleeve is positionable about a sign post for securing to the lower section of said sign post;
• wherein said outer channel wall comprises an elongate outer central wall portion and a pair of outer slant wall portions, each said outer slant wall portion being connected to a lateral side of said outer central wall portion and slanting away from said outer central wall portion at an obtuse outer angle with respect to the plane of said outer central wall portion such that the distance between said outer slant wall portions increases away from said outer central wall portion;
• wherein said inner channel wall comprises an elongate inner central wall portion and a pair of inner slant wall portions, each said inner slant wall portion being connected to a lateral side of said inner central wall portion and slanting away from said inner central wall portion at an obtuse inner angle with respect to the plane of said inner central wall portion such that the distance between said inner slant wall portions increases away from said inner central wall portion;
• wherein said inner and outer central wall portions are in a spaced and substantially parallel relationship to each other, said obtuse outer angle being greater than said obtuse inner angle such that said inner and outer slant wall portions diverge from each other away from said central wall portions to accommodate therebetween the flange portion of a sign post extending through the passage of said post sleeve;
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• a pair of wing members each extending outward from the inner slant wall portions of said post sleeve in a direction substantially parallel to said inner and outer central wall portions, the outer slant wall portion of each said outer channel wall portion being connected to a said wing member laterally outward from said inner slant wall portion, the part of each said wing member between said inner and outer slant wall portions providing a surface for abutting against the flange portion of a sign post in a substantially parallel relationship;
• wherein a lateral portion of each said wing member is bent at a wing angle along an axis substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of a signpost extending through the passage though said post sleeve.