US 7,739,796 B2Granted

Method for monitoring a hollow post about a pipe

OwnerJoseph S. Froeseinventor

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Abstract

Systems use mounting devices arranged to support a hollow post on or position the hollow post around a pipe. One lower mounting device slides along the pipe prior to fastening thereto to allow change or adjustment of a height at which the hollow post is to be supported on a base of the device. Another mounting device can be used with or without a base-defining attachment to facilitate selective use of the device to either support the bottom end of the post on the optional base or instead just engage the post's interior surface at any point along the post for positioning thereof about the pipe. Another mounting device is directly fastenable to the pipe through a wall projecting from the device's body or alternatively cooperable with a second body mountable on the pipe for engagement with this second body in different positions relative to the pipe.

Claims11

Dependent claims

A method for mounting a hollow post about a pipe, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) providing a lower mounting device having a pipe-receiving opening extending therethrough and a base defined outward from the pipe-receiving opening;
(b) arranging the lower mounting device and the pipe such that the pipe is anchored to a ground surface in a fixed position and extends upwardly away therefrom through the pipe-receiving opening in the lower mounting device;
(c) with the pipe anchored in the fixed position, sliding the lower mounting device axially along the pipe to select a height along the pipe at which the base is to be positioned to support the hollow post thereon, the height being selected from any of various heights along the pipe relative to the ground surface in order to establish a user-defined height at which the hollow post is to rest on the base;
(d) fastening the lower mounting device directly to the pipe independently of any engagement of the lower mounting device with the ground surface from which the pipe projects to fix the base of the lower mounting device at the user-defined height;
and
(e) lowering the hollow post over the pipe to the lower mounting device fastened on the pipe until the hollow post is supported on the base of the lower mounting device outward from the pipe.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/045,323Filed 10 Mar 2008 · continuation in part
Priority: CA 25817178 Mar 2007
Published: US 2008/0216443 A111 Sep 2008
Granted: 22 Jun 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

E04H 12/2253
Sockets or holders for poles or posts: mounting poles or posts to the holder
E04H 12/2215
Not used: driven into the ground
E04F 2011/1897
Handrails or balusters characterized by the use of specific materials: mainly of organic plastics with or without reinforcements or filling materials
Y10T 29/49616
Method of mechanical manufacture: structural member making

Family

Application11/370,173Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 8 Mar 2006
US 2008/0216443 A1Pre-grant publication · published 11 Sep 2008
US 7,398,961 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2007/0210294 A1Published application
US 7,739,796 B2This patent

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