Protective stake cap for mounting on top of a metal stake
OwnerEric Tscharnerinventor
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Abstract
A protective stake cap adapted for mounting on top of a metal stake. The stake cap includes a hard plastic, tubular, hollow housing. The hollow housing includes a closed top and an open bottom. The open bottom is adapted for receiving a top portion of the metal stake inside the hollow housing. The inside of the housing includes four pair of parallel, spaced apart ribs. The ribs are designed to engage, in a press fit, a top portion of three sides of a metal stake having a “T” shaped cross section. One of each pair of ribs includes a rib fin. The rib fin is used to engage a top of the metal stake. Also, the rib fin is used to hold smaller diameter metal stakes, such as rebar, in a press fit.
Claims6
A protective stake cap adapted for mounting on a metal stake or on a metal rebar, the stake cap comprising:
- a hard plastic, tubular, hollow housing, the hollow housing having a closed top and an open bottom, the open bottom adapted for receiving a top portion of the metal stake or a top portion of the metal rebar inside the hollow housing;
- four pair of spaced apart ribs, the ribs disposed around an inner circumference of the hollow housing, the ribs adapted for engaging a top portion of sides of the metal stake or engaging a top portion of sides of the metal rebar;
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- at least one rib fin, the rib fin mounted on a top of a rib and extending inwardly beyond the rib toward a center of the hollow housing, the rib fin adapted for engaging a top of the metal stake when the top of the housing is hit by a sharp blow and compressing the stake cap downwardly creating a crumple zone, the rib fin adapted for engaging a top of the metal rebar in a press fit.
A protective stake cap adapted for mounting on a metal stake or on a metal rebar, the stake cap comprising:
- a hard plastic, tubular, hollow housing, the hollow housing having a closed top and an open bottom, the open bottom adapted for receiving a top portion of the metal stake or a top portion of the metal rebar inside the hollow housing;
- four pair of spaced apart ribs, the ribs disposed around an inner circumference of the hollow housing, the ribs adapted for engaging a top portion of sides of the metal stake or engaging a top portion of sides of the metal rebar;
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- rib fins, the rib fins mounted on a top of the spaced apart ribs and extending inwardly beyond the rib toward a center of the hollow housing, the rib fins adapted for engaging a top of the metal stake when the top of the housing is hit by a sharp blow and compressing the stake cap downwardly creating a crumple zone, the rib fin adapted for engaging a top of the metal rebar in a press fit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.