US 9,458,974 B2Granted

Flexible moment connection device for mast arm signal mounting

OwnerRobert E. Townsend, Jr.inventor

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Abstract

An attachment assembly and a method for mounting a traffic control device to a mast arm are provided. The attachment assembly includes an attachment device. The attachment device includes a first portion operably connect to the mast arm so that a first surface of the first portion is oriented toward the mast arm, a second portion extending substantially parallel to the first portion along at least a portion of a first length, a second surface of the second portion is oriented toward the traffic control device, and a third portion having a third length and extending between the first portion and the second portion so that a gap is formed between a second face of the first portion and a first face of the second portion that allows the attachment device to flex when the traffic control device is mounted to the mast arm.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An attachment assembly for mounting a traffic control device to a mast arm, the attachment assembly comprising an attachment device that is connectable to a mast arm saddle, the mast arm saddle operably connected to the mast arm and positioned at least partially between the mast arm and the attachment device, the attachment device comprising:

a first portion having a first length, the first portion comprising a plurality of apertures, the first portion adapted to operably connect to the mast arm saddle so that a first surface of the first portion is oriented toward the mast arm saddle and spaced apart from a surface of the mast arm saddle facing the first surface of the first portion;
a second portion having a second length, the second portion comprising a plurality of apertures, the second portion extending substantially parallel to the first portion along at least a portion of the first length, the second portion adapted to operably connect to the traffic control device so that a second surface of the second portion is oriented toward the traffic control device;
and
a third portion having a third length and extending between the first portion and the second portion so that a gap defining an open space is formed between a second face of the first portion and a first face of the second portion that allows the attachment device to flex when the traffic control device is mounted to the mast arm.

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An attachment assembly for mounting a traffic control device to a mast arm, the assembly comprising:

a first attachment device operably connectable to a second attachment device, the first attachment device comprising:
a first portion having a first length and a first surface of the first portion of the first attachment device is oriented toward the mast arm;
a second portion having a second length, the second portion extending substantially parallel to the first portion along at least a portion of the first length, a second surface of the second portion of the first attachment device is oriented toward the traffic control device;
and
a third portion having a third length and extending between the first portion and the second portion so that a gap defining an open space is formed between a second surface of the first portion and a first surface of the second portion that allows the first attachment device to flex when the traffic control device is mounted to the mast arm;
and
a second attachment device having a first surface oriented toward the mast arm and a second surface opposite the first surface oriented toward the first attachment device, the second attachment device operably connectable to the mast arm, the first attachment device being connected to the second attachment device so that the first surface of the first portion is spaced apart from the second surface of the second attachment device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/514,135Filed 14 Oct 2014 · continuation in part
Priority: 8 Jun 2014
Published: US 2015/0354766 A110 Dec 2015
Granted: 4 Oct 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification17 codes

E01F 9/658
Upright bodies, e.g. marker posts or bollards; Supports for road signs: characterised by means for fixing
E04H 12/18
Towers; Masts or poles; Chimney stacks; Water-towers; Methods of erecting such structures: movable or with movable sections, e.g. rotatable or…
F16M 13/022
For supporting on, or attaching to, an object, e.g. tree, gate, window-frame, cycle: repositionable
F21S 8/085
With a standard: of high-built type, e.g. street light

Family

Application62/009,258Us provisional application · filed 8 Jun 2014
Application62/038,399Us provisional application · filed 18 Aug 2014
Application14/496,668Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 25 Sep 2014
US 2015/0354766 A1Pre-grant publication · published 10 Dec 2015
US 8,985,535 B1Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 9,458,974 B2This patent

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