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US 9,732,540 B1Granted
Fence post installation system
AssigneeMark Edward Jansen
InventorMark Edward Jansen
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Abstract
A system of for installing unanchored fence posts accurately with one or two persons comprising tools to align the fence post while it is being set into an anchored state.
Claims20
A fence post installation system comprising:
- a horizontal support element configured to releasably attach to an unanchored vertical fence post along a fence line, the horizontal support element comprising a front side, a left side, a back side, and a right side,
- wherein the horizontal support element has a shape configured to encompass the horizontal cross-section of the unanchored fence post, and
- wherein the horizontal support element has an adjustable horizontal length in at least a first vertical plane, the first vertical plane containing the unanchored fence post and the fence line;
- a first brace element having an adjustable length and having two ends, the first brace element configured to have one end releasably affixed to the horizontal support element and the other end releasably affixed to ground adjacent to the unanchored fence post,
- wherein the first brace element is configured to align the fence post vertically in the first vertical plane;
- a first alignment spacer element having an adjustable length and two ends,
- wherein one end is releasably attached to the horizontal support element in a manner configured to securely hold the unanchored fence post vertically in a second vertical plane transverse to the first vertical plane;
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- at least one T-bar element with the top of the “T” releasably affixed to the fence post configured to mark an offset from at least one property line adjacent the fence line.
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A method of installing a fence post comprising:
- providing an unanchored fence post to be anchored along a predetermined fence line encompassed by a first vertical plane over a series of predetermined holes;
- providing a fence post installation system, comprising:
- a horizontal support element configured to releasably attach to an unanchored vertical fence post to be anchored in a hole in a ground and with a front side, a left side, a back side and a right side, a horizontal cross-section, a top end and a bottom end configured to be anchored to a ground, the horizontal support element having a rectangular shape configured to encompass the horizontal cross-section of the unanchored fence post and having an adjustable horizontal length in at least a first vertical plane containing a fence line that contains the unanchored fence post;
- a first brace element having an adjustable length, a first end, and a second end, and configured to have the first end releasably affixed to the horizontal support element and the second end releasably affixed to the ground adjacent to the unanchored fence post to align the fence post vertically in the first vertical plane that contains the fence line;
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- a first alignment spacer element having an adjustable length, a first end, and a second end, and the first end is releasably attached to the horizontal support element in a manner configured to securely hold the unanchored fence post vertically in a second vertical plane transverse to the first vertical plane,
- wherein the fence post installation system further comprises:
- a first horizontal support member comprising:
- a horizontal member configured to be held against the front side of the anchored fence post and having ends that extend beyond the left side and right side of the anchored fence post and
- a flexibly releaseable element configured to hold the horizontal member against the front face of the anchored fence post at a height similar to that of the first horizontal support element on the unanchored fence post, and
- wherein the second end of the first alignment spacer element is configured to releasably affix to the horizontal support member;
- releasably affixing the horizontal supporting element to the unanchored fence post;
- positioning the unanchored fence post in a predetermined hole in a predetermined fence line on the ground;
- releasably affixing the first brace element with an adjusted length to the horizontal support element and to the ground to stabilize the vertical position of the unattached fence post in the first vertical plane that contains the fence line;
- and
- placing solidifying liquid into the hole to change the unanchored fence post to an anchored fence post while holding the fence post in vertical alignment in the second vertical plane transverse to the first vertical plane until the liquid sets.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.