| 摘要 |
An anchor socket system for vertically supporting a post includes external and internal, open-ended cylinders, wherein the external cylinder includes first and second semi-cylinder halves each having mirroring tapers and semi-annular upper rims on each respective inner facing wall. Tightening bolts in communication with the internal and external cylinders are rotated to raise the internal cylinder relative to the external cylinder, thereby causing tapered wedges on the outer facing surface of the internal cylinder to exert pressure against the corresponding tapers on the inner facing surface of the external cylinder. As the diameter of the internal cylinder contracts, pressure is exerted against a post by the inner facing walls of the internal cylinder while the outer facing walls of the external cylinder halves simultaneously exert pressure against the inner facing surface of a core-drilled hole, thereby locking the anchor socket and post into place within the core-drilled hole. |
| 主权项 |
1. An anchor socket device for supporting a post in a core-drilled hole in a ground surface, and said anchor socket device comprising:
an internal cylinder having an inner facing wall defining a passage between top and bottom open ends of said internal cylinder and including at least one annular tapered wedge, an outer facing wall and a plurality of vertically aligned slits extending between the inner and outer facing walls and said vertically aligned slits beginning at the bottom end of said internal cylinder and terminating at a location below the top end of said internal cylinder, and the passage being sized and configured for engaged receipt of the post through the top open end; an external cylinder comprising first and second external semi-cylinder halves each having an inner facing wall and an outer facing wall, and each of said first and second external semi-cylinder halves including at least one taper extending from an inner facing wall, and said first and second semi-cylinder halves being sized and configured to fit around said internal cylinder when said first, and second semi-cylinder halves are connected to form said external cylinder, and wherein each one of the at least one tapers is above a respective one of the at least one tapered wedges; and at least one tightening member being structured and disposed for raising said internal cylinder relative to said external cylinder and causing the at least one annular tapered wedge to exert pressure on the at least one taper to force the inner facing wall of said internal, cylinder to contract, against the outer surface of the post while simultaneously forcing the outer facing wall of said external cylinder to expand against the inner facing surface of the core-drilled hole. |
