EP0955414B1 - Befestigung von Masten für Ampeln oder dergleichen - Google Patents

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EP0955414B1
EP0955414B1 EP99108898A EP99108898A EP0955414B1 EP 0955414 B1 EP0955414 B1 EP 0955414B1 EP 99108898 A EP99108898 A EP 99108898A EP 99108898 A EP99108898 A EP 99108898A EP 0955414 B1 EP0955414 B1 EP 0955414B1
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04H—BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL
    • E04H12/00—Towers; Masts or poles; Chimney stacks; Water-towers; Methods of erecting such structures
    • E04H12/22—Sockets or holders for poles or posts
    • E04H12/2253—Mounting poles or posts to the holder
    • E04H12/2261—Mounting poles or posts to the holder on a flat base
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01F—ADDITIONAL WORK, SUCH AS EQUIPPING ROADS OR THE CONSTRUCTION OF PLATFORMS, HELICOPTER LANDING STAGES, SIGNS, SNOW FENCES, OR THE LIKE
    • E01F9/00—Arrangement of road signs or traffic signals; Arrangements for enforcing caution
    • E01F9/60—Upright bodies, e.g. marker posts or bollards; Supports for road signs
    • E01F9/658—Upright bodies, e.g. marker posts or bollards; Supports for road signs characterised by means for fixing
    • E01F9/673—Upright bodies, e.g. marker posts or bollards; Supports for road signs characterised by means for fixing for holding sign posts or the like
    • E01F9/685—Subsoil means, e.g. foundations
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
    • E02D—FOUNDATIONS; EXCAVATIONS; EMBANKMENTS; UNDERGROUND OR UNDERWATER STRUCTURES
    • E02D27/00—Foundations as substructures
    • E02D27/32—Foundations for special purposes
    • E02D27/42—Foundations for poles, masts or chimneys

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  • the invention is based on fastening arrangements for masts, to which, for example, traffic lights or traffic signs are attached.
  • masts are currently attached by means of dowels to concrete blocks that are present in the ground, or they were in concrete blocks, z. B. foundations, cast in concrete. Since the masts for traffic lights, sign bridges or the like are in close proximity to the roadway, it often happens that a car drives against the mast. For smaller vehicles, such as cars, there is a risk that the vehicle will be severely damaged, with the risk of injury to the occupants. On the other hand, if a heavier vehicle drives against such a mast, for example a truck, then often either the dowels are torn out of the concrete block or the latter itself out of the ground.
  • the mast mounting can not be repaired by replacing the dowels, but must be rebuilt.
  • a heavy duty anchor (EP-A2-0 503 677) having a threaded rod, an expansion sleeve and a cone nut.
  • the expansion sleeve includes external projections as prongs which are pressed into the wall of the borehole when the plug is tensioned.
  • the cone angle and the length of the conical nut are dimensioned such that, when the anchor is first set, and when projections are buried in the borehole wall in a form-fitting manner, a free cone length protrudes out of the expansion sleeve as expansion reserve.
  • the invention has for its object to improve the attachment of poles in terms of safety and damage.
  • the mast attachment to a collision of a vehicle on the mast simply by replacing the dowels.
  • the invention proposes a fastening arrangement with the features of claim 1. Further developments of the invention are the subject of the dependent claims, the wording of which is incorporated by reference into the content of the description.
  • the mounting arrangement as proposed by the invention is carried out by dowels, which are widened.
  • the expansion of the anchor happens in that an expander is moved into the dowel sleeve in, the dowel is designed so that the required for the correct attachment of the mast biasing force is achieved when the expander has not yet been fully moved into the dowel sleeve.
  • the anchor may give way.
  • the dowel rod which may be, for example, a bolt or a threaded rod, screwed onto a nut is, in the direction of action of the anchor something is pulled out. If the load remains in a frame that does not completely spread the dowel, the nut can be tightened after elimination of the load, so that the attachment can be restored.
  • This possibility that the dowel yields something leads to the fact that the mast deflects something, so that damage to the motor vehicle, which is driven against the mast, can be kept within limits, and the risk of injury to the occupants is low.
  • the expansion body when a certain larger pull-out force is exceeded, the expansion body is moved further relative to the sleeve element, without it becoming detached from the wall of the hole in the axial direction.
  • This movement which leads to a tilting movement of the mast, does not necessarily lead to a further spreading of the dowel sleeve. It is sufficient that this movement takes place only under increasing force.
  • the sleeve member and / or the wall of the hole has at least one projection which is pressed in expansion of the anchor in the respective other element.
  • the projection is designed such that it is sheared when exceeding a certain for greater pull-out force. If the projection is attached to the outside of the dowel sleeve, this shearing causes a new dowel, which has the same function as the first dowel, to be inserted into the hole later again.
  • the dowel is designed such that when a certain even higher pull-out force is exceeded, the sleeve member from the wall of the hole in the axial direction dissolves. It can be set up in this way, a threshold beyond which a further movement of the dowel rod takes place.
  • the hole so that it has a constriction in the region of its outer end, which is dimensioned such that it allows the insertion of the unexpanded dowel.
  • the invention proposes that the constriction is dimensioned such that it does not allow the extraction of the expanded anchor. In this way, a new threshold can be set, which is effective at a higher pull-out force.
  • the sleeve member has a stop acting in the axial direction for the Aufweitigen.
  • This stop can serve to limit the movement of the Aufweit emotionss relative to the sleeve member, so that then a further increasing pull-out force the connection between the dowel sleeve and the wall of the hole acts.
  • the constriction at the end of the hole has a funnel-like transition to the cylindrical part of the hole.
  • This funnel-shaped transition also makes it possible to remove the plug again when the expander is pushed back by holding the sleeve. The funnel shape then allows the sleeve to narrow so that it can be withdrawn.
  • the sleeve element has a device on which it can be held from the outside of the hole ago. This holding is useful if you want to push back the Aufweit emotions, then pull out the sleeve element and then the Aufweit emotions back out of the hole.
  • the invention makes it possible to design the mounting arrangement so that not only the load on the occupant of a motor vehicle is kept within reasonable limits, which drives against the mast, but also gives the possibility, in almost all cases, the attachment by replacing the dowels renew.
  • the hole into which the dowel is inserted may be formed by a cavity in a concrete block. It is also possible that the hole is formed by the inside of a metal pipe.
  • the invention proposes to use several holes each with a dowel for fixing masts.
  • the invention proposes a method for fastening masts for traffic lights, signs, gantries or the like. According to claim 9 before.
  • Fig. 1 shows in perspective exploded the way how a mast 1 is fixed.
  • the mast 1 is welded to a plate 2.
  • the steel plate 2 has a square shape and enlarged relative to the mast 1, the footprint. Their thickness can be chosen so that the plate 2 does not deform significantly under load. However, the plate may also be formed to bend at a certain load (flexible plate).
  • a hole 4 is present in the area of each corner 3 of the plate 2.
  • the plate 2 is fastened to the frame 6 shown below in FIG. 1 by means of dowels 5, only one of which is shown in FIG.
  • This frame 6 is embedded in concrete. It contains four mutually parallel vertically arranged pipes 7 whose inner diameter is smaller in the region of the upper end than along the remaining length, wherein the widening is funnel-shaped.
  • the tubes 7 are welded in the region of their upper ends in the corners of a frame 8.
  • the frame contains four angle profiles 9, which are butt welded together in the region of their ends.
  • the corners are reinforced by oblique
  • the tubes 7 are connected to each other by angle sections 12, wherein these angle profiles also form a frame.
  • This frame 6 is concreted so that the upper plane of the horizontal flanges of the Profile 9 and the ends of the tubes 7 is formed, is flush with the top of the resulting concrete block.
  • the plate 2 is placed on the frame 6 and fixed by means of the dowel 5 proposed by the invention to the frame or the tubes 7. Based on the size and weight of the mast and the expected load, a pull-out force is calculated until it reaches the mast. Based on this pull-out force of the dowel is selected so that it causes this pull-out force with a certain tightening torque at the predetermined diameter of the tube 7. The dowel is then inserted into the pipe or fixed with its dowel rod first to the plate 2 and then inserted into the tube 7. The mast is brought into the final position and provisionally fixed. The dowel then assumes the position shown schematically in Fig. 2.
  • the dowel includes a dowel sleeve 13, which is designed for example by longitudinal slots so that it can be expanded by an expander 14.
  • the cone angle of Aufweit emotionss 14 and the dowel sleeve 13 can be chosen so small that the Aufsp Sonkraft is slowly increased by a large movement.
  • a dowel rod 15 is connected, whose axial movement pulls the Aufweitigen 14 in the sleeve member 13 of the dowel.
  • the anchor rod 15 may be a threaded rod onto which a nut 16 is screwed from the opposite side of the plate 2.
  • the dowel rod 15 is a screw on the outside of the plate 2 a head and which is screwed into an internal thread of the Aufweit stressess 14.
  • the dowel sleeve 13 includes at its the outer side of the tube 17 end facing a provided with a through hole plate 18 which thus forms a bottom for the sleeve member 13.
  • the stop 23 can also be achieved by narrowing the sleeve 13 at the sleeve end, for example by compressing or bending the sleeve and / or increasing the wall thickness.
  • the sleeve member 13 contains shortly before its end on its outer side at least one fully or partially extending over the circumference rib 19, which may have a sharp edge 20.
  • Fig. 2 shows the dowel in unexpanded state.
  • the load of the mast 1 is significantly lower than corresponds to the tightening torque of the anchor. This also applies when a vehicle is traveling at low speed against the mast. Now there is a case where the Load of the mast 1 exceeds this limit load, for example, because a motor vehicle drives at a higher speed to the mast, so occurs at the dowel rod 15, a tensile force, which leads to a displacement of the tie rod 15. This means that the expansion body 14 is moved further into the sleeve member 13, since the sleeve member 13 is connected by the projection 19 immovably to the tube 7. If necessary, this further movement leads up to the position shown in FIG. 4, where the expansion body 14 rests with its front end surface 22 on the plate 18 forming a stop.
  • the mast can now be released by unscrewing the nut 16 or the screw 17 from the attachment to the frame 6. Then, with the help of a device, not shown, the sleeve member 13 is held and the expander 14 are pushed further down into the tube 7. Then it becomes possible, the sleeve member 13, which is now no longer widened by the Aufweitigen to pull outwardly through the front end 25 of the tube 7. Now a new dowel can be inserted into the tube 7, so that now the old mast can be re-attached or replaced by a new mast. The only small restriction must be made that in the new dowel the initial positioning must be chosen so that the rib 19 is not seated in exactly the same place as the remaining rib 19 in the tube.
  • the sleeve element 13 With the expansion body 14 plugged into it, remains hanging on the constriction 25, which is formed on the outer end 24 of the tube 7.
  • the transition 26 between the cylindrical part of the tube 7 and the constriction 25 extends conically or funnel-shaped. Even if there is no exact adaptation to the conical shape of the outside of the sleeve member 13, yet the resulting force is distributed over a larger area, so that no damage to the sleeve member occurs. From the situation of Fig. 6, the dowel can be removed in the same or similar manner as in Fig. 5. Again, it is ensured that part of the impact energy is converted into a deformation energy of the anchor. The dangers to the occupants of motor vehicles are reduced and at the same time there is the possibility to use the frame 6, which is unchanged in the concrete block, to re-attach the mast.
  • Fig. 7 shows a simplified construction of the anchor. This anchor expands against the conical dilution of the tube. It is a kind of undercut dowel. Also in the case shown here, the described function, namely the Nachspreizen at a certain load and the tearing of the anchor rods at a higher load can be met.

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  • Joining Of Building Structures In Genera (AREA)
  • Piles And Underground Anchors (AREA)
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EP99108898A 1998-05-06 1999-05-05 Befestigung von Masten für Ampeln oder dergleichen Expired - Lifetime EP0955414B1 (de)

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