EP2320010B1 - Device for fixing at least one brace on a fence post - Google Patents

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a device for attaching at least one strut to a fence post and a method of placing at least one strut on its fence post with the aid of said device.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

It has long been known to use fence posts of the type each consisting of a stake and possibly a base whose cross section is complementary to that of the stake, said base then being intended to be at least partially buried and the stake surmounting said base being either inserted in the upper part thereof, or, conversely, being fitted around the upper part thereof.

The stakes of such posts are most often each made in the form of a tubular metal section of straight section C.

Such poles are used to fence off rail, road or motorway rights-of-way, as well as to delimit the boundaries of private properties, green spaces, agricultural fields, hunting reserves, car parks or even golf courses.

In addition, manufacturing, such poles are provided for the attachment and maintenance of son or fence wire and, for this purpose, at least one of the walls of their stakes, in general the so-called wall "central core opposite to the wall of the C-profile having a longitudinal opening, comprises on its longitudinal axis a succession of latches arranged at regular intervals, projecting from said wall, and whose free end is most commonly facing upwards to ensure the hooking of the wire before being folded on the central core, at least for the pawls then used.

In certain places, in particular at the ends and at the angles of the rows of poles thus planted in the ground by threshing of their bases and fitting of the stakes on said bases, it is necessary to associate with the end post and the corner post. one or more struts whose role is to resume the efforts to which some posts are subject.

The French patent published under No. 2,568,615 and the European patent published under No. 1,584,776 describe this principle of resumption of tension that allow some fence posts, when they are associated with several legs of force.

The documents FR 2 585 055 , US 1,811,217 and EP 0 004 504 show struts for struts on C-section posts.

Each strut is made in the form of a metal rod whose one end is fixed to the ground, for example by means of pins or anchoring nails, and whose other end is fixed to the post in the vicinity from the upper end of it.

According to the construction, the most common, at least the upper end of each strut is then formed of a flat pierced at its center with a smooth hole allowing the passage of the threaded rod of a fastening bolt screwed into the threaded orifice of a plate disposed inside the stake of the post against the inner faces of the returns delimiting the longitudinal opening of the profile C. Sometimes, the lower end of the strut is also in the shape of a flat pierced at its center with a smooth hole, particularly when the attachment of the strut to the ground is obtained by means of pins or anchoring nails.

If the anchoring of a strut to the ground does not raise any difficulty, it is not the same for fixing the upper end of any strut on the plate disposed inside the stake, in the vicinity of the upper end thereof.

Indeed, the installer in charge of this operation must engage the wafer in the C-profile, by the open upper end of the latter, then, while maintaining said wafer inside the C-profile, it must do lower it gradually inside the profile, and finally it must screw into the threaded hole of the plate a fixing bolt whose rod passes through the smooth hole of the upper plate of one or two legs of force , all without the plate escapes the installer and is driven by simple gravity to the base of the profile, inside the latter.

The profiled portion of the base being itself hollow, and the base being deeply anchored in the ground, it is obvious that any plate that has escaped the installer is unrecoverable. Thus, it is not uncommon for the association of one or more struts to a fence post requires the use of not one, but two plates or even more.

The French patent published under number 2585055 describes the same principle of resumption of tension that the French patent No. 2568615 by reversing the relative arrangement of the wafer and its fixing bolt on the C-section, namely that this time the wafer is external to the profile and it is the head of the fixing bolt which is engaged in the stake, against the inner faces of the returns which define the opening C of said stake. The disadvantage detailed above remains, since it is common that the bolt of fixation escapes the installer and falls to the ground, then trapped in the base of the profile.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The present invention proposes to overcome such a disadvantage and, for this purpose, it relates to a device for attaching at least one strut to a fence post, device that the installer can handle and fix with a risk of loss.

According to a first aspect, the invention therefore relates to a device for attaching at least one strut to a fence post of the type consisting of a post, said post being a metal tubular section of the known type with a cross section in C and the strut (s) being (are) in the form of metal rods arranged inclined relative to the fence post, the upper end of each strut being formed of a flat pierced at its center with a smooth hole allowing the passage of the threaded rod of a fastening bolt screwed into the threaded hole of a plate disposed inside the stake, against the inner faces of the returns defining the longitudinal opening of the C-profile, and the lower end of each strut being anchored in the ground, characterized in that it consists of an elongate plate whose width is greater than that of the longitudinal opening of the C-profile, said p lacquer being extended towards the rear of a sole whose depth is less than the depth of the C-section, the zone of quadrangular section, in which the elongate plate and the sole are connected, in its diagonal, with a dimension less than the width of the opening of the C-profile, and in that the plate comprises at least two holes, one threaded, in which is screwed the threaded rod of a first fixing bolt for crossing the hole smooth pierced in the dish upper extremal of the strut or struts, and the other smooth, to allow the passage of the threaded rod of a second fastening bolt screwed into the threaded hole of the wafer, said wafer being located on the same side as the soleplate, relative to the elongate plate, and having two dimension characteristics such that its smaller dimension is smaller than the width of the longitudinal opening of the C-profile and its largest dimension is greater than the width of said C-profile, allowing thus the insertion of the wafer inside the C-profile and its free rotation of about a quarter of a turn in said C-profile, behind the inner faces of its two returns, until said wafer constitutes a nut blocked by the inner faces of the two wings of said C-profile.

Advantageously, the elongate plate of the characteristic device described above comprises an orientation tab opposite that of the sole, said tab serving as an operating handle for said device.

Preferably, such an operating lug is disposed along one of the two vertical sides of the elongated plate and, in such a configuration, said operating lug is advantageously pierced with a vertical oblong slot for fastening a leg force perpendicular to the strut or struts already fixed (s) to the elongate plate with the first fastening bolt screwed into the threaded hole of said elongate plate.

According to a particularly interesting embodiment, the operating lug of the fixing device according to the invention is arranged in the lower part of the elongated plate, slightly above the level of the sole and below the two orifices of said elongated plate, respectively threaded and smooth, which receive the first and second fixing bolts.

In an even more advantageous embodiment, the threaded orifice of the elongate plate is located above the smooth orifice relative to the operating lug.

According to a preferred construction, the plate of the fastening device according to the invention has the general shape of a diamond whose large diagonal is of a length greater than the width of the C-profile and whose two long sides are separated from each other. a distance which is slightly less than the width of the longitudinal opening of said C-profile.

Advantageously, the two small sides of the diamond forming the wafer are then separated by a distance which is slightly smaller than the internal width of the C-section.

Preferably, the thickness of the soleplate extending the elongated plate is less than the width of the opening of the C-section.

According to a second aspect, the invention also relates to a method for setting up the fixing device having one or more of the aforementioned features. Such a method is characterized in that one introduces its sole in the longitudinal opening of the C-shaped section constituting the stake of the fence post, already stuck in the ground, or by the upper end of said profile, if it is open and accessible, the wafer then being moved away from the elongate plate by a distance greater than the thickness of the sheet in which the C-section has been formed, and then allowing the device to slide downwards, it occupies substantially its final position on said C-profile, or by arranging the plate horizontally, then fully engaging the sole in the longitudinal opening of the C-profile, by rotating the device 90 ° to bring the plate in a position where it faces the C-shaped profile, as close as possible to its final position, and in that, in the two aforementioned cases, the device is then tilted so as to that it inclines with respect to said C-profile, upwards and outwards, in which situation it is then in the waiting position.

Whatever the method of introduction of the sole of the device into the C-profile and the positioning of the device along said profile, it is then fixed temporarily the device on the stake, closer to its final position, by folding the elongate plate against the C-profile while inserting the wafer taken in its smallest dimension in the opening of said C-profile, and then slightly locking the wafer behind the C-profile returns, using a second bolt, in that the pierced smooth hole is placed in the center of the end plate of the one or both of the struts to be fixed opposite the tapped hole of the elongate plate, in that the one or both legs of force using a first bolt which crosses or their smooth hole (s) and is screwed into said threaded hole, in that the anchor or both legs are then anchored force in the ground, the device simultaneously taking its position definitive on the C-section, and in that the device is then firmly locked on said section C.

In its variant according to which it is desired to fix at least two struts arranged in orthogonal planes, and for this purpose the device equipped with a maneuvering lug is used, the method according to the invention is characterized in that, after attachment of one or two struts to the elongate plate, and after attachment of said device to the C-profile, the strut is fixed perpendicular to the first one or two on the side leg of the device using a third bolt whose threaded rod passes through the oblong slot and is locked in a vertical position, using a nut, in said oblong slot of the side tab.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

• La figure 1 est une vue en perspective dudit dispositif de fixation ;
• Les figures 2, 3 et 4 sont des vues, respectivement de côté, de face et de dessus du dispositif de fixation représenté à la figure 1 ;
• Les figures 5 et 6 sont des vues de face et de côté de la plaquette utilisée avec le dispositif de fixation des figures 1 à 4 ;
• La figure 7 illustre en perspective l'insertion du dispositif de fixation selon l'invention à partir de l'extrémité supérieure ouverte du profilé en C constituant le piquet d'un poteau de clôture ;
• La figure 8 représente le dispositif de fixation dans sa position d'attente ;
• La figure 9 illustre la fixation provisoire du dispositif après son faible verrouillage contre les faces intérieures des retours du piquet à l'aide de la plaquette ;
• La figure 10 illustre la fixation provisoire précitée, avec en surimpression la plaquette ;
• La figure 11 illustre la fixation de trois jambes de force à l'aide du dispositif des figures 1 à 4 ;
• La figure 12 illustre la fixation de la figure 11 selon une vue plus générale faisant apparaître en totalité les trois jambes de force et un poteau de clôture ancré dans le sol.

A particular embodiment of the improved fastening device and proposed according to the present invention is described below by way of purely illustrative and in no way limiting example, with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:

• The figure 1 is a perspective view of said fixing device;
• The Figures 2, 3 and 4 are respectively side, front and top views of the fastener shown in FIG. figure 1 ;
• The Figures 5 and 6 are front and side views of the wafer used with the Figures 1 to 4 ;
• The figure 7 illustrates in perspective the insertion of the fastening device according to the invention from the open upper end of the C-profile constituting the stake of a fence post;
• The figure 8 represents the fixing device in its waiting position;
• The figure 9 illustrates the temporary fixing of the device after its low locking against the inner faces of the returns of the post with the help of the plate;
• The figure 10 illustrates the aforementioned temporary fixing, with the overprint of the wafer;
• The figure 11 illustrates the fixation of three struts using the device of Figures 1 to 4 ;
• The figure 12 illustrates the setting of the figure 11 in a more general view showing all three legs of force and a fence post anchored in the ground.

DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION

The invention relates to a device for fixing at least one strut on a fence post.

He was represented at the figure 12 such a fence post 1 equipped, for the recovery of the forces to which it is subjected, three legs of force, respectively two legs of force 2 arranged inclined on either side of the pole 1, in the alignment of a plurality posts defining a fence line, and a third strut 3 which extends in a plane perpendicular to that defined by the first two legs 2 being also inclined relative to the vertical of the pole.

Each strut 2, 3 is for example made in the form of a metal rod, each of the two ends, respectively upper and lower, consists of a flat bored in the center of a smooth hole

The post 1 consists of either a single stake 5 or a base 4 and a post 5.

In the first of the two cases mentioned above, the post is made in the form of a tubular profile with a straight section in C whose lower part is stuck in the ground.

In the second of the two aforementioned cases, more practical and therefore more conventional, the base 4 consists of a tubular metal section C section on the core of which is welded a trapezoidal plate 6, also called shovel or spade, the small sides of said plate 6 converging downwards.

In other words, the plate 6 is welded to the C-profile of the base 4 on that of its faces which is opposite the opening of the C; in addition, it is welded to an area of the C-profile which leaves above said plate several centimeters of free profile, about 40 cm, intended for by force-fitting the post 5 also made in the form of a tubular section section C-section.

The installation of the post shown in figure 12 begins with the anchoring of the base 4 which, for this purpose, is beaten in the ground with the aid of a pneumatic hammer striking the upper end of the C-section of said base. During this threshing, the plate 6 is advantageously oriented along the axis of alignment of the various posts to form a first fence line. The shovel 6 provides a better anchoring of the base in the ground shown schematically by line 7. The installer then fits the stake 5 in the upper profiled portion of the base 4 to bring the lower end of the C-profile. constituting the stake 5 abuts against the upper edge 8 of the plate 6.

The post is thus installed, the latches intended for the attachment and maintenance of the wires or the fence wire emerging outwards and upwards from that of the walls (not visible) of the post 5 situated in the plane of the plate. 6 and therefore opposite to the longitudinal opening 9 of the C-profile.

It has been recalled in advance of the present description that the attachment of a strut 2 or 3 on the post 1 is currently obtained by using a plate pierced at its center with a threaded hole, which is introduced by the upper end of the peg 5, which is applied behind the open face of said peg opposite an end plate 10 formed at the upper end of a strut and pierced at its center a smooth hole allowing the passage of the threaded rod of a fixing bolt which is screwed into the threaded hole of the wafer.

The use of this method of attachment leads to the loss of multiple plates that escape the installer and fall to the ground by diving in and along the profile of the stake 5 and in and along the profile of the base 4.

To eliminate this drawback, the fastening device 11 proposed according to the present invention and illustrated in FIGS. Figures 1 to 6 consists of an elongate plate 12 whose width is greater than that of the longitudinal opening 9 of the C-shaped section 5, said plate 12 being extended towards the rear of a sole 13, the thickness of which is preferably less than the width of the opening 9 of the profile 5 C, whose width is smaller than the inner width of the section 5, whose length is greater than the width of the opening 9 of the section 5 and whose depth is less than the internal depth of said profile.

The zone 14 of quadrangular section along which the plate 12 and the sole 13 are connected is, in its diagonal, of a dimension less than the width of the opening 9 of the stake 5.

The elongated plate 12 further comprises two superimposed orifices, the lower orifice 15 being smooth and the upper orifice 16 being threaded.

The device 11 can be introduced in two ways in the stake 5, or by engaging its sole 13 in the open upper end 17 of said stake, provided that it is open and accessible, or through the opening 9 by making so that the sole 13 passes through the opening 9, the plate 12 of the device 11 is then manually held horizontally, and said plate is then rotated by 90 ° so that the connection zone 14 is between the two edges of the opening 9, the sole 13 being disposed inside the stake 5 and the plate 12 being disposed outside said stake in a position where it faces the profile C. To allow the introduction of the device 11 in the stake 5 according to, indifferently, one or other of the two aforementioned ways, the thickness of the sole 13 is advantageously provided less than the width of the opening 9 of the section 5 C.

It is understood that, because of the size, especially in height, and the mass of the device 11, it can tilt itself around the connection zone 14 and, in an inclined position towards the outside and towards the top of stake 5, as shown in figure 8 , be maintained in this position because of its weight alone, without risk of sliding down.

Advantageously, the elongated plate 12 also comprises a lug 17 of opposite orientation to that of the sole 13, thus external to the post 5, said lug 17 serving as an operating handle for the device 11.

Such a handle 17 has a twofold advantage: it considerably increases the weight of the device 11, thus facilitating its tilting towards the front of the post about the axis constituted by the connection zone 14, which makes it even more improbable to slide downwards. the device; it facilitates the handling of the latter and makes it even more unlikely its loss because this tab 17 is emerging, so particularly visible.

For its locking on the stake 5, the device 11 is completed by a plate 18 which is located on the same side as the sole 13, relative to the elongated plate 12, which has two dimension characteristics and which is advantageously made in the form of diamond, its largest dimension, that is to say, its large diagonal being of greater length than the inner width of the C-profile and its smaller dimension, that is to say the distance between its two large sides 19 and 20, being slightly less than the width of the longitudinal opening 9 of the post 5 C.

The plate 18 is secured to the device 11 by a fixing bolt 27, hereinafter called "second bolt", whose threaded rod passes through the smooth orifice 15 of the plate 12 and is screwed into a threaded orifice 22 drilled in the center of the plate 18.

When the bolt 27 is only partially screwed into the threaded orifice 22, it is understood that the plate 18 can occupy various angular positions relative to the plate 12 and that, in particular, it can thus pass through the longitudinal opening 9 and s' insert inside the stake 5 when its two long sides 19, 20 are vertical.

By further screwing the second bolt 27, the wafer 18 will rotate inside the post 5 about a quarter of a turn until the ends of its large diagonal or small sides 23, 24, preferably separated from a distance which is slightly less than the inner width of the stake 5, abut against the inner faces of the sides of the stake, thus preventing any rotation in the same direction of the wafer 18 inside the stake 5.

The wafer thus plays the role of a nut which, progressively during the tightening of the bolt 27, will come closer to the internal faces of the returns of the stake which line the opening 9, until coming into contact with said returns and thus lock with more or less force the device 11 on the post 5.

The attachment of one or two legs of force 2 on the post 1 will be well understood by also referring to Figures 7 to 11 .

The device 11, whatever may have been the manner in which its soleplate 13 has been introduced inside the post 5, is placed by the installer at a height which is, judged, as close as possible to its final position. For this, while the device 11 is inclined relative to the post, in its waiting position represented at the figure 7 , since it maintains itself in this inclined position, the installer, by printing the device 11 slight rotational movements and simultaneously slight upward thrust movements or, according to, downwards, will place said device to the height that seems ideal. The installer then temporarily fixes the device 11 on the post 5, and for this it is folded against the post, as indicated by the arrow 25, while introducing the plate 18 taken in its smallest dimension, that is to say its long sides 19 and 20 vertical, in the opening 9 of the stake. The plate 18 is of course then away from the elongate plate 12 by a distance greater than the thickness of the sheet in which the post 5 has been made.

The installer then slightly locks the plate 18 behind the returns 26 of the post 5, with the second bolt 27, the inclined position of the plate corresponding to its locking position on the post being particularly visible at the figure 10 .

From this temporary locking of the device 11 on the post 5, and after removing the first bolt 28 from the threaded orifice 16 of the plate 12, the installer grasps one or both of the struts 2 and places his or her free holes drilled in the center of each upper extremal plate next to said threaded orifice 16. It then fixes the one or both legs of force 2 to the device 11, using the first bolt 28, then it anchors the one or both legs of force in the ground, for example by driving pins that pass through the smooth holes 29 drilled in the plates 30 of their lower ends, which will have the effect of simultaneously forcing the device 11 into its final position along the stake 5. The installer then securely locks the device 11 on the post 5 by further tightening the second bolt 27.

It has been seen that the device 11 comprises an outer lug 17, perpendicular to the plate 12, which advantageously serves as an operating handle. In its preferred construction variant, the tab 17 is arranged along one of the vertical sides of the plate, for example in the lower part of its right side 31, slightly above the level of the sole 13 and below the level of the smooth hole 15. With this variant, it is then possible to fix another strut 3, perpendicular to the first or both, by the provision of an oblong vertical light 32 breakthrough in the paw 17

For this, while the one or both legs of force 2 are fixed in the upper part to the device 11 and are in the lower part anchored in the ground, the third leg 3 is fixed with the aid of a third bolt 33 which the threaded rod passes through the oblong slot 32 and is locked at a good height in the vertical position, by means of a nut 34 passing through the smooth hole of its upper extremal plate 35, after the strut 3 has been itself anchored in the ground via a pin passing through the smooth hole 36 of its lower end plate 37.

Claims (12)

1. Device for fixing at least one brace (2, 3) to a fence post (1) formed by a pole (5), said pole being a known metal tubular profile having a C-shaped cross section and the brace(s) (2, 3) being produced as metal rods arranged at an angle relative to the fence post (1), the top end of each brace being formed by a flat bar (10, 37) having a smooth hole (35, 36) drilled in the centre thereof, which hole allows for the passage of the threaded rod of a fixing bolt (27), the bottom end of each brace (2, 3) being anchored in the ground (7), the device being formed of an elongate plate (12), the width of which is greater than that of the longitudinal opening (9) of the C-shaped profile (5), the plate (12) comprising at least two holes, characterised in that the threaded rod of a fixing bolt (27) is screwed into the tapped hole (22) in a small plate (18) which is intended to be arranged inside the pole, against the internal faces of the extremities (26) which delimit the longitudinal opening (9) of the C-shaped profile, said plate (12) being extended backwards by a flange (13), the depth of which is shallower than the depth of the C-shaped profile, the zone (14) of quadrangular cross section, in which the elongate plate (12) and the flange (13) are joined, having a diagonal dimension that is smaller than the width of the opening (9) of the C-shaped profile (5), and in that one of the holes (16) in the plate (12) is tapped, in which hole the threaded rod of a first fixing bolt (28) is screwed, which threaded rod is intended to penetrate the smooth hole drilled in the top-end flat bar (10) of the brace(s) (2), and the other (15) is smooth, in order to allow for the passage of the threaded rod of a second fixing bolt (27), which is screwed in the tapped hole (22) in the small plate (18), said small plate being located on the same side as the flange (13) in relation to the elongate plate (12) and having two dimensional properties such that the smallest dimension thereof is smaller than the width of the longitudinal opening (9) in the C-shaped profile (5) and the largest dimension thereof is greater than the width of said C-shaped profile, thereby allowing the small plate (18) to be inserted into the C-shaped profile and allowing said small plate to freely rotate about approximately a quarter of a turn in said C-shaped profile, to the rear of the internal faces of the two extremities (26) thereof, until said small plate (18) forms a nut clamped by the internal faces of the two wings of said C-shaped profile.
2. Fixing device (11) according to claim 1, characterised in that the elongate plate (12) comprises a tab (17) oriented in the opposite direction to that of the flange (13), said tab acting as an operating handle for said device.
3. Fixing device (11) according to claim 2, characterised in that the operating tab (17) is arranged along one of the two vertical sides (31) of the elongate plate (12).
4. Fixing device (11) according to claim 3, characterised in that the operating tab (17) arranged to the side is penetrated by a vertical oblong aperture (32) which allows a brace (3) to be fixed perpendicularly to the brace(s) (2) already fixed to the elongate plate (12) by means of the first fixing bolt (28), which is screwed in the tapped hole (16) in said elongate plate (12).
5. Fixing device (11) according to either claim 3 or claim 4, characterised in that the operating tab (17) is arranged in the lower part of the elongate plate (12), slightly above the level of the flange (13) and below the two holes in said elongate plate, one of which is tapped (16) and the other smooth (15), and which receive the first (28) and second (27) fixing bolts.
6. Fixing device (11) according to claim 5, characterised in that the tapped hole (16) in the elongate plate (12) is located above the smooth hole (15) in relation to the operating tab (17).
7. Fixing device (11) according to any of claims 1 to 6, characterised in that the small plate (18) has the general shape of a rhombus, the large diagonal of which is longer than the width of the C-shaped profile (5) and the two large sides (19, 20) of which are separated by a distance which is slightly smaller than the width of the longitudinal opening (9) of said C-shaped profile.
8. Fixing device (11) according to claim 7, characterised in that the two small sides (23, 24) of the rhombus are separated by a distance that is slightly smaller than the internal width of the C-shaped profile (5).
9. Fixing device (11) according to any of claims 1 to 8, characterised in that the thickness of the flange (13) which extends the elongate plate (12) is smaller than the width of the opening (9) in the C-shaped profile (5).
10. Method for fitting the fixing device (11) according to any of claims 1 to 9, characterised in that its flange (13) is introduced into the longitudinal opening (9) in the C-shaped profile forming the pole (5) of the fence post (1), which has already been driven into the ground, either via the top end of said profile if said end is open and accessible, the small plate (18) then being separated from the elongate plate (12) by a distance that is greater than the thickness of the sheet in which the C-shaped profile (5) has been formed, and thus allowing the device (11) to slide downwards until it substantially assumes its final position on said C-shaped profile, or by arranging the plate (12) horizontally, thus fully engaging the flange (13) in the longitudinal opening (9) in the C-shaped profile by pivoting said device 90° in order to bring the plate into a position in which said plate faces the C-shaped profile, which is as close as possible to its final position, and in that, in both above-mentioned cases, said device (11) is then turned upwards and outwards so that it is at an angle with respect to said C-shaped profile (5), in which situation said device is then in a standby position.
11. Method according to claim 10, characterised in that the device (11) is provisionally fixed to the pole (5), as close as possible to its final position, by folding the elongate plate (12) down against the C-shaped profile (5) while introducing the small plate (18) which is held with its smallest dimension in the opening (9) of said C-shaped profile, and then slightly locking the small plate behind the extremities (26) of the C-shaped profile by means of a second bolt (27), in that the smooth hole, which is drilled at the centre of the end flat bar (10) of the one or two braces (2) to be fixed, is placed opposite the tapped hole (16) of the elongate plate (12), in that the one or two braces (2) are fixed by means of a first bolt (28) which passes through the smooth hole(s) therein and is screwed into said tapped hole (16), in that the one or two brace(s) (2) are then anchored into the ground (7), the device simultaneously assuming its final position on the C-shaped profile (5), and in that the device is then rigidly locked onto said C-shaped profile.
12. Method according to claim 11 for fixing at least two braces (2, 3) arranged in orthogonal planes, and using for this purpose the device (11) according to any of claims 4 to 8, characterised in that, once one or two braces (2) have been fixed to the elongate plate (12) and once said device has been fixed to the C-shaped profile (5), the brace (3) is fixed perpendicularly to the first brace or the first two braces (2) on the lateral tab (17) of the device (11) by means of a third bolt (33), the threaded rod of which pass through the oblong aperture (32) and is clamped in a vertical position in said oblong aperture in the lateral tab (17) by means of a nut (34).

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