US1025823A - Fence, telegraph, and other post. - Google Patents

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I J. W. MORROWB FENCE, TELEGRAPH, AND OTHER POST.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 4, 1911.

Patented May 7, 1912.

enable others skilled in the PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN WATSON MORROW, 0F MURRAYVILLE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA, ASSIGIQTOR 0F ONE-THIRD TQ 'BRUCE'EDWABDS, 0 F PINNAROO, IAUST'RALIA;

FENCE, TELEGRAPH, AivnforHEn Post.

'2 Application filed May 4, 191'};

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Jol -IN NATSQN Mon now, a subject of the Kingof Great Britain and Ireland, &c., residii'ig at Murrayville. in the State of Victoria, lo-inmonwealth of Australia, have invented. certain new and useful Improvements in Fence, Telegraph,

and other Posts;' and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to-p'osts or the like for fen es, telegraphs, scatfolds,fwindmills, piles, troughs, and tariotis other uprights used in-eonstructionshaving theirbases set intheeartlr.

I take astandard,post, or pillar'of angle iron, T iron,.H ironjbr the like; one part of it to. be located above the ground is slotted, .perfolgated, or, has members or attachnients -.appropriate to itsv intended :pur-* pose. The lower part is to be inserted toe-- low the surface of the ground and has special anchoring means explained byreference to theaccompanying; drawings; It is important that the post-when vonce fixed in place-shall not beable to rise, nor sink,

nor sag out of itsproper position.

By my invention, light, cheap, easily packed sheet metal anchor plates or disks which may be of the same thickness throughout are to be used with my posts as aforesaid; and ample strength is provided by my coinbinations of parts. Great weight and severe stresses are put upon some posts, as those used in telegraphy, yet when the foundation is reasonably good my posts will. not sutl'er displacement. In all cases'I use to, each post at least a pair of anchor plates spaced apart by earth or any suitable firm filling.

in the drawings, Figures 1 and .2 are plan views of two styles of anchor plates; Figs. 3 to 6 show horizontal sections, and Figs. 7 and 8 vertical sections through posts of various angular forms.- Each anchor plate adapted to slide along its posh-or along a plurality of posts'in the case of the elongated plate in Fig. 1. Figs. f.) and 10 show sections of unfilled ground holes containing posts carrying two anchor plates each. In Fig. 7 anchor plate supports are shown in unbent posit-ion, and in Fig. 8 the supports are shown bent outward.

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than the others. Fig. 3 is on line Y of Fig. 9. Each post is shown with its upper part broken. away. In these upper parts 6' are holes=used for certain kinds of fencing. I omit or modify in some'cas'es minor details while retaining matter of the invention; thus in some of my combinations of parts there may be used round or fiat posts.

The post- .with a blunt base is that which I ,ordinarily use but a point t at the base is shown in Fig. 10, to facilitate the driving of the post-. when required below an excavated hole, until anchor plate supports near the post base are positioned so as tobe under an anchor plate 2' placed upon the -Ihole bottom. The webs or sides of the post I (which will be made of iron,

steel, or other su-rtable'metal) are coated if desired with a preservative or decorative material- These websare marked a, Z), in 3., 4., 7.; a, b, a in Fig. 5, and (6 b, a in Fig. All

or parts of the sides or'webs are burred or bent outwardly at their base' forming any suitable supporting projections '03, e, in Figs. 3 and 9, d 6 Fig. 5, and d cfl'Fig. 6.

-In Fig. 7- par-ts g, g of any' convenient shape (they are for example in some cases pointed as shown by dotted. lines) are formed by cuts into the post and; such parts are at times of convenience andifrequired bent so as to project at any desired angle or so as not to interfere with any slidinginovement required of the anchor plates in any convenient way as in Figs. 8 or 10 to form supporting projectionsas f, or p. y), and 1', r leaving holes as The projections are to support anchor plates, but there are also means to fix such plates downin desired positions. To each post there is a pair (or larger series) of lower and ,higher anchor plates as j, 7):, Fig. 9; or i, la, Fig. 10.

For groups of posts near one another I use elongated or specially enlarged anchor plates as h apertured for the said group, and such plates insure parallelism of the posts. They serve excellently for posts to support railway sleepers, heavy piping, troughs and so on. Holes iii-such a plate are marked a and m, Fig. 1.. These are of suitable meta-l, each apertured to slide along its post to the support which acts as a stop, but in the case of Fig. 9 the only stop of upper plate 7;.- is the earth filled in over the a in. part down (vertically or obliquely) form-- produce the aperture Z of shape to suit the post-,a djits rim is indented as'at z, and the edges are bent up or down, or in part up and ing anti-sag flanges .z' which provide'extra bearing surface against the sides ofthe hole in the ground'see Fig. 10. Flanges i give a large bearing surface without requiring the diameter of the hole in the ground to be large. The posts have at one or more points slots or holes as in Fig. 9, f, f F, f

or provided as in Fig. 10 by the tops of-the holes s formed in bending out the supports 9, g ,-p, --p ,r,' 1. These holes receive lower and upper bolts, spikes, orfastening means as g, g respectively. The bolts or spikes fix down the higher anchor plates in preiileterrnined positions and. prevent the postssinking through the holes l of said plates.

; Before erecting a -post a hole '2) is made in the ground and as shown in Fig. 9, a post is taken-with an anchor plate j at thepost base, resting on the feet, lugs, or burred out parts "d, 6. This plate j is set at the hole bottom m, in which position the plate is then fixed by a spike or bolt 9 driven through any suitable holes as f in the post above the plate. Earth or the like is thenfilled in at w and rammed down on the anchor plate j vented from sinking relatively to the post by-outbent lugs p, 71 under it, and from rising by a spike g above it. Cut portions of the posts are bent to project downward above anyanchor plate or plates when desired instead of using pins g, g gt Fig. 8, shows such a downward bend. Each upper anchor plate is of value in keeping water plant roots and so forth off the earth or filling packed beneath it. I make some top plates as 10 larger than the-under plate in some cases for still greater protection, where the upper part of the hole '0 is larger than the lower part. In some soils it is advisable to omit pins g, g of Fig.'10, and drive the post farther in after erection at any suitable time or times; when lugs p, p 1', 1' extend nearly vertically such driving is easier than when they are horizontal or nearly so.

What I claim as my invention is An anchor plate provided with an aperture fin combination with an angular post extending slidably through such aperture and having its webs slotted 'to form vertically-extending flaps having free upper ends, said flaps of the several webs being bent outwardly to constitute seats for firmly supporting said anchor plate with the upper face of the latter below the upper slotted edges of said Webs, and keys engaging the upper slotted edges of said webs and the upper face of said anchor plate for rigidly clamping the latter in position on said seats. In witness whereof I have hereunto'sct my hand in the presence of two Witnesses. JOHN WATSONMORROVV. Witnesses:

G. G. TURRI, BEATRICE M. Lowe.

- Copies of this patnt may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. G."

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