US1870994A - Street marker - Google Patents

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Aug. 9, 1932. J. s. GEORGE STREET MARKER Filed DEC. 12. 1928 lNvENoR' l ci ATTORNEYS Patented Aug. 9, 1932 y i Lemmi UNITED STATES i1 ATENT Ormes f JAMES s. GEORGE, or WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT,`AssIGNOR To sCOvILL MANUFAC- TUBING COMPANY, or WATERBURY, CONNECTTCUT, A CORPORATION or. CONNECT- ICUT STREET MARKER Application led December 12, 1.928. v .Serial No. S25-,618.

` proper direction of traffic or other desired purposes.

It is the especial object of the present invention to provide a street marker having a head of substantial area which will project L' slightly above the pavement so as to be readily vislble, in combination with a simple means for anchoring the marker in the pavement of the street in which it is to be used.

It is a further ob] ect of the invention to pro- -1 vide an anchoring means which may be associated with the marker for shipment ready for use and which may be caused to anchor the marker in position by pressure applied to the head of the marker, as, for instance, by a blow of a hammer or the like.

With these and other objects notV speciiically referred to, the invention consists in certain novel parts, arrangements and combinations which will be described in connection with the accompanying drawing and the novel features pointed out in the claims hereunto appended.

In the drawing- Figure l is a perspective view of a marker shown with the anchoring means associated therewith. y

Figure 2 is a side View of the marker and its anchoring means set in the street before the anchoring meanshave beenspread to anchor the marker; and

Figure 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing the marker and the anchoring means in inal position.

Referring now to the drawing, a marker embodying the invention will include gen erally a head, a sha-nk, and an anchoring member. The head Of the marker may, of course, have various shapes. In the particular marker shown, the head l of the marker is circular, having a slightly rounded surface 2, so as to permit the passage of trafiic thereover, this head being of substantial area as to be clearly visible. From this headrdepends a shank 3, the lower end of which is provided with a plurality of anchor- 'ing lingers 4, four such fingers being shown.

These fingers maybe formed in any suitable manner, asfbyc'utting outjthe metal of the shank, and the fingers preferably taper downwardly, as indicated at 5.' `These ngers act to anchor the marker in placewhen spread or moved outwardly, and to effect this, there is provided a spreader which acts to spread the fingers from the position shown in Fig. 2 tothat shown in Fig. 3, upon theapplication of pressure" yap-plied to the head 2 of the marker. Y i' WhileV theV construction of this spreader may'bevaried, in accordance with one feature of the invention, thev spreader is y'of such a character that it can be assembled with the shank' of the'marker at the factory for shipment ready for use, so that no assembling of the parts-is necessary at the point where the marker is placed in the pavement. vIn the particular construction illustrated, this spreader is inthe form of a member having a cone-shaped vspreading surface k6 from which rises a short head 7. In assembling the parts, the short-head is inserted between the ends of the legs or fingers 4, the'lower ends of which are then slightly bent in, as shown i'n Fig. 2, so as to hold the spreader in assembled relation with the shank of the marker. l The parts can thus be shipped assembled without danger ofthe spreader being lost.V f

Inthe use ofthe device, a hole 8 of the required depth is bored o'rotherwise formed in the pavement/9, the hole being dimensioned to receive the shank and spreader as at'lO. The marker with the spreader is inserted in this hole and is ydriven into .position by a blow from a hammer applied to the head of the Vmarker. y This results in driving the legs or fingers 4 down onto the cone-shaped surface G of the spreader, causing them to assume the position shown in Fig. 3, in which the fingers enter the underream of the hole and securely anchorl the marker in place.

It will be seen that with the construction shown and described, a very simple and efflcient device for the purpose has been provided, One of few parts, and one in which the parts can be assembled by the manufacmiY soV

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turer ready for use, and Y which can be anchored in position simply by pressure applied to the surface of the marker.

lVhile the particular marker shown and g,- described embodies the invention in a preferred form,it will be understood that variousehanges may be made in the shape of the marker and the cooperating partsivithoutdeparting from theinvention as defined l@ in theappended claims. 1 p

'Vhat is claimedis: l

l. As a new article of manufacture, a street Y marker comprising a head, a depending-hdl# low shank having eXpansible projections, and

5 a spreader Within theshaiik between Vthe projections, said spreader having a conical portion flaring downwardly fromthe-projeetions anda headrabove the upper'conical end, the Aprojection tips being indented inwardly to gg; engage between theponcal portion andhead and lock the spreader imposition.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a street Y marker comprising a metal head of considerable dimensions adaptedto .rest against the surface ofA a pavement when inposition, a

relatively `short shank depend-ingfrom the head and provided with a plurality ofspaced expansible projections, Yagspreader plug 1oeated Within the projections vand Yhaving a bottom flattened to rest 'on -th'e bottom of a holerin the pavement, said spreader having a Cone-shaped lower portion .extending upwardly and inwardly at an acute 'ang-le, :the projections ,on the shank `beingarrangedto engage the upperend of the cone-shaped -ace ofthe spreader before dri-ving. so that when pressure is applied to the Vmarker head the projectionsslide down the tapered `sides of the cone, and all the project-ions are thus spread into locking engagementwith the pavement vand are positively driven `in continuously Widening arcsso that all the Vproj ections are engaged inithe pavement and the marker isfirmly locked inposition.

[fr 3. A street marker havinga head arranged to engage the pavement, a'shank depending from the head, spaced ingers on the shan-k having ytapered and slightly inturned ends, and a spreader 'heldtotheshan-k bythe'projections `and .having an Aexpanding ysurface acting Yto force theends ofitheprojections outwardly'to engage in the pavement when pressure is applieditolthehead.

In testimony-whereof, Ihave hereunto set myrhand. f Y

- Y v 'JAMES S. GEORGE.

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