WO2011103643A1 - A clamp for repairing posts and a method of repairing such posts with said clamp - Google Patents
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- WO2011103643A1 WO2011103643A1 PCT/AU2011/000221 AU2011000221W WO2011103643A1 WO 2011103643 A1 WO2011103643 A1 WO 2011103643A1 AU 2011000221 W AU2011000221 W AU 2011000221W WO 2011103643 A1 WO2011103643 A1 WO 2011103643A1
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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
- E04H12/2292—Holders used for protection, repair or reinforcement of the post or pole
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
- A01G—HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING
- A01G17/00—Cultivation of hops, vines, fruit trees, or like trees
- A01G17/04—Supports for hops, vines, or trees
- A01G17/14—Props; Stays
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- This invention relates to a clamp used in repairing damaged posts and poles the kind one equates with those used in vineyards and orchards. Nonetheless the clamp and the application of the clamp in the repair of such posts discussed in this specification need not necessary only be limited to such posts and can also be applied to other more generally used posts the kinds one finds for use with supporting trellises or lines of wires between adjacent posts and so forth.
- Replacing a post as one or more along a trellis can be arduous, expensive and time consuming. Firstly, a stump of the original broken post will conventionally have to be removed and this may mean digging this stump out of the ground.
- a hole then has to be further dug for the second replacement post which may or may not fit into the excavated hole for the removal of the first stump.
- a clamp for holding together otherwise separated portions of a grapevine trellis supporting post, the clamp having a first body portion and a second body portion, the first body portion having an inner cavity shape adapted to engage substantially around one side of both upper and lower separated portions of the post, and the second body portion having an inner cavity shape adapted to engage substantially around one side of both upper and lower separated portions of the post which is oppositely positioned with respect to the said first side of the post, means adapted to hold said first body, portion with said second body portion with clamping pressure between the two to effect thereby a holding together of the respective upper and lower portions of the supporting post, each portion of the clamp being shaped to provide for when clamped a first flexible extent of tilt by an upper otherwise separated portion of the post with respect to a lower otherwise separated portion of the post, and for tilt there further, a second flexible extent which has a lower extent of flexibility.
- the clamp is made from molded plastics material and is comprised of two separate portions which are initially entirely separated one from the other and which are joined together with by joining means.
- joining means can in one case be a plurality of nuts and bolts. In another case they can be releasable clamps.
- each of the two separate portions has in each case a central concave portion adapted to engage around both upper and lower otherwise separated portions of a vineyard post and extending along each respective side of the concave portion a flange.
- the concave portion is defined by a wall with at least one slot extending substantially between the respective flanges located in an
- the concave portion is defined by a wall with at least two slots each extending substantially between the respective flanges located in an approximately central position between an upper and lower end of the respective separate portion.
- the concave portion in a first separate portion is shaped and of a size that it will together with a second identical to the first separate portion engage around a round post of selected size and effect with clamping together of its flanges a holding together of respective otherwise separate upper and lower portions of said post.
- a clamp arrangement holding together otherwise separated portions of a grapevine trellis supporting post, with a clamp having a first body portion and a second body portion, the first body portion having an inner cavity shape engaging substantially around one side of both upper and lower separated portions of the post, and the second body portion having an inner cavity shape engaging substantially around one side of both upper and lower separated portions of the post which is oppositely positioned with respect to the said first side of the post, means holding said first body portion with said second body portion with clamping pressure between the two thereby holding together of the respective upper and lower portions of the supporting post, each portion of the clamp being shaped to provide for a first flexible extent of tilt by the upper otherwise separated portion of the post with respect to the lower otherwise separated portion of the post, and for tilt there further, a second flexible extent which has a lower extent of flexibility than said first flexibility.
- the at least two stage flexibility is achieved by having a gap passing fully through the body portion which for a small
- the gap will be a slot extending substantially across a portion of the body portion.
- the width of such a gap is then chosen to allow for a first extent with more flexibility and thereafter when closed together this then restrains the flexibility.
- this can also be accommodated by a clamp and clamp arrangement where there is provided a flange to each side of each clamp body portion and the clamp body portion to each side of the post portions is held to the oppositely positioned clamp body portion by means that hold for each side the respective flanges and where such means are positioned and otherwise such as to allow for relative spread and contraction between the flanges when the upper post portion is deflected in an alignment of the flanges.
- Such a position in preference is for the holding means to be in an approximately a middle of an upper half of the respective clamp portions and in further preference in an approximately a middle of a lower half of the respective clamp portions.
- the respective shape and size of the clamp portions is such that they will when clamped with respective oppositely positioned flanges leave a gap between facing surfaces of the respective flange to allow for this opening and closing between the flanges.
- Figure 1 a is a side elevation of a clamp arrangement according to the first embodiment where it is positioned to be holding both upper and lower otherwise separated portions of a vineyard post
- Figure 1 b is a perspective view of the clamp without the vineyard post in a flexed configuration similar to Figures 2 and 3
- Figure 1 c is front view of one body portion of the clamp
- Figure 2 is the same view as in Figure 1 a except that more of a typical post is now shown where the post is leaning to an extent permitted by the clamping arrangement as shown in Figure 1 ,
- Figure 3 is an enlarged view of the clamp in the leaning position showing the closure of the respective gaps with a limit position
- Figure 4 is an enlargement of the relevant central portion of this showing how on the one side two gaps are especially closed together while on the other side, the two respective gaps are opened out,
- Figure 5 illustrates the assembly to respective clamp portions and these being positioned in a typical partially below the ground position holding together upper post portion holding a vineyard wire, and clamped to be supported by a lower post portion which will be embedded more deeply in the ground,
- Figure 6 illustrates the clamping arrangement again accordingly to the first embodiment with the post being pulled toward the viewer
- Figure 7 is the same view as in Figure 6 again of the first embodiment but in this case the post is being pushed away from the viewer,
- Figure 8 is a side elevation of the clamp being positioned in an alignment with the flanges aligned in the direction of the vineyard trellis, and
- Figure 9 is a side elevation showing again same clamp but in this case being aligned with the flanges transfers to a vineyard wire alignment
- Figure 10 illustrates a stump subsequent to a post being fractured where the stump is otherwise buried deed in the soil
- Figure 11 is a clamp in a further embodiment of the invention comprised of two separable portions which is positioned with a lower part snaring an upper portion of the stump as shown in Figure 10,
- Figure 12 illustrates the step of driving the clamp of Figure 11 into the ground around the stump while generally leaving the stump in position within the ground,
- Figure 13 is a view of the next step where a remaining post portion is inserted in the top of the clamp and the upper portion of the clamp is then further tightened around the lower end of the remaining post portion.
- the clamping arrangement 1 consists of two vamp body portions 2 and 3 which are each molded from plastics materials which in this embodiment are identical one to the other.
- Each clamp body portion 2 and 3 consists of an inner cavity shape 4 and 5 which is of generally partially semi-circular in shape and which defines this partially semi-circular shape throughout its length in each case.
- the length of the respective body portions 2 and 3 are chosen though that there will be a sufficient portion or holding and cold clamping relatively tightly with subsequent sustained use, both an upper portion 10 and a lower portion 11 of otherwise separated vineyard post.
- Each of the flanges 6, 7 8 and 9 have a plurality of apertures 16,17 and 18,19 through them to accommodate respective bolts 12, 13 4 and 15 which by passing mutually through the respective apertures 16, 17,18, 19 is a typical way, and on the opposite side the relative apertures and bolts 13 and 15 engaging with respective nuts 21 and 22 and nuts 20 and 23 with the bolts respectively at 12 and 14. .
- Somewhat midway between an upper and lower end of the respective clamp body portions 2 and 3 are gaps 24 and 25 in the body portion 3 and gaps 26 and 27 in the body portion 2.
- gaps 24 through 27 are supfully through the wall 28 and 29 of the respective clamp body portions 3 and 2 and are of a length so that they extend substantially through the extent of the wall between the respective flanges.
- Lateral ribs 41 and 43 extend along the length of both body portions 2 and 3 and are separated by a series of holes 45, which are divided by columns 47 that link the respective lateral ribs 41 and 43 together. This arrangement provides a further degree of resiliency when flexing takes place by the gap created by slots 24 to 27.
- Criteria such as the cost of the clamp including the materials then may provide a limit to the depth and other flexibility extents chosen.
- each beater is positioned in an inclined alignment with respect to the trellis elongate direction and what this means is that the beating will not be reliably simply transversed to the trellis direction but can also include a component in line with the trellis direction.
- portions 2 and 3 are clamped together by simply one bolt to one side at an upper portion one bolt to one side at a lower portion which implicitly then has the result of allowing the flanges to distort one with respect to the other when being subject to the upper or even lower post otherwise separate portion being pulled in the direction of the flanges as compared to the direction transversed to the flanges.
- a clamping arrangement as described can have the advantage of providing a relative degree of limited flexibility to allow for subsequent limited wobble but not have this excessively allowing for undue leaning of these posts, once repaired, in windy conditions.
- Figures 10 to 13 introduce a further embodiment of the invention wherein the clamp is used in a method of repairing post with particular damage.
- Posts are used for many applications for instance viticulture, horticulture, aquaculture and the like.
- Figure 10 shows a lower portion post 51 which embedded deeply within the ground 52 and has for whatever reason been fractured shown generally as 67.
- a typical application could be a vineyard post with mechanical harvesting where the post is supporting trellises or it could be other applications.
- the clamp shownjn this case, generally as 49 comprises two parts each semicylindrical portion at 55 and 56 having wings 57 and 58 and being brought together by suitable tightening means such as a bolt and nut, which best seen in Figure 13 could be bolts 68, 69 and matching nuts 71 and 72.
- the lower end of each clamp portion is tapered 63.
- Clamp portions 55 and 56 are tethered by a bolt engaging through the respective wings base so that the lower portion of the clamp assembly is tightened so as to grip round the protruding portion of the stump 51.
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