Static structures (e.g. – buildings) – With piercing or expanding earth anchor – Auger-type penetrator
Patent
1980-10-28
1982-07-20
Taylor, Dennis L.
Static structures (e.g., buildings)
With piercing or expanding earth anchor
Auger-type penetrator
521221, 52649, 403 4, 403337, 405224, E02D 574
Patent
active
043398995
ABSTRACT:
A connector assembly and method are disclosed for supporting each of the legs of a free standing tower or the like using a screw anchor driven into the ground at the base of a respective tower leg. In order to compensate for irregularities in alignment between the upper end of each screw anchor and a corresponding tower leg, the connector units are initially mounted on the screw anchors in a manner permitting individual axial, angular and longitudinal adjustment as may be necessary to bring each connector unit into proper alignment with a tower leg thereabove. The connector units while being held in such aligned disposition may be precisely affixed to a corresponding screw anchor and the proximal tower leg using the connector unit itself as a guide for such interconnection. Temporary adjustable support for the connector units takes the form of a unique removable holding fixture between a screw anchor and the connector unit thereon constructed and arranged to allow vernier adjustment of the connector unit in axial and angular directions relative to the screw anchor to assure that each connector unit may be brought into precise alignment with a tower leg before the connector unit is rigidly coupled to the screw anchor below and the tower leg above. Requisite lateral adjustment is provided in the form of a slidable connection between the connector unit and a base plate adapted to be joined to the tower leg supported thereby.
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Atkinson Albert B.
Bobbitt Donald E.
Klenk William A.
A. B. Chance Company
Taylor Dennis L.
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