Patent ID: 9228371
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: E04H

Claim Text:
1. An anchor socket device for supporting a post in a core-drilled hole in a ground surface, and said anchor socket device comprising: an internal cylinder having an inner facing wall defining a passage between top and bottom open ends of said internal cylinder and including at least one annular tapered wedge, an outer facing wall and a plurality of vertically aligned slits extending between the inner and outer facing walls and said vertically aligned slits beginning at the bottom end of said internal cylinder and terminating at a location below the top end of said internal cylinder, and the passage being sized and configured for engaged receipt of the post through the top open end; an external cylinder comprising first and second external semi-cylinder halves each having an inner facing wall and an outer facing wall, and each of said first and second external semi-cylinder halves including at least one taper extending from an inner facing wall, and said first and second semi-cylinder halves being sized and configured to fit around said internal cylinder when said first and second semi-cylinder halves are connected to form said external cylinder, and wherein each one of the at least one taper is above a respective one of the at least one tapered wedges; and at least one tightening member being structured and disposed for raising said internal cylinder relative to said external cylinder and causing the at least one annular tapered wedge to exert pressure on the at least one taper to force the inner facing wall of said internal cylinder to contract against the outer surface of the post while simultaneously forcing the outer facing wall of said external cylinder to expand against the inner facing surface of the core-drilled hole.