Patent ID: 9151073
Filing Date: 2015-10-06
Classification: B65D,E04H,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for securing an underground storage tank in an excavated area, comprising the steps of: providing on a bottom of an excavation, an anchoring assembly comprising multiple paired upstanding spaced apart deadmen anchors each having an anchor loop section; providing a multiplicity of paired hold-down straps, each having a first end and a second end, a length, and a width; providing a tank hold-down assembly comprising a take-up coupler assembly having a pair of arched sections, including a first arched section and a second arched section and a threaded engagement assembly, each arched section including a first end having walls to receive the threaded engagement assembly, the threaded engagement assembly including a threaded member and a receiving member adapted to receive part of the threaded member; wherein the paired straps are adapted to engage the arched sections at a first end of the straps and the paired loop sections of the deadmen anchors at a second end of the straps; and wherein the first and second arched sections each comprise a multiplicity of longitudinally and laterally offset strap engaging upstanding hooks and said walls engage the threaded member to the first arched section and the receiving member to the second arched section such that rotation of the threaded member when it is engaged with the receiving member brings the two arched sections closer to one another and snugs the straps down to the underground tank; wherein the lateral and longitudinal spaced apart upstanding hooks include a first upstanding hook and a second upstanding hook; wherein the first upstanding hook is offset to a first side of the arched section and the second upstanding hook is offset to an opposite second side of the arched section and wherein the first upstanding hook is closer to the first end of the arched section than the second upstanding hook and wherein there is no hook adjacent to the second hook with a same longitudinal spacing of the second hook from the first end of the arched section; attaching each strap of the multiple paired hold-down straps to the spaced apart anchor upstanding loop sections of the deadmen anchors and the strap to the upstanding hooks of the arched section; and rotating the threaded member until the straps are snug.