Patent ID: 6164613
Filing Date: 2000-12-26
Classification: E04H,Y10S

Abstract:
A portable pole anchor comprising(a) a first thin flexible sheet with an approximately circular shape, said sheet having a central hole located near its center, said hole also having a diameter sufficient to allow the passage of a cylindrical pole; and(b) a connector means disposed about said central hole for attaching said sheet to said pole; and(c) a second thin flexible sheet having a central hole and substantially identical to said first thin flexible sheet, said second sheet aligned with and bonded to said first sheet to form a composite sheet such that the bottom surface of said first sheet and the top surface of said second sheet and sustantially in contact and the central hole of said first sheet and the central hole of said first sheet and the central hole of said second sheet are aligned to form a composite hole to permit the passage of said cylindrical pole; and(d) a plurality of battens, said battens being arranged between said first sheet and said second sheet, said battens also being arranged as a radial array about said composite hole such that there exists a first annular portion of said composite sheet surrounding said composite hole in which no part of a batten is disposed between said first sheet and said second sheet; whereinthere exists a second annular portion if said first annular portion in which the flexibility if said composite sheet is not altered by said connector means.