Patent ID: 8215084
Filing Date: 2012-07-10
Classification: E01F,E04C

Abstract:
1. An embeddable breakaway utility pole comprising a light standard and a lighting element attached adjacent an upper end of the light standard, the light standard including a metallic unitary lower pole piece and a separate metallic unitary upper pole piece disposed on the lower pole piece, the upper and lower pole pieces being of circular cross section; a top end of the lower pole piece having a thicker wall than a bottom end of the upper pole piece; the top end of the lower pole piece being of reduced thickness to form a circumferential recess in an exterior face of the top end of the lower pole piece for defining therein an axial guide surface of circular cross section and a radial support surface; the bottom end of the upper pole piece being seated in the recess and axially guided by the axial guide surface, wherein exterior faces of the upper and lower pole pieces are substantially flush with one another; a weld extending circumferentially around the exterior faces of the upper and lower pole pieces to form a breakaway joint between the upper and lower pole pieces, the upper pole piece and the lower pole piece being formed from the same material.