Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Feb., 1888
Specification Accepted, 23rd Mar., 1888
1, WILLIAM PENN LOGAN, of No. 726 Second street Trenton, in the State of
New Jersey in the United States of America, gentleman, do hereby declare the nature
of the invention and in what manner the saine is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The object of my improvement is to provide an anchor for hitching, fence, and
other posts, whereby a greater stability is obtainable than usual.
I will first describe in detail an anchor for posts embodying my improvement, and
then point out the said improvement in a claim.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this
specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both
the figures.
Fig. 1 is an elevation illustrating a hitching post provided with anchors embodying
my improvement.
Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the said anchors when detached.
The anchor A is formed of a single metal casting, and comprises a circular plate, B,
having a central hole to receive the post, a hub, C, surrounding the said hole on the
upper face of the plate, to receive a set screw for adjusting it on the post in a well
known manner, and series of rigid wings D and E projecting from the upper and
lower faces, respectively, of the plate and radiating from the central hole into the
periphery of the same.
The several hottom wings, E, are arranged respectively, midway of the planes of
the top wings D.
Two of the anchors A are here shown applied to a hitching post F, one anchor
being secured by its set screw to the lower end of the post, and the other at such a
distance from the upper end thereof that when buried, a few inches below the surface
of the ground, the post will rise to the required height.
I am well aware that post anchors have heretofore been designed comprising a
circular anchor plate, a hub, and radial wings on one face, substantially as shown in
the drawing annexed hereto, and hence do not claim such as my invention; but I am
not aware that to an anchor of this style wings have before been added, projecting
from the opposite face of the plate and arranged respectively midway of the former
wings, as herein shown and described.

page_text: By this improvement, converging vertical surfaces are presented laterally in every
direction in which the anchor may tend to be moved by lateral strain on the post, so
that to yield the earth would have to be crowded between the said converging
surfaces, while the additional wings cannot interfere with or lesson the action of the
other wings in resisting a torsional strain on the post.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
An anchor for posts formed of a circular plate, to the centre of which the post is
to be fixed, having a series of rigid radial wings projecting from one face, and in
addition thereto, a like series of rigid radial wings projecting from its opposite face
and arranged, respectively, midway of the first mentioned wings, as and for the
purpose set forth.