Improvements in Telegraph and such like Posts.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Mar., 1899--Accepted, 24th Feb., 1900
Improvements in Telegraph and such like Posts.
We, SIEMENS BROTHERS & Co., LIMITED, of 12, Queen Anne's Gate, West-
minster, S.W., and GEORGE WILLLAM PERRY, of 101, Embleton Road, Lewisham,
S.E., Electrical Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to means of steadying a telegraph, or such like post in
soft ground, as will be described referring to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of the lower part of a telegraph post with a steadying
plate applied to it according to this invention. Figs. 2 and 3 shew modifications
Fig. 4 is a plan of the steadying plate.
This plate (Figs. 1 and 4) consists of an annular part a which internally has
the same taper as that of the lower part of the post b, with four projecting wings c
having ribs d, extending down, their lower edges being sharpened. As shown in
Fig. 2, the ribs & may be sloped, and the post may be made with a shoulder c.
Or, as shewn in Fig. 3, with a collar f, the hole in the plate being somewhat larger
than the part of the post which enters it.
For fixing the post in soft ground, the plate is placed on the surface of the
ground and the lower end of the post is passed through it and driven into the
ground in the usual way. When the post has descended so far that its taper part
fits the hole of the plate as shewn in Fig. 1 or that its shoulder c or collar f comes
to bear on the plate as shewn in Figs. 2 and 3 then by farther driving of the post
the plate is driven some distance with it consolidating the ground below and form-
ing a base of some breadth for the post.
Obviously the form of the plate may be varied, and it might be fixed in position
on the post and driven with it.
We are aware that posts have had steadying plates or bases attached or applied
to their lower ends, but in order to put these plates in position the ground has to
be excavated the necessary depth to form a hole at least as large as the plate.
This not only involves considerable labour and delay but also sacrifices the chief
advantage resulting from the driving of posts, that is to say so consolidating the
ground around them that the overhead line can be proceeded with as soon as the
posts are erected.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that we make no
general claim to the combination of a steadying plate or base with a telegraph or
other post, but what we claim is :-
1. The herein described means of steadying a telegraph or other like post by
passing the lower part of the post through a hole of a steadying plate, and then
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page_text: 2. For use in combination with a telegraph or other like post, a steadying plate
with a hole through which the post can be passed, substantially as described.
Dated this 23rd day of March 1899.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.