Improvements in Connection with Telegraph, Signal, and like Poles or Standards, for Steadying and Retaining them in Position.
Year: 1885

page_text: Improvements in Connection with Telegraph, Signal, and like
Poles or Standards, for Steadying and Retaining them in
Position.
I WALTER BURY INCLEDON of Nile Street, Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Manufacturers Clerk do hereby declare the nature of my said invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH TELEGRAPH SIGNAL AND LIKE POLES OR
STANDARDS FOR STEADYING AND RETAINING THEM IN POSITION to be as follows:-
The object is to provide cheap durable and easily applied means for steadying
telegraph poles signal standards and like posts and columns at their lower ends
and for preventing pressure applied to the portion above ground from materially
loosening the hold of the lower part of the pole standard post or column in the
earth.
The invention consists in combining with that portion of the pole or its equivalent
beneath the earth a steadying plate formed and attached in novel manner,
The said plate has two parallel surfaces in different planes connected by a curved
or bent portion through which and the post or its equivalent bolts are passed at
right or other angles to each other so as to firmly secure the plate and pole together
in whatever direction strains may be caused to act on them. Instead of bolts studs
or their equivalents may be used.
The edges of the plate may be at an angle to the body or the said plate may be
corrugated or otherwise formed so as to obtain increased hold on the earth. One
large plate or two or more smaller plates may be used for each pole.
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page_text: Improvements in Connection with Telegraph, Signal, and like
Poles or Standards, for Steadying and Retaining them in
Position.
I WALTER BURY INCLEDON of Nile Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Manufacturer's Clerk do hereby declare the nature of this invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH TELEGRAPH SIGNAL AND LIKE POLES OR
STANDARDS FOR STEADYING AND RETAINING THEM IN POSITION and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
The object is to provide cheap durable and easily applied means for steadying
telegraph poles signal standards, and like post and columns at their lower ends,
and for preventing pressure applied to the portion above ground from materially
loosening the hold of the lower part of the pole standard post or column in the
earth.
The invention consists in combining with that portion of the pole or its equivalent
beneath the earth a steadying plate formed and attached in novel manner.
The said plate has two parallel or nearly parallel surfaces in different planes
connected by a curved or bent portion through which and the post or its equivalent
bolts are passed at right angles to each other or thereabouts so as to firmly secure
the plate and pole together in whatever direction strains may be caused to act on
them. Instead of bolts studs or their equivalents may be used.
The edges of the plate may be at an angle to the body or the said plate may be
corrugated or otherwise formed so as to obtain increased hold on the earth. One
large plate or two or more smaller plates may be used for each pole.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is an elevation, and fig. 2 a plan showing my invention carried into
practice in its simplest form a is the telegraph or other pole post or standard.
b. b is the steadying plate with two surfaces in the same plane connected by the
curved portion c which fits the pole a or its equivalent. The plate or pole or its
equivalent are held together by bolts d passed through the curved portion c and
the pole or its equivalent a at right angles.
Fig. 3 is an elevation, and fig. 4 a plan of a modification in which a corrugated
plate is used, and in which the surfaces 6 6¹ are not quite parallel planes and the
bolts d are not quite at right angles.
Fig. 5 is an elevation, and fig. 6 a plan in which the post is octagonal and the
portion c is bent to fit against the octagonal surfaces In this example the edges e
of the plate are at an angle to the body b b¹.
Fig. 7 is an elevation and fig. 8 a plan in which two plates are fitted in reverse
directions to a square pole.
It will be obvious that many modifications of my improvements may be made.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The combination with a telegraph signal or like pole or standard of a plate
having two parallel or nearly parallel surfaces connected by a curved or bent
portion through which and the pole or its equivalent bolts are passed at right
angles to each other or nearly so substantially as setforth.
Dated this 70th
J. T. KING,
Per W. B. Johnson, Agent.