Patent ID: 8418809

Claim:
A device for anchoring a ladder onto a ground surface comprising a first anchoring member having a front side and a back side and a second anchoring member having a front side and a back side, said ladder having a first leg and a second leg, said each of the first and second anchoring member comprising: a channel bracket having a bottom, a first sidewall and a second sidewall, said bottom having an undersurface and an oversurface; a ground-engaging member having a first end, a second end and a length portion, said first end of said ground-engaging member being attached to the bottom of said channel bracket, said second end and said length portion being adapted for engagement with the ground; a pivot rod having a first end and a second end, said first end being affixed to a spot on the first sidewall of the channel bracket and a second end being affixed to the second sidewall of the channel bracket, said pivot rod traversing an inside portion of the channel bracket from the first sidewall of the channel bracket to the second sidewall of the channel bracket; and a brace member having a first sidewall, a second sidewall, an open bottom, a front wall and a back wall, said pivot rod being threaded though an opening in the first sidewall and an opening in the second sidewall in a manner that said pivot rod supports the brace member and in a manner that said brace member is adapted for pivoting around the pivot rod in a direction from the front side of the anchoring member toward the back side of the anchoring member and vice versa, said ground-engaging member of the first anchoring member and the around-engaging member of the second anchoring member each comprises a straight post adapted for insertion into the ground, wherein the device for anchoring a ladder onto a ground surface, in a position of the ground-engaging member of the first anchoring member being engaged with the ground, the brace member of the first anchoring member is adapted for containing the first leg of the ladder and further adapted for pivoting from at least a position wherein the front wall of the brace member is substantially parallel with the ground at the front side of the first anchoring member to a position wherein the back wall of the brace member of the first anchoring member is substantially parallel with the ground at the backside of the first anchoring member, said first leg of the ladder being placed onto the pivot rod of the first anchoring member, said pivot rod of the first anchoring member is guiding and supporting the first leg of the ladder in the course of said first ladder leg moving from the position wherein the front wall of the brace member is substantially parallel with the ground at the front side of the first anchoring member to the position wherein the back wall of the brace member of the first anchoring member is substantially parallel with the ground at the backside of the first anchoring member.