Patent ID: 8572905

Claim:
An assembly for anchoring a beam, comprising: a) a vertically extending solid beam to be anchored; b) a receptacle enclosing a bottom portion of said beam; c) said receptacle resting on and attached to a horizontally extending base plate; d) said base plate forming a top cover for a downwardly extending enclosure, said enclosure having walls with interior surfaces and a bottom opening; e) a U-bolt being disposed in an interior of said enclosure, said U-bold having a pair of upwardly extending legs with bottoms of said legs connected to each other by a base portion, wherein said legs extend through and are secured to said base plate; f) a plurality of reinforcing bars disposed against and attached directly to the interior surfaces of the walls of said enclosure and extending downwardly from said enclosure, wherein said reinforcing bars terminate below said base plate; g) a joining rebar looped over said base portion of said U-bolt and extending downwardly and having distal ends; and h) a structure for attaching the distal ends of said joining rebar to said reinforcing bars below said enclosure, whereby said assembly when embedded in ground forms a structure having flexibility contributing to structural strength resistant to lateral forces produced by a tornado or hurricane.