Patent ID: 7021866

Claim:
An article of manufacture for anchoring poles, tubing or rods in sand, or other surface sediments comprising: an auger consisting of an elongate body of circular cross section coming to a point at its bottom end and being open at its top end; a spiraling broad flange commencing just above said point at the bottom end of said elongate body and terminating near the top open end of said elongate body; a receptacle body mounted on top of the said elongate body with a receptacle on top of said receptacle body to accommodate various ground surface structural elements; a sheath of tubular dimension with a rounded point on its bottom end and being open at its top end to protect the user from the point and edges of said spiraling broad flange by sliding said sheath over the said elongate body of the auger; a retainer ring on the top end of said elongate body at the point of said termination of said spiraling broad flange to hold said sheath in place over said elongate body and said spiraling broad flange; a means for converting the aforesaid sheath to use as a cranking handle for turning the auger to achieve ground penetration consisting of a locking system with an outsize ring at the top end of said sheath and a U-shaped cranking cradle mounted on the side of said receptacle body mounted on top of the elongate body of the auger; the outsize ring, of appropriate dimensions to allow its being firmly seated in the aforesaid cranking cradle when the sheath is removed from the auger body, thereby allowing the sheath to be locked in a new position perpendicular to the body of the auger; the locking system comprising of the outsize ring at the top of the sheath seated in the aforesaid cranking cradle to allow the sheath to be used as a handle to turn the auger and cause it to penetrate the sand or other ground surface; a means for creating a starter hole in the beach sand or ground surface by manually inserting said rounded point at the bottom of said sheath into the ground surface; a canvas bag for carrying the auger anchoring device to the location where it will be used.