Patent ID: 7581655

Claim:
A pullbox comprising: a hollow cylindrical body having a base, a tapered side wall with a rim at the top, and a bottom wall, the cylindrical body having a larger diameter at the base than at the top for an inclined upward slope of the tapered side wall, the top of the hollow cylindrical body being open ended, a plurality of bolt apertures through the hollow cylindrical body near the rim and wherein the side wall has at least one threaded insert imbedded therein, the bottom wall of the hollow cylindrical body having at least one aperture of sufficient size and shape to enable fill to pass therethrough to a location directly beneath the pullbox, such that as a pullbox containing fill is pulled upward to adjust its position in a hole fill passes from inside the pullbox to under the pullbox thereby adjusting the support level of the pullbox, a casting frame having a hollow cylindrical body, a side wall with an inner diameter and two outer diameters, the first outer diameter forming a neck for insertion into the inner diameter of the pullbox cylindrical body, and a second outer diameter forming a base for resting on the rim of the pullbox cylindrical body, the diameter of the second outer diameter being larger then the first outer diameter, a plurality of bolt apertures through the casting frame hollow cylindrical body side wall in the neck which align with the bolt apertures in the side wall of the pullbox cylindrical body such that bolts passing therethrough secure the casting frame to the pullbox.