Patent ID: 7883070

Claim:
A device that is installed around a base of a new or existing post to provide supplemental structural stability to such post, and consists of: two sections derived from the equal division of a single flat plate of a geometric shaped material that contains: a primary orthogonal penetration located at the center of the single flat plate and of a geometric shape that identically matches a cross-sectional configuration of the post that the device is to be installed around; secondary orthogonal penetrations through each section, set equidistant from one another that are of a size and shape to accept any of a variety of anchoring stakes extending therethrough; and a third set of penetrations that are of a size and shape to allow the sections to be joined together by any of a number of suitable structures to form the single flat plate about the base of the correspondingly configured post; the suitable structures comprising one of a set of steel mending plates and screws, plastic pull ties or other materials required to join the two sections together to form the single flat plate of geometric shaped material from which the two sections were originally divided; the anchoring stakes having a designated length and cross-sectional shape to fit securely through a cross sectional area of the secondary penetrations and of a quantity equal to the number of secondary penetrations; and wherein each anchoring stake includes a lower terminal end defined by a pointed projection and an upper terminal end which includes an anchor head that is larger in cross sectional area than the cross-sectional area of the secondary penetration.