US1368896A - Combined socket and anchorage - Google Patents

Description

A. CHAMBLEY. COMBINED SOCKET AND ANCHORAGE. APPLICATION FILED IuNE I6, 1919.

L368,896. Patented Feb. 15, 1921.,

uiTED COMBINED' socxE'r AND ANCHORAGE.

Speciatio'n of Letters Patent. Patented Fey 15, 921

Application filed .'lune 16, 1919. Serial No. 304,637.

To all whom it myconccm:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER CHAM- BLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combined Sockets and Anchorage, of which the following is a specification.

An object of the invention is to provide a device for `use inl connection with piles, pillars or other supporting or fastening members whereby the latter will be effectually socketed and anchored against removal from materials such as the earth, concrete, wood or other penetrable substances.

The invention is particularly adapted to the settingi and anchoring of'concrete, wood or other piling to the end that the latterwill be securely held in position and, 1f desired, be capable'of supporting great weight. l

Among other features the invention compi-ehends a socket which for instance, may be screwed or driven into the ground to foi-m an anchorage for a foundation pile whose association with the socket and the novel form of construction of the latter,

will permit of subjecting the pile to a heavy overhead load without danger of any subsequent settling of the foundation. So also the socket may be driven home in some other material such as wood, and a suitable fastening device later associated with the socket to secure and anchor the former to prevent accidental removal thereof.

In the further disclosure of the invention, reference is to behad to the accompanying drawings, constituting a part ofthis speciication, in which similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the views, and in which,

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional View taken through the socket, showing the latter in an y anchored position, a pile for the socket being shown in elevation,

Fig. 2 is an elevation ofthe socket,

Fig. 3 is a plan view,

Fig. 4 is an elevation of a slightly modified form of Socket,

Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view through still another slightly modified form of the device.

Referring more particularly to the views the numeral 10 indicates the socket in its entirety, the latter comprising a hollow cylindrical body 11 formed at its lower end with a preferably solid pointed base 12 and terminating at its upper end in a circular head 13, the body 11, between the base l2 and head 18 being externally threaded as at 14. The base 12, within the hollow portion of the body, has a recess 15, preferably square 4in formation for the reception of a driving tool or implement (not shown) whereby the socket can be screwed into the ground or other material, additional slots 16 being also provided in the head 13 for the same purpose. p

The head 13 has a plurality of opposed wings 17. struck therefrom, as shown, said wings being provided to prevent retraction of the socket from the material into which it has been embedded'in that a reversal of rotation of the socket will cause the wings to grip against the material and thereb act as a lock preventing the later remova of the socket.

After thesocket described and particularly shown in Figs. 1 and 2, has been driven to the desired depth, the' bore 18, formed by the hollow portion of the cylindrical bod is adapted to receive the lower end of a p' e 19, which latter may be of wood, concrete or some other material, the pile when cf-concretebeing preferably established by pouring cement into the bore and if desired, suitably reinforcing the same with steel rods or the like.

In Fig. 4 the modified form of socket shown is indicated by the numeral 10, and includes a base 12a, having the threads of the bodyll continued to the lower end of the base, the socket, including the head 13a and wings 17, being otherwise substantially the samein shape and formation as the socket shownin Figs. 1, 2 and 3.'

In Fig. 5, I disclose still another slight modification ofthe' preferred form of my device and in which instance the body 11 has its base 12? open, being in fact a continuation .of the hollow portion of the body 11b with the remainder of the socket of substantially the same form as the forms shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4.

In the use of the Sockets disclosed, attention is called to the fact that whereas with the ordinary base that may be and sometimes is employed in the sinking of piliiig,-the enf tire weight is concentrated on the base, with 'my forms of sockets the threads on the bodies aid materially in supporting the pile or foundation weight, the latter because of the provision of the threads, causing the weight to be distributed to the ground or material immediately `:beneath and-around the threads and in which they are embedded, thus preventing any settling of the socket or its accompanying pile when the latter has once been set in place and is ready to i receive or has already received its foundation load. Therefore the provision of a threaded socket for the `purpose mentioned not onlypermits of the'easy forcing of the socket into place in the material but also brings about a disposition of the Weight of the overlying or superposed piling and the like, not only to the ground or material beneath the socket, but beneath and entirely around the socket throughout almost the entire length thereof.

As mentioned heretofore, the sockets described may be employedfor various purposes. other than those particularly set forth herein, the use of the socket as 'a means for securing supporting or fastening members orrelements in swood, -ground, concrete and other penetrable substances being of particular advantage and merit.

Havin described my invention, I claim;

A com ined socket and anchorage of the character described comprising a hollow cylindrical body having a solid tapered lower extremity, the remaining portion of said body being of cylindrical formation in cross section and exterior-ly threaded, ears struck from the upper end of the bodyA at diametrically opposlte points and curved substantially to the curvature of said body and eX- tending in the same direction, said ears lying in the same horizontal plane, said solid extremity having a recess in its upper end, and said body having a kerf in its upper end for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof Iy affix m signature.

ALEXANDER CHA BLEY.

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