US2731225A - Antenna mounting - Google Patents

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Jan. 17, 1956 J. N. cAYo 2,731,225

ANTENNA MOUNTING Filed March 7, 1952 INVENTOR.

c/PM/Z/J Affaya hm 3m United States Patent ANTENNA MOUNTING Julius N. Cayo, Benton Harbor, Mich.

Application March 7, 1952, Serial No. 275,383

1 Claim. (Cl. 248-44) This invention relates to improvement in antenna mounting.

The main objects of this invention are:

First, to provide an antenna mounting of relatively few parts which is capable of a wide range of adjustment or adaptation to the roof or support to which it is applied and which facilitates the erection and adjustment of the antenna.

Second, to provide an antenna mounting which permits mounting and adjustment of the antenna upon the mast in a convenient position for the workmen and the erection of the mast with the antenna thereon.

Third, to provide a structure having these advantages which is very simple and economical in its parts and installation thereof.

Objects relating to details and economies of the invention will appear from the description to follow. The invention is defined and pointed out in the claim.

A preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary perspective view of an antenna mounting embodying my invention installed upon a roof.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary plan view illustrating certain of the possible manipulations of the mast in installation of the antenna.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view partially in vertical section illustrating another manner of installing the antenna mounting of my invention.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary sectional view of the base illustrating the adjustahility of the attaching leaves or plates thereof.

In the accompanying drawing 1 represents a building and 2 the roof thereof; 3 represents an antenna and 4 the antenna supporting mast. The mast 4 is preferably formed of pipe or tubing as is illustrated.

The base member 5 of my antenna mount is formed as a stamping and is of downwardly facing channel section, the arms 6 preferably diverging downwardly. The arms 6 terminate in integral attaching leaves or plates 7 adapted to receive the attaching screws 8. The attaching leaves or plates 7 are bendably connected at 9 to the lower edges of the arms 6. Slots 10 are preferably provided to facilitate bending at the juncture of the attaching leaves with the arms. This adjustment is indicated in Fig. 4 and another position of adjustment is also shown in Fig. 3 where the leaves 7 are adjusted to the same plane to permit mounting on an inclined support or roof 11.

The top of the base has pivot ears 12 struck up therefrom in longitudinally spaced relation and perforated at 13 to receive the pivots or pintles 14 of the support member 15. The mast socket 16 is longitudinally split at 17 and is provided with outwardly projecting flanges 18 at the edges of the split to receive the clamping bolts 19,.

This permits the mast being rotatably adjusted to the desired position for positioning the antenna which has been secured to the upper end of the mast as by the clamp 20. This adjustment can be affected after the mast is erected and the clamp 20 is not readily accessible.

The socket member 16 is provided with opposed depending ears 21 having pivot or pintle openings 22 therein for the pivots or pintles 23 on the swinging end of the support member 15. The pairs of pivots 14 and 23 are disposed in angular relation to each other. This permits the tilting of the support member relative to the supporting base and it permits the tilting and swinging of the mast mounted in the mast socket to various positions relative to the base after the base has been mounted on the roof or other support. One position being shown in Fig. 2. However the mast may be swung to various other collapsed positions to permit the most convenient manipulation of the antenna.

After the antenna has been mounted on the mast the mast is swung to erected position as shown in Fig. l and secured in erected position by the guy wires 24 which are connected at their upper ends to a clamp 25 on the mast.

The antenna mounting of my invention is capable of a very wide range of adaptation and manipulation in installing as may best be suited for the particular installing conditions. The base member and the support may be economically formed of stampings, the support being died out in the fiat and then given a quarter twist between the pivots to present pairs of pivots in 90 relation. The socket is also formed of sheet stock and may be formed of a suitable gauge of sheet metal.

I have not attempted to illustrate various other adaptations of my invention as it is believed that this disclosure will enable those skilled in the art to adapt the same and manipulate as may be desirable in the use thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

An antenna mounting comprising a base member of downwardly facing channel section, the arms of which terminate in integral flat attaching leaves bendably connected to their lower edges, the web of the base member having longitudinally spaced outwardly projecting perforated pivot ears integral therewith, a longitudinally split mast socket having opposed outwardly projecting flanges at the split thereof, said socket having opposed depending perforated pivot ears, an upright support member having a pair of integral aligned pivots coacting with the pivot ears of said base member and a pair of integral aligned pivots coacting with the pivot ears of said socket member, said support member being formed of fiat stock and having a quarter twist between its pairs of pivots to present the pairs of pivots in 90 angular relation to each other, and clamping bolts disposed through said flanges of said socket member for clamping the socket upon a mast adjustably positioned therein.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 543,328 Bertels July 23, 1895 679,557 Bell Mar. 30, 1897 1,140,582 Dodd May 25, 1915 1,468,750 Sechrist Sept. 25, 1923 1,661,930 Dietrich Mar. 6, 1928 1,877,845 Gerline Sept. 20, 1932 2,356,085 Pfaff Aug. 15, 1944 2,435,288 Nisenson Feb. 3, 1948 2,628,796 Krizman Feb. 17, 1953

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