Abstract: This invention consists of a knockdown sign post assembly which provides the user with a sign post that can easily be erected and taken down in a quick and efficient manner. The foundation or base of the sign post is readily placed into the ground to which the post for the sign attachment is affixed. Disassembly consists of disengaging the post from the foundation and then removing the foundation from the ground.

Abstract: An arrangement is described for providing a foundation on grade support for manufactured housing such as mobile homes which provides adequate support to resist overturning wind forces, as well as to prevent vertical or lateral shifting of the mobile home, due to earth movements resulting from mud or freeze-thaw induced shifting of the supporting soil. The foundation arrangement includes a plurality of telescoping stanchions which are adapted to be raised in order to be connected to the underframe and lowered to a final position.

Abstract: A socket comprises a pair of L shaped sheet metal members which interlock to form a square tube, the walls having surfaces which define at least one pair of bayonet slots, each having an entry limb and a retaining limb. The clothes drier standard has a bayonet pin extending outwardly in a transverse direction, and this can be accommodated diagonally in the square tube during insertion, and subsequently rotated to have its ends register with the entry limbs and be guided by the entry limbs into the retaining limbs of the two slots.

Abstract: A ladle-rotating turret arrangement to be used in a continuous casting plant has a concrete base block with a hole through it, a central column inserted in the hole with play, carrier arms provided on the column, and two annular discs arranged at the hole at a distance from each other. At least one of the two annular discs is movable relative to the other one approximately perpendicularly to the central column and is fixable relative to the concrete base block. Annular ledges on the central column have spherical faces that rest on the two annular discs.

Abstract: A post supporter includes a socket having an elongated spike-like extension on its bottom which is intended to be forced in the ground until the bottom of the socket rests on the ground surface. A stabilizing assembly consisting of a generally vertically extending portion and a horizontally extending portion project from the spike to prevent rotation of the supporter and to prevent it from tilting.

Abstract: A post base connection device for attachment to concrete to provide resistance to lateral and vertical movement of the post in respect to the concrete. The device is in essence a continuous V-section member which is bent at its mid-point and configured so that the bend mid-point and adjacent areas provide the concrete embedment portions with the upstanding legs thereof continuing upward to encapsulate diagonally opposed corners of the post.

Abstract: A steel column base member for connecting a hollow or box-shaped structural steel column member having square, rectangular or annular section, to a concrete foundation, which base plate member is an integral cast or forged body comprising a bottom plate member to engage the foundation, a box-shaped projection upwardly extending from the bottom plate member and having J-shaped grooves formed along overall outer edges of top surface of projection the width of web of projection being broader than thickness of column member, so as to effect groove welding between the bottom surface of the steel column member and the J-shaped grooved surfaces. A method of connecting an hollow or box-shaped steel column member to a base plate member is characterized by, effecting J-shaped groove welding along between J-shaped groove surfaces of base plate member and the bottom surfaces of steel column member.

Abstract: An arrangement for fastening an upstanding post in a floorboard for use in indoor sports comprises a hollow cylindrical support into which the post loosely fits, having an opening provided in the circumferential wall thereof, the cylindrical support being embedded below the floorboard, a guide box which covers the opening in the cylindrical support, a headed screw rod rotatably supported in a vertical fashion in the guide box, a first wedge member screw-threadedly receiving the screw rod so that it may move upwards or downwards, a second wedge member received in the opening of the guide box so that it may move in the radial direction of the cylindrical support in accordance with the movement of the first wedge, a hole provided through the floorboard aligned in a vertical plane with the screw rod.

Abstract: A steel column base member for connecting structural steel column member to a concrete foundation, which base member is an integral molded or die-forged body comprising a base plate portion to engage the foundation, a projected portion to be joined to the column, and smoothly curved sidewalls extending from the base plate portion to the projected portion. The top surface of the projected portion is of substantially identical shape with the cross section of the column.

Abstract: A sign post for supporting a sign having a length of pipe of composite resin-bonded glass fibers material that is set in the ground with reinforcing therein and filled with cement and a second pipe of the material with reinforcing therein set in the upper end of said first pipe with cement therein, and with lengths of the pipe and reinforcing so disposed to the height desired for supporting a sign.

Abstract: A lamp post base is disclosed comprising a hollow cylinder having a centrally apertured upper end, a centrally apertured lower end of surface area substantially less than said upper end, interior walls defining a conical bore, and a set of passageways extending from the interior walls to the exterior surface of the cylinder between the lower and upper ends.

Abstract: A plurality of ornamental lighting standard shell parts are stacked one upon the other around a ground anchored inner pole. The shell includes a base portion enlarged relative to an adjacent portion of the pole and is capable of shifting laterally a slight amount in the event that it is struck by a vehicle. An intermediate portion of the shell is constructed of a plurality of replaceable parts for easy installation and replacement. The shell also includes ornamental parts as well as lamp assemblies.