Patent Application
20240384555
In the summer of 2019 when I was planning to replace a portion of my house perimeter fence on a hillside, I noticed that earth burrowing and digging and installation of posts was a major effort. Digging a post hole in the dirt area could be challenging, and the top part of the hole almost never ends up a perfectly round shape. Therefore, I had a hard time shaping the concrete nice and round at the surface level. I looked on the internet and in the market, and also researched the registered inventions in this category, but could not find any forms that I could utilize. As a result, for a hole that I could not manage the concrete pouring without using a form, I had to cut and modify an empty plastic paint bucket to achieve my objective.
My invention, Post Footing Neck Form A or B, which is a plastic half-cone shell with or without cut or split line on the side, as shown and outlined in this document, can achieve all of my objectives and help form a clean and round concrete surface around the installed post. After setting the post in the hole, and before attaching the temporary holding braces and pouring concrete, Form A needs to go in around the post from the top and be initially clipped to it at a level that is not an obstacle to pouring concrete. Then after adjusting the post and attaching the braces, pouring concrete can be started. Pouring concrete should be stopped before reaching the ground level, allowing for the height of the Form. Then the form has to be unclipped, lowered, positioned and adjusted at the right level around the post, and then concrete is poured inside the form up to the edge. After curing the concrete, the Form does not need to be removed and the space around the form can be backfilled using the excavated dirt and compacted. The process for using Form B is basically the same, except that the Form does not need to be in and clipped to the post before attaching the braces, and can be positioned in place at the last stage of concrete pouring, and the two ends are then attached and locked in together. Therefore, if the temporary holding braces are already attached, Form B could be more appropriate since detaching of braces can be avoided.
The various embodiments and variations thereof conceptually illustrated in the accompanying Figures and/or described herein are merely exemplary and are not meant to limit the scope of the invention. It is to be appreciated that numerous variations of the invention could be contemplated as would be obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art with the benefit of this disclosure.
