Patent Application
20240328191
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The disclosure relates to stake devices and more particularly pertains to a new stake device that is inhibited from rotating in the ground when the tent stake is employed for anchoring a tent. The device includes a tent stake that has a plurality of ridges extending outwardly from the tent stake thereby inhibiting the tent stake from rotating in the ground. The device includes a head attached to the tent stake which defines a striking surface for driving the tent stake into the ground. The device includes a head that has a plurality of gripping elements which engage the ground to inhibit the tent stake from rotating in the ground.
The prior art relates to stake devices including a variety of stake devices that includes a steak with a plurality of ridges and a head defining a striking surface. The prior art discloses a beach blanket stake that includes a head defining a striking surface and a lanyard extending away from the stake. The prior art discloses a variety of stake devices that each includes hooking elements that extend downwardly along the stake for attaching anchoring lines. The prior art discloses an anchoring stake that includes a plurality of barbs and a head defining a striking surface.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a tent stake that has a tapered end which tapers to a point to penetrate ground. A head is attached to the tent stake such that the head defines a striking surface which can be struck by a tool for driving the tent stake into the ground. The head is distally positioned with respect to the tapered end of the tent stake. The head has a plurality of gripping elements each extending downwardly from the head to engage the ground when the tent stake is driven into the ground. In this way the gripping elements inhibit the tent stake from rotating in the ground.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The lower portion 22 has a plurality of ridges 24 each extending outwardly from the tent stake 12 and each of the plurality of ridges 24 extends between the tapered end 14 and the upper portion 20. The ridges 24 are evenly spaced apart from each other and are distributed around the lower portion 22. Furthermore, the plurality of ridges 24 inhibits the tent stake 12 from rotating about an axis extending between the tapered end 14 and the distal end 18 when the tent stake 12 is driven into the ground 16. Each of the ridges 24 has an outwardly facing edge 26 and the outwardly facing edge 26 of each of the ridges 24 has a first section 28 and a second section 30. Each of the first section 28 and the second section 30 curve outwardly from the lower portion 22 and intersect each other at a point that is spaced from the tapered end 14. The second section 30 of the outwardly facing edge 26 of each of the ridges 24 intersects the tapered end 14.
A head 32 is attached to the tent stake 12 such that the head 32 defines a striking surface 34 which can be struck by a tool for driving the tent stake 12 into the ground 16 and the head 32 is distally positioned with respect to the tapered end 14 of the tent stake 12. The head 32 has a plurality of gripping elements 36 each extending downwardly from the head 32 to engage the ground 16 when the tent stake 12 is driven into the ground 16. In this way the gripping elements 36 inhibit the steak from rotating when the tent stake 12 is driven into the ground 16. The head 32 has a top surface 38, a bottom surface 40 and a lip 42 extending downwardly from a perimeter edge 44 of the head 32. The distal end 18 of the tent stake 12 is attached to the bottom surface 40 such that the top surface 38 of the head 32 defines the striking surface 34. Additionally, the distal end 18 of the tent stake 12 is centrally positioned on the bottom surface 40 such that the lip 42 extends around the tent stake 12.
The head 32 has a plurality of teeth 46 each extending downwardly from a bottom edge 48 of the lip 42 such that the plurality of teeth 46 defines the plurality of gripping elements 36. Each of the teeth 46 has a first edge 50 and a second edge 52 each extending downwardly from the bottom edge 48 of the lip 42 and intersecting each other at a point. The teeth 46 are arranged into a plurality of sets of teeth 54; the sets of teeth 54 are evenly spaced apart from each other and are distributed around the bottom edge 48 of the lip 42 to define a plurality of spaces 56 between the sets of teeth 54. Furthermore, respective ones of the plurality of spaces 56 accommodate a guy wire 58 that is wrapped around the tent stake 12 thereby facilitating the tent stake 12 to anchor the guy wire 58 when the tent stake 12 is driven into the ground 16.
The head 32 has a plurality of holes 60 each extending through the top surface 38 and the bottom surface 40 and each of the plurality of holes 60 is positioned between the distal end 18 of the tent stake 12 and the lip 42. The holes 60 are evenly spaced apart from each other and are distributed around the tent stake 12. Each of the holes 60 has a bounding edge 62 which has a front side 64 and a back side 66 and each of the front side 64 and the back side 66 defines a circular arc that is co-arcuate with each other such that each of the holes 60 has a curved rectangular shape. A lanyard 68 extends through the upper portion 20 of the tent stake 12 at a point located adjacent to the distal end 18. The lanyard 68 extends outwardly through a respective pair of the holes 60 in the head 32 and the lanyard 68 forms a closed loop thereby facilitating the lanyard 68 to be gripped for pulling the tent stake 12 outwardly from the ground 16.
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With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
