Faroex Ltd.

Wardrop Applied Systems Inc.

Terry Pohjoisrinne

Kenneth S Church

Mark Wallace

Aaron Lutz

Colin Douglas Stewart

William Richard Haldane-Wilsone

Emile Fekry Shehata

A pole is mounted in a tubular filament wound support mounted in the ground and supporting the pole standing upwardly therefrom so as to provide an extension for the pole to increase its height or to replace a rotten lower end or to provide an environmentally friendly mounting which avoids toxic preservatives reaching the ground. The tubular body has a hollow interior with one end substantially closed by a dome shaped insert formed during the filament winding process and an opposed open end for receiving a bottom end portion of the pole as a loose fit. A first engagement arrangement on the tubular body is arranged adjacent the open mouth and includes three clamping screws mounted in a reinforcing ring formed by an annular rib of wound filament. A second engagement arrangement on the tubular body spaced downwardly from the first engagement but above the bottom end is formed by an annular rib on the inside surface defining a frusto-conical upper surface extending inwardly to a sharp apex which co-operates with a generally pointed lower end defined by three surfaces cut from the pole and converging toward a lowermost point, each surface being separated from the next by a respective one of a plurality of lines, each line engaging the circular innermost apex so as to hold the pole substantially wedged against movement.

Extension piece for a utility pole

A method for forming a structural panel such as for a bridge deck includes providing a first and a second sheet formed by fibers and settable resin and laminating the sheets with a plurality of parallel side by side connection members. The connection members are formed by filament winding around a core using primarily a large wind angle followed by a final shallow angle of wrap. The connection members are triangular in cross section and each is inverted relative to the next so that the sides are in contact. The connection members are connected together while the resin is uncured so that during lamination they cure together to allow integration of the resin, close matching of the shapes so that the resin at the junction remains thin and intermingling of the filaments. The connection members are dry wound on a core and the resin is applied by infusion. The core carries reinforcing members to tailor strength as required along the length of the member. The panels are arranged side by side to form a bridge deck and are connected edge to edge with suitable center connection at the crown and suitable curbing at the sides.

Structural panel for bridging between spaced supports

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Gimli, Canada

Terry Pohjoisrinne