Mounting arrangement for guard rail post

Claim 1

For use in anchoring an upstanding guard rail support post to a concrete floor slab, the improvement which comprises: a helically wound wire nut having its successive helical turns engaging each other and defining a downwardly extending screw-threaded passageway for threadedly receiving a screw-threaded stem on the lower end of the support post; a rigid elongated bolt having an externally screw-threaded lower end threadedly received in said screw-threaded passageway in the nut, said bolt extending up from said nut above the level to which the concrete floor slab is to be poured and having a screw-threaded upper end; a bracket having a horizontal top leg with a vertical opening therein which passes said bolt and a vertical leg extending down from said top leg for attachment to a perimeter board of a form for the concrete floor slab; spacer means engaged between said horizontal top leg of said bracket and the top of said nut, said spacer means having a vertical opening therein which passes said bolt; said spacer means comprising: a lower, rigid, flat, annular washer engaging the top of said wire nut; a block of expanded plastic extending up from said lower washer to form a complementary recess in said concrete floor slab above said wire nut, said block having a central vertical opening which registers with the screw-threaded passageway in said wire nut; an upper, rigid, flat, annular washer on top of said block; and a rigid sleeve extending up from said upper washer to said horizontal top leg of said bracket; a clamping nut threadedly engaging the screw-threaded upper end of said bolt above said horizontal top leg of the bracket and clamping the latter down against said spacer means; and a plurality of feet extending down from said nut to engage a bottom wall of the form and hold the wire nut spaced above said bottom wall.