US 12,478,169 B2
Modular birding accessory pole system
Steven B. Zehring, West Lafayette, IN (US); Joseph Holscher, Fowler, IN (US); and John C. Holscher, Fowler, IN (US)
Assigned to Holscher Products, Inc., Fowler, IN (US)
Filed by Holscher Products, Inc., Fowler, IN (US)
Filed on Jun. 20, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/748,225.
Application 18/748,225 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/397,255, filed on Aug. 9, 2021, granted, now 12,022,807.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/064,007, filed on Aug. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0341456 A1, Oct. 17, 2024
Int. Cl. A01K 31/12 (2006.01); A45F 3/44 (2006.01)
CPC A45F 3/44 (2013.01) 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pole system for supporting birding accessories, such as bird feeders, perches or bird houses, the pole system comprising:
an elongated hollow outer tube, said tube including;
a disk attached at a bottom end, said disk having a bottom surface configured to engage the ground; and
swaged upper end;
an elongated post having an auger at one end configured to be driven into the ground and an opposite end configured to engage a tool for rotating the post, said elongated post sized to be received through the outer tube and having a length greater than the length of said elongated outer tube so that said opposite end of said post can be engaged outside said tube when said auger is driven into the ground, wherein said opposite end defines a non-circular cross-section; and
an elongated hollow extension tube having an open first end configured to be engaged on said swaged upper end to extend the height of the pole system, said extension tube defining a cross-bore passing transversely through said extension tube, said cross-bore sized and configured to engage said opposite end of said elongated post so that said extension tube can be used as the tool for rotating said elongated post to drive said auger into the ground.