Building anchor

DETAILED DESCRIPTION This invention relates to building anchors, and particularly to anchors for metal buildings which are temporarily located and intended for relocation when need thereof at a particular location has ended.
Various buildings, such as sheds, garages and utility buildings used at a construction site, are commonly formed from kits or units purchased in disassembled or knocked-down condition and intended for assembly and erection by a purchaser at a point of use.
Such buildings are commonly built on a level plot of ground without the benefit of a permanent building foundation, such as a poured concrete foundation.
The lack of a permanent foundation to which a building can be anchored firmly requires the use of anchoring means which are effective to locate the building firmly and to maintain it in desired location against heavy winds and other adverse weather conditions.
Heretofore the anchorage of such kit-constructed metal buildings and other temporarily located buildings, such as mobile homes, has been accomplished by the use of members, such as ground augers driven into the ground at intervals along each of two sides of the building site, to which hold-down cables passed over the top of the building are anchored.
In anchoring sheds, garages and other small buildings it has been customary to use two or three such hold-down cables connected to ground anchors.
Larger buildings, such as long mobile homes, may require five or more hold-down cables for firm anchorage against displacement of the building in high wind and other adverse weather conditions.
It is the primary object of this invention to provide a building anchor which eliminates the need for hold-down cables passed over the top of a building.
A further object is to provide a novel, simple anchorage construction which can be activated easily and quickly.
A further object is to provide a construction which permits the effective anchorage of buildings of larger size than have heretofore been adapted for erection without the use of a permanent foundation