Demountable sectional post

Claim 1

IN A KNOCK-DOWN POST, A PAIR OF COMPLEMENTARY STRIPS OF STRUCTURAL MATERIAL EACH OF WHICH COMPRISES A PAIR OF RIGHT-ANGULARLY DISPOSED SIDE PORTIONS EACH HAVING INNER SIDES AND OUTER EDGES, ONE OF THE INNER SIDES OF ONE SIDE PORTION HAVING A CENTRAL LONGITUDINAL CHANNEL AND COPLANAR FACES EXTENDING FROM THE MARGINS THEREOF AND HAVING A TONGUE AND GROOVE ON ITS OUTER EDGE AND THE INNER SIDE OF THE OTHER SIDE PORTION HAVING A TONGUE AND GROOVE; SAID PAIR OF STRIPS BEING LATERALLY POSITIONED SIDE BY SIDE IN LONGITUDINAL ABUTTING RELATION TO EACH OTHER WITH THE TONGUE AND GROOVE ON THE OUTER EDGE OF ONE OF THE SIDE PORTIONS OF EACH OF SAID STRIPS IN RABBETED ENGAGEMENT WITH THE TONGUE AND GROOVE ON THE INNER FACE OF TE OTHER SIDE PORTION OF THE OTHER OF SAID STRIPS WHEREBY THE COPLANAR FACES ON ONE OF SAID STRIPS ABUT THE COPLANAR FACES ON THE OTHER STRIP AND WHEREBY SAID LONGITUDINAL CHANNELS LIE OPPOSITE EACH OTHER AND COLLECTIVELY CONSTITUTE A CENTRAL LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING BORE BETWEEN THE ASSEMBLED STRIP; AN END PLATE ON AT LEAST ONE OF THE ENDS OF THE ASSEMBLED STRIPS HAVING AN APERTURE OVERLYING THE ADJACENT END OF SAID BORE, MEANS FASTENING SAID END PLATE RELATIVE TO SAID STRIPS TO HOLD SAID STRIPS AGAINST LATERAL SEPARATION, AND A REINFORCING BAR EXTENDING THROUGH SAID APERTURE AND THROUGH SAID BORE LONGITUDINALLY THEREOF.