Dual axis leveling system

• US 5,310,146 A
• Filed: 10/01/1993
• Issued: 05/10/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Edward J. Maguire
• Original Assignee: Edward J. Maguire
• Inventors: Maguire, Edward J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Foss, J. Franklin
• Application Number:
  US08/130,252
• Time in Patent Office: 221 Days
• Field of Search: 248/188.2, 248/188, 248/188.3, 248/188.4, 248/649, 52/678, 52/292, 312/253
• US Class Current: 248/188.2
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 7/00 Details of attaching or adjusting engine beds, frames, or supporting-legs on foundation or base; Attaching non-moving engine parts, e.g. cylinder blocks elastic or equivalent mounting for absorbing vibrations F16F, especially F16F15/04

Abstract

A dual axis leveling system (10) for a vertical support column (100), wherein, the leveling system (10) comprises a generally open rectangular base member (20) dimensioned to receive a generally rectangular bearing plate member (30); wherein, adjustment means (40) are disposed at the four corners of the base member (20) and the bearing plate member (30) for varying the relative spacing there between at those locations.

Claims

1. A dual axis leveling system for a vertical support column, wherein, the leveling system comprises:

a base unit, including a base plate member having an enlarged central opening and a plurality of support legs disposed at spaced locations on the periphery of the base plate member, wherein, the bottom of each support leg has an inwardly directed foot portion;

a bearing unit, including a bearing plate member dimensioned to be received in the enlarged central opening in the base plate member, wherein, the bearing plate member includes;

a top plate, dimensioned to receive said vertical support column;

a plurality of sidewalls depending downwardly the outer edges of the top plate, and

a bottom plate connected to said sidewalls and provided with a plurality of threaded apertures that may be placed in alignment with the portions of said like plurality of support legs; and

adjustment means operatively disposed intermediate the foot portions of the plurality of support legs and the said plurality of threaded apertures in the bottom plate of the bearing plate member for varying the height of the bearing unit relative to the base unit at the spaced locations of said plurality of support leg.

2. The leveling system as in claim 1, wherein, both the base unit and the bearing unit have a generally rectangular configuration, and said plurality of support legs comprises four support legs.

3. The leveling system as in claim 1, wherein, both the base unit and the bearing unit have a generally circular configuration, and said plurality of support legs comprises at least three support legs.

4. The leveling system as in claim 1, wherein, the adjustment means comprises a plurality of threaded adjustment members, wherein, each threaded adjustment member includes an enlarged head element dimensioned to rest on the foot portion of one of the support legs, and an elongated threaded shaft dimensioned to engage one of said threaded apertures in the bottom plate of the bearing plate member.

5. The leveling system as in claim 4, wherein, each adjustment member is further provided with a pair of horizontally disposed and perpendicularly aligned discrete apertures dimensioned to receive a suitably dimensioned tool for rotating the adjustment member relative to the base unit and the bearing unit.