Patent ID: 6543742
Filing Date: 2003-04-08
Classification: E02D,E04C,E04G

Abstract:
A form for molding a footing of a settable structural material at an end of a form for molding a pillar, the end of the form having an inner cylindrical surface having a radius R, comprising:a hollow base extending along a longitudinal axis and having a bottom, a shoulder defining an open top of the base, and a side wall extending from the bottom to the shoulder along the longitudinal axis, and wherein at least a portion of the side wall slopes inwardly towards the longitudinal axis between the bottom and the shoulder; a hollow sleeve extending along the longitudinal axis from the shoulder and providing fluid communication with the open top of the base; and at least one set of protrusions extending laterally outwardly from an outer surface of the sleeve and adapted to frictionally engage the inner surface of the end of the pillar form each protrusion of said protrusions having an outermost surface which is cylindrical in cross section with each cylindrical cross section possessing a radius R measured from said longitudinal axis.