Patent ID: 7328879
Filing Date: 2008-02-12
Classification: F16M

Abstract:
1. In combination with a foundation on which equipment is supported in an adjusted position by a support assembly having interrelated tapered wedges releasably attached between the foundation and the equipment, means for enhancing installational support of the equipment on the foundation by the support assembly, comprising: bearing means inserted into an upper one of the tapered wedges for establishing a close spaced relationship between the equipment and said upper one of the tapered wedges in the adjusted position of the equipment, wherein the upper one of the tapered wedges has horizontal holes formed therein and positioned in alignment with vertically elongated holes formed in the lower one of the tapered wedges through which attachment bolts extend between the tapered wedges in the adjusted position of the equipment, wherein the lower tapered wedge has horizontally elongated holes formed therein in alignment with a bolt hole formed in the bearing means through which a vertical attachment bolt extends between the foundation and the equipment, and wherein said bearing means comprises: a washer having a flat top surface in contact with the equipment and a lower convex surface that is inserted into a horizontally elongated recess formed in the upper tapered wedge having a concave surface contacted by the convex surface of the washer in the adjustably positioned support assembly.