Patent ID: 8205312
Filing Date: 2012-06-26
Classification: B23K,E04B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. Apparatus for deploy-attaching beam-mount structure to the outside of an elongate column at plural, defined attachment sites that are distributed and spaced along the length of the column comprising a frame, column support structure mounted on said frame, designed to support, releasably, an elongate column with that column's long axis disposed generally horizontally, said support structure taking the form of plural, spaced, distributed support yokes having openable/closeable swing arms which are closeable to circumsurround the long axis of an elongate column supported on the support structure, said swing arms carrying rotatable supports, a carriage, including structure adapted to support/transport releasable beam-mount structure for deploy-attachment to such defined attachment sites on a column supported by said support structure, mountable for translation in contact on and along a column supported by said support structure, with the yokes in said support structure being designed to accommodate shifting of the carriage progressively along the length of a supported column, and, as a further inclusion in said apparatus column-supporting guide rings which have a circular configuration and a central column-receiving opening having a polygonal shape, which guide rings are capturable for rotation within said rotatable supports.